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BookLab 040: The best science books of 2025
Dec 20, 2025
1h 27m 41s
BookLab 039: More Everything Forever, by Adam Becker
Jul 5, 2025
1h 07m 59s
BookLab 038: The Language Puzzle; Ways of Being; Playing Possum
Mar 25, 2025
1h 09m 56s
BookLab 037: Ten Year Anniversary Special
Dec 25, 2024
52m 31s
BookLab 036: Her Time, Her Space and The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman
Dec 13, 2024
1h 04m 34s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/20/25 |  BookLab 040: The best science books of 2025✨ | science booksbook recommendations+3 | — | — | — | science booksbook recommendations+3 | — | 1h 27m 41s | |
| 7/5/25 |  BookLab 039: More Everything Forever, by Adam Becker✨ | colonization of Marsspace exploration+4 | Adam Becker | — | — | Marsspace stations+3 | — | 1h 07m 59s | |
| 3/25/25 | BookLab 038: The Language Puzzle; Ways of Being; Playing Possum✨ | animal communicationsymbolic language+3 | Steven Mithen | Ways of BeingPlaying Possum | — | languagecommunication+4 | — | 1h 09m 56s | |
| 12/25/24 |  BookLab 037: Ten Year Anniversary Special✨ | science bookspublishing trends+3 | — | — | — | sciencebooks+4 | — | 52m 31s | |
| 12/13/24 |  BookLab 036: Her Time, Her Space and The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman✨ | women in sciencecosmology+3 | — | Her Time, Her SpaceThe Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman | — | women scientistsGalileo+5 | — | 1h 04m 34s | |
| 8/22/24 |  BookLab 035: The Blind Spot; Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation; The Rigor of Angels✨ | scientific approachtraditional science+4 | — | The Blind SpotPutting Ourselves Back in the Equation+1 | — | sciencephilosophy+3 | — | 1h 22m 49s | |
| 12/21/23 | BookLab 034: Determined by Robert Sapolsky and Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell✨ | free willscience+4 | — | BookLab | — | free willdeterminism+5 | — | 1h 15m 24s | |
| 8/3/23 |  BookLab 033: The Book of Minds; The Darkness Manifesto; Existential Physics✨ | human mindpossible minds+3 | — | The Book of MindsThe Darkness Manifesto+1 | — | human mindphilosophy+3 | — | 1h 16m 09s | |
| 2/27/23 |  BookLab 032: The One; Sounds Wild and Broken; What We Owe the Future✨ | monismdiversity+4 | — | The OneSounds Wild and Broken+1 | — | monismHeinrich Pas+5 | — | 1h 15m 36s | |
| 12/16/22 | BookLab 031: Reality+; Well, Doc, You're In; and As Gods✨ | virtual realitysimulation theory+3 | David Chalmers | Reality+Well, Doc, You're In+1 | — | virtual realitysimulation+3 | — | 1h 09m 51s | |
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| 9/15/22 | BookLab 030: Being You, The Monster's Bones, and Quantum Legacies | Featured book: Being You, by Anil Seth. A lot has been written on the subject of consciousness, but few are positioned to tackle the problem better than neuroscientist Anil Seth, whose new book examines how we experience "life in the first person." And on the nightstand: The Monster's Bones, by David K. Randall; and Quantum Legacies, by David Kaiser. | — | ||||||
| 12/26/21 |  BookLab 029: Hawking Hawking, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy, and When We Cease to Understand the World | Featured book: Hawking Hawking, by Charles Seife. Charles Seife's new biography of Stephen Hawking takes an unflinching look at the good and bad sides of the famous physicist. And on the nightstand: The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy, by Arik Kershenbaum; and When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut. | — | ||||||
| 10/16/21 |  BookLab 028: Life's Edge, by Carl Zimmer; and The Genesis Quest, by Michael Marshall | What is life? As Carl Zimmer shows in Life's Edge, the more we try to pin it down, the more elusive an answer becomes. And in The Genesis Quest, Michael Marshall examines the age-old puzzle of how life began on our planet. | — | ||||||
| 3/30/21 |  BookLab 027: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, Why Fish Don't Exist, and The Precipice | Featured Book: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, by Lisa Feldman Barrett. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett take a deep dive into our most remarkable organ – and explains why the brain is for much more than just thinking. And on the nightstand: Why Fish Don't Exist, by Lulu Miller; and The Precipice, by Toby Ord. | — | ||||||
