Population and The Human Predicament in a Nutshell
January 18, 2023
Paul R. Ehrlich— What should be taught in every middle school but isn’t. Humanity has been acting like an idiot child who is heir to a great fortune. She keeps… READ MORE
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Svante Pääbo: The Dark Lord of Ancient DNA
November 4, 2022
In fall of 2022, Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. How has… READ MORE
The Great Whales of Stellwagen Bank
April 5, 2019
Patrick J. Lynch— Just north of the northern tip of Cape Cod, Stellwagen Bank is an underwater glacial outwash plain that rises above the deeper waters of the southern Gulf… READ MORE
Ep. 67 – How False Beliefs Spread
January 10, 2019
A look at where false beliefs and fake news come from, how they spread, and what you can do to protect yourself against them. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher |… READ MORE
A History of Servers: From Lazy Suzan to Alexa
November 9, 2018
Markus Krajewski— When Amazon introduced the world to a black, cylindrical cartouche with built-in ears and a female voice that answers to the name of Alexa in 2015, more than… READ MORE
What Idea About Brain Function Would You Like To Explain To The World?
June 11, 2018
David J. Linden— Scientists are trained to be meticulous when they speak about their work. That’s why I like getting my neuroscience colleagues tipsy. For years, after plying them with… READ MORE
Ep. 45 – How Our Senses Work
February 1, 2018
Where do our senses come from and how do they work? What happens when they go wrong? We’ve got the answers to these questions and more with Rob DeSalle from… READ MORE
Introduction to the Eureka moment!
October 11, 2017
Gavin Weightman— Working backwards from the ‘eureka moment’ offers an intriguing perspective: we find the bicycle an inspiration for the aeroplane, a talking automaton suggesting the telephone, early television dependent… READ MORE
“What Wine Goes with Cap’n Crunch?”
July 18, 2017
Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle— Asking, with the comedian George Carlin, “What wine goes with Cap’n Crunch?” might not actually be as trivial as it sounds. In fact, many people… READ MORE
The Enigma of Gravitational Energy
May 22, 2017
Marcia Bartusiak— To the practiced eye, Einstein’s equations stand as the quintessence of mathematical beauty. When it was introduced in 1915, general relativity was hailed as a momentous conceptual achievement…. READ MORE
A Little Book True to Its Title