Science for the People
By Rachelle Saunders, Bethany Brookshire, and Carolyn Wilke
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Category: Social Sciences
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 464
Reviews: 1
Episodes: 300
Aug 29, 2020
Description
Science for the People is a long-format interview podcast that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and arguments behind what's in the news and on the shelves. Our hosts sit down with science researchers, writers, authors, journalists, and experts to discuss science from the past, the science that affects our lives today, and how science might change our future.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
#642 The Last Episode
|
Dec 31, 2023 |
|
#641 The Last Nerd Gift Guide
|
Dec 16, 2023 |
|
#640 The Last Science Book Club
|
Dec 07, 2023 |
|
#639 The One About Periods
|
Nov 20, 2023 |
|
#638 Do you feel love? What about ecstasy?
|
Nov 07, 2023 |
|
#637 A special announcement
|
Nov 06, 2023 |
|
#636 Life on an unruly planet
|
Oct 24, 2023 |
|
#635 Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
|
Oct 09, 2023 |
|
#634 Back to the future
|
Sep 25, 2023 |
|
#633 An Ice History
|
Sep 14, 2023 |
|
#632 We are what we eat
|
Aug 28, 2023 |
|
#631 Tenacious Beasts
|
Aug 14, 2023 |
|
#630 The Jewel Box
|
Jul 31, 2023 |
|
#629 How birds go the distance
|
Jul 05, 2023 |
|
#628 Brave the Wild River
|
Jun 19, 2023 |
|
#627 Ancient Migrations
|
Jun 05, 2023 |
|
#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
|
May 25, 2023 |
|
#625 This one really is about aliens
|
May 09, 2023 |
|
#624 The Devil’s Element
|
Apr 24, 2023 |
|
#623 Peopling the Americas
|
Apr 11, 2023 |
|
#622 What's wrong Colonel Sanders? Feeling chicken?
|
Mar 27, 2023 |
|
#621 Of memoir and sea creatures
|
Mar 13, 2023 |
|
#620 The Matter of Everything
|
Feb 27, 2023 |
|
#619 Breathless
|
Feb 16, 2023 |
|
#618 This is your brain on music
|
Jan 30, 2023 |
|
#617 Emotional Ignorance
|
Jan 16, 2023 |
|
#616 The one about sex
|
Dec 20, 2022 |
|
#615 2022 Science Book Haul
|
Dec 06, 2022 |
|
#614 Clocks, Mugs and Other Nerdy Gift Ideas
|
Nov 22, 2022 |
|
#613 Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
|
Nov 10, 2022 |
|
#612 The Poopisode
|
Oct 25, 2022 |
|
#611 Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
|
Oct 17, 2022 |
|
#610 Thieving Trees
|
Sep 26, 2022 |
|
#609 A world of universal vaccines
|
Sep 12, 2022 |
|
#608 Bone Proteins and Body Farms
|
Aug 31, 2022 |
|
#607 Shark Matters
|
Aug 22, 2022 |
|
#606 Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent
|
Aug 03, 2022 |
|
#605 Designing wilderness
|
Jul 18, 2022 |
|
#604 Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces
|
Jul 08, 2022 |
|
#603 Remaking the face
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
|
#602 Working while Marginalized
|
May 23, 2022 |
|
#601 This is not about dinosaurs
|
Apr 25, 2022 |
|
#600 The one about vaginas
|
Apr 11, 2022 |
|
#599 Losing Our Minds
|
Mar 29, 2022 |
|
#598 Train, boat, truck, it's the supply chain
|
Mar 14, 2022 |
|
#597 The Trouble With Passion
|
Feb 18, 2022 |
|
#596 Tailoring your brain with science
|
Jan 31, 2022 |
|
#595 Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making
|
Jan 17, 2022 |
|
#594 Science to look forward to in 2022
|
Jan 04, 2022 |
|
#593 Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonising Academia
|
Dec 23, 2021 |
|
#592 The One About Nerdy Gifts, 2021 Edition
|
Dec 06, 2021 |
|
#591 The One About Science Books, 2021 Edition
|
Nov 28, 2021 |
|
#590 Furry felons and mammalian misdemeanors
|
Oct 28, 2021 |
|
#589 Damsels and Dragons
|
Oct 20, 2021 |
|
#588 What's Wild About Wilderness
|
Sep 30, 2021 |
|
#587 Dripping with Sweat
|
Aug 03, 2021 |
|
#586 Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
|
Jun 27, 2021 |
|
#585 Lightning Flowers
|
May 17, 2021 |
|
#584 Time for the Gory Details
|
Apr 16, 2021 |
|
#583 The Unavoidable Complexities of Food
|
Mar 30, 2021 |
|
#582 Cities Lost and Found
|
Mar 01, 2021 |
|
#581 The Art and Science of Play
|
Feb 02, 2021 |
|
#580 So Long 2020, We Won't Miss You
|
Jan 07, 2021 |
|
#579 It's a Pandemic, Why Are We So Bored?!
