Entries here are podcast episodes, generally interviews with authors of books about natural history, the history of science, or the history of medicine, that are recommended to readers of The Well-read Naturalists.
It was with great surprise and joy that I opened my podcast feed this past Tuesday as I set out on my morning walk to find a new episode of “The Stubborn Light of Things” queued-up atop the list. After nearly three years of silence, I once again was greeted with Ms. Harrison’s long-missed, gentle, and reassuring “Hi, How ya doing?”
How do we read? How should we teach Children to read? How have the debates surrounding there questions contributed to the American culture wars and the rise of the anti-science movement? These are very important questions indeed, and ones that Prof. Adrian Johns takes up in discussing his new book “The Science of Reading” on the University of Chicago’s “Big Brains” podcast.
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Dr. Laura R. Kremmel about her 2022 book “Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination; Morbid Anatomies.”
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Prof. Al Coppola about his 2016 book “The Theater of Experiment; Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”