LabLit.com Podcasts

In this episode, we interview writer Stuart Clark, discuss novels by Geraldine Brooks and Juris Jurjevics, and - of course - look back on ten exciting years of LabLit.com. Join Jenny and Richard ...

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In this episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Wilkie Collins, Morton Thompson and Richard Dooling, interview writer Julie Maxwell, and learn about strange fungi and cats on your head. Join J...

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This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Julie Maxwell, and interview astronomer and novelist Pippa Goldschmidt. Join Jenny and Richard in London for...

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This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Pamela Beason, John Banville and Alison Lurie; and interview novelist James Meek. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the late...

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This episode, we highlight a new science novel by Barbara Kingsolver, interview biochemist and writer Jennifer Cryer, and meet a few scientists moonlighting as publishers. Join Jenny and Richard ...

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This episode, we highlight three new LabLit novels, two plays and one film – and interview flash-fiction writer Tania Hershman. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the late...

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This episode, we highlight new lab lit fiction from Robert Harris, interview British novelist Stuart Clark, take a scientific look at baby booms and Beyonce's behind. Join Jenny and Richard in Lo...

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This episode, we track new LabLit fiction from Berlin to Brazil, get excited about the Royal Society’s first ever literary festival, interview British novelist Clare George, and find a scientif...

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This episode, we feature women in science, indulge in a rather rude romp through improbable research, and highlight a rash of three new plays about scientists – along with a new lablit beach-re...

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What do you get when you put several hundred science-y, online-y, geeky people into a small conference hall in North Carolina and leave them to their own devices? Science Online 2011, the most po...

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Baby, it's cold outside. As the snow keeps falling, we ask: can meteorological scientists tell the long-term future about whether governments should invest in snow-clearing equipment? Meanwhile, ...

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When science-y people from the online world meet, great things tend to happen. In this episode, we interview various participants during the recent Science Online conference in London to find out...

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It's all about pairs on this episode of the podcast. We offer a spirited defense against two attacks on scientists by journalists, wonder why people keep mixing up the two different disciplines o...

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We encounter frisky yeast, get ready for the Royal Society Summer Festival and ponder just how far an author needs to go to research a book. Plus find out why nicer people travel by bus, hear abo...

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We discuss the advantages of literary brevity, contemplate the use of vindaloo curry as a weapon and find out what happens when celebrity footballers accidentally stumble into book launches. Plus...

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We explore the virtues of a greasy diet, ponder the link between Shakira and neuroscience, calculate the odds of finding a mate and find out what mould has in common with public transport. Plus a...

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We discuss the geeky vibe in the films '2010' and 'Sherlock Holmes', wonder why scientists wear glasses and engineers don't, and hear how one professor outsmarted a very foxy criminal. Also, we u...

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We discuss the annoying habits of science conspiracy theorists, the brilliance of the writings of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and the relief of finally getting some particles whizzing around the Lar...

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We discuss this year's Nobel prizes, the links between genius and madness, and a new graphic novel about the mathematics of Bertrand Russell. Also, we talk about Isaac Newton's notebooks, ex-scie...

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An intriguing album from They Might Be Giants in full science geek mode, the world's weirdest experiments revealed, and new fiction about fossils, the afterlife and a climatologist who gets into ...

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A new novel about a time-traveling Galileo, a fond farewell to our about to be ex-favorite geeky comic strip, and a snub from a best-selling author. Also, we present a montage of semi-drunken sci...

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Scientific cooking gets dangerous, Goldie gets down with an evolutionary groove and our literature continues to be invaded by pernicious equations. Also, we interview author Ann Lingard moments b...

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Science textbooks get lighter, robots get sexier and a classic lab lit play costs a small fortune. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Amy in Iowa City, for all these stories and more from the ...

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A new lablit play comes to London, libel laws get panned by scientists, and geeks win a music competition. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Ian in Memphis, for all these stories and more fro...

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Brian Malow is billed as Earth's premiere science comedian - find out why in this recent interview in London. We also review the highlights from the world of LabLit.

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Join us for a discussion of Jennifer Rohn's novel Experimental Heart at London's Royal Institution, including a Q&A with the author.

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