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Whether you’re curious about getting healthy, the Big Bang or the science of cooking, find out everything you need to know with Instant Genius. The team behind BBC Science Focus Magazine talk to world-leading experts to bring you a bite-sized masterclass on a new subject each week.New episodes are released every Monday and Friday and you can subscribe to Instant Genius on Apple Podcasts to access all new episodes ad-free and all old episodes of Instant Genius Extra.Watch full episodes of Instant Genius on BBC Science Focus Magazine's YouTube channel.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Instant Genius podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Because Internet
Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Forgotten Sense
The New Science of Smell
Jonas Olofsson
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
the cosmic connection
Carl Sagan
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Science of Racism
Keon West
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tribal
How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
Michael Morris
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Unequal, the maths of when things do and don't add up
Unequal – The Maths of When Things Do (and Don’t) Add Up
Eugenia Cheng
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Why Birds Sing
David Rothenberg
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Nerve
Kevin Tracey
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Ideological Brain
Leor Zmigrod
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Perfect Harmony
Music, Mathematics and Science
David Darling
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Ocean, How It Has Formed Our World and Will Shape Our Destiny
Sturla Henriksen
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A is for arsenic; the poisons of agatha christie
Kathryn Harkup
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Wired Love
Ella Cheever Thayer
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Crack in Everything
How Black Holes Went From Absurd Fantasy to Perhaps the Most Fundamental Phenomenon That Shapes Our Entire Reality
Marcus Chown
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Drink?
The New Science of Alcohol and Health
David Nutt
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sound Effects
An epic journey to the heart of sound
Julian Treasure
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A City on Mars
Zach Weinersmith
Kelly Weinersmith
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Eavesdropping on Animals, What We Can Learn from Wildlife Conversations
George Bumann
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis
Kate Muir
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Skewed
Decoding Media Bias
Karen Franklin
