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Science July 23, 2021

Pay Attention

Sex, Death, and Science

John Horgan

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of …

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Ideas Roadshow Podcast July 22, 2021

Plato’s Heaven

A User’s Guide

James Robert Brown

Hosted by Howard Burton
Plato’s Heaven: A User’s Guide is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and James Robert Brown, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. This wide-ranging …
Science July 19, 2021

Technologies of the Human Corpse

John Troyer

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination--not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to …
Scholarly Communication July 19, 2021

The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

Terry McGlynn

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Terry McGlynn, author of The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching (U Chicago Press, 2020). McGlynn is also a professor of biology at California State University Dominguez …
Science July 16, 2021

Forces of Nature

The Women who Changed Science

Anna Reser and Leila McNeill

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast July 14, 2021

Being Social

Roy Baumeister

Hosted by Howard Burton
Being Social is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. This extensive conversation explores Roy Baumeister’s unique …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast July 13, 2021

The Power of Principles

Physics Revealed

Nima Arkani-Hamed

Hosted by Howard Burton
The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Nima Arkani-Hamed, faculty member at the renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton …
Science July 12, 2021

The Social Instinct

How Cooperation Shaped the World

Nichola Raihani

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But …
Philosophy July 9, 2021

The World in the Wave Function

A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics

Alyssa Ney

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Quantum mechanics is full of weird findings – for example, that systems widely separated can somehow still be correlated, and that a system may be in two different possible states …
Science, Technology, and Society June 28, 2021

Getting to the Heart of Science Communication

A Guide to Effective Engagement

Faith Kearns

Hosted by Christopher Gambino
In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Faith Kearns unpacks science communication as so much more than the “sage from the stage” perspective. Dr. Kearns …
Science June 23, 2021

The Science of Living

162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine

Stuart Farrimond

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Explore the science behind your daily living habits and make your day healthier, happier, and more productive. Many of the activities we take for granted are in fact contrary to …
Science June 21, 2021

First Principles

Building Perimeter Institute

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter …
Science June 14, 2021

Brainscapes

The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technology can use them to read your mind …
Science June 14, 2021

Conversations About Neuroscience

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following leading neuroscientists: Lisa Feldman Barrett (Northeastern University), Jennifer Groh (Duke …
Science June 9, 2021

Making Art Work

How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

W. Patrick Mccray

Hosted by Matthew Jordan
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel June 7, 2021

Friendship

The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

Lydia Denworth

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they …
Science June 7, 2021

Conversations About Biology

Howard Burton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following leading researchers: sleep scientist Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley), biochemist Nick …
Science, Technology, and Society June 7, 2021

Objectivity

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Hosted by Sarah Kearns
Turns out "objectivity" has a not-so clear-cut definition across time. In this podcast, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison to discuss their work, Objectivity (Zone Books, 2010). This work traces the historical and …
Medicine June 2, 2021

Humane Professions

The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914

Rob Boddice

Hosted by Claire Clark
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He …
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast June 1, 2021

Things Fall Together

A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

Skylar Tibbits

Hosted by Marshall Poe
Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials …