Smoke & Mirrors
This month, we take a peek behind the curtain with Gemma Milne's Smoke & Mirrors. In her first book, the technology journalist looks at headline-grabbing science present and past – from cancer treatme...
6 Maj 202016min
Ingredients
This time we're reading Ingredients, a book that promises to make chemistry more fun than Hogwarts. First-time author George Zaidan investigates the stuff inside stuff and tries to answer the question...
31 Mars 202017min
Say Why to Drugs
Why don't we think of coffee as a drug? Are you hooked on heroin the moment you take it...or is the answer more complicated? In Say Why to Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs We Take an...
18 Feb 202016min
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
This month, we're talking about giraffes, a magic sandwich hole and the question of whether robots will take over the world. All of these things come up in Janelle Shane's You Look Like a Thing and I ...
28 Jan 202018min
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the Elements Were Named
This month, we're delving deep into chemistry's history as we discuss Peter Wothers' book Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter's Wolf: How the Elements Were Named. Some chemists may know Wothers' writing in th...
20 Dec 201916min
Transcendence
In her new book Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time Gaia Vince assembles everything you need to know about the world and how human beings have come to rule over ...
11 Dec 201917min
Language Unlimited
This month, we're delving into the science of language as we're discussing linguist David Adger's book Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power. Adger takes on one of the most de...
13 Nov 201916min
How to: absurd scientific advice for common real world problems
Have you ever considered the practicalities of building a swimming pool out of cheese? Or wondered what it would take to surround your house with a lava moat? Even if you have never thought about thes...
22 Okt 201918min
