791 Episodes

  1. Episode 776: Einstein in Oxford - Andrew Robinson

    Published: 3/17/2025
  2. Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen

    Published: 3/17/2025
  3. Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember

    Published: 2/18/2025
  4. Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

    Published: 2/18/2025
  5. Episode 772: Gareth Gore - Opus

    Published: 2/18/2025
  6. Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life

    Published: 11/26/2024
  7. Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones

    Published: 11/25/2024
  8. Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement

    Published: 11/22/2024
  9. Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying

    Published: 11/21/2024
  10. Episode 767: Rowan Jacobsen - Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul

    Published: 11/21/2024
  11. Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World

    Published: 8/28/2024
  12. Episode 765: Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel

    Published: 8/28/2024
  13. Episode 764: Chris French - The Science Of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal

    Published: 8/28/2024
  14. Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory

    Published: 8/22/2024
  15. Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage

    Published: 8/22/2024
  16. Episode 761: Martin Fitzgibbon - Behind The Curtain: My Life And Rocky Horror

    Published: 8/9/2024
  17. Episode 760: Anne Curzan - Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

    Published: 7/12/2024
  18. Episode 759: Sadie Dingfelder - Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

    Published: 7/12/2024
  19. Episode 758: Jamie Collinson - The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music

    Published: 7/12/2024
  20. Episode 757: Theodore P. Snow & Don Brownlee - The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World

    Published: 6/11/2024

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