Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSimon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
Episode 203
Medical research saves lives-yet all too often, it is thwarted by a review system supposed to safeguard patients that instead creates needless delays…
2 years, 11 months ago
Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Episode 202
Dr. Stephen L. Hauser and a patient named Andrea were both 27 years old when they met. He was an up-and-coming neurologist-in-training; she was a Har…
2 years, 11 months ago
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Episode 345
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, S…
3 years ago
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
Episode 131
Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near …
3 years ago
Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
Episode 130
Kant denied biology the status of a proper science, yet his account of the organism profoundly influenced a range of intellectual disciplines.
Andrew…
3 years ago
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 128
The science of finding habitable planets beyond our solar system and the prospects for establishing human civilization away from our ever-less-habita…
3 years ago
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 127
Why are girls discouraged from doing science? Why do so many promising women leave science in early and mid-career? Why do women not prosper in the s…
3 years ago
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration
Episode 97
Featured episode from Between Art and Science, a new podcast from Leonardo.
This episode, hosted by Erica Hruby, features a conversation between two a…
3 years ago
John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 156
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scienti…
3 years, 1 month ago
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
Episode 341
In this episode we talk to Jaime Green about her superb cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos. It examines how the possibi…
3 years, 1 month ago