SciFri Radio: History of Science and Technology

SciFri Radio: Smallpox
We'll talk about the history of the international effort to eradicate smallpox worldwide.

SciFri Radio: Science Through Graphic Novels
We'll take a look at two graphic novels that approach science from a different direction.

SciFri Radio: Arpanet Anniversary
Forty years ago this week, the first information was transmitted across the ARPANET -- a computer network that would one day evolve into the Internet.

SciFri Radio: 'The Strangest Man,' Paul Dirac
Ira talks with Graham Farmello, author of a new biography of physicist Paul Dirac.

SciFri Radio: Age of Wonder
Ira talks with Richard Holmes, author of 'The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.'

SciFri Radio: Should Humans Return To The Moon?
NASA plans to return humans to the moon by 2020, but a review committee is weighing other options.

SciFri Radio: To The Moon
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. We'll look back on the trip from the Earth to the moon.

SciFri Radio: Newton and the Counterfeiter
Isaac Newton is known as one of the world's greatest scientists, developing the three laws that define the way motion works. But did you know that...

SciFri Radio: Dissection
A new book uses photographs to tell the history of a medical school rite of passage, dissection.

SciFri Radio: The Invention of the Telescope
We'll look back on 400 years of telescopes.

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