New Books in Science
Interviews with Scientists about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/science/
- Description
- Interviews with Scientists about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-10-28 02:26
- last episode published
- 2024-10-27 08:00
- publication frequency
- 7.79 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 782
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- Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-10-27 | Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. This can... |
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| 2024-10-19 | Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness (MIT P... |
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| 2024-10-06 |
Alan F. Blackwell, "Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI" (MIT Press, 2024) Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and drudgery, leaving humans to a life of leisure. This hasn’t happened. Instead, humans are still doin... |
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| 2024-09-22 |
Bring Science to the Reviewing of Science: Evidence-Based Standards for Peer Review Listen to this interview of Paul Ralph, Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada. We talk about what's wrong with peer review — and how to fix it! Paul Ralph : "We don't want reviewers micromanaging style, complaining about the way the study is written.... |
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| 2024-09-20 |
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024) There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events--and... |
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| 2024-09-08 |
Al Posamentier and Christian Speitzer, “The Mathematics of Everyday Life” (Prometheus Books, 2018) Today I talked to Al Posamentier about his books (co-authored with Christian Speitzer) The Mathematics of Everyday Life (Prometheus Books, 2018). We all are told – practically from the moment we enter school – that mathematics is important because it ... |
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| 2024-09-04 | What role does science play in shaping our laws? How do we distinguish between good science and bad science? Where does science hit its limits due to our human nature? And how do we separate orthodox belief from true knowledge? These are just some of t... |
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| 2024-09-03 |
Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024) Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has become an accepted narrative. Darwin Mythology: Debunking... |
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| 2024-08-27 | Listen to this interview of Bram Adams, Professor at the School of Computing, Queen's University, Canada. We talk about current developments in peer review, as it is practised in software engineering research. Bram Adams : "As an editor, one thing you ... |
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| 2024-08-26 |
Cyrus Mody on the Importance of Square (as in NOT COOL) Scientists and Engineers Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Cyrus Mody, Professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation and Director of the STS Program at Maastricht University, about his book, The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in... |
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