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History of Science
Interviews with historians of science about their new books.
October 29, 2024
Some New World
In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagi…
October 21, 2024
Sea Level
News reports warn of rising sea levels spurred by climate change. Waters inch ever higher, disrupting delicate ecosystems and threatening island and c…
October 19, 2024
Fitter, Happier
Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric (U Alabama Press, 2024) is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationshi…
October 8, 2024
Critique, Wonder, and Chinese Anatomy, with Lan A. Li
In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with the show’s producer, Lan A. Li, a historian of Chinese science, medicine,…
October 7, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…
October 6, 2024
Haunted Britain
Today I talked to Kyle Falcon about his book Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War (Manchester UP, 2023). The Great War…
October 1, 2024
In the Land of Marvels
How a journey through Italy casts light on secrets, stereotypes, and the manipulation of information in eighteenth-century science. In 1749, the cele…
September 23, 2024
The Myth of Disenchantment
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josep…
September 21, 2024
Liberty's Grid
Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, a…
September 13, 2024
Curious Species
Dive into the world of animals with Whitney Barlow Robles in her captivating new book, Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History (Yale UP, 202…
September 11, 2024
The Krebiozen Hoax
The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice p…
September 3, 2024
Darwin Mythology
Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception…
September 2, 2024
Appetite and Its Discontents
Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its D…
September 2, 2024
The Map of Knowledge
Violet Moller has written a narrative history of the transmission of books from the ancient world to the modern. In The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Y…
September 2, 2024
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and conseque…
August 27, 2024
Born This Way
Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Americ…
August 26, 2024
On the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the STS Progra…
August 25, 2024
In the Shadow of Diagnosis
In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing…
August 14, 2024
Deep Time
In Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023), Noah Heringman, Curators’ Professor of English at the University of Missouri, presents a “count…
August 13, 2024
Asylum Ways of Seeing
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) by Dr. Heather Murray is a cultura…