Over the past few years I’ve found much to appreciate in Dr. Corinne Wieben’s podcast Enchanted; the History of Magic & Witchcraft, particularly when she takes up an aspect of the natural world.
Enchanted: The Red Branch
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The Stubborn Light of Things – Greenman Festival Edition
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?”
Prof. Adrian Johns on His “The Science of Reading”
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 Theater of Experiment
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.”