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➤ Interviews with scientists about their books • Exploring diverse scientific topics like genetics, oceanography, neuroscience, and evolution • Addressing climate change, race, memory, and free will • Examining interdisciplinary research and scientific methodologyThis podcast, titled "New Books in Science," offers a comprehensive series of interviews with authors of recent scientific publications, aiming to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and a broader audience. The episodes serve as a platform for scientists and scholars to discuss their latest books that span a wide array of scientific disciplines, touching on both theoretical concepts and practical implications.
The content often explores profound and complex themes such as humanity's relationship with the ocean, race and genetics, the epistemology of evidence resistance, the intricacies of mathematical sciences, and the fundamental nature of life and consciousness. It delves into both the philosophical underpinnings and empirical findings of various fields, including oceanography, genomics, biochemistry, neuroscience, and immunology.
Several episodes focus on the changing dynamics of the earth’s ecosystems, examining how climate change and environmental degradation impact marine and terrestrial life forms. Others investigate the ethical dimensions of scientific practice, the philosophical debates surrounding free will, the historical evolution of scientific communities, and the role of public communication in building trust in science.
Discussions in the podcast also address more specialized topics such as the biological mechanisms behind memory, the science of sleep, the evolution of intelligence, and the societal implications of research on autism and synaptic plasticity. Additionally, there are conversations about the challenges and methodologies of scientific research, the impact of political and social factors on scientific enterprise, and the development of new technologies in computational and theoretical contexts.
Ultimately, this podcast provides an intellectual journey through the latest scientific literature, highlighting diverse voices and perspectives, and offering listeners insights into the ways scientific understanding is developed, communicated, and applied.
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Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-24 61 minutes |
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Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-24 69 minutes |
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Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2024-Jun-16 36 minutes |
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Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024) 2024-Jun-14 53 minutes |
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Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024) 2024-Jun-12 76 minutes |
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The Reality of Scientific Research: A Discussion with John W. Cave 2024-Jun-10 45 minutes |
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Bruce Watson, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age" (Bloombury, 2016) 2024-Jun-01 22 minutes |
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Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 2024-May-19 57 minutes |
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At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans 2024-May-16 49 minutes |
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Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2024-May-10 50 minutes |
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Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022) 2024-May-10 36 minutes |
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The Scientific Attitude 2024-May-07 47 minutes |
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Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021) 2024-Apr-30 70 minutes |
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Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024) 2024-Apr-27 62 minutes |
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Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) 2024-Apr-16 67 minutes |
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Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2024-Apr-14 69 minutes |
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Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World 2024-Apr-02 69 minutes |
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Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024) 2024-Apr-01 50 minutes |
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Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023) 2024-Apr-01 69 minutes |
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Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024) 2024-Mar-30 35 minutes |
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Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023) 2024-Mar-18 54 minutes |
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Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023) 2024-Mar-10 48 minutes |
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Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023) 2024-Mar-08 39 minutes |
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Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024) 2024-Mar-06 51 minutes |
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Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023) 2024-Feb-23 82 minutes |
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Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023) 2024-Feb-13 55 minutes |
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Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2024-Feb-10 67 minutes |
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How the Hypothesis Means 2024-Feb-04 58 minutes |
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Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia 2024-Feb-02 24 minutes |
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Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles 2024-Jan-31 61 minutes |
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Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023) 2024-Jan-26 40 minutes |
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Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2024-Jan-20 57 minutes |
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The Future of Images of Human Evolution 2024-Jan-20 35 minutes |
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Free to Investigate: Dr. Scott Atlas on the Freedom in the Sciences 2024-Jan-16 67 minutes |
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019) 2024-Jan-06 70 minutes |
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019) 2024-Jan-02 30 minutes |
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Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023) 2023-Dec-20 39 minutes |
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Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière 2023-Dec-16 37 minutes |
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Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-16 43 minutes |
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Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-10 66 minutes |
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Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel 2023-Dec-03 51 minutes |
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Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2023-Dec-01 31 minutes |
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The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung 2023-Nov-26 35 minutes |
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Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards) 2023-Nov-23 76 minutes |
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Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023) 2023-Nov-14 48 minutes |
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Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023) 2023-Nov-13 78 minutes |
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How to Read Scientific Papers: A Discussion with David Evans 2023-Nov-07 54 minutes |
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Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023) 2023-Nov-05 34 minutes |
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Shark Sciences: A Conversation with Carlee Jackson 2023-Oct-26 52 minutes |
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The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings 2023-Oct-24 42 minutes |
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Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Oct-23 42 minutes |
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Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Oct-07 57 minutes |
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Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023) 2023-Oct-01 32 minutes |
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Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Sep-27 67 minutes |
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A Better Way to Buy Books 2023-Sep-12 34 minutes |
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Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023) 2023-Sep-06 28 minutes |
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Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Aug-27 36 minutes |
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The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara 2023-Aug-26 41 minutes |
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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 |
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Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers 2023-Aug-14 19 minutes |
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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us 2023-Jul-31 16 minutes |
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The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset 2023-Jul-26 75 minutes |
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The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin 2023-Jul-23 72 minutes |
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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 |
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Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) 2023-Jul-13 53 minutes |
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Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023) 2023-Jul-07 40 minutes |
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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 34 minutes |
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Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023) 2023-Jul-01 58 minutes |
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Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) 2023-Jun-28 46 minutes |
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Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021) 2023-Jun-24 41 minutes |
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Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023) 2023-Jun-23 63 minutes |
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John L. Rudolph, "Why We Teach Science (and Why We Should)" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Jun-20 36 minutes |
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Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023) 2023-Jun-16 32 minutes |
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Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023) 2023-Jun-07 36 minutes |
Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration2023-Jun-03 13 minutes |
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John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023) 2023-May-29 56 minutes |
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Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023) 2023-May-29 56 minutes |
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Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 2023-May-20 48 minutes |
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The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo 2023-May-19 42 minutes |
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Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2023-May-10 64 minutes |
Pharmacological Histories Ep. 2: Mikkael A. Sekeres on the Drugs Fighting Leukemia2023-May-09 33 minutes |
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Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021) 2023-May-03 47 minutes |
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Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) 2023-May-02 55 minutes |
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The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy 2023-Apr-28 62 minutes |
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Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2023-Apr-27 72 minutes |
Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem2023-Apr-25 14 minutes |
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What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day? 2023-Apr-13 52 minutes |
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Seeing Truth in Physics 2023-Apr-06 32 minutes |
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Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 2023-Apr-03 60 minutes |
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Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022) 2023-Apr-03 42 minutes |
Olaf Sporns on Network Neuroscience2023-Apr-02 13 minutes |
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Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023) 2023-Apr-02 64 minutes |
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Life Extension Therapies 2023-Mar-29 69 minutes |
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Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly 2023-Mar-27 96 minutes |
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Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief 2023-Mar-13 25 minutes |
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Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods 2023-Mar-12 35 minutes |
