On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts... more

There is no shortage of books on the growing impact of data collection and analysis on our societies, our cultures,... more

Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural... more

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the... more

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern... more

A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better... more

A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also... more

Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant... more

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans (Columbia UP, 2024) takes readers on a journey from California tidepools to... more

In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle... more