The Avid Reader Show
Episodes
Episode 783: Eric Rath - Kanpai: The History of Sake
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lift a glass to the story of sake—from Japanese homebrew to global phenomenon. Sake, Japan’s iconic rice-based alcoholic drink, has been central ...
Episode 782: Steve Ramirez - How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest To Alter The Past
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today's leading pioneers in the fieldAs a graduate student at MIT, ...
Episode 781: William O. Stephens - Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The moving life and legacy of Rome’s great emperor philosopher. This book guides us through the fascinating life and writings of Marcus Aurelius,...
Episode 780: James Barrat - The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans At Everything
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence, both existential fears and uncritical enthusiasm for AI systems have surged. In this era of...
Episode 779: Michaela Vieser & Isaac Yuen - The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound. Nature writers Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen set out...
Episode 778: Mary Roach - Replaceable You: Adventures In Human Anatomy
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human...
Episode 777: Svend Brinkmann - The Experience Society: Life Beyoned Subjectivity
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An enlightening look at how our elevation of the sensorial and the subjective has impaired our ability to connect—and how we might build that connec...
Episode 776: Einstein in Oxford - Andrew Robinson
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An intimate account of Albert Einstein’s visit to Oxford in the 1930’s, casting new light on why he continues to be the world’s most famous scie...
Episode 775: Hidden in the Heavens - Jason Steffen
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are we alone in the universe? It’s a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hi...
Episode 774: Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy - Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we construct and...
Episode 773: David Bates - An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.We imagine that we are both in control of and co...
Episode 772: Gareth Gore - Opus
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church a...
Episode 771: Jonathan Silvertown - Selfish Genes to Social Beings: : A Cooperative History of Life
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?Amid the violence and brutality tha...
Episode 770: Elizabeth Winder - Parachute Women: The Women Behind The Rolling Stones
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling StonesDiscover the true story of t...
Episode 769: Jim Baggott - Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacyIn 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the int...
Episode 768: Lewis Cohen MD - Winter's End: Dementia and Dying
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arguably among the worst of all medical afflictions, the dementias slowly destroy one's personality, take a tremendous emotional, physical, and financ...
Episode 767: Rowan Jacobsen - Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of a chocolate bar made entirely from wild Bolivian cacao, he was skeptical. The waxy mass-market chocolate of his chi...
Episode 766: Debbie Urbanski - After World
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the novel’...
Episode 765: Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful: A Novel
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roz Dineen’s Briefly Very Beautiful is a spellbinding dystopian novel about the lengths one will go to for their children in a world teetering on th...
Episode 764: Chris French - The Science Of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure The Paranormal
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An accessible and gratifying introduction to the world of paranormal beliefs and bizarre experiences.Ghostly encounters, alien abduction, reincarnatio...
Episode 763: Adam Forrest Kay - Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the o...
Episode 762: Christy Spackman: The Taste of Water Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water explores the increasing erasure of tastes from drinking water ove...
Episode 761: Martin Fitzgibbon - Behind The Curtain: My Life And Rocky Horror
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1973 and The Rocky Horror Show is about to be launched onto an unsuspecting world for the first time. Martin Fitzgibbon was the young drummer rec...
Episode 760: Anne Curzan - Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of Eng...
Episode 759: Sadie Dingfelder - Do I Know You? A Faceblind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind and investigates the neuroscience of sight, memory, and imagination—while solving some l...
Episode 758: Jamie Collinson - The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your b...
Episode 757: Theodore P. Snow & Don Brownlee - The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A cosmic perspective on carbon--its importance in the universe and our livesWhen we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the...
Episode 756: Kenneth Miller - Mapping The Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of Sleep
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From award-winning journalist Kenneth Miller comes the definitive story of the scientists who set out to answer two questions: “Why do we sleep?” ...
Episode 755: Chris Haufe - Fruitfulness: Science, Metaphor, and the Puzzle of Promise
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some ideas seem to possess a disproportionate ability to lead to new insights, new discoveries, new ideas, and even entirely new ways of thinking. Suc...
Episode 754: Ken McNab - Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A vivid, captivating account of the Beatles’s musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maels...
