Books and Ideas free transcripts listed by Episode number

  1. Science Versus Pseudoscience (Download Free PDF)

  2. Discussion of The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin (Download Free PDF)

  3. My favorite Audiobooks of the Year (Download Free PDF)

  4. The Worst Audiobooks of the Year (Download Free PDF)

  5. Exploring the common heritage of Science and Philosophy (Download Free PDF)

  6. Discussion of Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth by Mattew Cobb (Download Free PDF)

  7. Interview of Matthew Cobb, author of Generation (Download Free PDF)

  8. Discussion of Palestine by Jimmy Carter (Download Free PDF)

  9. Lee Silver, author of Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality (Free PDF)

  10. Kirk McElhearn: an American Living in France (Download Free PDF)

  11. Neel Varshney: Harvard Medical Student (Download Free PDF)

  12. Does Free Will Exist? (Download Free PDF)

  13. Harry Potter with guest co-host Patrick Pricken (Download Free PDF)

  14. Dr. Pamela Gay of Astronomy Cast (Download Free PDF)

  15. Robert Schleip: Fascia Research (Download Free PDF)

  16. Neurologist Steven Novella (Download Free PDF)

  17. Mur Lafferty: writer and podcasting pioneer (Download Free PDF)

  18. Tabitha Grace Smith: creator of Buffy Between the Lines (Download Free PDF)

  19. Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational (Download Free PDF)

  20. Mindfulness Meditation with Delany Dean (Download Free PDF)

  21. Dr. Eugene Scott from the National Center for Science Education (Download Free PDF)

  22. Highlights from Dragon*Con 2008 (Download Free PDF)

  23. Nobel Physcist Frank Wilczek (Part 1) (Download Free PDF)

  24. Nobel Physicist Frank Wilczek (Part 2) (Download Free PDF)

  25. Paul Offit, MD on Vaccine Safety (Download Free PDF)

  26. Authors of Grave Expectations (Download Free PDF)

  27. Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Doubt (Download Free PDF)

  28. Robert Martenson, MD: author of A Life Worth LIving (part 1) (Download Free PDF)

  29. Robert Martenson, MD (part 2) (Download Free PDF)

  30. Naturalism with Tom Clark (Download Free PDF)

  31. Les Johnson from NASA (Download Free PDF)

  32. Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author of Unscientific America (Download Free PDF)

  33. Kyla Duffy: Founder of Happy Tails Books (Download Free PDF)

  34. Bruce Hood: The Science of Superstition (Download Free PDF)

  35. Scott Sigler: best-selling author of science fiction/horror (Download Free PDF)

  36. Daniel George, co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer's (Download Free PDF)

  37. Massimo Pigliucci, author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Download Free PDF)

  38. Novelists Skylar White and Christiana Ellis (Download Free PDF)

  39. Eric Maisel, author of Brainstorm (Download Free PDF)

  40. Paul Offit, MD: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All (Download Free PDF)

  41. Holly Tucker, author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (Download Free PDF)

  42. Why Neuroscience Matters (Download Free PDF)

  43. Cognitive Dissonance with Dr. Carol Tavris (Download Free PDF)

  44. Karen Traviss, author of Gears of War and Halo novels (Download Free PDF)

  45. Fifth Anniversary: a look back (Download Free PDF)

  46. Exploring Alabama with Roger Reid (Download Free PDF)

  47. Terrence Deacon, author of Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Download Free PDF)

  48. Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Download Free PDF)

  49. Video Game Music with Top Score Podcast's Emily Reese (Download Free PDF)

  50. Ted Meisner, host of The Secular Buddhist podcast (Download Free PDF)

  51. Jaak Panksepp on Animal Emotions (Download Free PDF)