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Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press 2023-Mar-11 51 minutes |
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Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder 2023-Mar-09 17 minutes |
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Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs 2023-Mar-04 10 minutes |
Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves2023-Mar-03 20 minutes |
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Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds 2023-Mar-01 4 minutes |
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Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022) 2023-Feb-26 47 minutes |
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Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022) 2023-Feb-25 64 minutes |
Making Meaning Episode 21: Throbbing with Life2023-Feb-24 7 minutes |
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99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT) 2023-Feb-16 37 minutes |
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Seeing Truth in the Archives 2023-Feb-09 50 minutes |
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The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate 2023-Feb-04 38 minutes |
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 2)2023-Jan-28 27 minutes |
Dissecting Morality: What do Scientists Have To Say About Ethics? (Part 1)2023-Jan-27 30 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 31 minutes |
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America2023-Jan-12 62 minutes |
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The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu 2023-Jan-12 61 minutes |
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Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research 2023-Jan-08 80 minutes |
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Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2023-Jan-04 51 minutes |
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Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films. 2023-Jan-03 42 minutes |
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John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016) 2023-Jan-03 77 minutes |
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Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022) 2022-Dec-23 56 minutes |
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Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Dec-20 35 minutes |
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James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math 2022-Dec-19 86 minutes |
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Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections 2022-Dec-15 44 minutes |
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Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Dec-10 68 minutes |
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David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) 2022-Dec-07 76 minutes |
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James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022) 2022-Dec-06 43 minutes |
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Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022) 2022-Dec-05 52 minutes |
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Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Nov-28 35 minutes |
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Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022) 2022-Nov-23 54 minutes |
Probability2022-Nov-22 18 minutes |
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Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022) 2022-Nov-22 59 minutes |
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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 55 minutes |
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Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-15 73 minutes |
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Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-11 54 minutes |
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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 |
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Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-07 65 minutes |
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Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-03 63 minutes |
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David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Nov-02 70 minutes |
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Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Oct-31 67 minutes |
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Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2022-Oct-28 39 minutes |
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Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat 2022-Oct-25 12 minutes |
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020) 2022-Oct-19 81 minutes |
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Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Oct-18 90 minutes |
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Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2022-Oct-11 69 minutes |
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The Surprising World of Wasps 2022-Oct-06 67 minutes |
On Einstein's Discoveries2022-Sep-29 30 minutes |
On Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species"2022-Sep-28 32 minutes |
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Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-22 77 minutes |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2022-Sep-15 21 minutes |
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History, Space, and Getting Things Wrong 2022-Sep-14 60 minutes |
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Karen Hunger Parshall, "The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Sep-12 70 minutes |
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Elise Vernon Pearlstine, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance" (Yale UP, 2022) 2022-Sep-08 53 minutes |
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On Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" 2022-Sep-08 29 minutes |
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Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics? 2022-Sep-07 51 minutes |
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Georg Striedter, "Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-07 49 minutes |
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John Measey, "How to Publish in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2022) 2022-Sep-05 89 minutes |
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Peter Winkler, "Mathematical Puzzles" (A K Peters, 2020) 2022-Aug-23 70 minutes |
On Edwin Hubble’s "The Realm of the Nebulae"2022-Aug-22 38 minutes |
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The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science 2022-Aug-19 58 minutes |
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Adam Nocek, "Molecular Capture: The Animation of Biology" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) 2022-Aug-17 55 minutes |
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Joseph Mileti, "Modern Mathematical Logic" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-Aug-15 47 minutes |
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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science 2022-Jul-29 68 minutes |
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Lisa Jean Moore, "Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature" (NYU Press, 2022) 2022-Jul-20 45 minutes |
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Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022) 2022-Jul-15 57 minutes |
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Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Jul-11 68 minutes |
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Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia 2022-Jul-08 24 minutes |
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Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022) 2022-Jul-06 92 minutes |
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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 |
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Michael Hannah, "Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-28 58 minutes |
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Frans de Waal, "Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist" (W. W. Norton, 2022) 2022-Jun-27 54 minutes |
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Ryan North, "How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain" (Riverhead Books, 2022) 2022-Jun-27 68 minutes |
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Carles Lalueza-Fox, "Inequality: A Genetic History" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-24 58 minutes |
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Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2022-Jun-22 48 minutes |
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Agustín Fuentes, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature" (Second Edition) (U California Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-22 47 minutes |
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Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-21 62 minutes |
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Robert N. Wiedenmann and J. Ray Fisher, "The Silken Thread: Five Insects and Their Impacts on Human History" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-20 84 minutes |
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Juli Berwald, "Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs" (Riverhead Books, 2022) 2022-Jun-16 64 minutes |
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Thomas Dixon and Adam Shapiro, "Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction" Second Edition. (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-16 86 minutes |
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All About Dwarf Galaxies: A Conversation with Astronomer Charlotte Christensen 2022-Jun-15 30 minutes |
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Albert Folch, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-15 61 minutes |
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A. J. Lees, "Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology" (Notting Hill Editions, 2022) 2022-Jun-14 66 minutes |
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Alison F. Richard, "Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2022-Jun-14 70 minutes |
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Danielle J. Whittaker, "The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-13 55 minutes |
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Martin Williams, "When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-10 55 minutes |
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Timothy J. Jorgensen, "Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Jun-10 65 minutes |
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Wake Smith, "Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-09 69 minutes |
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Gernot Wagner, "Geoengineering: The Gamble" (Polity, 2021) 2022-Jun-07 63 minutes |
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David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022) 2022-Jun-06 58 minutes |
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David George Haskell, "Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction" (Viking, 2022) 2022-Jun-03 65 minutes |
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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 61 minutes |
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Paul Huebener, "Nature's Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis" (U Regina Press, 2020) 2022-Jun-01 34 minutes |
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The Future of the Brain: A Conversation with Daniel Graham 2022-May-31 48 minutes |
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Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, "Song of the Earth: Understanding Geology and Why It Matters" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-May-31 62 minutes |
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Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022) 2022-May-30 50 minutes |
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Greg Brennecka, "Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong" (William Morrow, 2022) 2022-May-30 45 minutes |
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Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 2022-May-24 56 minutes |
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Jim Al-Khalili, "The Joy of Science" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-May-19 50 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning 2022-May-18 53 minutes |
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David M. Peña-Guzmán, "When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-May-17 42 minutes |
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Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-May-16 50 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication 2022-May-11 58 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment 2022-May-04 61 minutes |
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Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Apr-29 44 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World 2022-Apr-27 58 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal 2022-Apr-20 56 minutes |
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John Measey, "How to Write a PhD in Biological Sciences: A Guide for the Uninitiated" (CRC Press, 2021) 2022-Apr-20 56 minutes |
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Jeff Sebo, "Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes" (Oxford UP, 2022) 2022-Apr-18 40 minutes |
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Dashun Wang and Albert-László Barabási, "The Science of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2022-Apr-13 61 minutes |
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Marcus Kaiser, "Changing Connectomes: Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2020) 2022-Apr-08 45 minutes |
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Zeynep Pamuk, "Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Apr-05 63 minutes |
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The Future of Delusions: A Discussion with Lisa Bortolotti 2022-Apr-05 51 minutes |
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Daniel Bolnick, Editor in Chief of "The American Naturalist" 2022-Apr-05 64 minutes |
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All About Birds: A Series of Regional Field Guides from Princeton University Press 2022-Apr-01 24 minutes |
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Hilary Glasman-Deal, "Science Research Writing For Native and Non-Native Speakers of English" (World Scientific Publishing Europe, 2020) 2022-Mar-31 66 minutes |
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Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021)) 2022-Mar-30 46 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 4: Science, Societal Values and COVID 2022-Mar-30 64 minutes |
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Rachel E. Gross, "Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage" (W. W. Norton, 2022) 2022-Mar-30 46 minutes |
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Lucy Cooke, "Bitch: On the Female of the Species" (Basic Books, 2022) 2022-Mar-24 48 minutes |
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N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022) 2022-Mar-23 68 minutes |
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Howard Burton, "Pandemic Perspectives: A Filmmaker's Journey in 10 Essays" (Open Agenda, 2022) 2022-Mar-22 68 minutes |
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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 76 minutes |
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Kate Crawford, "The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" (Yale UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-21 56 minutes |
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Pandemic Perspectives 2: A Conversation with Stephen Scherer 2022-Mar-16 44 minutes |
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Florian Jaton, "The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Mar-16 50 minutes |
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Jackie Higgins, "Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses" (Atria Books, 2022) 2022-Mar-16 32 minutes |
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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 48 minutes |
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Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman, "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-10 46 minutes |
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Intellectual Humility in Science: A Discussion with Glenn Sauer 2022-Mar-10 52 minutes |
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The Future of Consciousness: A Discussion with Eva Jablonka 2022-Mar-08 49 minutes |
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Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021) 2022-Mar-07 56 minutes |
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The Future of Sleep: A Discussion with Derk-Jan Dijk 2022-Mar-01 45 minutes |
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David Rettew, "Parenting Made Complicated: What Science Really Knows about the Greatest Debates of Early Childhood" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-25 35 minutes |
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Christophe Bernard, Director of Research at INSERM and Editor-in-Chief of eNeuro 2022-Feb-18 74 minutes |
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Sara Manning Peskin, "A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain" (Norton, 2022) 2022-Feb-18 57 minutes |
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Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Feb-16 65 minutes |
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In Science We Trust?: An insider Conversation with Health Policy Reporter, Fran Kritz 2022-Feb-15 48 minutes |
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Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022) 2022-Feb-15 50 minutes |
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Retraction Watch: A Discussion with Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky 2022-Feb-11 88 minutes |
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Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-10 69 minutes |
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Fritjof Capra, "Patterns of Connection: Essential Essays from Five Decades" (High Road Books, 2021) 2022-Feb-08 65 minutes |
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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 42 minutes |
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Renny Thomas, "Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment" (Routledge, 2021) 2022-Feb-04 57 minutes |
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Emily Levesque, "The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers" (Sourcebooks, 2021) 2022-Feb-04 49 minutes |
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Lina Zeldovich, "The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2022-Feb-03 66 minutes |
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Leonard Mlodinow, "Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking" (Pantheon, 2022) 2022-Feb-03 48 minutes |
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Walter R. Tschinkel, "Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2022-Feb-02 53 minutes |
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Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022) 2022-Jan-27 51 minutes |
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Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease 2022-Jan-21 22 minutes |
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Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani, "Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors" (PublicAffairs, 2021) 2022-Jan-21 55 minutes |
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John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021) 2022-Jan-19 62 minutes |
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Brendan Borrell, "The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine" (Mariner Books, 2021) 2022-Jan-13 43 minutes |
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Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021) 2022-Jan-11 67 minutes |
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Karl Herrup, "How Not to Study a Disease: The Story of Alzheimer's" (MIT Press, 2021) 2022-Jan-03 51 minutes |
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Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science 2021-Dec-31 48 minutes |
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Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Dec-31 63 minutes |
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David Sulzer, "Music, Math, and Mind: The Physics and Neuroscience of Music" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Dec-30 76 minutes |
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Laurie Winkless, "Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces" (Bloomsbury, 2022) 2021-Dec-29 61 minutes |
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Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-28 107 minutes |
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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021) 2021-Dec-28 63 minutes |
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Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-27 133 minutes |
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Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-24 76 minutes |
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Melinda Baldwin, "Making 'Nature': The History of a Scientific Journal" (U Chicago Press, 2015) 2021-Dec-24 66 minutes |
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Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021) 2021-Dec-24 60 minutes |
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David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-23 172 minutes |
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Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937) 2021-Dec-22 59 minutes |
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Sarah S. Richardson, "The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2021-Dec-21 42 minutes |
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Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-16 83 minutes |
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Greg Hickock, “Beyond Mirror Neurons” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-13 96 minutes |
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Kalanit Grill-Spector, “Vision and Perception” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Dec-10 117 minutes |
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Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 2021-Dec-10 63 minutes |
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James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021) 2021-Dec-07 67 minutes |
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Benjamin Labatut, "When We Cease to Understand the World" (NYRB, 2021) 2021-Dec-07 74 minutes |
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Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century 2021-Nov-26 15 minutes |
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Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-26 64 minutes |
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Oliver Rollins, "Conviction: The Making and Unmaking of the Violent Brain" (Stanford UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-26 75 minutes |
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Nolan Gasser, "Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste" (Flatiron Books, 2019) 2021-Nov-24 57 minutes |
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Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-24 67 minutes |
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Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021) 2021-Nov-23 106 minutes |
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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 59 minutes |
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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-19 72 minutes |
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Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-18 137 minutes |
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Jill Tartar, “SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-16 88 minutes |
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John S. Tregoning, "Infectious: Pathogens and How We Fight Them" (Oneworld, 2021) 2021-Nov-16 47 minutes |
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Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 33 minutes |
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Robert Brooks, "Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 63 minutes |
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Nancy Langston, "Climate Ghosts: Migratory Species in the Anthropocene" (Brandeis UP, 2021) 2021-Nov-15 42 minutes |
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Ian Stewart, “The Joy of Mathematics” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-12 85 minutes |
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Paul Steinhardt, “Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-11 132 minutes |
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How to Be Wrong: An Introduction to the Podcast 2021-Nov-10 78 minutes |
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Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 60 minutes |
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Vinciane Despret, "Living as a Bird" (Polity Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 68 minutes |
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Andrew Leigh, "What's the Worst That Could Happen?: Existential Risk and Extreme Politics" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Nov-10 41 minutes |
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Lee Smolin, “Examining Time” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-08 126 minutes |
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Bradley Alger, "Defense of the Scientific Hypothesis: From Reproducibility Crisis to Big Data" (Oxford UP, 2019) 2021-Nov-08 82 minutes |
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Vicky Neale, "Why Study Mathematics?" (London Publishing Partnership, 2020) 2021-Nov-05 54 minutes |
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Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018) 2021-Nov-01 61 minutes |
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Jonathan Schooler, “Mind-Wandering and Meta-Awareness” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Nov-01 102 minutes |
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Stephen Scherer, “Our Human Variability” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-29 147 minutes |
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A Conversation with Aliyah Kovner, Science Writer and Science Podcaster 2021-Oct-27 65 minutes |
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Jari Saramäki, "How to Write a Scientific Paper: An Academic Self-Help Guide for PhD Students" (2018) 2021-Oct-26 74 minutes |
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Jacki Edry, "Moving Forward: Reflections on Autism, Neurodiversity, Brain Surgery, and Faith" (2021) 2021-Oct-22 63 minutes |
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Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Oct-20 49 minutes |
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Hilary Glasman-Deal and Andrew Northern on STEMM Communications 2021-Oct-20 85 minutes |
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Patricia Newman and Annie Crawley, "Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean" (Millbrook Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-20 55 minutes |
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Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-19 151 minutes |
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Katherine Chandler, "Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare" (Rutgers UP, 2020) 2021-Oct-19 58 minutes |
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Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Oct-15 73 minutes |
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The Scholarly Journal: An Interview with Josh Schimel and Karl Ritz of "Soil Biology and Biochemistry" 2021-Oct-14 78 minutes |
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Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Oct-11 132 minutes |
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Michael Yudell, "Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century" (Columbia UP, 2018) 2021-Oct-08 63 minutes |
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Caitlin Donohue Wylie, "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-08 55 minutes |
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65 Octopus World: Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP) 2021-Oct-07 49 minutes |
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David B. Williams, "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound" (U Washington Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-06 60 minutes |
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Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-06 61 minutes |
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Jaap-Henk Hoepman, "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-05 61 minutes |
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Michael Moore, "We Are All Whalers: The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility" (U Chicago Press, 2021) 2021-Oct-04 67 minutes |
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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 69 minutes |
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Kyle Harper, "Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Oct-01 48 minutes |
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Mark Maslin, “Embracing the Anthropocene: Managing Human Impact” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-30 119 minutes |
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Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021) 2021-Sep-30 74 minutes |
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Sandro Galea, "The Contagion Next Time" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-30 26 minutes |
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Eric. S. Hintz, "American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 82 minutes |
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Lisa T. Sarasohn, "Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 60 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 56 minutes |
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Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 44 minutes |
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Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 66 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-28 51 minutes |
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Tony Leggett, “The Problems of Physics, Reconsidered” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-27 101 minutes |
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Chris Bleakley, "Poems That Solve Puzzles: The History and Science of Algorithms" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Sep-27 84 minutes |
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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 73 minutes |
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Nick Lane, “A Matter of Energy: Biology From First Principles” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-24 130 minutes |
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Allan V. Horwitz, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-24 60 minutes |
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Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-23 66 minutes |
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Athena Aktipis, "The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2021-Sep-22 58 minutes |
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Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-22 66 minutes |
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Joshua Schimel, "Writing Science: How to Write Papers That Get Cited and Proposals That Get Funded" (Oxford UP, 2011) 2021-Sep-22 76 minutes |
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Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas, "Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-21 65 minutes |
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Justin Khoury, “Cosmological Conundrums” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-21 78 minutes |
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Bruce Clarke, "Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene" (U Minnesota Press, 2020) 2021-Sep-17 72 minutes |
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Princeton UP's "Pedia" Series: Beautiful, Short Books About Big, Important Subjects 2021-Sep-17 32 minutes |
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Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021) 2021-Sep-16 77 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 59 minutes |
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Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020) 2021-Sep-15 50 minutes |
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Mariska van Sprundel, "Running Smart: How Science Can Improve Your Endurance and Performance" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-14 63 minutes |
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Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-10 68 minutes |
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Katy Borner, "Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-10 46 minutes |
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Silvia Casini, "Giving Bodies Back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance Technology" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-09 62 minutes |
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Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021) 2021-Sep-08 39 minutes |
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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 47 minutes |
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Joanna Haigh, “Solar Impact: Climate and the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-06 113 minutes |
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Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Sep-02 79 minutes |
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Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020) 2021-Sep-02 64 minutes |
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Jemma Wadham, "Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Sep-01 35 minutes |
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Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-30 108 minutes |
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Alfred S. Posamentier, "Math Tricks: The Surprising Wonders of Shapes and Numbers" (Prometheus Books, 2021) 2021-Aug-30 54 minutes |
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Jay Gargus, “Autism: A Genetic Perspective” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-24 130 minutes |
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Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Aug-20 90 minutes |
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Barbara Fredrickson, “The Science of Emotions” (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Aug-19 81 minutes |
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P. J. Boczkowski and E. Mitchelstein, "The Digital Environment: How We Live, Learn, Work, and Play Now" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 65 minutes |
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Mark L. Johnson and Don M. Tucker, "Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 80 minutes |
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Raghav Rajagopalan, "Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis" (Springer Nature, 2020) 2021-Aug-17 66 minutes |
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Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Aug-17 72 minutes |
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Mikkael A. Sekeres, "When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-16 60 minutes |
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Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-16 140 minutes |
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Lisa Feldman Barrett, “Constructing Our World: The Brain’s-Eye View” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-13 133 minutes |
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Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2021-Aug-10 47 minutes |
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Satyan Devadoss and Matt Harvey, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-10 68 minutes |
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Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, "When Maps Become the World" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Aug-10 67 minutes |
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Artur Ekert, “Cryptoreality” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-09 176 minutes |
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Chiara Marletto, "The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals" (Viking, 2021) 2021-Aug-09 68 minutes |
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Freeman Dyson, “Pushing the Boundaries” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Aug-06 105 minutes |
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Yves Agid, "Subconsciousness: Automatic Behavior and the Brain" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Aug-06 69 minutes |
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Robert Stickgold and Antonio Zadra, "When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep" (W. W. Norton, 2021) 2021-Aug-04 100 minutes |
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Alex Csiszar, "The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2021-Aug-04 72 minutes |
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Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Aug-02 55 minutes |
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Joseph Curtin, “The Science of Siren Songs: Stradivari Unveiled” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-30 101 minutes |
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James Ladyman and K. Wiesner, "What Is a Complex System?" (Yale UP, 2020) 2021-Jul-30 74 minutes |
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Stefan Collini, “The Two Cultures, Revisited” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-28 100 minutes |
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John Horgan, "Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-23 66 minutes |
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James Robert Brown, “Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-22 89 minutes |
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Terry McGlynn, "The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-19 76 minutes |
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John Troyer, "Technologies of the Human Corpse" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-19 69 minutes |
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Anna Reser and Leila McNeill, "Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science" (Frances Lincoln, 2021) 2021-Jul-16 61 minutes |
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Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-14 120 minutes |
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Nima Arkani-Hamed, “The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed” (Open Agenda, 2021) 2021-Jul-13 121 minutes |
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Nichola Raihani, "The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World" (St. Martin's Press, 2021) 2021-Jul-12 70 minutes |
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Alyssa Ney, "The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-Jul-09 73 minutes |
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Warren Mansell, "The Interdisciplinary Handbook of Perceptual Control Theory" (Academic Press, 2020) 2021-Jul-08 64 minutes |
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Faith Kearns, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communication: A Guide to Effective Engagement" (Island Press, 2021) 2021-Jun-28 50 minutes |
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Stuart Farrimond, "The Science of Living: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine" (DK Publishing, 2020) 2021-Jun-23 65 minutes |
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Howard Burton, "First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute" (Open Agenda Publishing, 2021) 2021-Jun-21 96 minutes |
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Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021) 2021-Jun-14 63 minutes |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Jun-14 76 minutes |
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W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Jun-09 59 minutes |
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Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, "Objectivity" (Zone Books, 2010) 2021-Jun-07 65 minutes |
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Lydia Denworth, "Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond" (Bloomsbury, 2020) 2021-Jun-07 40 minutes |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Biology" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-Jun-07 73 minutes |
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Rob Boddice, "Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Jun-02 59 minutes |
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Martin Paul Eve et al. "Reading Peer Review: PLOS One and Institutional Change in Academia" (Cambridge UP, 2021) 2021-Jun-01 65 minutes |
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Skylar Tibbits, "Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2021) 2021-Jun-01 50 minutes |
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Howard Burton, "Conversations About Astrophysics & Cosmology" (Open Agenda, 2020) 2021-May-31 70 minutes |
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Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-May-31 68 minutes |
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Randolph M. Nesse, "Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry" (Dutton, 2019) 2021-May-28 57 minutes |