Episode 753: Oliver Crisp, James Arcadi & Jordan Wessling - Analyzing Prayer: Theological & Philosophical Essays
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Analyzing Prayer draws together a range of theologians and philosophers to deal with different approaches to prayer as a Christian practice. The essay...
Episode 752: Joe Fassler - The Sky Was Ours
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the...
Episode 751: Nick Bantock - The Corset & the Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The internationally bestselling author of Griffin & Sabine returns with his newest literary mystery--a charming assemblage of his own illustrated ...
Episode 750: Harry Cliff - Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding Of The Universe
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science ha...
Episode 749: Richard Schacht - Nietzsche's Kind Of Philosophy: Finding His Way
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A holistic reading of Nietzsche’s distinctive thought beyond the “death of God.”In Nietzsche’s Kind of Philosophy, Richard Schacht provides a ...
Episode 748: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.This new book—written by the beloved author ...
Episode 747: Dr. Marshall Poe - Plagiarism and AI
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sam and Dr. Marshall Poe, the creator and chief editor of The New Books Network, explore the topic of plagiarism within the academic world amid the cu...
Episode 746: Sy Montgomery - Secrets Of The Octopus
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.This new book—written by the beloved author ...
Episode 745: Kevin J Mitchell - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural cir...
Episode 744: Philip Ball - Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Featuring two hundred color plates, this history of the craft of scientific inquiry is as exquisite as the experiments whose stories it shares. This ...
Episode 743: Paul Halpern - The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and the sense that all we see might not be all the...
Episode 742: John Parrington - Consciousness: How our brains turn matter into meaning
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads?Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual thoughts come from - can these rea...
Episode 741: Claire Oshetsky - Poor Deer
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is o...
Episode 740: Dylan Jones - Loaded: The Life (And Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s—the Velvet Underground re...
Episode 739: Mark Kurlansky - The Core of an Onion
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the worl...
Episode 738: Philip Goff - Why? The Purpose of the Universe
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of ...
Episode 737: Korynn Newville - Indiscernable Elements: Calcium
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Indiscernible elements: Calcium explores the path a molecule can take through various stages of life and death - from the perspective of Calcium itsel...
Episode 736: Matt Zwolinski & Miranda Perry Fleischer - Universal Basic Income: What Everyone Needs To Know
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Finland to Kenya to Stockton, California, more and more governments and private philanthropic organizations are putting the idea of a Universal B...
Episode 735: Alan Chodos & James Riordan - Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle—the neutrino.Isaac Asimov once observed of the neutrino: “...
Episode 734: Estelle Erasmus - Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Successful essayist, columnist, writing instructor, and editor Estelle Erasmus will show you how to find your voice, write stellar pieces, and get pub...
Episode 733: Ben Purkert - The Men Can't Be Saved
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A knockout debut novel that tackles a haunting question: What do our jobs do to our souls?Seth is a junior copywriter whose latest tagline just went v...
Episode 732: Scott James Taylor and Sarah Thérèse Pelletier - Ladyhoppers
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons…When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes...
Episode 731: Stephen Porder - Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all shareIt is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organis...
Episode 730: Rafael Yuste - Lectures In Neuroscience
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The human brain is perhaps the most intricate and fascinating object in the known universe. Through a mysterious process, the activity of billions of ...
Episode 729: Sarah Bernstein - Study For Obedience
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recen...
Episode 728: Richard Halpern - Leibnizing
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for tran...
Episode 727: John Illsley - My Life In Dire Straits
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The first, and only, inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history--Dire Straits--as told by founding member and bassist John IllsleyOne o...
Episode 726: Liba Taub - Ancient Greek & Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernat...
Episode 725: Lauren J A Bear - Medusa's Sisters
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her.The end of the story is only the beginning…Even before they were ...
Episode 724: David Connor - Oh God, The Sun Goes
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator beg...
Episode 723: Mark Coeckelbergh - Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are obsessed with self-improvement; it's a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happie...
Episode 722: Andrew Lipstein - The Vegan
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In The Vegan, Andrew Lipstein challenges our notions of virtue with a brilliant tale of guilt, greed, and how far we’ll go to be good.Herschel Caine...
Episode 721: David Neiwert - The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The strange and terrible tale of the far right’s long war on American democracy . . . From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Paci...