|
Dec 21, 2020 |
|
#578 Science Books for Science Nerds
|
Dec 08, 2020 |
|
#577 Vaccine Moonshot
|
Nov 09, 2020 |
|
#ANN1 Programming Announcement: Slowing Down for a Bit
|
Nov 02, 2020 |
|
#576 Science Communication in Creative Places
|
Oct 19, 2020 |
|
#575 Tasting Qualities
|
Oct 05, 2020 |
|
#574 State of the Heart
|
Sep 20, 2020 |
|
#573 Penis. That's It. That's the title.
|
Sep 13, 2020 |
|
#572 The Alchemy of Us
|
Sep 07, 2020 |
|
#571 The Address Book
|
Aug 24, 2020 |
|
#570 Sea Ice
|
Aug 16, 2020 |
|
#569 Facing Fear
|
Aug 10, 2020 |
|
#568 Poker Face Psychology
|
Jul 27, 2020 |
|
#567 Because Internet
|
Jul 20, 2020 |
|
#566 Is Your Gut Leaking?
|
Jul 12, 2020 |
|
#565 The Great Wide Indoors
|
Jun 28, 2020 |
|
#564 Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies
|
Jun 21, 2020 |
|
#563 Dissecting Bumble Bee Health
|
Jun 14, 2020 |
|
#BLM Black Lives Matter
|
Jun 07, 2020 |
|
#562 Superbug to Bedside
|
May 24, 2020 |
|
#561 The Race to Identify All Living Things
|
May 17, 2020 |
|
#560 That's the Yeast of your Worries
|
May 10, 2020 |
|
#559 Notes From a Transplant Surgeon
|
Apr 26, 2020 |
|
#558 Good Drugs, Bad Companies
|
Apr 19, 2020 |
|
#557 Homeschool STEM Resource Extravaganza
|
Apr 12, 2020 |
|
#556 The Power of Friendship
|
Mar 29, 2020 |
|
#555 Coronavirus
|
Mar 22, 2020 |
|
#554 Coders
|
Mar 15, 2020 |
|
#553 Scan All Fishes
|
Mar 08, 2020 |
|
#552 The First Cell
|
Feb 23, 2020 |
|
#551 Translating Science, Part 2
|
Feb 16, 2020 |
|
#550 Translating Science, Part 1
|
Feb 09, 2020 |
|
#549 Let's Get Slimy
|
Feb 02, 2020 |
|
#548 Land and Ocean Conservation 101
|
Jan 19, 2020 |
|
#547 The D Factor: The Dark Side of Your Personality
|
Jan 12, 2020 |
|
#546 2019, But Make It Science
|
Jan 04, 2020 |
|
#545 Where Have All the Antibiotics Gone?
|
Dec 21, 2019 |
|
#544 Prosperity Without Growth
|
Dec 14, 2019 |
|
#543 Give a Nerd a Gift
|
Dec 07, 2019 |
|
#542 Climate Doomsday
|
Nov 30, 2019 |
|
#541 Wayfinding
|
Nov 16, 2019 |
|
#540 Specialize? Or Generalize?
|
Nov 09, 2019 |
|
#539 A Bit of Bird Behaviour
|
Oct 26, 2019 |
|
#538 Nobels and Astrophysics
|
Oct 19, 2019 |
|
#537 Science Journalism, Hold the Hype
|
Oct 11, 2019 |
|
#536 Let Them Eat Dirt
|
Sep 27, 2019 |
|
#535 Superior
|
Sep 20, 2019 |
|
#534 Bacteria are Coming for Your OJ
|
Sep 13, 2019 |
|
#533 Breaking the Rodent Glass Ceiling
|
Aug 31, 2019 |
|
#532 A Class Conversation
|
Aug 23, 2019 |
|
#SB2 2019 Science Birthday Minisode: Mary Golda Ross
|
Aug 09, 2019 |
|
#531 Induced Seismicity
|
Aug 02, 2019 |
|
#530 Why Aren't We Dead Yet?
