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Episode 62
Stephon Alexander talks about a better way of thinking about the interconnections between music, physics, and creativity and how as someone often see…
3 years, 2 months ago
Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 2
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoa…
3 years, 2 months ago
Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 23
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and othe…
3 years, 2 months ago
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
Episode 182
In Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Crown, 2023), anthropologist Alexa Hagerty learns to see the dead body with a forens…
3 years, 2 months ago
Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience
Episode 35
The intersection between cutting-edge neuroscience and the emerging field of network science has been growing tremendously over the past decade. Olaf…
3 years, 2 months ago
Life Extension Therapies
Episode 52
The story of the Fountain of Youth is as old as history itself. Herodotus, the father of ancient Greek history, wrote of a mythical spring that exten…
3 years, 3 months ago
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Episode 46
Robert Charette, engineer, consultant, and contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum magazine, talks about his twelve-part series, “The Electric Vehicle T…
3 years, 3 months ago
Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief
Episode 71
Do scientists ever reject science? Research data on the controversial topic of extraterrestrial life has met with resistance from some in the scienti…
3 years, 3 months ago
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
Episode 70
Have faith and science always been enemies? The story of Robert Hooke, a revolutionary working in the Scientific Revolution, exemplifies the ways in …
3 years, 3 months ago
Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
Episode 107
"It is not only for science to give to publishing, but the time has come for publishing to start giving back to science." Tiffany Gasbarrini clarifie…
3 years, 3 months ago