Shaping Science with Nick Dirks

Thomas Levenson is a historian of science and Professor of Science Writing at MIT. He has written several bestselling narrative histories covering topics from Isaac Newton’s unexpected career as a crime fighter to the...

Emily Eakin, senior editor at The New York Times Book Review, whose pieces have also been published in The New Yorker, Vogue, The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more. She recently published her...

<p>Andrea Wulf is an internationally bestselling historian and author whose work has reshaped how we understand the relationship between science, nature, and culture. Across her work, Wulf brings to life the...

Andrea Wulf is an internationally bestselling historian and author whose work has reshaped how we understand the relationship between science, nature, and culture. Across her work, Wulf brings to life the intellectual...

<p>David Spergel is a theoretical astrophysicist and professor emeritus of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. A renowned cosmologist, he helped lead NASA's landmark Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe...

<p>Webb Keane is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading thinker on ethics, religion, and meaning in everyday life. His work explores how...

<p>Azra Raza, MD, is a world leading cancer physician scientist and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, where she directs the Myelodysplastic Syndrome Center. For more than four decades, she has been at the...

<p> Jonathan Metlz, MD, PhD, joins Nick Dirks to discuss his educational journey that combined the sciences with the humanities, firearm culture in the American Heartland, and the growing skepticism of institutional...

<p> Sebastian Mallaby, author, journalist, and the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins Nick Dirks to discuss his latest book, The Infinity Machine, a...

<p>Steven Johnson joins Nick Dirks to discuss his journey from majoring in semiotics to becoming a bestselling author widely known for his perspectives on the intersection of science, technology, and society. The author...

<p>Britney Schmidt, PhD, joins Nick Dirks to discuss what we can learn from earth’s harshest environments, what the Thwaites Glacier tells us about rising sea levels, and why she believes Europa deserves more attention...

<p>Ron Gonen, MBA, joins Nick Dirks to discuss the environmental benefits of the circular economy, how the military industrial complex fueled the rise of our consumer economy, and why focusing on taxes can be effective...

<p>Neurobiologist Stuart Firestein and playwright Jake Brasch join Nick Dirks on Shaping Science to discuss “The Reservoir,” a new Off-Broadway play that touches on universal themes, including aging, family, recovery...

<p>Chandrika Tandon joins Nick Dirks on Shaping Science to discuss how perseverance and determination have fueled every aspect of her life, from her childhood in India, to working her way up to the top of the corporate...

<p>Ian Bogost, PhD, joins Nick Dirks in the tenth episode of Shaping Science to discuss the intersection of philosophy and technology, how gaming compares to previous moral panics, and new approaches to integrating AI...