New Books in Science

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Mary A. Armstrong and Susan L. Averett, "Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jun 16, 2025 – 46:47
Maggie M. Fink and Shahir S. Rizk, "The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life" (Belknap Press, 2025)
Jun 16, 2025 – 33:58
Alfonso Martinez Arias, "The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life" (Basic Books, 2023)
Jun 4, 2025 – 01:01:56
Jack Ashby, "Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums" (Penguin, 2025)
May 31, 2025 – 59:12
Jaap de Roode, "Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2025)
May 29, 2025 – 45:10
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
May 28, 2025 – 39:07
Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 22, 2025 – 01:09:09
Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
May 16, 2025 – 28:44
Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
Apr 24, 2025 – 55:51
Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP)
Apr 17, 2025 – 41:46
Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024)
Apr 16, 2025 – 01:11:14
Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025)
Apr 8, 2025 – 41:59
Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 3, 2025 – 43:50
Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 20, 2025 – 51:54
John Trowsdale, "What the Body Knows: A Guide to the New Science of Our Immune System" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 18, 2025 – 39:17
Leigh Ann Henion, "Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark" (Algonquin, 2024)
Mar 11, 2025 – 45:05
Eliot Schrefer, "Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality" (Clarion Books, 2022)
Mar 6, 2025 – 01:12:37
Marcia Bjornerud, "Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks" (Flatiron Books, 2024)
Mar 2, 2025 – 36:45
Shoumita Dasgupta, "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA" (U California Press, 2025)
Feb 10, 2025 – 59:39
William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024)
Feb 3, 2025 – 50:57
Bruce Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, "Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Jan 19, 2025 – 40:54
Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
Jan 18, 2025 – 35:16
Mariam Motamedi Fraser, "Dog Politics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025 – 01:05:34
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Jan 15, 2025 – 39:22
Willingness for climate action in South Korea and Finland: A cross-cultural comparison
Jan 12, 2025 – 44:13
David Strayer, "Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024)
Jan 12, 2025 – 36:11
Cordelia Fine, "Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" (Norton, 2018)
Jan 11, 2025 – 01:15:44
Other Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith (EF, JP)
Dec 19, 2024 – 50:09
Donald R. Prothero, "The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Dec 14, 2024 – 41:15
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
S4E4 In Defense of Bad Science and the Philosophy of Being
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
Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024)
Jun 24, 2024 – 01:09:54
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