Anaximander: the Ancient World’s Most Radical...

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In this 100^th episode of the Science Salon podcast Dr. Shermer gives a brief overview and history of the salon and how it evolved from the Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, which began in 1992, along with the founding of the Skeptics Society, a 501(c) ...

This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal is joined by writer, science populariser and theoretical, Carlo Rovelli.

He joins us to talk about the new English translation of his first book, Anaximander.

They all also discuss the singular genius of the philosop ...