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Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. But what i...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Colin Dickey discussed the practice of Cranioklepty

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 23:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cochineal Bug
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 01:37
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ken Croswell discussed the life of stars.

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: From Knowledge to Wisdom, by Nicholas Maxell. Published by Pentire Press, 2007
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Four of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas.Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: The Trouble With Physics, by Lee Smolin. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2006
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Three of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societie...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Harmony of Illusions , by Allan Young. Published by Princeton University Press, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-Two of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism, by Christopher Norris. Published by Routledge, 2000
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty-One of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. Modern societies ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Re-Thinking Science, published by Polity Press, 2002
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twenty of a documentary series by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program Ideas. In this episode, he t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Published by Beacon Press, 1999
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA. The 1990 Massey Lectures by Richard Lewontin
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Eighteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Physicist and Professor of the history of science at Harvard
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Seventeen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have ten...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: The Scientific Revolution, by Steven Shapin. Published by University of Chicago Press, 1998
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Sixteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tende...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Disembodying Women, by Barbara Duden. Published by Harvard Univeristy Press, 1993
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Fifteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. The word gene is a scientif...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Evelyn Fox Keller
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Fourteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tend...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Codfish Newfoundland postage stamp
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Every...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. Published by Vintage, 1997
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Twelve of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, by Nicolaus Copernicus of Torin, Six Books (title page of 2nd edition, ex officina Henricpetrina Basel, 1566)
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Eleven of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Misunderstanding science? Edited by Alan Irwin and Brian Wynne, published by Cambridge University Press, 2004
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Ten of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended to...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Biologist Rupert Sheldrake
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nine of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Arthur Zajonc
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Seven of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: James Lovelock
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Six of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended to...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Ulrich Beck
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Five of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with CBC Radio’s program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended to ...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Ian Hacking
Part Four of a documentary by CBC Radio David Cayley. Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and co...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Anthropologist Margaret Lock
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Three of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 53:57