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Podcast Profile: New Books in Science

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600 episodes
2021 to 2026
Median: 55 minutes
Collection: Science

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This podcast features interviews with scholars and expert interlocutors about recently published research, spanning a wide cross-section of the sciences and their intersections with society, culture, and technology. Conversations often begin with a new book or paper and use it as a springboard to explain key concepts, open questions, and debates in accessible terms while retaining an academic frame.

Across the episodes, a recurring emphasis is how scientific knowledge is produced, evaluated, communicated, and contested. Several discussions connect science to public life: the politics of health policy and trust in expertise, structural and social determinants of health, inequities in diagnosis and prevention, and the ways categories like race are shaped by both genetics and social forces. Others explore how scientific ideas circulate through institutions and media, including scholarly podcasting and science writing practices, and how misinformation and authority shape public understanding.

The natural and physical sciences are represented through themes such as chemistry in everyday materials and food, the deep history of scientific practices (from alchemy and terminology to numeracy and commerce), and foundational questions in physics and cosmology, including interpretations of quantum mechanics and what remains “invisible” in the universe. Biology and environmental science appear through evolution and novelty, metamorphosis, plant-centered thought, conservation and climate adaptation, and ocean governance that incorporates cultural heritage.

Mind and cognition form another strong thread, with neuroscience-focused discussions of memory’s reliability and malleability, imagination, consciousness, music and the brain, and formal and AI-inspired theories of thought and language—often probing where computational models succeed or fall short. The future-facing edge includes machine learning, synthetic biology, space settlement and human adaptation, and speculation about life’s origins.

Episodes:

Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026) 2026-Aug-21 67 minutes

Beronda L. Montgomery, "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" (Henry Holt & Co.) 2026-Aug-18 44 minutes

The New Modern Medicine: Disease, Evidence, and Epidemiological Medicine with Jonathan Fuller 2026-Aug-13 45 minutes

Giulio Boccaletti, "The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World" (Princeton UP, 2026) 2026-Aug-07 80 minutes

Adam Barsouk, "Outsmarting Cancer: Risk Reduction and the Power of Prevention" (JHU Press, 2026) 2026-Aug-01 24 minutes

Siri Carpenter on Why She Self-Published First — and How It Led to a Traditional Book Deal 2026-Jul-30 25 minutes

The Science of Memory with Steve Ramirez 2026-Jul-30 60 minutes

Georgia Holly et al, .eds., "Heritage in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and Beyond" (U Edinburgh Press, 2025) 2026-Jul-18 60 minutes

Philippa Gander, "Life in Sync: The Science of Internal Clocks and How We’re Disrupting Them" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2026-Jul-13 51 minutes

Kit Chapman, "The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry" (Profile Books, 2026) 2026-Jul-09 73 minutes

Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #3 with Allison Carruth and Ellen Horne 2026-Jul-03 50 minutes

Ijeoma Uchegbu, "Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World" (HarperCollins, 2026) 2026-Jun-28 47 minutes

Pedro Domingos, "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" (Basic Books, 2018) 2026-May-30 65 minutes

Janani Balasubramanian and Natalie Gosnell, "Art-Science Undisciplined: A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration" (U California Press, 2026) 2026-May-30 50 minutes

Yosef Grodzinsky, "How Deeply Human Is Language?: Chomsky, the Brain, and the AI Fantasy" (MIT Press, 2026) 2026-May-24 46 minutes

Samuel Markind, "Music Between Your Ears: How Musical Engagement Powers the Human Brain" (JHU Press, 2025) 2026-May-24 61 minutes

Richard Elwes, "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously, from 4 1/2 to Fish 7" (Basic Books, 2026) 2026-May-22 63 minutes

Sumana Roy, "Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal" (Oxford UP, 2024) 2026-May-19 39 minutes

Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025) 2026-May-13 49 minutes

Antony Valentini, "Beyond the Quantum: A Quest for the Origin and Hidden Meaning of Quantum Mechanics" (Oxford UP, 2026) 2026-May-05 90 minutes

Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" (MIT Press, 2026) 2026-Apr-30 57 minutes

Raffaele Danna, "The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals: How Practical Arithmetic Shaped Commerce and Mathematics in Western Europe, 1200–1600" (Harvard UP, 2026) 2026-Apr-28 60 minutes

Masud Husain, "Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain" (Canongate, 2025) 2026-Apr-22 55 minutes

David Blumenthal and James A. Morone, "Whiplash: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science" (Yale UP, 2026) 2026-Apr-21 64 minutes

Adrian Woolfson, "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2026) 2026-Apr-20 50 minutes

