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Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)
Episode 27
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)
Episode 26
Linking morality and science can conjure up disturbing histories around social Darwinism, eugenics, and genetically engineered humans. But scientists…
3 years, 5 months ago
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Episode 44
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine withou…
3 years, 5 months ago
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Episode 4
Andrew Jewett is the author of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (2020) and Science, Democracy, and the Americ…
3 years, 5 months ago
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
Episode 132
What is the difference between global warming and climate change? This episode explores:
What led Dr. Wu into STEM, and to the study of climate chang…3 years, 5 months ago
Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research
Episode 93
Listen to this interview of Gang Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We talk…
3 years, 5 months ago
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 18
In Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Samantha Muka, Assistant Professor of Science, Tec…
3 years, 5 months ago
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Episode 46
The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place…
3 years, 5 months ago
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
Episode 54
This episode from the Vault is a lecture by May Berenbaum about why insects are so scary. Professor Berenbaum is an American entomologist whose resea…
3 years, 5 months ago
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Episode 22
Christopher M. Palmer's book Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health (Benbella Books, 2022) will forever change the…
3 years, 6 months ago