Tag: Science

Tangling the Tree of Life

Big Biology | 18 October 2018 | 1h 15m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with David Quammen about his book The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. Discusses how recent advances in genetics have changed our way of thinking about evolution and the relatedness of plants, animals, and microbes.

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Jess Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

Conversations with Tyler | 5 April 2023 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Jessica Wade discussing gender stereotypes in science, ways to encourage women in science, her work editing Wikipedia entries and how Wikipedia should be improved, how she’d improve science funding, her work on chiral materials and its near-term applications, whether writing a kid’s science book should be rewarded in academia, and more.

The episode mentions her kid’s science book, Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small, which sounds like a good buy for the young people in your life.

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The Matter of Everything

Science for the People | 27 February 2023 | 1h 00m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Suzie Sheehy about her book The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World. Discusses seminal physics experiments that have discovered various particles and revealed the nature of the atom. Explains the ways that particle physics touches our everyday lives.

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Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

EconTalk | 13 February 2023 | 1h 06m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Adam Mastroianni about his Substack essay The Rise and Fall of Peer Review. Backgrounds that peer review has failed: papers with major errors make it through the process and the ones without errors often fail to replicate. Argues that peer review is a failed experiment that isn’t fixable and sets out how he plans to work going forward.

 

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Huygens: Europe’s Greatest Scientist

Not Just the Tudors | 1 December 2022 | 0h 37m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Hugh Aldersey-Williams about his book Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe. Discusses the life and work of Christiaan Huygens, who made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, physics and timekeeping.

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What Does the Science Say? | Dr. Richard Lindzen

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | 5 January 2023 | 1h 44m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Richard Lindzen discussing the facts of climate change, the models used to predict it, the dismal state of academia, and the politicized world of “professional” science.

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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why with Simon LeVay

The Innovation Show | 18 October 2022 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Simon LeVay about his book Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation. Explains that homosexuality is part of a collection of gender-atypical traits driven by differences in genes, sex hormones, and their interactions with the developing brain.

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Karen Bakker on The Sounds of Life

Princeton UP Ideas Podcast | 11 November 2022 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Karen Bakker about her book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Discusses the application of technology and artificial intelligence to animal communication – decoding whale, elephant, turtle and bat communication; robots that can ‘speak’ to bees, listening and tracking endangered whales to keep them safe from shipping, evidence that trees and coral hear, the ethics of communicating with other species, and more.

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