2013 : Episodes 1 through 18

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 17 January 2014

2013 : Read Science! Episodes 1 through 18

• Episode 1 : “Mary Roach” edition
  Streamed live on 25 April 2013
  Guest: Mary Roach, author of Gulp
  video | audio
• Episode 2 : “We Love Dinos!” edition
  Streamed live on 27 April 2013
  Guests: Daniel Loxton, author of Pterosaur Trouble,
  & Brian Switek, author of My Beloved Brontosaurus
  video | audio
• Episode 3 : “Sanitation” edition
  Streamed live on 24 May 2013
  Guests: Rose George, author of The Big Necessity : The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters,
  & Scott Huler, author of On the Grid : A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make our World Work
  video | audio
• Episode 4 : “Scientists are Human” edition
  Streamed live on 5 June 2013
  Guests: Mario Livio, author of Brilliant Blunders : From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe
  & Michael Brooks, author of Free Radicals : The Secret Anarchy of Science
  video | audio
• Episode 5 : “Frogs & Sloths” edition
  Streamed live on 6 June 2013
  Guest: Lucy Cooke, filmmaker and author of A Little Book of Sloth
  video | audio
• Episode 6 : “Mission to Mars” edition
  Streamed live on 12 June 2013
  Guests: Buzz Aldrin and Leonard David, authors of Mission to Mars
  video | audio
• Episode 7 : “Wild & Cute Baby Animals” edition
  Streamed live on 19 June 2013
  Guest: Suzi Eszterhas, wildlife photographer and author of Eye on the Wild Series, books for children
  video | audio
• Episode 8 : “Biotech Revolution” edition
  Streamed live on 10 July 2013
  Guests: Emily Anthes, author of Frankenstein’s Cat,
  & Terry Johnson and Kyle Kurpinski, authors of How To Defeat Your Own Clone
  video | audio
• Episode 9 : “Oncogenes & Carcinogens” edition
  Streamed live on 18 July 2013
  Guests: Dan Fagin, author of Toms River : A Story of Science and Salvation,
  & Jessica Wapner, author of The Philadelphia Chromosome : A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
  video | audio
• Episode 10 : “Genomics” edition
  Streamed live on 1 August 2013
  Guests: Misha Angrist, author of Here is a Human Being,
  Kevin Davies, author of The $1,000 Dollar Genome,
  & Matthew Herper, science & medicine writer at Forbes Magazine
  video | audio
• Episode 11 : “E.O.Wilson (Myrmecology Rocks!)” edition
  Streamed live on 27 August 2013
  Guest: Edward O. Wilson, author of Letters to a Young Scientist
  video | audio
• Episode 12 : “The Autistic Brain” edition
  Streamed live on 9 September 2013
  Guests: Temple Grandin and Richard Panek, authors of The Autistic Brain : Thinking Across the Spectrum
  video | audio
• Episode 13 : “Sports Science” edition
  Streamed live on 19 September 2013
  Guest: David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene : Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
  video | audio
• Episode 14 : “Exoplanets” edition
  Streamed live on 10 October 2013
  Guest: Lee Billings, author of Five Million Years of Solitude : The Search for Life among the Stars
  video | audio
• Episode 15 : “Wonderful World” edition
  Streamed live 17 October 2013
  Guest: Marcus Chown, author of What a Wonderful World : One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
  video | audio
• Episode 16 : “Disastrous Planet” edition
  Streamed live on 5 November 2013
  Guest: Susan W. Kieffer, author of The Dynamics of Disaster
  video | audio
• Episode 17 : “Astronaut Chris Hadfield” edition
  Streamed live on 14 November 2013
  Guest: Chris Hadfield, author of An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth : What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination and Being Prepared for Anything
  For this conversation we were joined by Clara Moskowitz, associate editor, covering space and physics, at Scientific American
  video | audio
• Episode 18 : “Dogs” edition
  Streamed live on 25 November 2013
  Guests: Virginia Morell, author of Animal Wise : The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures,
  & Cat Warren, author of What the Dog Knows : The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs
  video | audio