Book club – Sticky by Laurie Winkless

Book club – Sticky by Laurie Winkless

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 science writer Laurie Winkless paints a vivid picture of the vast array of surfaces we interact with every day – and explores the mysteries we're still unravelling about how those interactions work.

We talk to Winkless about earthquakes and geckos, and discuss why even the things we sometimes take for granted (like that little broom they use in curling) have a fascinating scientific story to tell.

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A Taste for Poison

A Taste for Poison

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...

24 Touko 202218min

Book club – Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez

Book club – Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez

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...

13 Huhti 202218min

Book Club - Racing Green

Book Club - Racing Green

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...

7 Maalis 202219min

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius

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...

18 Tammi 202219min

Book club – Murder isn't Easy

Book club – Murder isn't Easy

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...

14 Joulu 202119min

Life as We Made It

Life as We Made It

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 ...

9 Marras 202116min

Book club – The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

Book club – The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

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 ...

12 Loka 202118min

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