Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 66
When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immedia…
4 years, 10 months ago
Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 26
Speaking and Thinking is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Victor Ferreira, Professor of Psychology and Principal In…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 25
Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View is a detailed book based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Lisa Feldman Barre…
4 years, 10 months ago
Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 78
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unk…
4 years, 10 months ago
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 260
There are maps of the Earth’s landmasses, the universe, the ocean floors, human migration, the human brain: maps are so integral to how we interact w…
4 years, 10 months ago
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Episode 294
In Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021), Dr. Beronda Montgomery connects the science of plants to the behavior of people. She unpacks…
4 years, 10 months ago
Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 21
Cryptoreality is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Ins…
4 years, 10 months ago
Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021)
Episode 77
There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at …
4 years, 10 months ago
Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 20
Pushing the Boundaries is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and former mathematical physicist and writer Freeman Dyson, …
4 years, 10 months ago
Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 75
We are conscious of only a small fraction of our lives. Because the brain constantly receives an enormous quantity of information, we need to be able…
4 years, 10 months ago