All Episodes

The Scientific Odyssey Unscripted-The Muon g-2 Experiment Results

Episode 1.10: Science, Pseudoscience, and Snake Oil

Episode 5.12: Boundaries of Empire

Solstice 2020

Episode 5.11: Itineraries

Special Episode 1: Silverado Squatters-Part 1

The 200th Episode

Episode 1.9: Understanding Conspiracy Theories

Episode 1.8: Barriers to Good Critical Thinking

Episode 1.7: Characteristics of Good Critical Thinking

Episode 1.6: Introduction to Critical Thinking

Episode 5.10: Surveying an Empire

The Scientific Odyssey Unscripted: The CoVID-19 Global Pandemic

Episode 5.9: All Roads Lead to Somewhere

The Scientific Odyssey Unscripted: Betelgeuse-Is He Going to Blow?

Episode 5.8: Heaven and Earth

Episode 5.7: How Big is Our World?

Episode 5.6: Ocean Around a Wine-Darkened Sea

Episode 3.53: The Cassini Dynasty

Episode 5.5: The Centered Universe

Episode 5.4: Emerging From Connections

Episode 5.3: Dead Reckoning

Episode 5.2: Defining Space

Episode 3.52: Interview with Todd Timberlake

Episode 5.1: Uncharted Waters

Episode 4.7: William Whewell-A Victorian Debate

Episode 4.6.1: Supplemental-William Whewell on the General Bearing of the Great Exhibition

Episode 4.6: William Whewell-A Potent Life Forgotten

Episode 4.5: William Whewell-Leaving Home

Episode 4.4: Out of the Doldrums

Episode 4.3: Probability and Pragmatism

Episode 4.2: Hypothetically Speaking

Episode 4.1: The Problem of Induction

Episode 3.51: Epilogue, Finding our Place

Episode 3.50.12: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, War and Peace

Episode 3.50.11: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, Coming to America

Episode 3.50.10: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, Politics and Exile

Episode 3.50.9: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, Entanglement

Episode 3.50.8: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, The Price of Fame

Episode 3.50.7: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, The Best and Worst of Times

Episode 3.50.6: Supplemental-Einstein's Angels

Episode 3.50.5: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, A Most Miraculous Year-Special Relativity

Episode 3.50.4: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, A Most Miraculous Year-Light and Atoms

Episode 3.50.3: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, The Bourgeois Bohemian-Part 2

Episode 3.50.2: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, The Bourgeois Bohemian, Part 1

Episode 3.50.1: Supplemental-Albert Einstein, A Fine Young Swabian

Episode 3.49.3: Supplemental-Eddington and Chandrasekhar

Episode 3.49.2: Supplemental-Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Seeker's Journey

Episode 3.49.1: Supplemental-Arthur Stanley Eddington, Science and Faith

Episode 3.49: The Present Puzzle

Episode 3.48: Matters Dark and Mysterious

Episode 3.47: Very Big Questions About Really Small Things

Episode 3.46: Lurking in the Background

Episode 3.45: The Stuff of Stars

Episode 3.44: The Big Bang Hypothesis

Episode 3.43.4-Supplemental-George Ellery Hale, Triumph and Breakdown

Episode 3.43.3: Supplemental-George Ellery Hale-The Making of a Reputation

Episode 3.43.2: Supplemental-George Ellery Hale, Rise of a Visionary

Episode 3.43.1: Supplemental-Masters of Reflection

Episode 3.43: An Expanding Universe

Episode 3.42: Relativity

Episode 3.41: Edwin Hubble and the Big Leap

Episode 3.40: The Great Debate

Episode 3.39: Harlow Shapley and Finding Our Place in the Galaxy

Episode 3.37.3: Supplemental-The Harvard Calculators, Cecilia Payne and the Stuff of Stars

Episode 3.38: Digression-For All Men, For All Time

Episode 3.37.2: Supplemental-The Harvard Calculators, Part 2

Episode 3.37.1: Supplemental: The Harvard Calculators, Part 1

Episode 3.37: Variable Stars and Leavitt's Law

The Scientific Odyssey Unscripted: Weather Forecasting and the JPSS Program

Episode 3.36: The H-R Diagram

Episode 3.35.1: Supplemental-The Doppler Effect

Episode 3.35: By The Letter

Episode 3.34: The Harvard College Observatory

Episode 3.33: Seeing the Stars Anew

Episode 3.32: Light and Spectra

Episode 3.31: To The Stars

Episode 3.30: False Gods

Episode 3.29.2: Supplemental-The Herschel Dynasty

Episode 3.29.1: Supplemental-William Herschel and the Discovery of Uranus

Episode 3.29: Planet Hunters

Episode 3.28: The Triumph of Mechanics

Episode 3.27.7: Supplemental-Edmond Halley-Gentleman Adventurer

Episode 3.27.6: Supplemental-Edmond Halley, Always in Motion

Episode 3.27.5: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, A Public Man

Scientific Odyssey Unscripted-The TRAPPIST Discovery

Episode 3.27.4: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, Principia

Episode 3.27.3: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, Magic and Heresy

Episode 3.27.2: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, Conflict and Withdrawal

Episode 3.27.1: Supplemental-Isaac Newton, The Miracle Years

Episode 3.27: A New Physics

Episode 3.26.1: Supplemental-Jesuit Astronomers and the Difficulty of Doing Science

Episode 3.26: Setting the Stage

Episode 3.25: The Heresy of Galileo

Episode 3.24: Censuring Copernicus

Episode 3.23.1: Supplemental-The Somnium

Episode 2.23: There's a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today

Episode 3.22.1: Supplemental-Puy de Dome

Episode 3.22: Scientific Revolution-Matters of Fact

Episode 3.21: Scientific Revolution-The Mathematization of Nature