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If you really want to develop an appreciation for those early pathologists who went so far as to taste-tested truly horrible samples from corpses to establish a system for detecting poisons, read a ne...
Book club – Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez (00:18:33)
Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate change, yet their work and knowledge has long been dismissed as unscientific. In her first book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous La...
Book Club - Racing Green (00:19:50)
This episode examines the science behind auto racing by digging into Racing Green: How Motorsports Became Smarter, Safer, Cleaner and Faster, by science journalist and science historian Kit Chapman. I...
Book club – Sticky by Laurie Winkless (00:18:27)
Why is duct tape the answer to fixing everything? How do geckos cling to walls? And what, exactly, keeps our car tyres rolling down the road? In Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces, physicist and s...
Her Hidden Genius (00:19:01)
In this episode, we discuss Her Hidden Genius. It's the new book by Marie Benedict, a lawyer and best-selling author who unearths the historical stories of women who have left important legacies. In t...
Book club – Murder isn't Easy (00:19:16)
In this episode, we're delving deep into the science of one of the best-selling fiction writers of all times: Agatha Christie. We look for evidence of her pioneering forensic writing with Murder Isn't...
Life as We Made It (00:16:04)
This episode is for anybody interested in how human beings have altered the world around us since we came on the scene tens of thousands of years ago. University of California Santa Cruz evolutionary ...
Book club – The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean (00:18:24)
This month, we're reading The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science. It's the new book by Sam Kean, who many might know as the ...
Book club – Deep Sniff by Adam Zmith (00:14:06)
In this episode, we'll tackle Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith. In his first book, Zmith blends historical research with wry observation to tell the story of how amyl n...
Book club – Lessons from Plants by Beronda Montgomery (00:13:59)
This episode is for all those people who have turned to gardening or amassed houseplants during the Covid lockdowns as we'll be talking about Lessons from Plants. In it, the biochemist Beronda Montgom...
Book club – Science in Black and White by Alondra Oubré (00:15:22)
In this month's episode we'll talk about Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide by medical anthropologist Alondra Oubré. She delves into the science behind the...
Book club – Vampirology by Kathryn Harkup (00:19:28)
Get your garlic and crucifix ready as we tackle Kathryn Harkup's latest book Vampirology: The Science of Horror's Most Famous Fiend. Harkup is a chemist and science communicator, and an expert at cast...
Book club – Handmade by Anna Ploszajski (00:19:08)
How do you make a chemical-resistant beaker out of a material as fragile as glass? And how do you tell the temperature of a piece of steel without a thermometer? These are questions Anna Ploszajski ta...
Book club – The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (00:22:12)
We might like to think that science is purely objective, driven only by scientific principles and free of social disturbances — but this couldn't be further from the truth. In this episode, we read Ch...
Book club – Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science by Luke O'Neill (00:17:22)
In this episode, we're looking for answers to the important questions in life like 'Why do you believe in diets?' or 'Why are you working in a bullshit job?' Biochemist and immunologist Luke O'Neill ...
Book club – The Poison Trials by Alisha Rankin (00:16:52)
This month we find out drug testing has come a long way, as we read The Poison Trials: Wonder Drugs, Experiment and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science, the latest book from historian of s...
Book club – Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks (00:21:08)
This month we're celebrating 20 years of a popular science classic: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks. In his memoir, Sacks – who later became a famous neurologist – recou...
Book club – Science books for children (00:17:50)
Whether you're looking for a sciencey Christmas present for the young readers in your life or just want to delve into the science of children's science writing, this kid's books roundup is for you. We...
Written in Bone (00:19:02)
This time, we're reading Written In Bone: Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind by forensic anthropologist Sue Black and author of the 2018 Sunday Times bestseller All That Remains. Black discusses c...
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) (00:16:47)
It's the end times in this episode as we're reading The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). In five scenarios, cosmologist Katie Mack explores how the universe might meet its ultimate demise...
United We Are Unstoppable (00:17:17)
In this episode we're reading United We Are Unstoppable: 60 Inspiring Young People Saving Our World, a book of short stories, told by the people who are fighting for their homes and their futures in t...
Half Lives (00:18:17)
This month we're reading Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by historian Lucy Jane Santos. The book traces the story of a radioactive element, from its ascendance as a cure-all ingredient in t...
Three books on pandemics (00:20:51)
In this episode we're tackling the coronavirus information overload by comparing three books on pandemics past and present: Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam, Adam Kucharski's The Rules of...
The Alchemy of Us (00:14:12)
From photographic film to scientific glassware, Ainissa Ramirez's new book The Alchemy of Us offers a unique insight into our relationship with technology. Find out what we thought about the book, and...
Smoke & Mirrors (00:16:44)
This month, we take a peek behind the curtain with Gemma Milne's Smoke & Mirrors. In her first book, the technology journalist looks at headline-grabbing science present and past – from cancer treatme...
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