Chemistry World Book Club

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...

16 Sep 202114min

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...

10 Aug 202113min

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...

15 Juli 202115min

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...

9 Juni 202119min

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...

13 Maj 202119min

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...

22 Apr 202122min

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 ...

4 Mars 202117min

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...

11 Feb 202116min