| 12/30/20 |  BookLab 026: The End of Everything, and Black Hole Survival Guide | We double up on the physics in this episode: First, Katie Mack looks at the universe's end-game in The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). Then we explore the universe's most exotic objects in Janna Levin's new book, Black Hole Survival Guide. | — | ||||||
| 10/27/20 | BookLab 025: COVID-19, by Debora MacKenzie | In this special episode of BookLab, we focus on COVID-19 by journalist Debora MacKenzie. Her book examines how this pandemic happened, how it might have been prevented – or at least mitigated – and what can be done to make sure a similar catastrophic public health crisis doesn't happen again. | — | ||||||
| 6/26/20 |  BookLab 024: Until the End of Time, Superior, and Moral Tribes | Featured book: Until the End of Time, by Brian Greene. Where exactly do human beings fit in, in this vast cosmos? Brian Greene tackles the mysteries of life, the universe, and everything in an ambitious new book. And on the nightstand: Superior, by Angela Saini; and Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene | — | ||||||
| 5/17/20 |  BookLab 023: The Feeling of Life Itself, Supernavigators, and The Math of Life & Death | Featured book: The Feeling of Life Itself, by Christof Koch. A neuroscientist who's spent decades studying the puzzle of consciousness explores the problem of how the brain gives rise to the mind. And on the nightstand: Supernavigators, by David Barrie; and The Math of Life and Death, by Kit Yates. | — | ||||||
| 2/12/20 |  BookLab 022: The Number of the Heavens, and Something Deeply Hidden | It's one of the most provocative ideas in all of science – the notion that our universe might just an infinitesimal part of a much larger reality. In this episode, we look at two new books that take us deep into the multiverse: The Number of the Heavens, by Tom Siegfried; and Something Deeply Hidden, by Sean Carroll. | — | ||||||
| 11/5/19 |  BookLab 021: The Goodness Paradox; The Overstory; The Trouble with Gravity | Featured book: The Goodness Paradox, by Richard Wrangham. Our species, Homo sapiens, is less violent than any of our primate cousins -- but how did we get that way? A Harvard anthropologist suggests an answer. And on the nightstand: The Overstory, by Richard Powers; and The Trouble with Gravity, by Richard Panek. | — | ||||||
| 4/15/19 |  BookLab 020: What is Real? and Beyond Weird | Featured Books:What is Real? by Adam Becker; and Beyond Weird by Philip Ball. Quantum physics has been with us for more than 100 years – but what is it actually telling us about the world? | — | ||||||
| 1/2/19 |  BookLab 019: Adventures in Memory; Outside Color; The Invention of Nature | Featured Book: Adventures in Memory, by Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby Few things are as fundamental to the human experience as memory. But what exactly is memory? How do memories actually work, in our brains? And why did we evolve to have memories? And on the nightstand: Outside Color, by Mazviita Chirimuuta; and The Invention of Nature, by Andrea Wulf | — | ||||||
| 10/25/18 |  BookLab 018: Lost in Math; Through Two Doors at Once; The Order of Time | Featured Book:Lost in Math, by Sabine Hossenfelder Physics made enormous progress in the 20th century – but Sabine Hossenfelder says we've reached a dead-end in the 21st, because today's physicists take their equations too seriously. And on the nightstand: Through Two Doors at Once, by Anil Ananthaswamy; and The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli. | — | ||||||
| 5/28/18 |  BookLab 017: The Strange Order of Things; Internal Time; The Last Man Who Knew Everything | Featured Book:The Strange Order of Things, by Antonio Damasio How did emotions and feelings – and conscious awareness in general – come into existence? Neuroscientist and philosopher Antonio Damasio weighs in. And on the nightstand: Internal Time, by Till Roenneberg; and The Last Man Who Knew Everything, by David Schwartz. | — | ||||||
| 4/2/18 |  BookLab 016: A special episode – Why Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time still matters, 30 years later | Stephen Hawking's first book aimed at a popular audience, A Brief History of Time, became a surprise bestseller and turned the world of popular science writing upside down. We look back at this remarkable book, 30 years after its publication. | — | ||||||
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