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Science
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July 21, 2024
On Task
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this sh…
July 8, 2024
Dark Data
There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures, and our everyday lives. David Hand…
July 7, 2024
Einstein's Dreams
Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural interconnection of…
July 5, 2024
Clock in the Sun
On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks an…
July 2, 2024
The Dynamic Nature of Science
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Cont…
June 24, 2024
Cultures of Prediction
A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today's cultu…
June 16, 2024
Women in Science Now
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic pr…
June 14, 2024
At Every Depth
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to Antarctic pol…
June 13, 2024
Tabula Raza
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an inti…
June 10, 2024
The Reality of Scientific Research
In this episode we speak with Dr. John W. Cave, a scientist and thought leader who has been in the research world for over 20 years. Dr. Cave has wor…
June 1, 2024
Light
From early myths to the latest LEDs, light has been "the magician of the cosmos." But what is light? Is it God? Truth? Particle or wave? This "rad…
May 19, 2024
Resistance to Evidence
We have increasingly sophisticated ways of acquiring and communicating knowledge, but efforts to spread this knowledge often encounter resistance to e…
May 16, 2024
At Every Depth
Today’s book is: At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024), by Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, which takes readers …
May 10, 2024
Life's Edge
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the appl…
May 10, 2024
All the Math You Missed
Graduate students in many programs besides mathematics will need to be familiar with the methods and results of a variety of mathematical topics. Just…
May 7, 2024
The Scientific Attitude
Listen to this interview of Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science (Boston University) and Senior Advisor f…
April 30, 2024
Memory Makes the Brain
If you're interested in memory, you'll find a lot in Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains…
April 27, 2024
Why We Remember
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters…
April 16, 2024
The Logic of Immunity
Most of us appreciate the importance of the immune system yet have very little knowledge about how it actually works. If you fall into this camp and a…
April 14, 2024
Our Genes
Situated at the intersection of natural science and philosophy, Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics (Cambridge Unive…