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…

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…

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…

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…

Recorded in late May 2017, in this episode of Book of Nature, your hosts grapple with what it means to be sentient – to have a conscious existence.   Subjects of…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…