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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 31 days 7 hours
episode 109: A Better Way to Buy Books
A Conversation with Andy Hunter, Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org
episode 133: Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
An interview with Herlinde Koelbl
episode 102: Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Gary Smith
episode 75: The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for the individual and for society. And what is happening in our brains when we do it? Shane O Mara has been thinking about those questions for his book, Talking Heads: the New Science of How Conversation Shapes our Worlds (Jonathan Cape, 2023). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones...
episode 69: Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Steve NIcholls
episode 139: Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
An interview with William J. Clancey
episode 128: The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
An interview with Noson S. Yanofsky
episode 131: The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. Aaron is also External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. We talk about what the science of science can contribute to your career in research. Aaron Clauset : "In science, having good ideas is, in the end, the most important part...
episode 130: The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin
Listen to this interview of Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and in the department of Engineering and Public Policy. We talk about the luck it takes to succeed in research, and of course too about the initiative shown by successful researchers to seize that luck...
episode 67: Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Janna Levin