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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jonathan B. Losos, "The Cat's Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa" (Viking, 2023)
Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)
Maura C. Flannery, "In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants" (Yale UP, 2023)
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
How to Read Scientific Papers: A Discussion with David Evans
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Shark Sciences: A Conversation with Carlee Jackson
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Michael D. Gordin, "Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2023)
A Better Way to Buy Books
Herlinde Koelbl, "Fascination of Science: 60 Encounters with Pioneering Researchers of Our Time" (MIT Press, 2023)
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Steve Nicholls, "Alien Worlds: How Insects Conquered the Earth, and Why Their Fate Will Determine Our Future" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
The Science of Science: A Discussion with Aaron Clauset
The Role of Luck in Science: A Discussion with Nicolas Christin
Janna Levin, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Quinn Eastman, "The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Hypersomnia and the Science of Sleepiness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Simon N. Whitney, "From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs--And How We Can Fix It" (Rivertowns Books, 2023)
Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Helle Porsdam, "Science as a Cultural Human Right" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
Andrew Jones, "How Kant Matters for Biology: A Philosophical History" (U Wales Press, 2023)
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
Athene Donald, "Not Just for the Boys: Why We Need More Women in Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023)
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
The Future of the Human Heart: A Discussion with Vincent M. Figueredo
Hasok Chang, "Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
Felix Flicker, "The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
The Future of Germs: A Discussion with Jonathan Kennedy
Elaine H. Ecklund and David R. Johnson, "Varieties of Atheism in Science" (Oxford UP, 2021)
What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day?
Seeing Truth in Physics
Brian Villmoare, "The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns and Causes of Big History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Moheb Costandi, "Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2022)
Alexa Hagerty, "Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains" (Crown, 2023)
Life Extension Therapies
Winning & Losing in the Emerging EV Wars/The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly
Illuminations Episode 2: Beyond Belief
Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
Publishing Science: A Discussion with Tiffany Gasbarrini, Senior Science Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
Measure for Measure Episode 8: Star Ladder
Measure for Measure Episode 3: Mohs
Measure for Measure Episode 0: Birds
Adrian Bejan, "Time and Beauty: Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies" (World Scientific, 2022)
Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
99* Gael McGill Visualizes Intracellular Data (JP, GT)
Seeing Truth in the Archives
The Future of Nuclear Fusion: A Discussion with Sharon Ann Holgate
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
The Climate Change Scientist: A Conversation with Dr. Shuang-Yu Wu
Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research
Samantha Muka, "Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Why are Insects so Scary? On Insects in Films.
John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Christopher M. Palmer, "Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health" (Benbella Books, 2022)
Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
James D. Stein, "Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics" (World Scientific, 2022) Math
Seeing Truth in Variability, Creativity, and Building Biological Collections
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
David Lindsay, "Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words" (CSIRO Publishing, 2020)
James A. Geraghty, "Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology" (Cold Springs Harbor Lab Press, 2022)
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
Joseph Silk, "Back to the Moon: The Next Giant Leap for Humankind" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Alfred S. Posamentier, "The Secret Lives of Numbers: Numerals and Their Peculiarities in Mathematics and Beyond" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Probability
Ann-Christine Duhaime, "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Steven N. Austad, "Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives" (MIT Press, 2022)
Karen Bakker, "The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Alexandr Draganov, "Mathematical Tools for Real-World Applications: A Gentle Introduction for Students and Practitioners" (MIT Press, 2022)
Thom van Dooren, "A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions" (MIT Press, 2022)
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
Sian E. Harding, "The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart" (MIT Press, 2022)
Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner, "Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain" (Mariner Books, 2020)
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
Nadine Weidman, "Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2021)
The Surprising World of Wasps
On Einstein's Discoveries
Fred Spier, "How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers" (CRC Press, 2022)
Beronda L. Montgomery, "Lessons from Plants" (Harvard UP, 2021)