In this episode, the Book of Nature crew examines the question – possibly reinvigorated recently by the launch of Falcon Heavy, the next step en route to a heavy lift vehicle capable of Mars launches[…]

In this episode, Dan and Todd, with the help of Sectarian Review’s Danny Anderson, take a peek at genetic editing, and in particular the CRISPR system, which is a hot topic in recent studies of[…]

On February 6, 2018, between 1:30pm and 4:30pm EST, SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon Heavy launch vehicle for the first time, after having successfully tested the rocket in a January 24 static engine test at[…]

In this episode – recorded in the summer of 2017 – Todd, Charles, and Dan discuss the recently resurgent Flat Earth concept, focusing in on the model itself, its difficulties lining up with fairly straightforward[…]

Your Book of Nature hosts are back!  I (Todd Pedlar) deeply apologize for our lack of recordings over the past months – we are slowly uploading a few episodes we have in the can, and[…]

In this episode, Dan and Todd discuss the idea that the universe is in some sense “fine tuned” for our existence – that fundamental constants of physics all seem to have values that lie within[…]

Late in 2016, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, laid out his vision for colonizing Mars – an effort largely conducted, in his mind, by private companies such as his.  In this episode of the Book[…]