BookLab
From neurons to nanotech and from quarks to the cosmos, BookLab is the podcast that puts science books under the microscope! Join hosts Dan Falk and Amanda Gefter for a look at the latest in popular science writing: what’s new, what’s hot, and what you ought to be reading right now.

Featured Book: The Island of Knowledge, by Marcelo Gleiser.

Are there limits to what science can discover? Marcelo Gleiser says that no matter how far science progresses, there’s always something that’s unknowable.

And on the nightstand:  Orfeo, by Richard Powers; and Why Does the World Exist? By Jim Holt.

Direct download: BookLab_006.mp3
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