Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAdam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)
Episode 24
Racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain to see—feeding nationalism, fu…
5 years, 10 months ago
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 1
In The Brain from Inside Out (Oxford University Press, 2019), György Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives o…
5 years, 10 months ago
Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Episode 78
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven S…
5 years, 10 months ago
David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 77
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story…
5 years, 10 months ago
Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
Episode 23
So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on? In Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science …
5 years, 10 months ago
Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change" (Melville House, 2020)
Episode 22
At age 26, Solomon Goldstein-Rose has already spent more time thinking about climate change than most of us will in our lifetimes. He’s been a climat…
5 years, 11 months ago
Marc Zimmer, "The State of Science" (Prometheus Books, 2020)
New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to life-changing and world-altering discoveries like never before. What does the hor…
5 years, 11 months ago
David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Episode 253
David Kaiser is a truly unique scholar: he is simultaneously a physics researcher and a historian of science whose writing beautifully melds the past…
5 years, 11 months ago
Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 223
The branch of mathematics called game theory – the Prisoners Dilemma is a particularly well-known example of a game – is used by philosophers, social…
5 years, 11 months ago
Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020)
Episode 52
We sit at the beginning of what could be “both a truly terrifying and a golden era in humanity.” In The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Pos…
5 years, 11 months ago