Keith Cooper, "Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact" (Reaktion, 2025) 2026-Apr-15 45 minutes

Matthew Bothwell, "The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye" (Simon and Schuster, 2021) 2026-Apr-12 64 minutes

Adam Zeman, "The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 2026-Apr-08 65 minutes

Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History" (Cambridge UP, 2026) 2026-Apr-06 34 minutes

Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026) 2026-Apr-06 46 minutes

Patricia B. O'Hara, "Food Chemistry in Small Bites: The Alchemist in the Kitchen" (U California Press, 2025) 2026-Mar-30 34 minutes

Vojta Hybl, "Rocks: A Guide to the Stones Around Us and the Stories They Tell" (Frances Lincoln, 2026) 2026-Mar-30 35 minutes

⁠The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health⁠ 2026-Mar-19 50 minutes

Emma Chapman, "Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth" (Hachette UK, 2026) 2026-Mar-19 69 minutes

Charles G. Curtin, "Place-Based Solutions: The Power of Regenerative Thinking in the Face of Crisis" (JHU Press, 2026) 2026-Mar-19 44 minutes

César A. Hidalgo, "The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge" (Allen Lane, 2026) 2026-Mar-16 64 minutes

John Oakes, "The Fast: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without" (Avid Reader, 2024) 2026-Mar-15 51 minutes

Anne W. Johnson, "Mexico in Space: From La Raza Cósmica to the Space Race" (U Arizona Press, 2026) 2026-Mar-12 48 minutes

George Frazier, "Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 2026-Mar-10 42 minutes

Jacob Stegenga, "Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry" (U Chicago Press, 2026) 2026-Mar-10 46 minutes

Alan J. McComas, "Consciousness: The Road to Reductionism" (American Scientist, 2025) 2026-Feb-27 60 minutes

Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025) 2026-Feb-25 57 minutes

Robert Endres, "The Unreasonable Likelihood of Being: Origin of Life, Terraforming, and AI" (arXiv, 2025) 2026-Feb-24 48 minutes

Vanessa Rampton, "Making Medical Progress: History of a Contested Idea" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 2026-Feb-15 31 minutes

Tom Bolton, "Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations" (Strange Attractor, 2025) 2026-Feb-11 52 minutes

Oren Harman, "Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History" (Basic Books, 2025) 2026-Feb-08 35 minutes

Tom Griffiths, "The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind" (Henry Holt and Co., 2026) 2026-Feb-04 64 minutes

Jennifer Vail, "Friction: A Biography" (Harvard UP, 2026) 2026-Feb-03 31 minutes

John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2026-Jan-31 34 minutes

Max Telford, "The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle" (W.W. Norton, 2025) 2026-Jan-30 56 minutes

Giuseppe Longo and Adam Nocek, "The Organism Is a Theory: Giuseppe Longo on Biology, Mathematics, and AI" (U Minnesota Press, 2026) 2026-Jan-20 69 minutes

Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2026-Jan-19 50 minutes

Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022) 2026-Jan-18 27 minutes

Rafael Yuste, "Lectures in Neuroscience" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2026-Jan-16 58 minutes

Dagomar Degroot, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: An Environmental History of Our Place in the Solar System" (Harvard UP, 2025) 2026-Jan-13 71 minutes

Alison Bashford, "Decoding the Hand: A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 2026-Jan-11 42 minutes

Kenneth Aizawa, "Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation: A Granular Approach" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 2026-Jan-10 57 minutes

Heino Falcke and Jörg Römer, "Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us" (HarperCollins, 2021) 2026-Jan-09 69 minutes

Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025) 2026-Jan-08 32 minutes

Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023) 2026-Jan-06 61 minutes

Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2026-Jan-01 32 minutes

James Welsh et al., "Weathering Space" (American Scientist 114:1 2026) 2025-Dec-31 44 minutes

James Franklin and Jeremiah Joven Joaquin eds., "The Necessities Underlying Reality: Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 2025-Dec-24 51 minutes

Yossi Yovel, "The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal" (St. Martin's Press, 2025) 2025-Dec-16 60 minutes

Jeremy Bernstein 11–2007 2025-Dec-10 41 minutes

Thomas Haigh on the History of “AI” as a Brand 2025-Dec-08 98 minutes

Jon Willis, "The Pale Blue Data Point: An Earth-Based Perspective on the Search for Alien Life" (U Chicago Press, 2025) 2025-Dec-03 74 minutes

Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025) 2025-Nov-25 84 minutes

Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2025-Nov-19 54 minutes

Craig Hogan, "The Unlikely Primeval Sky" (American Scientist, November-December) 2025-Nov-13 27 minutes