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Jenny Bangham, "Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-May-26 59 minutes |
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Deborah R. Coen, "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter" (U Chicago Press, 2013) 2021-May-21 50 minutes |
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Joseph Rouse, "Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image" (U Chicago Press, 2015) 2021-May-21 65 minutes |
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Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021) 2021-May-17 83 minutes |
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Michael D. Gordin, "On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience" (Oxford UP, 2021) 2021-May-17 54 minutes |
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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 62 minutes |
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Michelle Nijhuis, "Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction" (Norton, 2021) 2021-May-12 68 minutes |
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Lucy van de Wiel, "Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging" (NYU Press, 2020) 2021-May-12 78 minutes |
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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 64 minutes |
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David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021) 2021-May-11 54 minutes |
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Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-May-10 64 minutes |
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Peter Godfrey-Smith, "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" (FSG, 2020) 2021-May-03 47 minutes |
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Elise K. Burton, "Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity" (Stanford UP, 2021) 2021-Apr-29 58 minutes |
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James Doucet-Battle, "Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes" (U Minnesota Press, 2021) 2021-Apr-23 60 minutes |
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Leigh Calvez, "The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature's Most Elusive Birds" (Sasquatch Books, 2016) 2021-Apr-23 59 minutes |
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Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019) 2021-Apr-21 59 minutes |
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Allison Cobb, "Plastic: An Autobiography" (Nightboat Books, 2021) 2021-Apr-20 60 minutes |
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Christopher Thaiss, "Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century" (Broadview Press, 2019) 2021-Apr-14 81 minutes |
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Avi Loeb, "Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021) 2021-Apr-06 54 minutes |
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Teya Brooks Pribac, "Enter the Animal: Cross-Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality" (Sydney UP, 2021) 2021-Apr-06 68 minutes |
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James S. J. Schwartz, "The Value of Science in Space Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2021-Apr-05 74 minutes |
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Doug Bierend. "In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms" (Chelsea Green, 2021) 2021-Apr-02 55 minutes |
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Jonas Peters and Nicolai Meinshausen, "The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games" (MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Apr-02 57 minutes |
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Roy Richard Grinker, "Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness" (Norton, 2021) 2021-Mar-30 62 minutes |
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Rick McIntyre, "The Reign of Wolf 21: In the Valley of the Druid King" (Greystone Books, 2020) 2021-Mar-22 87 minutes |
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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 49 minutes |
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Courtney E. Thompson, "An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America" (Rutgers UP, 2021) 2021-Mar-19 51 minutes |
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A. Blair and K. von Greyerz, "Physico-Theology: Religion and Science in Europe, 1650–1750 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2021-Mar-19 38 minutes |
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Alisha Rankin, "The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science" (Alisha Rankin, 2021) 2021-Mar-18 69 minutes |
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Mitchell L. Hammond, "Epidemics and the Modern World" (University of Toronto Press, 2020) 2021-Mar-17 105 minutes |
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David Payne on the Community of Scientists and Diversity 2021-Mar-12 77 minutes |
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Jeremy DeSilva, "First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human" (Harper, 2021) 2021-Mar-12 67 minutes |
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Edzard Ernst, "Chiropractic: Not All That It's Cracked Up to Be" (Springer, 2020) 2021-Mar-08 50 minutes |
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Han Yu, "Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer's" (Columbia UP, 2021) 2021-Mar-03 72 minutes |
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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 57 minutes |
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Erika Engelhaupt, "Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science" (National Geographic, 2020) 2021-Feb-25 56 minutes |
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Imitating Viruses: How Technology Can Help Us Be Better Prepared For Pandemics 2021-Feb-24 19 minutes |
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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 64 minutes |
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Milo Beckman, "Math Without Numbers" (Dutton, 2020) 2021-Feb-22 55 minutes |
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Seema Yasmin, "Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021) 2021-Feb-22 26 minutes |
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Alan Lightman, "Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings" (Pantheon, 2021) 2021-Feb-18 35 minutes |
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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2021-Feb-17 39 minutes |
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Emily Willingham, "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis" (Avery, 2020) 2021-Feb-17 42 minutes |
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Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021) 2021-Feb-16 65 minutes |
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Henry T. Greely, "CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans" (The MIT Press, 2021) 2021-Feb-15 61 minutes |
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Jack Price, "The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy" (MIT Press, 2020) 2021-Feb-10 64 minutes |
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Thomas Pradeu, "Philosophy of Immunology" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 2021-Feb-10 64 minutes |
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Jennifer M. Rampling, "The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Feb-08 65 minutes |
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Michael Rossi, "The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America" (Chicago UP, 2019) 2021-Feb-05 57 minutes |
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Simon Baron-Cohen, "The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention" (Allen Lane, 2020) 2021-Jan-26 61 minutes |
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2021-Jan-25 54 minutes |
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J. Rosenhouse, "Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2021-Jan-25 56 minutes |
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David Sepkoski, "Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2021-Jan-22 49 minutes |
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R. Douglas Fields, "Electric Brain: How the New Science of Brainwaves Reads Minds, Tells Us How We Learn, and Helps Us Change for the Better" (BenBella, 2020) 2021-Jan-19 73 minutes |
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Andrew Jewett, "Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America" (Harvard UP, 2020) 2021-Jan-19 41 minutes |
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Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020) 2021-Jan-13 64 minutes |
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Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019) 2021-Jan-06 59 minutes |
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Can we Bring Extinct Species Back?: A Conversation with Beth Shapiro 2021-Jan-04 40 minutes |
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Daniel Lieberman, "Exercised: How We Did Not Evolve to Exercise and What to Do about It" (Pantheon, 2021) 2020-Dec-31 31 minutes |
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Paul Davies, "The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2020-Dec-24 78 minutes |
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Jonathan C. Slaght, "Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl" (FSG, 2020) 2020-Dec-24 38 minutes |
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Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 2020-Dec-24 39 minutes |
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Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020) 2020-Dec-23 61 minutes |
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Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2020-Dec-16 56 minutes |
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Louise M. Pryke, "Turtle" (Reaction Books, 2020) 2020-Dec-16 46 minutes |
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Scholarly Communications: A Discussion with Elisa De Ranieri, Editor-in-Chief of "Nature Communications" 2020-Dec-07 72 minutes |
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James D. Stein, "The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat: Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive" (World Scientific, 2020) 2020-Dec-07 75 minutes |
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A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 2020-Dec-04 79 minutes |
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Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020) 2020-Dec-02 59 minutes |
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Anna Weltman, "Supermath: The Power of Numbers for Good and Evil" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) 2020-Dec-01 107 minutes |
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Soraya de Chadarevian, "Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2020-Nov-24 52 minutes |
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K. C. Smith and C. Mariscal, "Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology" (Oxford UP, 2020) 2020-Nov-23 71 minutes |
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Jimena Canales, "Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2020-Nov-16 44 minutes |
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020) 2020-Nov-16 39 minutes |
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Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Joy of Geometry" (Prometheus, 2020) 2020-Nov-11 57 minutes |
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Hugh Raffles, "The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time" (Pantheon Books, 2020) 2020-Nov-04 71 minutes |
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M. Bekoff and J. Pierce, "The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age" (Beacon Press, 2017) 2020-Nov-03 65 minutes |
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I. Newkirk and G. Stone, "Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion" (Simon and Schuster, 2020) 2020-Oct-30 49 minutes |
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Gina Rippon, "Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds" (Vintage, 2020) 2020-Oct-27 67 minutes |
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Robert Plomin, "Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" (MIT Press, 2019) 2020-Oct-22 70 minutes |
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2018) 2020-Oct-20 67 minutes |
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Rene Almeling, "GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health" (U California Press, 2020) 2020-Oct-15 36 minutes |
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Scholarly Communication: An Interview with Joerg Heber of PLOS 2020-Oct-14 68 minutes |
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Boel Berner, "Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th-Century Medicine and Beyond" (Transcript Verlag, 2020) 2020-Oct-12 59 minutes |
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Kat Arney, "Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal" (Benbella Books, 2020) 2020-Oct-09 50 minutes |
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Morality in Nature: What Honeybees and Flowers Can Tell Us about its Origin 2020-Oct-07 17 minutes |
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Jeremy England, "Every Life is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things" (Basic Books, 2020) 2020-Oct-05 99 minutes |
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Frans de Waal, "Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves" (Norton, 2019) 2020-Oct-01 59 minutes |
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Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019) 2020-Sep-30 69 minutes |
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Scholarly Communications: An Interview with Helen Pearson of 'Nature' 2020-Sep-29 48 minutes |
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Dr. Christopher Harris on Teaching Neuroscience 2020-Sep-24 66 minutes |
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Zachary Dorner, "Merchants of Medicine: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long 18th Century" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2020-Sep-18 60 minutes |
