Rational Ritual

Michael Suk-Young Chwe

Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

20 min

3.8

Soccermatics

David Sumpter

Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

20 min

3.9

Missing Microbes

Martin Blaser

How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

20 min

4.2

The Emerald Planet

David Beerling

How Plants Changed Earth's History

23 min

4.5

Cooked

Michael Pollan

A Natural History of Transformation

23 min

4.4

The Bird Way

Jennifer Ackerman

A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

23 min

4.3

A Life Decoded

J. Craig Venter

My Genome: My Life

25 min

4.1

Oxygen

Nick Lane

The Molecule That Made the World

23 min

4.1

Do No Harm

Henry Marsh

Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

15 min

4.3

Life at the Speed of Light

J. Craig Venter

From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

30 min

4.3

Gravity

Nicholas Mee

From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes

18 min

4.2

Shoot for the Moon

James Donovan

The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

33 min

4.6