Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJoseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 18
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Joe Mileti, associate professor of mathematics at Grinnell College. Even if you are not "into" math, you will …
3 years, 10 months ago
The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science
Episode 10
Welcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t …
3 years, 11 months ago
Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022)
Episode 166
The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, nota…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
Episode 164
Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it dev…
3 years, 11 months ago
Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 288
For many philosophers, the fact that scientists take different perspectives on the world is an obstacle to being a realist about the world. In Perspe…
3 years, 11 months ago
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Episode 61
The last few years have brought to the fore the brilliant work of scientists as they worked to find a vaccine for Covid-19. But have you ever stopped…
3 years, 11 months ago
Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
Episode 9
On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in un…
3 years, 11 months ago
Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 44
Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and ce…
3 years, 11 months ago
Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 9
Today I talked to Michael Hannah about his book Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error (Cambridge UP, 2021).
Are we now entering a mass …
4 years ago
Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Episode 323
Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zan…
4 years ago