Episode 4 : “Scientists are Human” edition (audio)

Posted by jnshaumeyer on 5 June 2013

Streamed live on 5 June 2013

They physicists gang up on Joanne, when we’re joined by Mario Livio, whose most recent book is “Brilliant Blunders : From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe”, and Michael Brooks, whose most recent book is “Free Radicals : The Secret Anarchy of Science”. We discuss the audacious idea that scientists are actually people, too, and that science is a human enterprise and mistakes regularly happen.

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