Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchScott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 94
Astrophysical Wonders is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus of Astrophysics at the…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jill Tartar, “SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 92
SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jill Tarter, Chair Emeritus for SETI Researc…
4 years, 7 months ago
John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021)
Episode 97
Nature wants you dead. Not just you, but your children and everyone you have ever met and everyone they have ever met; in fact, everyone. It wants yo…
4 years, 7 months ago
Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 28
Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn u…
4 years, 7 months ago
Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 100
What happens when the human brain, which evolved over eons, collides with twenty-first-century technology? Machines can now push psychological button…
4 years, 7 months ago
Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
Episode 47
In her new book Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene (Brandeis UP, 2021), environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “gho…
4 years, 7 months ago
Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 90
The Joy of Mathematics is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Un…
4 years, 7 months ago
Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 89
We have developed two distinct books, Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals, and Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale, based on Ho…
4 years, 7 months ago
Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
Episode 61
Ever since Noah exited the ark, human beings have been wanting to get drunk and high.
Why?
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civili…
4 years, 7 months ago
How to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast
Episode 1
"How To Be Wrong" is a podcast series hosted by John J. Kaag, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and John W.…
4 years, 7 months ago