Science
December 2025 • Science
WHAT ARE WE UP TO IN SPACE?
Two astrophysicists provide a reality check on our current role in space, to consider what is really motivating our actions, driving our expensive excursions to Mars, and shaping our international satellite placement industry. Have we really considered our role, responsibility, and stewardship in space alongside the potential profits to be made?
May 2025 • Climate
Carbon: The Book of Life
Paul Hawken’s latest book, Carbon: The Book of Life illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and suggests we see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined -inseparably connected.
October 2024 • Science
The God Of AI
Greg Epstein explores the global worship of technology and discusses what prompted him to write Tech Agnostic. Epstein contends that technology has overtaken religion as the chief influencer in 21st Century life and community. He questions whether technology is deserving of our trust, and who profits from our uncritical faith in it?
October 2024 • Science
AI: Servant Or Master?
Gary Marcus, a trusted voice in artificial intelligence speaks about his latest book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure that AI Works for Us. Is Big Tech taking advantage of us? How could AI make things worse, and more importantly, what we can do to safeguard our democracy and our future?
April 2023 • Science
Beauty or the Beast: The True Cost of ChatGPT
Recent concerns about the implications of artificial intelligence apps like Chat GPT have prompted journalists, academics, and entrepreneurs to seek a halt to the training of AIs. What do you think?
September 2022 • Health
Heart to Heart: The Exquisite Machine
Cardiologist Sian Harding explores the latest scientific developments and mysteries of the heart including the latest cardiac health discoveries as well as the relationship between the emotions and heart function.
February 2022 • Health
Tick, Tick, and More Ticks
Brian Owens, an award-winning science journalist for Nature and the New Scientist, has investigated the causes, treatments, and controversy surrounding Lyme disease, an insidious but often overlooked disease.
January 2022 • Science
Smell: An Olfactory Orgy
Research into olfaction, the science of what happens between the nose and the brain, has intensified due to the huge number of people who lost their sense of smell due to COVID.
September 2021 • Health
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
Psychologist David DeSteno discusses some fascinating findings from his latest book How God Works.
July 2021 • Health
What Have We Learned From the First Covid Wave?
COVID-19 has proved to be the biggest global public health in history. Although it has posed the same threat across the globe, countries have responded very differently and some are faring better than others.
October 2020 • Science
A Synthesizing Mind
Long an authority on the human mind, Professor Howard Gardner’s latest book reflects on his childhood and intellectual development in addition to a review of his groundbreaking work on multiple intelligences—including his own.
May 2020 • Science
The Alchemy of Us
Anissa Ramirez is a material scientist who is passionate about getting everyone excited about science, so much so that she calls herself a “science evangelist”. In her latest book, she looks at eight world-changing technologies.
April 2020 • Climate
In Search of Meadowlarks
John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist’s lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.
March 2020 • Science
Nature Underfoot: Learning to live with tiny life
John Hainze, an entomologist, ethicist, and former pesticide-developer calls for greater respect and moral consideration for humans and their natural world.
January 2019 • Classics
Living With Robots
Judith Shulevitz, from the Atlantic Monthly, and Maxim Pozdorovkin, filmmaker of The Truth About Killer Robots discuss the future of robots.
October 2018 • Climate
Whitewash
Carey Gillam won the Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for her book, Whitewash, which follows the first historic verdict against Monsanto in the San Francisco courts.
November 2017 • Science
The War Against Science
A conversation with environmental scientists Joel Clement, former employee of the Department of the Interior, H. Curtis Spalding, Professor at Brown University, and Andrew Rosenberg, Union of Concerned Scientists on the War Against Science.
April 2016 • Climate
All About Bees
Bees don’t just make honey, they pollinate a third of our food supply. But bee colonies are disappearing at an alarming rate in the US.
October 2013 • Science
Cancer in America: From Lab to Life
Two noted cancer researchers, Dr. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic and Dr. Beatriz Pogo of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, discuss the torturous path that a medical treatment or procedure or device takes from the scientist’s imagination to clinical implementation with actual human patients.
February 2013 • Classics
Resilience: From PTSD to Hurricane Sandy
Psychiatrists Steven Southwick of Yale and Dennis Charney of Mount Sinai tell the stories of POWs, 9/11 survivors, and ordinary people with debilitating diseases or grievous personal losses.
February 2013 • Science
Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
Biographer Christoph Irmscher examines the life of this controversial figure in its Victorian cultural context.
February 2012 • Health
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program
UCLA neuroscientist Gary Small looks at what Alzheimer’s disease actually is and reviews the research on preventing its onset. Small challenges the notion that Alzheimer’s is not preventable and discusses a variety of ways to keep the brain healthy.
November 2011 • Science
Reinventing Discovery
Michael Nielsen, a pioneer of quantum computing, discusses the need to change the way scientific research is conducted and the way data is handled in the modern scientific era.
March 2011 • Science
Why Everyone (Else) Is A Hypocrite
Evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban challenges the traditional notion of the integrated self.
November 2007 • Classics
Musicophilia
The late essayist-physician Oliver Sacks memorably reflected at Cambridge Forum on music and its mysterious relationship to the brain.
May 1980 • Classics
The Uncertainty Of Science
In 1980, Biologist and physician Dr. Lewis Thomas spoke at the Harvard College commencement about the uncertainty of science.