Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKaren Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 77
In The New Era in Mathematics, 1920-1950 (Princeton University Press, 2022) Karen Parshall explores the institutional, financial, social, and politic…
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On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
Episode 29
In 1962, American philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn was struck by Aristotle’s beliefs about …
3 years, 9 months ago
Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance" (Yale UP, 2022)
Episode 11
Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswe…
3 years, 9 months ago
Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 173
Biomedical research using various animal species and in vitro cellular systems has resulted in both major successes and translational failure. In Mod…
3 years, 9 months ago
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Episode 38
Can genetics play a role in crafting left social policy? Or should we not touch those ideas ever again–even with a 10 foot pole? Paige Harden’s book,…
3 years, 9 months ago
John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022)
Episode 80
Listen to this interview of John Measey, Researcher at the Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. We talk about the need…
3 years, 9 months ago
Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020)
Episode 75
Peter Winkler has been collecting mathematical puzzles since childhood. He has had published two previous collections, and recently he compiled his l…
3 years, 10 months ago
On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae"
Episode 16
Until the publication of Edwin Hubble’s 1936 book, The Realm of the Nebulae, astronomers believed that the Milky Way was the only galaxy in the unive…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
Episode 25
We are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals daily. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in o…
3 years, 10 months ago
Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Episode 10
In Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Adam Nocek, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Technology…
3 years, 10 months ago