# Janet Browne
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Elizabeth janet browne (née Bell, born 30 March 1950) is a British historian of science, known especially for her work on the history of 19th-century biology. She taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London, before returning to Harvard. She is currently Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
#33 | Discussion | "I have a theory"... do you, though?
It’s Charles Darwin’s birthday, and the topic of this week’s episode is a natural selection to commemorate the occasion! As part of our recurring series featuring some of the most misunderstood words in science, we’re taking a closer look at that thorny word—“theory”—which is sometimes invoked to …
Monkeys, monogamy, and masculinity
Welcome back folks! Today's episode circles some big questions. What does it mean to be human? What's distinctive about the human mind and the human mode of being? What is human nature—if such a thing exists—and how could we catch a glimpse of it? Should we go looking for it in other primate speci…
Join us for Voyage to 'The Origin of Species'
How did Charles Darwin, a failed medical student and unpromising candidate for the priesthood, come to write “The Origin of Species,” one of the most influential books ever published?In this entertaining talk, Darwin himself (with some assistance from evolutionary biologist and lecturer Pepper Tra…
YARNDALE 2022 : A Festival of Yarn & Friendship
It hardly seems a year ago that I last followed the Yarn Walk to Skipton Auction Mart for Yarndale 2021. Last year saw the yarn festival based in North Yorkshire return after Covid, and this year it's celebrating it's 10th birthday. Seeing as I had such fun on my last visit, I had to return - not …
Acute Metabolic Encephalopathies
In this episode of the podcast, we will discuss the management of Acute Metabolic Encephalopathies. Our guest is Dr. Eelco Wijdicks (@EWijdicks on Twitter) Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is an attending Neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care…
S3E1 William Kimler on Darwin and Chapter 7 of the Origin
In the first episode of Season 3, we kick off our new miniseries, "Foundations of Animal Behavior" in a conversation between Matthew and Darwin scholar and intellectual historian Dr. William Kimler. We recommend that you read Chapter 7 either before or after this conversation. Here is the version …
S1 Ep 6 - Fallon Mody on 'Biography in Science'
On this episode Samara interviews Dr Fallon Mody, Historian of Medicine and Metascience researcher at the University of Melbourne, on the topic of Biography.
For non-historians, scientific biography is likely thought of as a straightforward telling of a celebrated individual’s life history, like A…
Telepathy!
What the if you could read minds — but only when someone's nearby? Congratulations, your subway commute just became a psychic nightmare. Babies would blast unfiltered emotional chaos straight into your skull, your dog would telepathically loop images of a full food bowl at you around the clock, an…
Why everything you thought about earthworms is wrong
Earthworms are supposed to be a sign of healthy soil. But they're actually an invasive species that can even damage forests. So have we been sold a lie about worms and soil? Not exactly. The relationship between the two depends on the context. And the way we garden — or farm — can make all the dif…
The origins of Darwin's ideas
No discipline, no sphere of intellectual life, has been untouched by the work of Charles Darwin. He died in 1882 but his ideas are very much alive; they're now central to how we understand the natural world, the human mind, non-human minds, plants, biogeography, morality and emotion, culture, lang…
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