Chemistry World Book Club podcast – Page 4
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PodcastBook Club - Bring back the king
We discuss Bring back the king by Helen Pilcher and learn of the difficulties and possible benefits of bringing animals back from extinction
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PodcastBook Club - The master algorithm
Driverless cars and bloodless wars are just two of the promises of machines that learn, the subject of this month’s podcast
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PodcastBook Club - Furry logic
This month we discuss the physics of turtles, shrimps and, of course, cats
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PodcastBook Club - The secret life of fat
The Chemistry World team discusses the benfits and drawbacks of the most maligned body tissue
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PodcastBook Club - Homo deus and our favourite books of 2016
We review the bestseller, Homo deus and then the Chemistry World team discusses their favourite books of 2016
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PodcastBook Club – I contain multitudes
They say you are what you eat, but actually you’re mainly what eats you
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PodcastBook Club – Big data: does size matter?
We are destined to become just a number in a big set of numbers. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of this
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PodcastBook Club – Science and the city: the mechanics behind the metropolis
In this month’s book club we discuss the technologies that help modern cities function
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PodcastBook Club – Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
The non-weapon technologies of war, from penis transplants to maggot therapy
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PodcastBook Club – Herding Hemingway’s Cats
Six-toed cats and misconceptions in genetics are discussed in this months podcast
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PodcastBook Club – Sorting the beef from the bull
This month we discuss the ubiquitous nature of food fraud and its detection
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PodcastBook Club – Scientific paper writing
This month, we discuss how to write quality scientific papers
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PodcastBook Club – Why science is sexist
This month we discuss unconscious bias and other reasons why science is sexist
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PodcastBook Club – Elements of Power
This month we learn of the problems that arise from mining rare metals in David Abraham’s The Elements of Power
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PodcastBook Club – Adventures in the Anthropocene
This month we consider the dawning of a new epoch as we discuss Gaia Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene
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PodcastBook Club – Thing explainer
Our book club podcast considers simple language in science as we discuss Randall Munroe’s new book, Thing explainer.
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PodcastBook Club – Why does asparagus make your wee smell?
In this podcast, we learn why does asparagus make your wee smell, as we discuss Andy Brunning’s new book
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PodcastBook Club – Scientific Babel
We probe the nature of scientific language with Michael Gordin’s bestseller, Scientific Babel
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PodcastBook Club – A is for Arsenic
In the first of a brand new podcast series, we get together to discuss ‘A is for Arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie’
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