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth 2025-Nov-13 52 minutes

Eduardo Mercado III, "Why Whales Sing" (JHU Press, 2025) 2025-Nov-11 61 minutes

James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal, "Supermassive: Black Holes at the Beginning and End of the Universe" (Smithsonian Books, 2025) 2025-Nov-07 57 minutes

Marcus Chown, "A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage" (Apollo, 2025) 2025-Nov-07 74 minutes

Liam Graham, "Physics Fixes All the Facts" (Springer Nature, 2025) 2025-Nov-05 44 minutes

Vlatko Vedral, "Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics" (Basic Books, 2025) 2025-Oct-31 70 minutes

Rick A López, "Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914" (U Arizona Press, 2025) 2025-Oct-28 48 minutes

Brian Potter, "The Origins of Efficiency" (Stripe Press, 2025) 2025-Oct-28 47 minutes

Roger Moorhouse, "Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45" (HarperCollins, 2025) 2025-Oct-26 61 minutes

Harry Cliff, "Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe" (Doubleday, 2024) 2025-Oct-24 62 minutes

Alice Lovejoy, "Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War" (U California Press, 2025) 2025-Oct-23 42 minutes

Jeffrey D. Sharon, "The Great Balancing Act: An Insider's Guide to the Human Vestibular System" (Columbia UP, 2025) 2025-Oct-21 63 minutes

David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2025-Oct-19 84 minutes

Caleb Scharf, "The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life" (Hachette UK, 2025) 2025-Oct-17 78 minutes

Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 2025-Oct-10 58 minutes

Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025) 2025-Oct-04 56 minutes

Daniel K. Sodickson, "The Future of Seeing: How Imaging is Changing the World" (Columbia UP, 2025) 2025-Oct-03 65 minutes

157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP) 2025-Oct-02 43 minutes

Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2025-Sep-27 61 minutes

J. Doyne Farmer, "Making Sense of Chaos" (Yale UP, 2024) 2025-Sep-25 57 minutes

Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025) 2025-Sep-23 62 minutes

Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025) 2025-Sep-05 61 minutes

Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025) 2025-Aug-24 37 minutes

Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022) 2025-Aug-24 47 minutes

Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, "Where Did We Come From?: The Origin and Evolution of Life" (Austin Macauley, 2025) 2025-Aug-23 32 minutes

Mario Livio and Jack Szostak, "Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life" (Basic Books, 2024) 2025-Aug-21 51 minutes

James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025) 2025-Aug-14 48 minutes

Richard Mainwaring, "What the Ear Hears (And Doesn't): Inside the Extraordinary Everyday World of Frequency" (Sourcebooks, 2022) 2025-Aug-13 66 minutes

Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021) 2025-Aug-09 57 minutes

Emilio Elizalde, "The True Story of Modern Cosmology: Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs" (Springer, 2021) 2025-Aug-08 83 minutes

Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2025-Aug-08 53 minutes

David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2025-Aug-07 58 minutes

On Bullshit in AI 2025-Jul-31 18 minutes

Anil Ananthaswamy, "Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI" (Dutton, 2024) 2025-Jul-30 63 minutes

Book Talk 67 : The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science 2025-Jul-29 62 minutes

Kurt D. Fausch, "A Reverence for Rivers: Imagining an Ethic for Running Waters" (OSU Press, 2025) 2025-Jul-28 32 minutes

Robert N. Spengler, "Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity" (Univ of California Press, 2025) 2025-Jul-22 33 minutes

Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Brian T. Nguyen eds., "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" (NYU Press, 2025) 2025-Jul-22 37 minutes

Paul Sen, "Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe" (Scribner, 2021) 2025-Jul-17 71 minutes

Savannah Mandel on an Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration 2025-Jul-14 58 minutes

Kevin J. Tracey, "The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes" (Penguin, 2025) 2025-Jul-12 28 minutes

Edward Tenner, "Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences" (APS Press, 2025) 2025-Jul-11 55 minutes

Margaret Cook Andersen, "Fertile Expectations: The Politics of Involuntary Childlessness in Twentieth-Century France" (Manchester UP, 2025) 2025-Jul-06 39 minutes

Pooja Agarwal, Cynthia Nebel, Veronica Yan, "Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips From 10 Cognitive Scientists" (Unleash Learning Press, 2025) 2025-Jul-06 66 minutes

Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins" (University of Chicago Press, 2025) 2025-Jun-30 53 minutes

Elliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025) 2025-Jun-22 44 minutes

Liam Graham, "Molecular Storms: The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life" (Springer Nature, 2023) 2025-Jun-22 49 minutes

