Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021)
Episode 67
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, di…
4 years, 11 months ago
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 3
Being Social is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queen…
4 years, 11 months ago
Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 1
The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nima Arkani-Hamed, faculty member at …
4 years, 11 months ago
Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
Episode 64
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of g…
4 years, 11 months ago
Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 257
Quantum mechanics is full of weird findings – for example, that systems widely separated can somehow still be correlated, and that a system may be in…
4 years, 11 months ago
Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020)
Episode 31
Regular listeners to this podcast will be well aware of my strong conviction that the Perceptual Control Theory initially formulated by William T. Po…
4 years, 11 months ago
Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021)
Episode 287
In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Faith Kearns unpacks science communication as so much more than the “sage …
5 years ago
Stuart Farrimond, "The Science of Living: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine" (DK Publishing, 2020)
Episode 63
Explore the science behind your daily living habits and make your day healthier, happier, and more productive.
Many of the activities we take for gran…
5 years ago
Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021)
Episode 63
In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and…
5 years ago
Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
Episode 53
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technol…
5 years ago