Lablit.com Podcasts

In this episode, we interview writer Stuart Clark, discuss novels by Geraldine Brooks and Juris Jurjevics, and - of course - look back on ten exciting years of LabLit.com. Join Jenny and Richard in London for the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

In this episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Wilkie Collins, Morton Thompson and Richard Dooling, interview writer Julie Maxwell, and learn about strange fungi and cats on your head. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Julie Maxwell, and interview astronomer and novelist Pippa Goldschmidt. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Pamela Beason, John Banville and Alison Lurie; and interview novelist James Meek. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture.

This episode, we highlight a new science novel by Barbara Kingsolver, interview biochemist and writer Jennifer Cryer, and meet a few scientists moonlighting as publishers. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we highlight three new LabLit novels, two plays and one film – and interview flash-fiction writer Tania Hershman. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we highlight new lab lit fiction from Robert Harris, interview British novelist Stuart Clark, take a scientific look at baby booms and Beyonce's behind. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we track new LabLit fiction from Berlin to Brazil, get excited about the Royal Society’s first ever literary festival, interview British novelist Clare George, and find a scientific metaphor hiding in a Hollywood actress’s décolletage. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

This episode, we feature women in science, indulge in a rather rude romp through improbable research, and highlight a rash of three new plays about scientists – along with a new lablit beach-read that makes us wish it were summer already... well, sort of. Join Jenny and Richard for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

What do you get when you put several hundred science-y, online-y, geeky people into a small conference hall in North Carolina and leave them to their own devices? Science Online 2011, the most popular gathering of its sort in the world. We were there to take in the atmosphere. Join Jenny and Richard for this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

Baby, it's cold outside. As the snow keeps falling, we ask: can meteorological scientists tell the long-term future about whether governments should invest in snow-clearing equipment? Meanwhile, warm up those numb toes with a trip to the Picturing Science exhibition, a spot of stand-up science comedy at Bright Club, or possibly even some shenanigans in your local library. Calling all high-functioning geeks to join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

When science-y people from the online world meet, great things tend to happen. In this episode, we interview various participants during the recent Science Online conference in London to find out why they came and what they got out of it. Also, we bring you cultural news related to the mathematicians GH Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, the artist Eadweard Muybridge and a few silly references to HG Wells. We even quote the evolutionary rap of Baba Brinkman, who's currently wowing the British Science Festival. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

It's all about pairs on this episode of the podcast. We offer a spirited defense against two attacks on scientists by journalists, wonder why people keep mixing up the two different disciplines of science and medicine, and explore two very different amateur scientist characters in novels - one old, and one just published. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We encounter frisky yeast, get ready for the Royal Society Summer Festival and ponder just how far an author needs to go to research a book. Plus find out why nicer people travel by bus, hear about an exciting new trend in lab lit fiction, and become a scientist helping to save the world from bio-catastrophe – in a handy board game. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We discuss the advantages of literary brevity, contemplate the use of vindaloo curry as a weapon and find out what happens when celebrity footballers accidentally stumble into book launches. Plus new lab lit fiction from novelist Ian McEwan, and scientists Rajendra Pachauri and EO Wilson. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We explore the virtues of a greasy diet, ponder the link between Shakira and neuroscience, calculate the odds of finding a mate and find out what mould has in common with public transport. Plus a deconstruction of the scientists in 'Avatar', a round-up of the latest fiction news, and a pub interview with science blogger and Nature editor Henry Gee. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We discuss the geeky vibe in the films '2010' and 'Sherlock Holmes', wonder why scientists wear glasses and engineers don't, and hear how one professor outsmarted a very foxy criminal. Also, we use the latest technology to find a mate and to experiment on chocolate, and catch up on all the other latest news from Fiction Lab. Join Jenny and Richard in London for these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We discuss the annoying habits of science conspiracy theorists, the brilliance of the writings of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and the relief of finally getting some particles whizzing around the Large Hadron Collider. Also, we find out how purple one's prose should be, and catch up on all the other latest news from Fiction Lab. Plus a pub interview of our Toronto correspondent, Eva Amsen, on the perils and delights of participating in National Novel Writing Month. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

We discuss this year's Nobel prizes, the links between genius and madness, and a new graphic novel about the mathematics of Bertrand Russell. Also, we talk about Isaac Newton's notebooks, ex-scientist stand-up comics, science in the media and all the latest news from Fiction Lab. We even attempt a genuine iPhone experiment live on air! Join Jenny and Richard in London for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!

An intriguing album from They Might Be Giants in full science geek mode, the world's weirdest experiments revealed, and new fiction about fossils, the afterlife and a climatologist who gets into hot water. Also, we hear from this year's organizers of the Subtle Technologies conference about how scientists and artists are working together. Join Jenny and Richard in London, and Eva in Toronto, for all these stories and more from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture!