Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBrendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021)
Episode 141
Heroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings the defining story of our times alive th…
4 years, 5 months ago
Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)
Episode 6
Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Cr…
4 years, 5 months ago
Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021)
Episode 13
For decades, some of our best and brightest medical scientists have dedicated themselves to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease. What happened? Wh…
4 years, 5 months ago
Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
Episode 44
Listen to this interview of Ayelet Baram-Tsabari. We talk about the accessibility of science using Google to scholars and students in languages beyon…
4 years, 5 months ago
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 90
Aro Velmet's Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Oxford UP, 2020) is a complex history of the Pasteur Institutes, …
4 years, 5 months ago
David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 109
Why does a clarinet play at lower pitches than a flute? What does it mean for sounds to be in or out of tune? How are emotions carried by music? Do o…
4 years, 6 months ago
Laurie Winkless, "Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 108
In Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces (Bloomsbury, 2022), physicist Laurie Winkless brings the amazing world of surface science to the popular sc…
4 years, 6 months ago
Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 88
We have developed two distinct books, Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals, and Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale, based on Ho…
4 years, 6 months ago
Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
Episode 107
In this lively, unexpected look at the hearts of animals—from fish to bats to humans—American Museum of Natural History zoologist Bill Schutt tells a…
4 years, 6 months ago
Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 83
Coral Reefs: Science and Survival is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Charles Sheppard, Professor of Life Sciences …
4 years, 6 months ago