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Podcast: History of madhouses and seaside health spas in Devon, UK

August 1, 2008

Madhouses and the spurious health claims of Victorian seaside resorts - on this month's Missing Link podcast.

Podcast: History of popular science for women and kids

May 31, 2008

The Missing Link - a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology - has just released its eleventh episode at http://missinglinkpodcast.com.

Podcast: How Jews, Catholics, and Muslims have responded to creationism

May 1, 2008

Creationism and intelligent design seem to have sprung Athena-like from the head of American Protestantism. But how have Jews, Catholics, and Muslims positioned themselves in this debate? Find out in the latest episode from the Missing Link podcast (http://missinglinkpodcast.com).

Podcast: Evolution, Communism, and other "dirty" words

April 1, 2008

How did the Civil War and the Cold War affect the acceptance of evolution in the United States? The Missing Link - a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology - has just released the second show in a three-episode series on the fascinating history behind the evolution-intelligent design controversy.

Podcast series on evolution-intelligent design controversy

February 29, 2008

The Missing Link - a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology - has just launched a three-episode series on the fascinating history behind the evolution-intelligent design controversy.

Episode 8, just posted at http://missinglinkpodcast.com, begins the series with an investigation into how the nature of scientific method has changed over the centuries. Discover at just what point science invented rules that creationism could not follow.

Future episodes will consider topics like Jewish and Catholic responses to the evolution-ID controversy, why the creationism movement waned in the immediate postwar period in America, and how the very word "evolution" might be inadvertently fueling the controversy.

Find more information at http://missinglinkpodcast.com

Podcast on the history of time

February 1, 2008

Episode 7 of the Missing Link podcast has just been posted. This latest episode of my history of science, medicine, and technology podcast features an exploration of how ancient and present-day astronomers have challenged our common-sense notions of time.