|
Jul 19, 2019 |
|
#529 Do You Really Want to Find Out Who's Your Daddy?
|
Jul 05, 2019 |
|
#528 A Shock Machine and The Lost Boys
|
Jun 28, 2019 |
|
#527 Honey I CRISPR'd the Kids
|
Jun 14, 2019 |
|
#526 Let Me See You Sweat
|
Jun 07, 2019 |
|
#525 Chernobyl
|
May 31, 2019 |
|
#524 The Human Network
|
May 17, 2019 |
|
#523 Happy As A Clam (Garden)
|
May 10, 2019 |
|
#522 Home Alone?
|
May 03, 2019 |
|
#521 The Curious Life of Krill
|
Apr 19, 2019 |
|
#520 A Closer Look at Objectivism
|
Apr 12, 2019 |
|
#519 Animal Architects
|
Apr 05, 2019 |
|
#518 With Genetic Knowledge Comes the Need for Counselling
|
Mar 22, 2019 |
|
#517 Life in Plastic, Not Fantastic
|
Mar 15, 2019 |
|
#516 The Keys to Skeletons Lost
|
Mar 08, 2019 |
|
#515 Humanimal
|
Mar 01, 2019 |
|
#514 Arctic Energy (Rebroadcast)
|
Feb 22, 2019 |
|
#513 Dinosaur Tails
|
Feb 15, 2019 |
|
#512 All Over The Map
|
Feb 08, 2019 |
|
#511 Ok you worked out, now what?
|
Feb 01, 2019 |
|
#510 Gene Drives (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 25, 2019 |
|
#509 Anisogamy: The Beginning of Male and Female
|
Jan 18, 2019 |
|
#508 Freedom's Laboratory
|
Jan 11, 2019 |
|
#507 Poaching, and We Don't Mean Eggs
|
Jan 04, 2019 |
|
#506 Everybody Poops (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 28, 2018 |
|
#505 Top Science Stories of 2018
|
Dec 21, 2018 |
|
#504 The Art of Logic
|
Dec 14, 2018 |
|
#503 Postpartum Blues (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 07, 2018 |
|
#502 Nerd Gift Extravaganza
|
Nov 30, 2018 |
|
#501 Hidden Technology
|
Nov 23, 2018 |
|
#500 500th Episode
|
Nov 16, 2018 |
|
#499 Technology, Work and The Future (Rebroadcast)
|
Nov 09, 2018 |
|
#498 The Poison Squad
|
Nov 02, 2018 |
|
#497 Built
|
Oct 26, 2018 |
|
#496 Anti-Intellectualism: Down With the Scientist!
|
Oct 19, 2018 |
|
#495 Earth Science in Space
|
Oct 12, 2018 |
|
#494 The Tangled Taxonomic Tree
|
Oct 05, 2018 |
|
#493 Trowel Blazing (Rebroadcast)
|
Sep 28, 2018 |
|
#492 Flint Water Crisis
|
Sep 21, 2018 |
|
#491 Frankenstein LIVES
|
Sep 14, 2018 |
|
#490 Breaking Down Chemical Weapons
|
Sep 07, 2018 |
|
#489 Sand
|
Aug 31, 2018 |
|
#488 Big Chicken (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 24, 2018 |
|
#487 Knitting in PEARL
|
Aug 17, 2018 |
|
#486 Volcanoes
|
Aug 10, 2018 |
|
#485 Fine Times with Wine
|
Aug 03, 2018 |
|
#484 Animal Weapons (Rebroadcast)
|
Jul 27, 2018 |
|
#483 Wild Moms
|
Jul 20, 2018 |
|
#482 Body Builders
|
Jul 13, 2018 |
|
#481 23 and You
|
Jul 06, 2018 |
|
#480 Cursing and Conversation
|
Jun 29, 2018 |
|
#479 Garden of Marvels (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 22, 2018 |
|
#478 She Has Her Mother's Laugh
|
Jun 15, 2018 |
|
#477 Cure for Catastrophe
|
Jun 08, 2018 |
|
#476 Science in Fiction
|
Jun 01, 2018 |
|
#SB1 2018 Science Birthday Bonus Short Minisode: Lloyd Quarterman
|
May 31, 2018 |
|
#475 Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Rebroadcast)
|
May 25, 2018 |
|
#474 Appearance Matters
|
May 18, 2018 |
|
#473 Colour Me... Structurally?