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Carl Safina, "Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace" (Henry Holt, 2020) 2020-Sep-17 65 minutes |
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Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019) 2020-Sep-17 98 minutes |
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Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" (U Chicago Press, 2016) 2020-Sep-14 73 minutes |
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Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020) 2020-Sep-11 52 minutes |
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David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020) 2020-Sep-10 45 minutes |
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David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2020-Sep-04 77 minutes |
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György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019) 2020-Aug-27 95 minutes |
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Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020) 2020-Aug-27 78 minutes |
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Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2020-Aug-26 74 minutes |
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2020-Aug-24 87 minutes |
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Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020) 2020-Aug-10 78 minutes |
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Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change" (Melville House, 2020) 2020-Jul-29 63 minutes |
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Marc Zimmer, "The State of Science" (Prometheus Books, 2020) 2020-Jul-21 59 minutes |
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David Kaiser, "Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World" (U Chicago Press, 2020) 2020-Jul-13 81 minutes |
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Cailin O’Connor, "Games in the Philosophy of Biology" (Cambridge UP, 2020) 2020-Jul-10 66 minutes |
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Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming" (HarperOne, 2020) 2020-Jun-30 59 minutes |
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019) 2020-Jun-24 30 minutes |
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Henry M. Cowles, "The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey" (Harvard UP, 2020) 2020-Jun-17 55 minutes |
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Controlling the Scientific Narrative: Randomized Controlled Trials and The Manipulation of “Control” 2020-Jun-03 30 minutes |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) 2020-Jun-02 120 minutes |
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A. M. Barton and W. S. Keeton, "Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests" (Island Press, 2018) 2020-May-14 70 minutes |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) 2020-Apr-28 59 minutes |
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Wade Roush, "Extraterrestrials" (MIT Press, 2020) 2020-Apr-27 54 minutes |
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Jodi Hilty, "Corridor Ecology: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation" (Island Press, 2019) 2020-Apr-20 54 minutes |
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Wenfei Tong, "Bird Love: The Family Life of Birds" (Princeton UP, 2020) 2020-Apr-17 54 minutes |
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Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action" (Public Affairs, 2020) 2020-Apr-06 42 minutes |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020) 2020-Mar-30 54 minutes |
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Adrian Currie, "Rock, Bone, and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences" (MIT Press, 2018) 2020-Mar-27 54 minutes |
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Andrew Leigh, "Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World" (Yale UP, 2018) 2020-Mar-26 41 minutes |
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Kareem Khalifa, "Understanding, Explanation and Scientific Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2017) 2020-Mar-10 59 minutes |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) 2020-Feb-25 42 minutes |
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Amy Shira Teitel, "Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA" (Bloomsbury, 2016) 2020-Feb-21 30 minutes |
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Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2020-Feb-14 35 minutes |
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Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise" (Polity, 2019) 2020-Feb-10 66 minutes |
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Travis Dumsday, "Dispositionalism and the Metaphysics of Science" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 2020-Feb-10 66 minutes |
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Michael F. Robinson, "The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2006) 2020-Feb-07 39 minutes |
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David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power" (Oxford UP, 2019) 2020-Feb-04 112 minutes |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020) 2020-Jan-30 39 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, "Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge" (Icon Books, 2019) 2020-Jan-28 54 minutes |
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Neil Maher, "Apollo in the Age of Aquarius" (Harvard UP, 2017) 2020-Jan-24 33 minutes |
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Daniel Kennefick, "No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2020-Jan-17 39 minutes |
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James Schwartz, "The Ethics of Space Exploration" (Springer, 2016) 2020-Jan-16 67 minutes |
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Angelina Callahan, "NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 2019-Dec-27 34 minutes |
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Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017) 2019-Dec-26 63 minutes |
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Steve Fuller, "The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) 2019-Dec-19 91 minutes |
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David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data" (Basic, 2019) 2019-Dec-13 62 minutes |
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E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018) 2019-Dec-10 61 minutes |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019) 2019-Dec-03 57 minutes |
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Julian Havil, "Curves for the Mathematically Curious" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2019-Nov-15 59 minutes |
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Michael E. Mann, "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines" (2012) 2019-Nov-11 40 minutes |
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John Gribbin, "Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World" (Icon Books, 2019) 2019-Nov-05 54 minutes |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing 2019-Nov-03 40 minutes |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019) 2019-Oct-24 32 minutes |
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Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2019) 2019-Oct-18 36 minutes |
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Theodore Dalrymple, "False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine" (Encounter Books, 2019) 2019-Oct-17 46 minutes |
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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019) 2019-Oct-17 73 minutes |
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Oren Harman, "Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World" (FSG, 2018) 2019-Oct-14 66 minutes |
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Thomas Hager, "Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine" (Abrams Press, 2019) 2019-Oct-14 62 minutes |
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Justin Garson, "What Biological Functions are and Why They Matter" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 2019-Oct-10 68 minutes |
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David Sinclair, "LifeSpan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To" (Simon and Schuster, 2019) 2019-Oct-04 60 minutes |
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E. H. Ecklund and D. R. Johnson, "Secularity and Science: What Scientists Around the World Really Think of Religion" (Oxford UP, 2019) 2019-Sep-05 94 minutes |
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Emily Lakdawalla, "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job" (Springer, 2018) 2019-Aug-30 34 minutes |
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Michael Kodas, "Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) 2019-Aug-23 52 minutes |
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David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of James Watt" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019) 2019-Aug-13 71 minutes |
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Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 2019-Aug-12 54 minutes |
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Samir Okasha, "Agents and Goals in Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2018) 2019-Aug-09 59 minutes |
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019) 2019-Jul-31 64 minutes |
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David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018) 2019-Jul-26 57 minutes |
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Vanessa Heggie, "Higher and Colder: A History of Extreme Physiology and Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 2019-Jul-26 37 minutes |
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John D. Hawks, "Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story" (National Geographic, 2017) 2019-Jul-19 33 minutes |
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Paul Sutter, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus, 2018) 2019-Jul-18 54 minutes |
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Robin Scheffler, “A Contagious Cause: The American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 2019-Jul-04 40 minutes |
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Philip W. Clements, "Science in an Extreme Environment: The American Mount Everest Expedition" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018) 2019-Jun-28 33 minutes |
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David Munns, "Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2017) 2019-Jun-24 34 minutes |
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Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Science" (Oxford UP, 2018) 2019-Jun-10 60 minutes |
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the 2013-2016 Ebola Outbreak" (Springer, 2018) 2019-Jun-07 28 minutes |
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Eric Topol, "Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again" (Basic Books, 2019) 2019-May-07 41 minutes |
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Jessica Pierce, "Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible" (New World Library, 2019) 2019-May-07 56 minutes |
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Chris Bernhardt, "Quantum Computing for Everyone" (MIT Press, 2019) 2019-May-02 56 minutes |
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Kate Brown, "Manuel for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future" (Norton, 2019) 2019-Apr-19 47 minutes |
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Emily Dawson, "Equity, Exclusion and Everyday Science Learning: The Experiences of Minoritised Groups" (Routledge, 2019) 2019-Apr-18 50 minutes |
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Christopher Preston, "The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World" (MIT Press, 2018) 2019-Apr-18 53 minutes |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing 2019-Mar-19 32 minutes |
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Rick Van Noy, "Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South" (U Georgia Press, 2019) 2019-Mar-08 49 minutes |
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Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson, "Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body" (Avery, 2017) 2019-Feb-13 54 minutes |
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Jonathan Birch, "The Philosophy of Social Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017) 2019-Feb-11 63 minutes |
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Peter Hotez, "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) 2019-Feb-07 42 minutes |
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Elliott Sober, "The Design Argument" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 2019-Jan-28 43 minutes |
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Benoît Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris" (Parigramme, 2018) 2019-Jan-16 35 minutes |
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Maria Kronfeldner, "What's Left of Human Nature? A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept" (MIT Press, 2018) 2019-Jan-15 70 minutes |
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George E. Mobus and Michael C. Kalton, "Principles of Systems Science" (Springer Verlag, 2015) 2019-Jan-02 66 minutes |
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William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, "Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches" (Oxford UP, 2018) 2018-Dec-31 29 minutes |
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Paul A. Offit, "Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural" (Harper, 2014) 2018-Dec-28 52 minutes |
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Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape That Understood the Universe: How Mind and Culture Evolve" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 2018-Dec-26 56 minutes |
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Samuel Schindler, "Theoretical Virtues in Science: Discovering Reality Through Theory" (Cambridge UP, 2018) 2018-Dec-14 62 minutes |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017) 2018-Dec-06 64 minutes |
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Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers, "The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War" (U Chicago Press, 2018) 2018-Nov-28 61 minutes |
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Geraint F. Lewis and Luke A. Barnes, “A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos” (Cambridge UP, 2016) 2018-Nov-13 42 minutes |
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David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are” (Oxford UP, 2018) 2018-Nov-13 81 minutes |
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Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (Oxford UP, 2018) 2018-Nov-09 53 minutes |
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Rachel Z. Arndt, “Beyond Measure” (Sarabande Books, 2018) 2018-Oct-12 31 minutes |
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Theodore M. Porter, “Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity” (Princeton UP, 2018) 2018-Oct-11 54 minutes |
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Hervé Guillemain, “Schizophrenics in the Twentieth Century: The Side Effects of History” (Alma, 2018) 2018-Oct-09 41 minutes |
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Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016) 2018-Oct-04 64 minutes |
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Byron Reese, “The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity” (Simon & Schuster, 2018) 2018-Oct-04 73 minutes |
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S. Hayes and D. S. Wilson, “Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior” (Context Press, 2018) 2018-Sep-27 76 minutes |
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Anjan Chakravartty, “Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology” (Oxford UP, 2017) 2018-Sep-17 64 minutes |
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Andrew J. Hogan, “Life Histories of Genetic Disease: Patterns and Prevention in Postwar Medical Genetics” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016) 2018-Sep-13 34 minutes |
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Albert Müller, ed., “The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days With Second-Order Cybernetics” (Fordham UP, 2014) 2018-Sep-05 49 minutes |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History” (Oxford UP, 2018) 2018-Aug-09 50 minutes |
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Joëlle Gergis, “Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia” (Melbourne UP, 2018) 2018-Jul-27 16 minutes |
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Sabina Leonelli, “Data-Centric Biology: A Philosophical Study” (U Chicago Press, 2016) 2018-Jul-27 41 minutes |
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Randi Hutter Epstein, “Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything” (Norton, 2018) 2018-Jul-18 44 minutes |
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Eric Winsberg, “Philosophy and Climate Science” (Cambridge UP, 2018) 2018-Jul-16 67 minutes |
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Sam Kean, “The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code” (Back Bay, 2013) 2018-Jul-10 50 minutes |
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Jonathan W. Marshall, “Performing Neurology: The Dramaturgy of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) 2018-May-29 56 minutes |
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Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018) 2018-May-11 60 minutes |
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Sam Kean, “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons” (Little, Brown and Co., 2015) 2018-Apr-26 58 minutes |
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Sigrid Schmalzer, et. al., “Science for the People: Documents from America’s Movement of Radical Scientists (UMass Press, 2018) 2018-Apr-23 59 minutes |
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Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017) 2018-Apr-17 46 minutes |
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Karl H. Muller et al., “New Horizons for Second-Order Cybernetics” (World Scientific, 2017) 2018-Apr-13 61 minutes |
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Thomas Morris, “The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations” (Thomas Dunne, 2018) 2018-Apr-11 63 minutes |
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Molly Ladd-Taylor, “Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017) 2018-Mar-28 50 minutes |
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Menachem Fisch, “Creatively Undecided: Toward a History and Philosophy of Scientific Agency” (U Chicago Press, 2017 ) 2018-Mar-15 65 minutes |
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Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017) 2018-Mar-12 63 minutes |
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Henry Jay Przybylo, “Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia” (W.W. Norton, 2017) 2018-Mar-07 60 minutes |
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Michael Shermer, “Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia” (Henry Holt, 2018) 2018-Feb-20 55 minutes |
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Dmitry Novikov, “Cybernetics: Past to Future” (Springer Verlag, 2016) 2018-Feb-15 61 minutes |
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Howard I. Kushner, “On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017) 2018-Feb-14 49 minutes |
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Ty Tashiro, “Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome” (Harper Collins, 2017) 2018-Feb-13 53 minutes |
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Erika Dyck and Alex Deighton, “Managing Madness” (U Manitoba Press, 2017) 2018-Jan-31 55 minutes |
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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015) 2017-Dec-29 59 minutes |
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Dan Flores, “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History” (Basic Books, 2016) 2017-Dec-08 57 minutes |
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Abby Hafer, “The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not” (Cascade Books, 2015) 2017-Nov-25 88 minutes |
Climate Change Skepticism with Lawrence Torcello2017-Nov-02 32 minutes |
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Scott Bembenek, “The Cosmic Machine: The Science That Runs Our Universe and the Story Behind It” (Zoari Press, 2017) 2017-Oct-23 56 minutes |
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Michael Wintroub, “The Voyage of Thought: Navigating Knowledge Across the Sixteenth-Century World” (Cambridge UP, 2017) 2017-Oct-04 58 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, “Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives” (Icon Books, 2017) 2017-Sep-19 54 minutes |
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Jan De Winter, “Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) 2017-Sep-15 64 minutes |
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Iwan Rhys Morus, ed.,”The Oxford Illustrated History of Science” (Oxford UP, 2017) 2017-Sep-07 58 minutes |
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Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016) 2017-Aug-25 57 minutes |
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Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017) 2017-Aug-25 56 minutes |
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Gualtiero Piccinini, “Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account” (Oxford UP, 2016) 2017-Jul-15 64 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, “The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe” (Icon Books, 2017) 2017-Jun-29 52 minutes |
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Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016) 2017-Jun-22 54 minutes |
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Neil M. Maher, “Apollo in the Age of Aquarius” (Harvard UP, 2017) 2017-Jun-20 53 minutes |
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Beau Lotto, “Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently” (Hatchette Books, 2017) 2017-May-30 46 minutes |
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Sophia Roosth, “Synthetic: How Life Got Made” (U Chicago Press, 2017) 2017-May-13 71 minutes |
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Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016) 2017-May-11 35 minutes |
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Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Duke UP, 2016) 2017-May-04 64 minutes |
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J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017) 2017-Apr-29 49 minutes |
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Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016) 2017-Apr-25 62 minutes |
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Raz Chen-Morris, “Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility” (Penn State UP, 2016) 2017-Mar-29 62 minutes |
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Colleen Derkatch, “Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine” (U of Chicago Press, 2016) 2017-Mar-29 64 minutes |
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Kathleen McAuliffe, “This is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society” (Mariner Books, 2017) 2017-Mar-21 39 minutes |
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Stephanie Ruphy, “Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered: A New Approach to the (Dis)unity of Science (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2017) 2017-Mar-15 65 minutes |
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Carl Gillett, “Reduction and Emergence in Science and Philosophy” (Cambridge UP, 2016) 2017-Feb-15 68 minutes |
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Berit Brogaard, “On Romantic Love: Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion” (Oxford UP, 2015) 2017-Feb-13 51 minutes |
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Randy Olson, “Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story” (U. Chicago Press, 2015) 2017-Feb-04 63 minutes |
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Projit Bihari Mukharji, “Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Science: (University of Chicago Press, 2016) 2017-Jan-16 66 minutes |
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Joshua Howe, “Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming” (U. Washington Press, 2016) 2017-Jan-10 34 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, “Are Numbers Real? The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World (St. Martin’s Press, 2016) 2017-Jan-04 52 minutes |
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Ian Stewart, “Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe” (Basic Books, 2016) 2016-Dec-29 55 minutes |
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Pamela S. Turner, “Crow Smarts/Samurai Rising” (HMH/Charlesbridge, 2016) 2016-Oct-28 49 minutes |
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J.D. Trout, “Wondrous Truths: The Improbable Triumph of Modern Science” (Oxford UP, 2016) 2016-Oct-15 69 minutes |
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Asif A. Siddiqi, “The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957” (Cambridge UP, 2013) 2016-Sep-30 47 minutes |
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Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016) 2016-Sep-15 66 minutes |
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Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016) 2016-Sep-11 55 minutes |
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Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: A New Logic of Scientific Inquiry” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015) 2016-Sep-07 69 minutes |
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James Rodger Fleming, “Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology” (MIT Press, 2016) 2016-Aug-26 64 minutes |
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Peter Harrison, “The Territories of Science and Religion” (U. of Chicago Press, 2014) 2016-Jul-21 54 minutes |
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Marta Zaraska, “Meathooked: The History and Science of our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat” (Basic Books, 2016) 2016-Jul-05 42 minutes |
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Michael F. Robinson, “The Lost White Tribe: Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory that Changed a Continent” (Oxford UP, 2016) 2016-Jun-03 70 minutes |
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Beineke and Rosenhouse, eds., “The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math” (Princeton UP, 2015) 2016-May-23 55 minutes |
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Eben Kirksey, “Emergent Ecologies” (Duke UP, 2015) 2016-Apr-18 69 minutes |
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Eric Dietrich, “Excellent Beauty: The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World” (Columbia UP, ) 2016-Apr-15 66 minutes |
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David J. Stump, “Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science: Alternative Interpretations of the A Priori” (Routledge, 2015) 2016-Feb-15 66 minutes |
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Ronald Chase, “Schizophrenia: A Brother Finds Answers in Biological Science” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) 2016-Jan-26 58 minutes |
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Dale Jamieson, “Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed – and What It Means for Our Future” (Oxford UP, 2014) 2016-Jan-21 65 minutes |
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Peter J. Gloviczki, “Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) 2015-Dec-30 33 minutes |
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Natasha Myers, “Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter” (Duke UP, 2015) 2015-Dec-21 66 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, “How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? The Ultimate Science Quiz Book” (Icon Books, 2015) 2015-Dec-07 54 minutes |
