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Skepticality #131 - The Science of the Unscientific - Guest: Jim Ottaviani
Skepticality - The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine
English - May 25, 2010 00:00 - 1 hour - 32 MB - ★★★★ - 466 ratingsScience Society & Culture culture randi jref radio science secular shermer show skeptic skepticality Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Skeptic readers may suspect that there's little to interest them in the pages of most graphic novels, dominated as they are by superheroes and the supernatural. However, a new generation of authors and artists are hard at work creating comics rooted in science fact — and even critical thinking.
This week Skepticality welcomes back Jim Ottaviani: nuclear engineer, librarian, lead author for GT Labs (which produces graphic novels about the history of science and prominent scientists). Swoopy talks with Jim about his most recent published works, T-Minus: The Race to the Moon; Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love; and, of special interest to skeptics, The Science of the Unscientific: Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception.