Booklets of Nature, Ep. 2: Falcon Heavy
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…
Book of Nature, Ep. 23: The Flat Earth
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…
Book of Nature, Ep. 22: Consciousness
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…
Book of Nature, Ep. 20: The Conflict Hypothesis
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book of Nature, Episode 12: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
In this episode of the Book of Nature, Dan, Charles, and Todd discuss the nature of the philosophical concept of metaphysics, and especially its connection to the scientific endeavor. …
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 31: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Knowing Short bio of Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek synopsis and reception Reading “The Present” and self-consciousness—does it separate us from God? Self-consciousness and focusing on others Science, perspective,…
Book of Nature, Episode 11: Firefly
The Book of Nature’s Todd Pedlar and Dan Dawson are joined in this cross-over episode by Sheilah Woodruff of the Christian Feminist Podcast, to discuss the short-lived, but much loved, sci-fi…