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Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blogger, teacher, and computer scientist Allen B. Downey knows well that people have an innate ability both to un... more

The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today’s existential threat of ... more

Over the centuries, we have learned to peer into what was once invisible. Imaging devices like cameras, telescopes, microscopes, and MRI machines map the world around, beyond, and within us in ways the naked eye could never see. In so doing, these te... more

When does comedy become more than a laugh? Ben Mangrum of MIT joins RtB to discuss his new book, The Comedy of Computation: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Obsolescence (Stanford UP, 2025), which in some ways is organized around “the intr... more

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Recent Guests

Allen Downey
Principal data scientist at Pi MC Labs and professor emeritus of computer science at Olin College
Pi MC Labs
Episode: Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Gerta Keller
Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Princeton University, author of 'The Last Extinction'
Princeton University
Episode: Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
Daniel Sodickson
Physicist in Medicine and author of The Future of Seeing
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Episode: Daniel K. Sodickson, "The Future of Seeing: How Imaging is Changing the World" (Columbia UP, 2025)
Ben Mangrum
MIT Professor of Literature, author of The Comedy of Computation
MIT
Episode: 157 Mangrum's Comical Computation (JP)
Mark Vellend
Professor of Biology at the Université des Sherbrooke and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Université des Sherbrooke
Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Jonas Enander
Author and science communicator with a background in cosmology and astrophysics.
The Experiment
Episode: Jonas Enander, "Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth" (The Experiment Press, 2025)
Dr. Dan Roche
Author and English professor at LeMoyne College
MIT Press
Episode: Dan Roche, "Eyes by Hand: Prosthetics of Art and Healing" (MIT Press, 2025)
Nick Spencer
Senior Fellow for a Religion and Society Think Tank in Westminster, focusing on the dialogue between science and religion.
Religion and Society Think Tank
Episode: Nick Spencer, "The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What Are We Disagreeing About?" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg
Biochemist and microbiologist with a focus on the microbiome.
Episode: Eugene Rosenberg and Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, "Where Did We Come From?: The Origin and Evolution of Life" (Austin Macauley, 2025)

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Gregory McNiff
Host and contributor at the New Books Network, specializing in science literature.

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Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
Q: Now, to the main event. You are continuing to attack this asteroid impact theory.
Much of the data presented was simply wrong and fabricated by people who knew better.
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
Q: Could you describe the dinosaur wars and candidly, who are the chief players, particularly on the impact theory?
I called it the dinosaur wars very early on simply because that's what it was.
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
Q: Could you talk a little bit about your background, both growing up and how you ended up becoming such a scholar in paleontology?
I grew up poor at the border of Liechtenstein in Switzerland, and after a series of challenging jobs and travels, I decided to study dinosaurs, which led me to paleontology.
Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025)
Q: Gerta, why could you write 'The Last Extinction' and who is the target reader?
I wrote 'The Last Extinction' because I was getting old enough, so I had to finally do something.
Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Q: Could you talk about that?
As you get more measurements, everybody's weird in about the same number of ways, which means there is no real average.

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