Wonder Cabinet
By Wonder Cabinet Productions
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Category: Philosophy
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Subscribers: 1075
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 59
Apr 1, 2023
Aug 29, 2020
Derrick
Sep 16, 2019
Very well produced and deserves a wider audience.
Description
Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress.
Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality.
The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold.
About the hosts
Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden.
Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com.
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David George Haskell: Flowers and the Revolutionary Power of Beauty
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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Robert Macfarlane: The Soul of Rivers and the Rights of Nature
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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Renee Bergland: The Enchanted Science of Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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George Saunders: Angels, Ghosts and the Moral Imagination
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Rebecca Solnit: Hope After the End
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Carlo Rovelli: Cosmic Mysteries and the Politics of Wonder
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Sophie Strand: Ecological Storytelling and Mythic Imagination
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Jan 31, 2026 |
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Introducing 'Wonder Cabinet'
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Jan 24, 2026 |