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[…]
Author: Todd Pedlar
Christian Humanist Profiles 99: Adventures in Evangelical Civility
“Common grace and antithesis are theological tools of discernment. The antithesis idea helps us see that the differences between belief and unbelief are real and pervasive. But the common grace idea tells us that the[…]
Book of Nature, Ep. 19: Cosmological Fine Tuning
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[…]
Book of Nature, Episode 18: Privately-Funded Space Ventures
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[…]
Booklets of Nature, Episode 1: Disappearing Particles?
In a recent article at Quanta Magazine, entitled “What No New Particles Means for Physics” author Natalie Wolchover discusses what some in high energy physics view as a “nightmare scenario” – the disappearance of what[…]
Booklets of Nature
A new feature from the Book of Nature crew is coming, entitled “Booklets of Nature”. As the name implies, this will be a short-feature podcast, which enables the Book of Nature guys to briefly reflect[…]
Book of Nature, Episode 16: Todd Pedlar Edition
The third of a three-part series in which the Book of Nature crew turns introspective. Dan and Charles interview Todd about his particle physics research as a member of an international collaboration running an experiment[…]
Book of Nature, Episode 15: Charles Hackney Edition
The second of a three-part series in which the Book of Nature crew turns introspective. Dan and Todd interview Charles about why he chose psychology (it involves an attempt at obtaining superpowers), his fascination with[…]
Book of Nature, Episode 14: What’s My Line? Dan Dawson Edition
The first of a three-part series in which the Book of Nature crew turns introspective. Todd and Charles interview Dan about how he got interested in Meteorology in general, and severe weather and tornadoes in[…]
Book of Nature, Episode 13: Fraud in Science
In this episode of Book of Nature, Dan, Todd, and Charles discuss the issue of fraud in scientific practice. Prompted by an article in Perspectives on Psychological Science, this discussion involved the following topics: 1) Favorite fraud[…]