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Episode 746: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex...

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Episode 744: Philip Ball - Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science

Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as...

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Episode 745: Kevin J Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will

An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more...

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Episode 742: John Parrington - Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning

What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative,...

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Episode 743: Paul Halpern - The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...

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Episode 741: Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer

Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much...

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Episode 740: Dylan Jones - Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground

Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be...

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Episode 737: Korynn Newville - Indiscernable Elements: Calcium

Indiscernible elements: Calcium explores the path a molecule can take through various stages of...

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Episode 738: Philip Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe

Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose,...

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Episode 739: Mark Kurlansky - The Core of an Onion

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural,...

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Episode 735: Alan Chodos & James Riordan - Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino

The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the...

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Episode 733: Ben Purkert - The Men Can't Be Saved

A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls?...

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Episode 732: Scott James Taylor and Sarah Thérèse Pelletier - Ladyhoppers

Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons… When the planet is being eaten...

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Episode 731: Stephen Porder - Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future

An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share...

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Episode 729: Sarah Bernstein - Study For Obedience

A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears...

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Episode 730: Rafael Yuste - Lectures In Neuroscience

The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe....

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Episode 728: Richard Halpern - Leibnizing

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that...

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Episode 726: Liba Taub - Ancient Greek & Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction

Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the...

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