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Back to SearchGary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 102
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on …
2 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Episode 75
Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for …
2 years, 10 months ago
Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 69
Life on Earth depends on the busy activities of insects, but global populations of these teeming creatures are currently under threat, with grave con…
2 years, 10 months ago
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
Episode 139
Geologists in the field climb hills and hang onto craggy outcrops; they put their fingers in sand and scratch, smell, and even taste rocks. Beginning…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Episode 128
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that scienc…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
Episode 131
Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin
Episode 130
Listen to this interview of Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and in the…
2 years, 11 months ago
Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 67
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established …
2 years, 11 months ago
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Episode 132
What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached …
2 years, 11 months ago
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 24
Sleep was taking over Anna's life. Despite multiple alarm clocks and powerful stimulants, the young Atlanta lawyer could sleep for thirty or even fif…
2 years, 11 months ago