Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBruce Watson, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age" (Bloombury, 2016)
Episode 136
From early myths to the latest LEDs, light has been "the magician of the cosmos." But what is light? Is it God? Truth? Particle or wave? This "radian…
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Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Episode 456
We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to …
2 years, 1 month ago
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans
Episode 214
Today’s book is: At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024), by Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, which takes readers…
2 years, 1 month ago
Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 86
Beginning graduate students in mathematical sciences and related areas in physical and computer sciences and engineering are expected to be familiar …
2 years, 1 month ago
Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
Episode 120
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the app…
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The Scientific Attitude
Episode 172
Listen to this interview of Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science (Boston University) and Senior Advisor …
2 years, 1 month ago
Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
Episode 30
If you're interested in memory, you'll find a lot in Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brain…
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Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
Episode 28
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matter…
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Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Episode 16
Most of us appreciate the importance of the immune system yet have very little knowledge about how it actually works. If you fall into this camp and …
2 years, 2 months ago
Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 15
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge Univ…
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