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Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, “Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities” (MIT Press, 2015) 2015-Nov-15 38 minutes |
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Anita Guerrini, “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 2015-Nov-04 66 minutes |
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Eugene Raikhel, Todd Meyers, Emily Yates-Doerr, “Somatosphere.net” 2015-Oct-13 61 minutes |
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Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015) 2015-Sep-26 51 minutes |
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Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 2015-Sep-04 74 minutes |
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Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015) 2015-Aug-19 56 minutes |
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Raf De Bont, “Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 2015-Jul-24 61 minutes |
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James A. Secord, “Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age” (U of Chicago Press, 2014) 2015-Jul-03 66 minutes |
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Tom McLeish, “Faith and Wisdom in Science” (Oxford UP, 2014) 2015-May-22 51 minutes |
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Chris Morgan, “The Comic Galaxy of Mystery Science Theater 3000” (McFarland, 2015) 2015-Apr-17 53 minutes |
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A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015) 2015-Mar-21 62 minutes |
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Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014) 2015-Mar-16 72 minutes |
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Nick Wilding, “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge” (U Chicago Press, 2014) 2015-Mar-15 72 minutes |
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Edmund Russell, “Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth” ( 2015-Mar-11 50 minutes |
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Orit Halpern, “Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945” (Duke UP, 2014) 2015-Mar-09 75 minutes |
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Nicolas Rasmussen, “Gene Jockeys: Life Science and the Rise of Biotech Enterprise” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 2015-Jan-30 65 minutes |
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Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain, “Life on Display: Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century” (U of Chicago Press, 2014) 2015-Jan-16 70 minutes |
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William Sheehan and Christopher Conselice, “Galactic Encounters” (Springer, 2014) 2015-Jan-12 66 minutes |
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David A. Rothery, “Planet Mercury: From Pale Pink Dot to Dynamic World” (Springer, 2014) 2014-Dec-28 69 minutes |
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Vera Kolb, “Astrobiology: An Evolutionary Approach” (CRC Press, 2014) 2014-Dec-11 61 minutes |
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Daniel Margocsy, “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) 2014-Dec-09 70 minutes |
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James Giordano, “Neurotechnology in National Security and Defense” (CRC Press, 2014) 2014-Dec-04 74 minutes |
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William J. Turkel, “Spark from the Deep” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) 2014-Nov-13 69 minutes |
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Lawrence Lipking, “What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution” (Cornell UP, 2014) 2014-Nov-05 69 minutes |
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Roberto Trotta, “The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is” (Basic Books, 2014) 2014-Oct-21 61 minutes |
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Don Lincoln, “The Large Hadron Collider” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014) 2014-Oct-09 61 minutes |
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein, “Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse” (Columbia UP, 2014) 2014-Sep-29 61 minutes |
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014) 2014-Sep-29 61 minutes |
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David N. Livingstone, “Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014) 2014-Aug-06 74 minutes |
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Thomas McFaul and Al Brunsting, “God is Here to Stay: Science, Evolution, and Belief in God” (Wipf and Stock, 2014) 2014-Jun-19 56 minutes |
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Jane Maienschein, “Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life” (Harvard UP, 2014) 2014-Jun-12 74 minutes |
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Omar W. Nasim, “Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2014-Jun-02 69 minutes |
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Melinda B. Fagan, “Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology: Knowledge in Flesh and Blood” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) 2014-May-15 69 minutes |
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Richard Yeo, “Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) 2014-May-14 70 minutes |
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Oscar E. Fernandez, “Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us (Princeton UP, 2014) 2014-Apr-17 53 minutes |
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Robert Mitchell, “Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2013) 2014-Apr-16 72 minutes |
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Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, “Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa” (University of Chicago Press, 2014) 2014-Apr-10 72 minutes |
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David Kaiser, “How the Hippies Saved Physics” (W.W. Norton, 2012) 2014-Apr-02 73 minutes |
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Matthew C. Hunter, “Wicked Intelligence” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2014-Mar-23 73 minutes |
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John Hibbing et al., “Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences” (Routledge, 2013) 2014-Feb-24 21 minutes |
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Michael Pettit, “The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2014-Feb-19 55 minutes |
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Chuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) 2014-Feb-14 95 minutes |
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Hallam Stevens, “Life Out Of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2014-Jan-31 76 minutes |
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John Waldman, “Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations” (Lyons Press, 2013) 2014-Jan-16 46 minutes |
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Michael Weisberg, “Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World” (Oxford UP, 2013) 2014-Jan-15 63 minutes |
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Gabriel Finkelstein, “Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (MIT Press, 2013) 2014-Jan-14 75 minutes |
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Angela N. H. Creager, “Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2014-Jan-07 71 minutes |
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Sarah S. Richardson, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2013-Nov-27 60 minutes |
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Kim TallBear, “Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) 2013-Nov-23 59 minutes |
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Muhammed Ali Khalidi, “Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences” (Cambridge UP, 2013) 2013-Nov-15 66 minutes |
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William J. Clancey, “Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers” (MIT Press, 2012) 2013-Nov-03 67 minutes |
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Dorothy H. Crawford, “Virus Hunt: The Search for the Origin of HIV” (Oxford UP, 2013) 2013-Oct-16 42 minutes |
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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2013-Sep-27 72 minutes |
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Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012) 2013-Sep-17 57 minutes |
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Michael Ruse, “The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2013-Sep-08 71 minutes |
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Hannah S. Decker, “The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry” (Oxford UP, 2013) 2013-Aug-23 69 minutes |
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David Munns, “A Single Sky: How an International Community Forged the Science of Radio Astronomy” (MIT Press, 2012) 2013-Jul-29 69 minutes |
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Nathaniel Comfort, “The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine” (Yale UP, 2012) 2013-Jul-05 70 minutes |
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Maki Fukuoka, “The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in 19th-Century Japan” (Stanford UP, 2012) 2013-Jun-22 70 minutes |
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Brian Clegg, “Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe” (Icon Books, 2013) 2013-Jun-04 53 minutes |
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Helen Longino, “Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 2013) 2013-May-15 64 minutes |
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Victor Stenger, “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion” (Prometheus, 2012) 2013-May-07 52 minutes |
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Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013) 2013-Apr-22 57 minutes |
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Kathleen M. Vogel, “Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2012) 2013-Apr-17 70 minutes |
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Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker, “The Road to Maxwell’s Demon: Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Mechanics” (Cambridge UP, 2012) 2013-Apr-15 66 minutes |
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Lawrence M. Krauss, “A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something Rather than Nothing” (Atria, 2012) 2013-Feb-13 32 minutes |
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Christopher I. Beckwith, “Warriors of the Cloisters: The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World (Princeton University Press, 2012) 2013-Jan-22 81 minutes |
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Alec Foege, “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great” (Basic Books, 2013) 2013-Jan-17 51 minutes |
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Michael D. Gordin, “The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012) 2013-Jan-15 71 minutes |
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Katy Price, “Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012) 2013-Jan-09 62 minutes |
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David Sepkoski, “Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline” (University of Chicago, 2012) 2012-Nov-20 66 minutes |
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Chris Cooper, “Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport” (Oxford University Press, 2012) 2012-Oct-09 53 minutes |
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Robert Westman, “The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order” (University of California Press, 2011) 2012-Aug-29 70 minutes |
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Anjan Chakravartty, “A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable” (Cambridge UP, 2007) 2012-Jul-27 67 minutes |
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P. Kyle Stanford, “Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives” (Oxford UP, 2006) 2012-Jul-17 81 minutes |
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Hanna Rose Shell, “Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and the Media of Reconnaissance” (Zone Books, 2012) 2012-Jul-09 66 minutes |
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Philip Kitcher, “Science in a Democratic Society” (Prometheus Books, 2011) 2012-Jun-09 62 minutes |
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D. Graham Burnett, “The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2012) 2012-May-15 67 minutes |
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Paul Thagard, “The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change” (MIT Press, 2012) 2012-May-15 66 minutes |
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Lawrence Busch, “Standards: Recipes for Reality” (MIT Press, 2011) 2012-Apr-16 62 minutes |
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David Edwards, “The Lab: Creativity and Culture” (Harvard University Press, 2010) 2012-Apr-02 52 minutes |
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John Eric Goff, “Gold Medal Physics: The Science of Sports” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2009) 2011-Aug-15 64 minutes |
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Mark Stephen Meadows, “We Robot: Skywalker’s Hand, Blade Runners, Iron Man, Slutbots, and How Fiction Became Fact” (Lyons Press, 2011) 2011-Jul-06 56 minutes |
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Alex Vilenkin, “Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes” (Hill and Wang, 2006) 2011-Apr-01 31 minutes |
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Ian Sample, “Massive: The Missing Particle that Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science” (Basic Books, 2010) 2011-Jan-14 64 minutes |
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Ann Fabian, “The Skull Collectors: Race, Science and America’s Unburied Dead” (University of Chicago, 2010) 2010-Dec-17 61 minutes |
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James Fleming, “Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control” (Columbia UP, 2010) 2010-Oct-20 62 minutes |
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Abigail Foerstner, “James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles” (University of Iowa Press, 2007) 2008-Feb-27 59 minutes |