Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGlenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
Episode 268
As a scientist and practicing Catholic, Dr. Sauer brings a unique perspective to several of the important issues related to finding a space for dialo…
5 years, 6 months ago
Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Episode 65
Mathematics as a subject is distinctive in its symbolic abstraction and its potential for logical and computational rigor. But mathematicians tend to…
5 years, 6 months ago
Soraya de Chadarevian, "Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 29
“What are chromosomes? And what does it mean to treat them as visual objects?” asks Soraya de Chadarevian in her new book, Heredity Under the Microsc…
5 years, 7 months ago
K. C. Smith and C. Mariscal, "Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 267
Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (Oxford University Press, 2020) focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring…
5 years, 7 months ago
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020)
Episode 117
There is a long history of brain research that seems to legitimize widely held beliefs about the men versus women. According to my guest, much of tha…
5 years, 7 months ago
Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 100
Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was being exorcized by the e…
5 years, 7 months ago
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020)
Episode 55
Alfred S. Posamentier's The Joy of Geometry (Prometheus, 2020) is a book for someone who has taken geometry but wants to go further. This book, as on…
5 years, 7 months ago
Hugh Raffles, "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" (Pantheon Books, 2020)
Episode 81
At once an examination of geology, a biography of monuments, and a meditation on the connection between personal loss and massive loss, Hugh Raffles’…
5 years, 7 months ago
M. Bekoff and J. Pierce, "The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age" (Beacon Press, 2017)
Episode 8
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf
Every …
5 years, 7 months ago
I. Newkirk and G. Stone, "Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
Episode 7
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living mo…
5 years, 7 months ago