The Life Scientific
BBC Radio 4
Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Life Scientific podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Madame Curie
A Biography
Eve Curie Labouisse
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How the Mind Works
Steven Pinker
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Language Instinct
How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
Douglas Adams
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The evolution of parental care
Tim Clutton-Brock
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Words and rules
the ingredients of language
Steven Pinker
Arthur Morey
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The better angels of our nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Unweaving the Rainbow
Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
