في هذه الحلقة نسرد قصة التنجيم و كيف تطور من كونه علم عند اليونانيون الى ان اصبح خرافة في العصور المتقدمة و نناقش اهم الادلة العلمية في اثبات خطأ ما يسمى بعلم الابراج
Jul 2021
191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
Everyone has heard of the term “pseudoscience”, typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella — astrology, phrenology, UFOlogy, creationism, ... Show More
1h 31m
Jul 2024
Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024)
American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Joha ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2024
Uncharted: The returning soldier
Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.In a few specific years across the 20th Century, the proportion of boys born, mysteriously spiked. We follow one researcher’s obsessive quest to find out why. And next, a tale of science and skulduggery. Michael Mann was a respe ... Show More
27m 25s