BookLab

By Dan Falk and Amanda Gefter

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From neurons to nanotech and from quarks to the cosmos, BookLab is the podcast that puts science books under the microscope! Join hosts Dan Falk and Amanda Gefter for a look at the latest in popular science writing: what's new, what's hot, and what you ought to be reading right now.

Episode Date
BookLab 040: The best science books of 2025
Dec 20, 2025
BookLab 039: More Everything Forever, by Adam Becker
Jul 05, 2025
BookLab 038: The Language Puzzle; Ways of Being; Playing Possum
Mar 25, 2025
BookLab 037: Ten Year Anniversary Special
Dec 25, 2024
BookLab 036: Her Time, Her Space and The Enlightenment's Most Dangerous Woman
Dec 13, 2024
BookLab 035: The Blind Spot; Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation; The Rigor of Angels
Aug 22, 2024
BookLab 034: Determined by Robert Sapolsky and Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell
Dec 21, 2023
BookLab 033: The Book of Minds; The Darkness Manifesto; Existential Physics
Aug 03, 2023
BookLab 032: The One; Sounds Wild and Broken; What We Owe the Future
Feb 27, 2023
BookLab 031: Reality+; Well, Doc, You're In; and As Gods
Dec 16, 2022
BookLab 030: Being You, The Monster's Bones, and Quantum Legacies
Sep 15, 2022
BookLab 029: Hawking Hawking, The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy, and When We Cease to Understand the World
Dec 26, 2021
BookLab 028: Life's Edge, by Carl Zimmer; and The Genesis Quest, by Michael Marshall
Oct 16, 2021
BookLab 027: Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, Why Fish Don't Exist, and The Precipice
Mar 30, 2021
BookLab 026: The End of Everything, and Black Hole Survival Guide
Dec 30, 2020
BookLab 025: COVID-19, by Debora MacKenzie
Oct 27, 2020
BookLab 024: Until the End of Time, Superior, and Moral Tribes
Jun 26, 2020
BookLab 023: The Feeling of Life Itself, Supernavigators, and The Math of Life & Death
May 17, 2020
BookLab 022: The Number of the Heavens, and Something Deeply Hidden
Feb 12, 2020
BookLab 021: The Goodness Paradox; The Overstory; The Trouble with Gravity
Nov 05, 2019
BookLab 020: What is Real? and Beyond Weird
Apr 15, 2019
BookLab 019: Adventures in Memory; Outside Color; The Invention of Nature
Jan 02, 2019
BookLab 018: Lost in Math; Through Two Doors at Once; The Order of Time
Oct 25, 2018
BookLab 017: The Strange Order of Things; Internal Time; The Last Man Who Knew Everything
May 28, 2018
BookLab 016: A special episode – Why Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time still matters, 30 years later
Apr 02, 2018
BookLab 015: Life 3.0; Prehension; The Social Conquest of Earth
Feb 08, 2018
BookLab 014: The Big Picture; You Belong to the Universe; Time Travel
Jan 01, 2017
BookLab 013: The Gene; Surfing Uncertainty; Black Hole Blues
Sep 17, 2016
BookLab 012: Spooky Action at a Distance; Why Information Grows; Inventology
Jun 22, 2016
BookLab 011: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs; The Brain; Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Apr 14, 2016
BookLab 010: Ada's Algorithm and It Began with Babbage
Jan 31, 2016
BookLab 009: Sapiens and The Upright Thinkers
Oct 21, 2015
BookLab 008: The Patient Will See You Now; On the Move; The Clockwork Universe
Jun 01, 2015
BookLab 007: Mind Change; Invisible; Unflattening
Apr 28, 2015
BookLab 006: The Island of Knowledge; Orfeo; Why Does the World Exist?
Mar 26, 2015
BookLab 005: The Human Age; The Moral Landscape; Eureka!
Feb 24, 2015
BookLab 004: Superintelligence; Our Final Hour; Tubes
Feb 02, 2015
BookLab 003: Colliding Worlds; Logicomix; Only the Longest Threads
Jan 19, 2015
BookLab 002: Consciousness and the Brain; Time Reborn; The Idea Factory
Dec 25, 2014
BookLab 001: Our Mathematical Universe; A Universe from Nothing; Me Myself and Why
Dec 25, 2014