Episode 720: Fiona Davis - The Spectacular
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to th...
Episode 719: Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The beloved author of Early Morning Riser brings us glittering stories of love—friendships formed at the airport bar, ex-husbands with benefits, mot...
Episode 718: Nathan S Chapman & Michael W McConnell - Agreeing To Disagree
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of ConscienceIn one of the most thorough accounts of the E...
Episode 717: Han Yu - The Curious Human Knee
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, ...
Episode 716: David Acheson - The Spirit of Mathematics: Algebra and All That
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you have anxious memories of the subject from school, or solve quadratic equations for fun, David Acheson's book will make you look at mathema...
Episode 715: How To Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cody Cassidy's new book, "How to Survive History," is an engaging exploration of the ingenious strategies used by our ancestors to endure challenges t...
Episode 714: Jean Manuel Roubineau - The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece.The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The ...
Episode 713: Vincent Figueredo - The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart-not the ...
Episode 712: Larry S. Sherman and Dennis Plies - Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whenever a person engages with music―when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riffs on a melody, a teenager sobs to a sad song, or...
Episode 711: Todd A Finkle - Warren Buffett: Investor and Entrepreneur
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Buffett is perhaps the most accomplished investor of all time. The CEO and chair of Berkshire Hathaway has earned admiration for not only his f...
Episode 710: Andy Clark - The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really th...
Episode 709: Kelsy Burke - The Pornography Wars
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cu...
Episode 708: Michael Gordin - Pseudoscience: A Very Short Introduction
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience," typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unp...
Episode 707: Agur Schiff - Professor Schiff's Guilt
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A stellar novel rendered into a darkly comic, unforgettable narrative by Booker International Prize winning translator Jessica Cohen. An Israeli profe...
Episode 706: Tara Conklin - Community Board
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life—the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted m...
Episode 705: Jon Burlingame - Music For Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly serie...
Episode 704: Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a ...
Episode 703: Gaia Bernstein - Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. ...
Episode 702: Carl T. Bogus - Madison's Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting liber...
Episode 701: Gary Smith - Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This thought-provoking book argues that, ironically, science's credibility is being undermined by tools created by scientists themselves. Scientific d...
Episode 700: Ernest Owens - The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All
11 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are, you’ve heard this a lot lately. What might’ve once been a niche digital term has been legitimized in the discourse of presidents, pol...
Episode 699: Frank Nischk - Of Cockroaches and Crickets: Learning to Love Creatures That Skitter and Jump
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This deep dive into the wonderful world of insects teaches us to love the tiny, seemingly terrifying creatures all around us.For many people, cockroac...
Episode 699: Ulf Danielsson - The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclai...
Episode 698: Grant Faulkner - The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices instead o...
Episode 697: Reinier de Graaf - architect, verb.: The New Language of Building
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, livable and beautiful spaces that foster...
Episode 696: Chris Ferrie - Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos Co-authored with Geraint LewisDo you ever ...
Episode 695: Valerie Tiberius - What Do You Want Out Of Life?
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value--and what to do when your goals conflictWhat do you want out of life? To ma...
Episode 694: Martin Riker - The Guest Lecture
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing...
Episode 693: Paul Harding - This Other Eden
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine th...
Episode 692: Dr. David Alfery: Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the OR to the ICU, Dr. David Alfery brings you into a hidden world of medicine that has never before been seen. You will witness the exhilaration...
Episode 691: Philip Kitcher - On John Stuart Mill
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill's apparent victory in the ...
Episode 690: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina - Your Table Is Ready: Tales Of A New York City Maitre D'
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the room in New York City's hottest and most in-dema...
Episode 689: Brian Thomas Swimme - Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the host and co-creator of PBS’s Journey of the Universe, a fresh look at how the rich collision between science and spirituality has influence...
Episode 688: John Lingan - A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The definitive biography of Creedence Clearwater Revival, exploring the band's legendary rise to fame and how their music embodied the cultural landsc...
Episode 688: Ben Ehrlich - The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first major biography of the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind—illustra...
Episode 687: Peter Robison - Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Boeing is a century-old titan of industry. It played a major role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon land...
Episode 686: Lauren Acampora - The Hundred Waters
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she's ...