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E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, “Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History” (UBC Press, 2018)
Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
University of British Columbia Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 10, 2019 Carrie Lynn Evans

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. The book I’m looking at today, Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History (University of British Columbia Press, 2018) explores the complex interconnections between... Read More
Julian Havil, “Curves for the Mathematically Curious” (Princeton UP, 2019)
Julian Havil
Curves for the Mathematically Curious
An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic
Princeton University Press, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 15, 2019 Jim Stein

Today I talked to Julian Havil about his latest book Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic (Princeton University Press, 2019). You don’t have to be mathematically curious to appreciate Julian’s talent for weaving mathematics and history together – but mathematical curiosity and... Read More
Michael E. Mann, “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines” (2012)
Michael E. Mann
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael E. Mann, 2012

New Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network November 11, 2019 Democracy Works

We talk with Michael E. Mann, a Nobel Prize winner and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State, about his journey through the climate wars over the past two decades and the role that experts have to play in moving out of the lab and into the spotlight to... Read More
John Gribbin, “Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World” (Icon Books, 2019)
John Gribbin
Six Impossible Things
The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
Icon Books, 2019

New Books in Big IdeasNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 5, 2019 Jim Stein

Today’s podcast is on the book Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World (Icon Books, 2019) by the noted author John Gribbin.  Although there have been a number of good books on quantum mechanics, this short book is my favorite, and I recommend... Read More
Valerie Olson, “Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth” (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Valerie Olson
Into the Extreme
U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth
University of Minnesota Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 18, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Valerie Olson talks about why the idea of outer space as a “frontier” is giving way to one that frames it as a cosmic ecosystem. Olson is an associate professor of anthropology at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics... Read More
Theodore Dalrymple, “False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine” (Encounter Books, 2019)
Theodore Dalrymple
False Positive
A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine
Encounter Books, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 17, 2019 Ian J. Drake

Theodore Dalrymple is a retired physician in Great Britain, who has written an account of his year’s-worth of reading the New England Journal of Medicine. In his new book False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine (Encounter Books, 2019), he... Read More
Oren Harman, “Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World” (FSG, 2018)
Oren Harman
Evolutions
Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FolkloreNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network October 14, 2019 Renee Garfinkel

“There are only two ways to live your life,” said Albert Einstein, “One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle.” Oren Harman clearly agrees with Einstein’s sentiments. In Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), Harman... Read More
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