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  • Kostas Kampourakis, "Ancestry Reimagined: Dismantling the Myth of Genetic Ethnicities" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    Oct 27, 2024 – 41:57
  • Francisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Oct 19, 2024 – 01:11:25
  • Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Oct 6, 2024 – 55:09
  • Bring Science to the Reviewing of Science: Evidence-Based Standards for Peer Review
    Sep 22, 2024 – 01:06:05
  • Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Sep 20, 2024 – 26:31
  • Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 54:18
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    Sep 4, 2024 – 42:48
  • Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    Sep 3, 2024 – 44:41
  • Brian Clegg, "Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe" (MIT Press, 2021)
    Sep 2, 2024 – 52:08
  • Directions of Peer Review in Software Engineering
    Aug 27, 2024 – 01:10:34
  • Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers
    Aug 26, 2024 – 01:11:56
  • Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
    Aug 24, 2024 – 01:42:59
  • Nick Haddad, "The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature" (Princeton UP, 2019)
    Aug 23, 2024 – 59:01
  • Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
    Aug 11, 2024 – 56:28
  • David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
    Jul 21, 2024 – 42:29
  • David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
    Jul 8, 2024 – 01:18:03
  • Alan Lightman, "Einstein's Dreams" (Vintage, 1992)
    Jul 7, 2024 – 55:06
  • Pierre Sokolsky, "Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star" (Columbia UP, 2024)
    Jul 5, 2024 – 29:03
  • Pandemics Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science
    Jul 2, 2024 – 01:16:31
  • Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard, "Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Jun 24, 2024 – 01:01:58
  • Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024)
    Jun 24, 2024 – 01:09:54
  • Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023)
    Jun 16, 2024 – 36:44
  • Tessa Hill and Eric Simons, "At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans" (Columbia UP, 2024)
    Jun 14, 2024 – 53:01
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    Jun 12, 2024 – 01:16:20
  • The Reality of Scientific Research: A Discussion with John W. Cave
    Jun 10, 2024 – 45:04
  • Bruce Watson, "Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age" (Bloombury, 2016)
    Jun 1, 2024 – 22:27
  • Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
    May 19, 2024 – 57:09
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    May 16, 2024 – 49:35
  • Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
    May 10, 2024 – 36:28
  • Thomas A. Garrity, "All the Math You Missed (But Need to Know for Graduate School)" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
    May 10, 2024 – 50:35
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    May 7, 2024 – 47:56
  • Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
    Apr 30, 2024 – 01:10:41
  • Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
    Apr 27, 2024 – 01:02:11
  • Bobby Cherayil, "The Logic of Immunity: Deciphering an Enigma" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
    Apr 16, 2024 – 01:07:16
  • Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    Apr 14, 2024 – 01:09:11
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    Apr 2, 2024 – 01:09:21
  • Claudia de Rham, "The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity" (Princeton UP, 2024)
    Apr 1, 2024 – 50:36
  • Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
    Apr 1, 2024 – 01:09:08
  • Emma Frances Bloomfield, "Science V. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" (U California Press, 2024)
    Mar 30, 2024 – 35:31
  • Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023)
    Mar 18, 2024 – 54:16
  • Lorraine Daston, "Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate" (Columbia Global Reports, 2023)
    Mar 10, 2024 – 48:06
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    Mar 8, 2024 – 39:43
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    Mar 6, 2024 – 51:34
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    Feb 23, 2024 – 01:22:56
  • Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)
    Feb 13, 2024 – 55:58
  • Michael Devitt, "Biological Essentialism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
    Feb 10, 2024 – 01:07:05
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    Feb 4, 2024 – 58:39
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    Feb 2, 2024 – 26:41
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    Jan 31, 2024 – 01:01:04
  • Ludovic Slimak, "The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
    Jan 26, 2024 – 40:24
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