Maggie M. Fink and Shahir S. Rizk, "The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life" (Belknap Press, 2025) 2025-Jun-16 28 minutes

Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024) 2025-Jun-16 39 minutes

Alfonso Martinez Arias, "The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life" (Basic Books, 2023) 2025-Jun-04 55 minutes

Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025) 2025-May-31 55 minutes

Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2025-May-29 43 minutes

Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020) 2025-May-28 36 minutes

Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 2025-May-22 67 minutes

Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2025-May-16 27 minutes

Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves 2025-Apr-24 50 minutes

Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 2025-Apr-17 36 minutes

Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024) 2025-Apr-16 63 minutes

Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025) 2025-Apr-08 39 minutes

Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025) 2025-Apr-03 42 minutes

Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 2025-Mar-20 46 minutes

John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024) 2025-Mar-18 33 minutes

Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024) 2025-Mar-11 42 minutes

Eliot Schrefer, "Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality" (Clarion Books, 2022) 2025-Mar-06 64 minutes

Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024) 2025-Mar-02 33 minutes

Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025) 2025-Feb-10 57 minutes

William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024) 2025-Feb-03 47 minutes

Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024) 2025-Jan-19 35 minutes

Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024) 2025-Jan-18 32 minutes

Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024) 2025-Jan-15 57 minutes

Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024) 2025-Jan-15 37 minutes

Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison 2025-Jan-12 42 minutes

David Strayer, "Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) 2025-Jan-12 34 minutes

Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018) 2025-Jan-11 67 minutes

Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP) 2024-Dec-19 44 minutes

Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024) 2024-Dec-14 38 minutes

Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2024-Oct-27 38 minutes

Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Oct-19 65 minutes

Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Oct-06 53 minutes

Bring Science to the Reviewing of Science: Evidence-Based Standards for Peer Review 2024-Sep-22 60 minutes

Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024) 2024-Sep-20 24 minutes

Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018) 2024-Sep-08 48 minutes

S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being 2024-Sep-04 42 minutes

Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 2024-Sep-03 38 minutes

Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021) 2024-Sep-02 46 minutes

Directions of Peer Review in Software Engineering 2024-Aug-27 64 minutes

Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers 2024-Aug-26 66 minutes

Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019) 2024-Aug-24 95 minutes

Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2024-Aug-23 54 minutes

Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2024-Aug-11 50 minutes

David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2024-Jul-21 36 minutes

David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2024-Jul-08 74 minutes

Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992) 2024-Jul-07 51 minutes

Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024) 2024-Jul-05 26 minutes

Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science 2024-Jul-02 72 minutes

Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-24 66 minutes

Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-24 60 minutes

Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2024-Jun-16 32 minutes

Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024) 2024-Jun-14 52 minutes

Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-12 72 minutes

The Reality of Scientific Research: A Discussion with John W. Cave 2024-Jun-10 41 minutes

Bruce Watson, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age" (Bloombury, 2016) 2024-Jun-01 19 minutes

Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 2024-May-19 56 minutes

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans 2024-May-16 45 minutes

Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022) 2024-May-10 33 minutes

Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2024-May-10 46 minutes

The Scientific Attitude 2024-May-07 44 minutes

Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021) 2024-Apr-30 66 minutes

Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024) 2024-Apr-27 58 minutes

Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) 2024-Apr-16 63 minutes

Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2024-Apr-14 65 minutes

Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World 2024-Apr-02 65 minutes

Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024) 2024-Apr-01 50 minutes

Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023) 2024-Apr-01 65 minutes

Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024) 2024-Mar-30 32 minutes

Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023) 2024-Mar-18 50 minutes

Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023) 2024-Mar-10 44 minutes

Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023) 2024-Mar-08 36 minutes

Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Mar-06 47 minutes

Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023) 2024-Feb-23 79 minutes

Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023) 2024-Feb-13 52 minutes

Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2024-Feb-10 63 minutes

How the Hypothesis Means 2024-Feb-04 54 minutes

Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia 2024-Feb-02 24 minutes

Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles 2024-Jan-31 57 minutes

Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023) 2024-Jan-26 37 minutes

Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2024-Jan-20 53 minutes

The Future of Images of Human Evolution 2024-Jan-20 32 minutes

Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences 2024-Jan-16 67 minutes

Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019) 2024-Jan-06 66 minutes

Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019) 2024-Jan-02 30 minutes

Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023) 2023-Dec-20 36 minutes

Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-16 41 minutes

Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière 2023-Dec-16 35 minutes

Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-10 64 minutes

Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel 2023-Dec-03 48 minutes

Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-01 31 minutes

The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung 2023-Nov-26 32 minutes

Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards) 2023-Nov-23 73 minutes

Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023) 2023-Nov-14 49 minutes

Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023) 2023-Nov-13 77 minutes

How to Read Scientific Papers: A Discussion with David Evans 2023-Nov-07 52 minutes

Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023) 2023-Nov-05 32 minutes

Shark Sciences: A Conversation with Carlee Jackson 2023-Oct-26 49 minutes

The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings 2023-Oct-24 39 minutes

Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Oct-23 39 minutes

Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Oct-07 55 minutes

Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Sep-27 64 minutes

A Better Way to Buy Books 2023-Sep-12 32 minutes

Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023) 2023-Sep-06 25 minutes

Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Aug-27 34 minutes

The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara 2023-Aug-26 39 minutes

Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2023-Aug-15 33 minutes

Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers 2023-Aug-14 19 minutes

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us 2023-Jul-31 16 minutes

The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset 2023-Jul-26 72 minutes

The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin 2023-Jul-23 69 minutes

Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2023-Jul-15 28 minutes

Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) 2023-Jul-13 51 minutes

Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Jul-07 37 minutes

Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023) 2023-Jul-04 31 minutes

Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023) 2023-Jul-01 55 minutes

Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) 2023-Jun-28 45 minutes

Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021) 2023-Jun-24 38 minutes

Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023) 2023-Jun-23 60 minutes

Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023) 2023-Jun-16 30 minutes

Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Jun-07 34 minutes

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration 2023-Jun-03 13 minutes

Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023) 2023-May-29 55 minutes

John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023) 2023-May-29 56 minutes

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 2023-May-20 45 minutes

The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo 2023-May-19 39 minutes

Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2023-May-10 61 minutes

Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia 2023-May-09 33 minutes

Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021) 2023-May-03 44 minutes

Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) 2023-May-02 53 minutes

The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy 2023-Apr-28 59 minutes

Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2023-Apr-27 69 minutes

Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem 2023-Apr-25 14 minutes

What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day? 2023-Apr-13 48 minutes

Seeing Truth in Physics 2023-Apr-06 28 minutes

Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022) 2023-Apr-03 38 minutes

Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2023-Apr-03 56 minutes

Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience 2023-Apr-02 13 minutes

Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023) 2023-Apr-02 62 minutes

Life Extension Therapies 2023-Mar-29 65 minutes

Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly 2023-Mar-27 92 minutes

Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief 2023-Mar-13 25 minutes

Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods 2023-Mar-12 35 minutes

Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press 2023-Mar-11 50 minutes

Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder 2023-Mar-09 17 minutes

Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs 2023-Mar-04 10 minutes

Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves 2023-Mar-03 20 minutes

Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds 2023-Mar-01 4 minutes

Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022) 2023-Feb-26 43 minutes

Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022) 2023-Feb-25 60 minutes

Making Meaning Episode 21: Throbbing with Life 2023-Feb-24 7 minutes

99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT) 2023-Feb-16 34 minutes

Seeing Truth in the Archives 2023-Feb-09 46 minutes

The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate 2023-Feb-04 34 minutes

Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2) 2023-Jan-28 27 minutes

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Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022) 2023-Jan-26 27 minutes

The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu 2023-Jan-12 57 minutes

Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America 2023-Jan-12 58 minutes

Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research 2023-Jan-08 76 minutes

Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2023-Jan-04 47 minutes

Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films. 2023-Jan-03 39 minutes

John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016) 2023-Jan-03 74 minutes

Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022) 2022-Dec-23 52 minutes

Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Dec-20 31 minutes

James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math 2022-Dec-19 82 minutes

Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections 2022-Dec-15 40 minutes

Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Dec-10 64 minutes

David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) 2022-Dec-07 73 minutes

James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022) 2022-Dec-06 39 minutes

Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022) 2022-Dec-05 48 minutes

Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Nov-28 35 minutes

Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022) 2022-Nov-23 51 minutes

Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022) 2022-Nov-22 55 minutes

Probability 2022-Nov-22 17 minutes

Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-18 52 minutes

Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-15 69 minutes

Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Nov-11 56 minutes

Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-11 51 minutes

Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-07 61 minutes

Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-03 60 minutes

David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-02 66 minutes

Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Oct-31 63 minutes

Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2022-Oct-28 36 minutes

Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat 2022-Oct-25 11 minutes

Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020) 2022-Oct-19 78 minutes

Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Oct-18 89 minutes

Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2022-Oct-11 65 minutes

The Surprising World of Wasps 2022-Oct-06 64 minutes

On Einstein's Discoveries 2022-Sep-29 30 minutes

On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" 2022-Sep-28 32 minutes

Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-22 76 minutes

Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2022-Sep-15 21 minutes

History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong 2022-Sep-14 57 minutes

Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Sep-12 66 minutes

Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance" (Yale UP, 2022) 2022-Sep-08 49 minutes

On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" 2022-Sep-08 29 minutes

Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics? 2022-Sep-07 47 minutes

Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-07 46 minutes

John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-05 85 minutes

Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020) 2022-Aug-23 67 minutes

On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae" 2022-Aug-22 38 minutes

The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science 2022-Aug-19 57 minutes

Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) 2022-Aug-17 52 minutes

Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-Aug-15 47 minutes

The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science 2022-Jul-29 67 minutes

Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022) 2022-Jul-20 41 minutes

Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022) 2022-Jul-15 53 minutes

Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Jul-11 64 minutes

Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia 2022-Jul-08 24 minutes

Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022) 2022-Jul-06 89 minutes

Daniel M. Davis, "The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Jul-01 43 minutes

Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-28 54 minutes

Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022) 2022-Jun-27 51 minutes

Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022) 2022-Jun-27 67 minutes

Carles Lalueza-Fox, "Inequality: A Genetic History" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-24 54 minutes

Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-22 43 minutes

Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2022-Jun-22 44 minutes

Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-21 57 minutes

Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-20 79 minutes

Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-16 83 minutes

Juli Berwald, "Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs" (Riverhead Books, 2022) 2022-Jun-16 60 minutes

All About Dwarf Galaxies: A Conversation with Astronomer Charlotte Christensen 2022-Jun-15 30 minutes

Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-15 58 minutes

Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-14 66 minutes

A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022) 2022-Jun-14 61 minutes

Danielle J. Whittaker, "The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-13 50 minutes

Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-10 61 minutes

Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-10 54 minutes

Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-09 67 minutes

Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021) 2022-Jun-07 61 minutes

David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-06 54 minutes

David George Haskell, "Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" (Viking, 2022) 2022-Jun-03 60 minutes

Rob Dunn, "A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species" (Basic Book, 2021) 2022-Jun-02 56 minutes

Paul Huebener, "Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis" (U Regina Press, 2020) 2022-Jun-01 33 minutes

Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, "Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-May-31 61 minutes

The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham 2022-May-31 43 minutes

Greg Brennecka, "Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong" (William Morrow, 2022) 2022-May-30 41 minutes

Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2022-May-30 46 minutes

Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-May-24 53 minutes

Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-May-19 45 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning 2022-May-18 49 minutes

David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-May-17 42 minutes

Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-May-16 46 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication 2022-May-11 53 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment 2022-May-04 56 minutes

Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Apr-29 39 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World 2022-Apr-27 53 minutes

John Measey, "How to Write a PhD in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2021) 2022-Apr-20 52 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal 2022-Apr-20 52 minutes

Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Apr-18 38 minutes

Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2022-Apr-13 56 minutes

Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020) 2022-Apr-08 40 minutes

The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti 2022-Apr-05 46 minutes

Daniel Bolnick, Editor in Chief of "The American Naturalist" 2022-Apr-05 60 minutes

Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Apr-05 58 minutes

All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press 2022-Apr-01 24 minutes

Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020) 2022-Mar-31 61 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID 2022-Mar-30 60 minutes

Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021)) 2022-Mar-30 44 minutes

Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022) 2022-Mar-30 43 minutes

Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022) 2022-Mar-24 43 minutes

N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Mar-23 64 minutes

Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022) 2022-Mar-22 63 minutes

Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-21 54 minutes

Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Mar-21 71 minutes

Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer 2022-Mar-16 41 minutes

Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Mar-16 47 minutes

Jackie Higgins, "Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses" (Atria Books, 2022) 2022-Mar-16 30 minutes

Annabel Streets, "52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022) 2022-Mar-14 45 minutes

Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer 2022-Mar-10 47 minutes

Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-10 41 minutes

The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka 2022-Mar-08 45 minutes

Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-07 54 minutes

The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk 2022-Mar-01 41 minutes

David Rettew, "Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-25 31 minutes

Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022) 2022-Feb-18 53 minutes

Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro 2022-Feb-18 69 minutes

Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Feb-16 64 minutes

In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz 2022-Feb-15 43 minutes

Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Feb-15 50 minutes

Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky 2022-Feb-11 83 minutes

Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-10 64 minutes

Fritjof Capra, "Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades" (High Road Books, 2021) 2022-Feb-08 61 minutes

Paul A. Offit, "You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation" (Basic Book, 2021) 2022-Feb-07 37 minutes

Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021) 2022-Feb-04 52 minutes

Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021) 2022-Feb-04 44 minutes

Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022) 2022-Feb-03 43 minutes

Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2022-Feb-03 62 minutes

Walter R. Tschinkel, "Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-02 48 minutes

Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022) 2022-Jan-27 47 minutes

Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease 2022-Jan-21 22 minutes

Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021) 2022-Jan-21 53 minutes

John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021) 2022-Jan-19 57 minutes

Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021) 2022-Jan-13 38 minutes

Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021) 2022-Jan-11 62 minutes

Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Jan-03 46 minutes

Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Dec-31 58 minutes

Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science 2021-Dec-31 43 minutes

David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Dec-30 71 minutes

Laurie Winkless, "Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 2021-Dec-29 56 minutes

Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021) 2021-Dec-28 58 minutes

Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-28 106 minutes

Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-27 132 minutes

Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015) 2021-Dec-24 62 minutes

Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021) 2021-Dec-24 55 minutes

Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-24 74 minutes

David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-23 171 minutes

Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937) 2021-Dec-22 55 minutes

Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2021-Dec-21 38 minutes

Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-16 81 minutes

Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-13 94 minutes

Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-10 115 minutes

Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 2021-Dec-10 58 minutes

Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021) 2021-Dec-07 69 minutes

James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021) 2021-Dec-07 62 minutes

Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-26 72 minutes

Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century 2021-Nov-26 15 minutes

Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-26 59 minutes

Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019) 2021-Nov-24 55 minutes

Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-24 66 minutes

Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021) 2021-Nov-23 101 minutes

Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-19 70 minutes

Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021) 2021-Nov-19 54 minutes

Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-18 135 minutes

John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021) 2021-Nov-16 42 minutes

Jill Tartar, “SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-16 86 minutes

Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 40 minutes

Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 59 minutes

Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 33 minutes

Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-12 83 minutes

Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-11 130 minutes

Vinciane Despret, "Living as a Bird" (Polity Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 64 minutes

Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 37 minutes

How to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast 2021-Nov-10 73 minutes

Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 55 minutes

Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019) 2021-Nov-08 78 minutes

Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-08 124 minutes

Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020) 2021-Nov-05 49 minutes

Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018) 2021-Nov-01 56 minutes

Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-01 100 minutes

Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-29 146 minutes

A Conversation with Aliyah Kovner, Science Writer and Science Podcaster 2021-Oct-27 60 minutes

Jari Saramäki, "How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students" (2018) 2021-Oct-26 69 minutes

Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021) 2021-Oct-22 58 minutes

Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-20 50 minutes

Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications 2021-Oct-20 80 minutes

Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Oct-20 44 minutes

Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-19 149 minutes

Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020) 2021-Oct-19 53 minutes

Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Oct-15 71 minutes

The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry" 2021-Oct-14 73 minutes

Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-11 130 minutes

Caitlin Donohue Wylie, "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-08 51 minutes

Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018) 2021-Oct-08 59 minutes

65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP) 2021-Oct-07 44 minutes

David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-06 59 minutes

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-05 56 minutes

Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-04 62 minutes

Kerry F. Crawford and Leah C. Windsor, "The PhD Parenthood Trap: Gender, Bias, and the Elusive Work-Family Balance in Academia" (Georgetown UP, 2021) 2021-Oct-04 65 minutes

Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Oct-01 48 minutes

Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-30 117 minutes

Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-30 24 minutes

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Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 52 minutes

Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 40 minutes

Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 55 minutes

Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 77 minutes

Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 61 minutes

Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019) 2021-Sep-27 72 minutes

Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-27 99 minutes

Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Sep-27 79 minutes

Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-24 55 minutes

Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-24 128 minutes

Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-23 61 minutes

Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-22 61 minutes

Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011) 2021-Sep-22 71 minutes

Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2021-Sep-22 53 minutes

Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-21 76 minutes

Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-21 61 minutes

Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020) 2021-Sep-17 68 minutes

Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects 2021-Sep-17 32 minutes

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Lauren Aguirre, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery" (Pegasus, 2021) 2021-Sep-15 54 minutes

Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-14 58 minutes

Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-10 42 minutes

Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-10 63 minutes

Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-09 57 minutes

Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-08 44 minutes

Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-08 38 minutes

Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-06 111 minutes

Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-02 77 minutes

Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020) 2021-Sep-02 59 minutes

Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-01 35 minutes

Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-30 106 minutes

Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021) 2021-Aug-30 49 minutes

Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-24 128 minutes

Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Aug-20 88 minutes

Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Aug-19 79 minutes

P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 60 minutes

Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 67 minutes

Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 76 minutes

Raghav Rajagopalan, "Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis" (Springer Nature, 2020) 2021-Aug-17 61 minutes

Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-16 139 minutes

Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-16 55 minutes

Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-13 132 minutes

Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2021-Aug-10 45 minutes

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-10 62 minutes

Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-10 64 minutes

Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021) 2021-Aug-09 63 minutes

Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-09 174 minutes

Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Aug-06 64 minutes

Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-06 103 minutes

Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021) 2021-Aug-04 95 minutes

Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2021-Aug-04 67 minutes

Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Aug-02 50 minutes

Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-30 99 minutes

James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020) 2021-Jul-30 69 minutes

Stefan Collini, “The Two Cultures, Revisited” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-28 98 minutes

John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-23 62 minutes

James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-22 87 minutes

Terry McGlynn, "The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-19 71 minutes

John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-19 65 minutes

Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021) 2021-Jul-16 56 minutes

Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-14 118 minutes

Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-13 119 minutes

Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021) 2021-Jul-12 65 minutes

Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-Jul-09 68 minutes

Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-08 60 minutes

Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021) 2021-Jun-28 46 minutes

Stuart Farrimond, "The Science of Living: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine" (DK Publishing, 2020) 2021-Jun-23 62 minutes

Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021) 2021-Jun-21 93 minutes

Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Jun-14 73 minutes

Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021) 2021-Jun-14 59 minutes

W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jun-09 55 minutes

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "Objectivity" (Zone Books, 2010) 2021-Jun-07 64 minutes

Lydia Denworth, "Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond" (Bloomsbury, 2020) 2021-Jun-07 36 minutes

Howard Burton, "Conversations About Biology" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Jun-07 70 minutes

Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Jun-02 55 minutes

Martin Paul Eve et al. "Reading Peer Review: PLOS One and Institutional Change in Academia" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Jun-01 61 minutes

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Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-May-31 64 minutes

Howard Burton, "Conversations About Astrophysics & Cosmology" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-May-31 67 minutes

Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019) 2021-May-28 53 minutes

Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-May-26 55 minutes

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Joseph Rouse, "Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image" (U Chicago Press, 2015) 2021-May-21 61 minutes

Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021) 2021-May-17 79 minutes

Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-May-17 54 minutes

Bijal P. Trivedi, "Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever" (Benbella, 2020) 2021-May-13 58 minutes

Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021) 2021-May-12 64 minutes

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David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021) 2021-May-11 51 minutes

Jason Karlawish, "The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It" (St. Martin's Press, 2021) 2021-May-11 61 minutes

Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-May-10 60 minutes

Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020) 2021-May-03 44 minutes

Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021) 2021-Apr-29 54 minutes

Leigh Calvez, "The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds" (Sasquatch Books, 2016) 2021-Apr-23 56 minutes

James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) 2021-Apr-23 56 minutes

Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019) 2021-Apr-21 56 minutes

Allison Cobb, "Plastic: An Autobiography" (Nightboat Books, 2021) 2021-Apr-20 56 minutes

Christopher Thaiss, "Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century" (Broadview Press, 2019) 2021-Apr-14 77 minutes

Teya Brooks Pribac, "Enter the Animal: Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality" (Sydney UP, 2021) 2021-Apr-06 64 minutes

Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021) 2021-Apr-06 50 minutes

James S. J. Schwartz, "The Value of Science in Space Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Apr-05 70 minutes

Doug Bierend. "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms" (Chelsea Green, 2021) 2021-Apr-02 51 minutes

Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Apr-02 53 minutes

Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021) 2021-Mar-30 58 minutes

Rick McIntyre, "The Reign of Wolf 21: In the Valley of the Druid King" (Greystone Books, 2020) 2021-Mar-22 83 minutes

Courtney E. Thompson, "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (Rutgers UP, 2021) 2021-Mar-19 48 minutes

Barbara J. King, "Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2021-Mar-19 45 minutes

A. Blair and K. von Greyerz, "Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2021-Mar-19 35 minutes

Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" (Alisha Rankin, 2021) 2021-Mar-18 65 minutes

Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020) 2021-Mar-17 101 minutes

David Payne on the Community of Scientists and Diversity 2021-Mar-12 75 minutes

Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021) 2021-Mar-12 63 minutes

Edzard Ernst, "Chiropractic: Not All That It's Cracked Up to Be" (Springer, 2020) 2021-Mar-08 48 minutes

J. Jureidini and L. B. McHenry, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" (Wakefield Press, 2020) 2021-Mar-03 54 minutes

Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Mar-03 69 minutes

Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020) 2021-Feb-25 53 minutes

Tracie White and Ronald W. Davis, "The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist's Desperate Hunt to Cure the Illness That Stole His Son" (Hachette, 2021) 2021-Feb-24 62 minutes

Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics 2021-Feb-24 17 minutes

Milo Beckman, "Math Without Numbers" (Dutton, 2020) 2021-Feb-22 52 minutes