Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
Episode 135
The domestic cat--your cat--has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successf…
2 years, 6 months ago
Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
Episode 147
Listen to this interview of Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, co-authors of Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advan…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 26
Whenever a person engages with music--when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or…
2 years, 6 months ago
Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 328
Does the universe have a purpose? If it does, how is this connected to the meaningfulness that we seek in our lives? In Why? The Purpose of the Unive…
2 years, 6 months ago
Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel
Episode 145
Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resource…
2 years, 6 months ago
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 76
All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. In How We Age: The Science of Longevity (Princeton UP, 2023), Coleen…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
Episode 88
Humans have been so dominant on Earth in large part because of their capacity to innovate – but how does that work exactly? Why can they innovate so …
2 years, 7 months ago
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
Episode 74
Jay Richards PhD, OP discusses the new book to which he contributed a chapter, God’s Grandeur: The Catholic Case for Intelligent Design (Sophia Insti…
2 years, 7 months ago
Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 24
In In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants (Yale University Press, 2023), Maura C. Flannery elucidates how herbaria il…
2 years, 7 months ago
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
Episode 209
What is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the world? In recent years, philosophers and scientists have answered these questions in dif…
2 years, 7 months ago