This week’s most noteworthy podcast episodes take up the subjects of the histories of significant plants, access to the commons in England, and a famous medical illustration.
Noteworthy Podcasts (Week Ending 19 September 2025)
New Books Network
On Bullshit – 20th Anniversary Edition
Bullshit is far more insidious and far more dangerous than lies. It is also becoming more and more common from the mouths and pens of public officials and self-proclaimed influencers who are employing it with callous disregard for anything other than their own desires for power and wealth. Therefore it behooves all those who would be wise to know how what bullshit is and how it functions.
The Theater of Experiment
The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Prof. Al Coppola about his 2016 book “The Theater of Experiment; Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”