Radical Science

In this episode Gemma chats to Adrian Daub about his latest book What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley.

Adrian Daub is a professor of comparative litera…

In this episode we chat to Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell authors of The Innovation Delusion (2020), where they take on 'innovation speak' and advocate for a greater focus on what keeps the world  goi…

In this episode we chat to writer and science historian Audra Wolfe about organised labour, constructing a union for scientists, and the myth of apolitical science.

Audra's writing has appeared in th…

In this episode we chat to Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West authors of Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in Data-Driven World.

Carl Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and Profes…

In this episode we chat to Richard Ovenden OBE, author of Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack!

Richard is the Bodley's Librarian at the University of Oxford, and is the the 25th pe…

In this episode we chat to Kat Arney author of Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life.

*episode starts around the 12 minute mark.

• Rebel Cell
• Kat's Twitter
• Gemma's Moonshot article

In this episode we chat to Stuart Ritchie author of Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science! We return to the roots of our podcast and explore the flaws in science and …

In this episode we chat to Akshat Rathi an energy and climate reporter at Bloomberg. He is also the editor of United we are Unstoppable, the topic of this episode, a collection of 60 inspiring storie…

In this episode we talk to economist Rob Larson about the immense power of the big 5 tech companies (even if in the intro I say big 4...sorry Microsoft), the economics of how they got to be so big, t…

In this episode Gemma chats to journalist and author Tim Maughan. Tim’s first novel Infinite Detail (2019) which tells a dystopic time-shifting tale of the pre and post-apocalypse following the globa…

We chat to Adam Hart Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire and author of Unfit For Purpose: When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World.

We spoke to materials scientist and author Ainissa Ramirez about her brilliant new book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, all about the 8 inventions that shaped our so…

In this episode we chat to historian Rutger Bregman author of Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) and the bestseller Utopia For Realists (2014).

We talk about the shaky social studies and historical …

We chat to Mark O'Connell author of To Be A Machine (2017) and Notes From An Apocalypse (2020).

We talk about finding lessons about humanity in the strangest of places, being an awarded science write…

In this episode we chat to Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist and author of Lost in Math. In the book Sabine makes the case that physicists have committed themselves to ideas of beauty rooted in maths…

In this episode, we’re chatting about Science Disrupt 2.0 - what we mean when we talk about ‘disruption’, what deeper conversations we now need to have about science, and how and why our own ideas ha…

In this episode we chat to Wendy Liu author of the brilliant book, Abolish Silicon Valley!

We talk about the myth of the meritocracy, reclaiming entrepreneurship, and what innovation looks like beyo…

In this one we talk about people talking about science, and scicomm, and journalism, and open science.

Some things we mentioned in the episode:

• Why the coronavirus is so confusing - Ed Yong
• Covid p…

Gemma's book Smoke and Mirrors launched last week and we talk about it.

You can pick up a copy here.

After a long summer we're back, and we're here to talk spaaaace! Specifically the issue of satellite sustainability and the startup leading the charge.

In this episode of the Science: Disrupt podcas…