|
May 11, 2018 |
|
#472 A Good Bout of Plague
|
May 04, 2018 |
|
#471 Pigs and Fish: Personality in Animals
|
Apr 27, 2018 |
|
#470 Information Spookyhighway
|
Apr 20, 2018 |
|
#469 The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
|
Apr 13, 2018 |
|
#468 Slicing into Surgery
|
Apr 06, 2018 |
|
#467 Pests in the City (Rebroadcast)
|
Mar 30, 2018 |
|
#466 Wildfire
|
Mar 23, 2018 |
|
#465 How The Nose Knows
|
Mar 16, 2018 |
|
#464 How We Endure
|
Mar 09, 2018 |
|
#463 Trench to Bedside (Rebroadcast)
|
Mar 02, 2018 |
|
#462 The Future of Energy
|
Feb 23, 2018 |
|
#461 Adhesives
|
Feb 16, 2018 |
|
#460 Brake For Menopause
|
Feb 09, 2018 |
|
#459 Postpartum Blues
|
Feb 02, 2018 |
|
#458 Circumcision (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 26, 2018 |
|
#457 Trowel Blazing
|
Jan 19, 2018 |
|
#456 Inside a Conservation NGO
|
Jan 12, 2018 |
|
#455 New Year's Resolutions
|
Jan 05, 2018 |
|
#454 Sports Science (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 29, 2017 |
|
#453 The Biggest Science Stories of 2017
|
Dec 22, 2017 |
|
#452 Face Recognition and Identity
|
Dec 15, 2017 |
|
#451 Merry Science Giftmas
|
Dec 08, 2017 |
|
#450 Sing a Little Song
|
Dec 01, 2017 |
|
#449 Arctic Energy
|
Nov 24, 2017 |
|
#448 Pavlov (Rebroadcast)
|
Nov 17, 2017 |
|
#447 Stormy Weather
|
Nov 10, 2017 |
|
#446 Frogs From the Skin In
|
Nov 03, 2017 |
|
#445 AI: Ant Intelligence
|
Oct 27, 2017 |
|
#444 The V-Word (Rebroadcast)
|
Oct 20, 2017 |
|
#443 Batteries
|
Oct 13, 2017 |
|
#442 From Nobel to Ig Nobel
|
Oct 06, 2017 |
|
#441 Superhuman
|
Sep 29, 2017 |
|
#440 Weapons of Math Destruction (Rebroadcast)
|
Sep 22, 2017 |
|
#439 Flooded
|
Sep 15, 2017 |
|
#438 Big Chicken
|
Sep 08, 2017 |
|
#437 Tiny Bubbles, Big Impact
|
Sep 01, 2017 |
|
#436 Beauty is A Beast (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 25, 2017 |
|
#435 Total Eclipse of the Sun
|
Aug 18, 2017 |
|
#434 The Dictionary
|
Aug 11, 2017 |
|
#433 The State of Science Journalism
|
Aug 04, 2017 |
|
#432 A Sting In The Tail (Rebroadcast)
|
Jul 28, 2017 |
|
#431 Memory and Emotion
|
Jul 21, 2017 |
|
#430 Bacteria in Bodies and On The Farm
|
Jul 14, 2017 |
|
#429 Gene Drives
|
Jul 07, 2017 |
|
#428 Cities of the Future (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 30, 2017 |
|
#427 The Life Project
|
Jun 23, 2017 |
|
#426 Everybody Poops
|
Jun 16, 2017 |
|
#425 Cooperative Microbes
|
Jun 09, 2017 |
|
#424 Biohacking (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 02, 2017 |
|
#423 Built On Bones
|
May 26, 2017 |
|
#422 Is Our Children Learning
|
May 19, 2017 |
|
#421 Hopeful Monsters
|
May 12, 2017 |
|
#420 Medical Marijuana (Rebroadcast)
|
May 05, 2017 |
|
#419 The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
|
Apr 28, 2017 |
|
#418 Animal Research Revisited
|
Apr 21, 2017 |
|
#417 Lab-Cultured Beef
|
Apr 14, 2017 |
|
#416 Bodies Everywhere (Rebroadcast)
|
Apr 07, 2017 |
|
#415 Weapons of Math Destruction
|
Mar 31, 2017 |
|
#414 Perpetual Now
|
Mar 24, 2017 |
|
#413 Concrete
|
Mar 17, 2017 |
|
#412 PTSD
|
Mar 10, 2017 |
|
#411 Coal Wars (Rebroadcast)
|
Mar 03, 2017 |
|
#410 The Big Sleep
|
Feb 24, 2017 |
|
#409 Trump War On Science
|
Feb 17, 2017 |
|
#408 The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
|
Feb 10, 2017 |
|
#407 Voices Within
|
Feb 03, 2017 |
|
#406 Running Low (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 27, 2017 |
|
#405 STEM Pipeline
|
Jan 20, 2017 |
|
#404 Sex In The Sea
|
Jan 13, 2017 |
|
#403 Indigenous DNA
|
Jan 06, 2017 |
|
#402 Boozy Science (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 30, 2016 |
|
#401 The Serengeti Rules
|
Dec 23, 2016 |
|
#400 What Doesn't Kill You...
