Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 126
What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in th…
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James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math
Episode 82
Seduction is not just an end result, but a process -- and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieve…
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Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
Episode 54
In this episode, scientists speak back to ideas about collection building, knowledge making, and the role of art and creativity in research. Bernard …
3 years, 6 months ago
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 302
Based on examining physics and the practices of physicists, philosophers of science often see models in science as representational intermediaries be…
3 years, 6 months ago
David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
Episode 88
Listen to this interview of David Lindsay, emeritus professor of the University of Western Australia. We talk about his book Scientific Writing = Thi…
3 years, 6 months ago
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
Episode 185
Advances in medicine have made possible better treatments for widespread, familiar human illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Yet ther…
3 years, 6 months ago
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
Episode 86
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the de…
3 years, 6 months ago
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 52
Just over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gain…
3 years, 7 months ago
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Episode 81
Alfred S. Posamentier's The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond (Prometheus Books, 2022) is the first…
3 years, 7 months ago
Probability
Episode 102
In this episode of High Theory, Justin Joque talks with Júlia Irion Martins about Probability. This conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM s…
3 years, 7 months ago