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Central to modern biology and the study of life is the concept of the

organism—roughly, a body with interconnected parts that make specific

contributions to the development and functioning of the whole. There

are competing organism concepts even ... more

Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bodies and of all organic life, the work of the contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou invi... more

Professor Rina Bliss teaches in the sociology department at Rutgers University, and has written on the social significance of genetic studies on intelligence, race, and social factors.

In What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Soc... more

MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns with a revelatory book about the primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one ... more

How living in space will affect future generations—and what the potential unintended consequences of space settlements are.

We are on the cusp of a golden age of space travel in which, for the first time, it will be possible for large numbers of peop... more

Imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them. Where smartphones are alive, clothing has opinions and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA. A world where disease is a thing of the past and the human lifespan is dramatically ext... more

In Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary (Duke UP, 2026), Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical c... more

The cybernetic tradition in cognitive science analyzes the purposive behavior of many complex systems – from sensory-guided missiles to sensory-guided animals -- in terms of feedback control that maintains stability in the face of external perturbati... more

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Recent Guests

Benjamin Dalton
Lecturer in French Studies
Lancaster University
Episode: Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Rina Bliss
Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Episode: Rina Bliss, "What's Real About Race: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Philosopher, novelist, public intellectual
Author, The Mattering Instinct
Episode: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)
Scott Solomon
Professor, evolutionary biologist; author of Becoming Martian
Rice University
Episode: Scott Solomon, "Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds" (MIT Press, 2026)
Adrian Woolfson
Author of On the Future of Species, MIT Press (2026)
Genyro (co-founder)
Episode: Adrian Woolfson, "On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2026)
Beans Velocci
Author of Sex Isn't Real, The Invention of an Incoherent Binary
University of Pennsylvania
Episode: Beans Velocci, "Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary" (Duke UP, 2026)
Kate Nave
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
Episode: Kathryn Nave, "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025)
Douglas Erwin
Author of The Origins of the New, Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology
Santa Fe Institute; Princeton University Press
Episode: Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Dr. Jo Hollins
Author of The Vet at the End of the Earth, Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic
Author, Veterinary Surgeon
Episode: The Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

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Victoria Lupashko
Host of The New Books Network channel, with a focus on scholarly interviews about recently published research.
Gregory McNiff
Host coordinating intros and guiding questions; appears across multiple episodes.

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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, "The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us" (Liveright Publishing, 2026)
Q: What role does the concept of 'deserving of attention' play in political polarization?
Polarization often reflects conflicting mattering maps where groups feel their own form of mattering is being threatened, leading to a clash over who deserves attention.
Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Q: What is the role of the observer or witness when bodies are changing in ways that resist stable identity, and how does Carax's cinema illustrate this plasticity through moving images?
The guest describes how Carax's Holy Motors embodies pure witnessing of plasticity, where constant transformation questions traditional notions of identity and spectatorship, and he emphasizes how cinema can render plastic change legible without a fixed subject behind the performance.
Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)
Q: And here I wanted to ask you about narrativity in Malabou's Plasticity idea and how the storyteller develops this narrativity in a way and how it all connects together.
The guest explains that narrativity is pervasive across Malabou's work and that storytelling appears in philosophy, literature, and film; the book argues that literature and film function as witnesses to plasticity, shaping how we understand transformations and ensuring multiple, polyphonic perspectives alongside neuroscientific accounts.
Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
Q: Why is the symbolic logic of the child a problem in environmental discourse?
The child as future often reinforces current social orders and petrocapitalist logics, rather than challenging the structural conditions that enable harm; this framing can impede transformative action.
Heather Davis, "Plastic Matter" (Duke UP, 2022)
Q: How does the concept of Petro Time help us understand plastics?
Petro Time captures the temporality of plastics — from their long geological lifespans to their quick turn into disposable goods, and the latency of harms that can span generations.

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A thoughtful, interdisciplinary interview series that centers on newly published books across biology, evolution, philosophy of science, and related fields. Conversations tend to span scientific detail and broader implications, often weaving together biology with philosophy, ethics, and cultural analysis. Guests include university professors, researchers, and authors who bring deep domain expertise and a capacity for accessible public discussion. Notable throughlines include evolution, abiogenesis, the structure of life, innovative theories in biology and computation, and the ways human inquiry connects science to society. The show stands out for its scholarly rigor paired with accessible storytelling, a focus on books that push cross-disci... more

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