|
Dec 16, 2016 |
|
#399 The Sugar Pill
|
Dec 09, 2016 |
|
#398 Gifts For Nerds
|
Dec 02, 2016 |
|
#397 Risk Management
|
Nov 25, 2016 |
|
#396 Trench to Bedside
|
Nov 18, 2016 |
|
#395 Happy People (Rebroadcast)
|
Nov 11, 2016 |
|
#394 On the Origin of Bad Science
|
Nov 04, 2016 |
|
#393 Check Your Facts
|
Oct 28, 2016 |
|
#392 Venomous
|
Oct 21, 2016 |
|
#391 Effective Altruism (Rebroadcast)
|
Oct 14, 2016 |
|
#390 Decolonizing Colonization
|
Oct 07, 2016 |
|
#389 The Jazz of Physics
|
Sep 30, 2016 |
|
#388 Fish
|
Sep 23, 2016 |
|
#387 The Melting World (Rebroadcast)
|
Sep 16, 2016 |
|
#386 Humans Vs Robots
|
Sep 09, 2016 |
|
#385 Sociolinguistics
|
Sep 02, 2016 |
|
#384 Grunt
|
Aug 26, 2016 |
|
#383 The Atomic Era (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 19, 2016 |
|
#382 Risk of Going Nowhere
|
Aug 12, 2016 |
|
#381 The Triumph of Seeds
|
Aug 05, 2016 |
|
#380 Yer A Wizard Harry
|
Jul 29, 2016 |
|
#379 A Special Hell (Rebroadcast)
|
Jul 22, 2016 |
|
#378 Paris Climate Agreement
|
Jul 15, 2016 |
|
#377 Hearing From The Humanities
|
Jul 08, 2016 |
|
#376 Technology, Work and The Future
|
Jul 01, 2016 |
|
#375 Severed (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 24, 2016 |
|
#374 The Ninth Planet
|
Jun 17, 2016 |
|
#373 The Confidence Game
|
Jun 10, 2016 |
|
#372 The Planet Remade
|
Jun 03, 2016 |
|
#371 Meningitis
|
May 27, 2016 |
|
#370 Me, Myself, and Why (Rebroadcast)
|
May 20, 2016 |
|
#369 Fraud and Forgery
|
May 13, 2016 |
|
#368 Beyond the Galaxy
|
May 06, 2016 |
|
#367 Neurodiversity
|
Apr 29, 2016 |
|
#366 Self-Driving Cars
|
Apr 22, 2016 |
|
#365 Evolutionary Psychology
|
Apr 15, 2016 |
|
#364 Combat-Ready Kitchen
|
Apr 08, 2016 |
|
#363 Falling Into The Fire (Rebroadcast)
|
Apr 01, 2016 |
|
#362 Roadkill
|
Mar 25, 2016 |
|
#361 Too Hot To Handle
|
Mar 18, 2016 |
|
#360 Medical Marijuana
|
Mar 11, 2016 |
|
#359 In The Courtroom
|
Mar 04, 2016 |
|
#358 Zika
|
Feb 26, 2016 |
|
#357 The Brain Electric
|
Feb 19, 2016 |
|
#356 Insects En Masse
|
Feb 12, 2016 |
|
#355 Superstorm (Rebroadcast)
|
Feb 05, 2016 |
|
#354 HIV and AIDS: Updated and Revisited
|
Jan 29, 2016 |
|
#353 Scream
|
Jan 22, 2016 |
|
#352 Good Thinking
|
Jan 15, 2016 |
|
#351 Contraception
|
Jan 08, 2016 |
|
#350 Science In Wonderland
|
Jan 01, 2016 |
|
#349 Getting Away With Murder (REBROADCAST)
|
Dec 25, 2015 |
|
#348 Artificial Intelligence
|
Dec 18, 2015 |
|
#347 Where Do Camels Belong?
|
Dec 11, 2015 |