OMG—a reader called to my attention a profile in today’s New York Times of Jad Abumrad, who is the creator and co-host of NPR’s Radiolab, a science-y show with a humorous twist. The piece details what he’s reading, watching, listening to, and following on social media. A friend emailed me to read the piece carefully, […]
I was asleep during the first airing of this HARDtalk show at 8:05 GMT today, but you can hear it rebroadcast on the BBC World Service, here, at 19:05 GMT. That’s 20:05 London time, I think, as British clocks went an hour forward last night to British Summer Time. In the US it will be […]
Remember that 2013 is Wallace Year—the centenary of Alfred Russel Wallace’s death. If you don’t know who he is—and you must—read the Wikipedia article. We’ll be featuring Wallaceiana throughout the year. At the moment (it’s early!) I’m listening to a show on the man, the co-discoverer of natural selection, live on BBC Radio 4. It’s […]
I’m proud to be part of tomorrow’s (Sat., Feb. 2) interview on FreeThought Radio. Here’s the blurb: Guest: biologist Jerry Coyne Jerry Coyne The Boy Scouts may be considering allowing gays, but they still deserve a Badge of Dishonor for excluding atheists. Annie Laurie and Dan discuss FFRF’s Action Alert about the Boy Scouts, complaints […]
“Just So Science” on BBC Radio 4 has taken some of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories and biologized them—interviewing experts on animal behavior to provide a gloss on Kipling’s descriptions. The latest BBC segment, which you can hear here, deconstructs “The Cat that Walked by Himself”. It’s a 15-minute program including a dramatic reading interspersed […]
From yesterday’s National Public Radio’s “On Point” show, Tom Ashbrook discusses The Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, whom you surely know by now. Ashbrook has two guests (Susan’s book is new, and she’s quite eloquent about the man): Susan Jacoby, author, “The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought.” Dale McGowan, writes the secular parenting blog […]
In about 14 minutes, that is 4:30 p.m. British time, our own Matthew Cobb will be on the BBC Radio 4, participating in the “Infinite Monkey Cage” with Marc Abraham and Brian Cox and WEIT reader Robin Ince. You can listen live at this site. [EDIT: You can listen again here]
I’ve often posted about “Batesian mimicry,” the phenomenon whereby a palatable species (often an insect hunted by birds), evolves to resemble an unpalatable or toxic “model” species that is brightly colored and that predators have learned to avoid. Before we go on, here’s a great picture of a Batesian mimic: a moth that mimics a […]
Ana Gomes, a well-known broadcaster and science journalist in Portugal, interviewed me in Lisbon about my book, its relevance to the Portuguese (the book is being launched on Saturday in conjunction with a public talk I’m giving in Porto), and about my work on São Tomé (a former Portuguese colony). It’s to be broadcast on […]
He’s just started at this moment on BBC Radio 4; listen to it live here.
