Peculiar Book Club Podcast

Feb 28 2025 119 ep. 63 mins 43
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Weird Science, Bizarre History, & Strange Medicine: we host authors of PECULIAR nonfiction! Want to know why animals evolved to suck blood? Or the secrets of sword-swallowers? Curious about Vagina Obscura? Or the astrophysics of a dying universe? We've 3 shows to tempt you: the PBC podcast (from Mary Roach to Ed Yong), Peculiar at the Movies with Davey Berris (where factoids meet celluloid); and Peculiar in Mystery (thrillers + true crime!) Join host Brandy Schillace, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE with Dan Aykroyd, for oddities, oddballs, and the unexpected! If you're weird, you're family!

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Feb 28 2025 69 mins  
Featuring : CAT BOHANNON, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human EvolutionYou loved Rachel Gross’s VAGINA OBSCURA? Of course you did. Then you MUST join us for this myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved—answering questions like what IS the female body? How did it come to be? How does this evolution still shapes all our lives today?

We're Killing it with Deanna Raybourn and Kills Well with Others (Peculiar Mystery Club)

Feb 26 2025 27 mins  
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We will seek out new life with Star Trek: The Next Generation (Peculiar Movie Club)

Feb 25 2025 79 mins  
Welcome to the Peculiar Movie Club, a bonus podcast linked to our main show the Peculiar Book Club through common themes in media. This week, in honor of the book The Possibility of Life, we are stepping away from the movie world and into the TV world with 3 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. They are: season 3 episode 2 "The Ensigns of Command"season 4 episode 1

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Feb 20 2025 32 mins  
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Feb 14 2025 65 mins  
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We'll have you believing in Lydia Kang and Pseudoscience

Feb 06 2025 32 mins  
From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the

Our minds and bodies will be linked with Pamela Ryckan and Candace Pert

Jan 24 2025 67 mins  
I loved this book so much that I wrote the Wall Street Journal review for it! It’s an absolutely madcap and unexpected take on history I thought I knew… But I hadn’t yet encountered Candace Pert. This amazing scientist stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the opioid crisis, the AIDS crisis, and the mind-body movement. A troubled genius, beleaguered, beguiling, and not abov

We've got the optics on The Invisible Man (Peculiar Movie Club)

Jan 23 2025 69 mins  
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Jan 10 2025 63 mins  
It’s like that Monty Python Sketch… There are good reasons to know how not to be seen, and Gregory Gbur is ready to tell us all about the SCIENCE. Come now, you say, it isn’t really possible to be made invisible! Or is it? You’ll be surprised! In this book, science writer and optical physicist Gregory J. Gbur traces the science of invisibility from its sci-fi origins in the

We've got some real bite with Interview with the Vampire (Peculiar Movie Club)

Jan 07 2025 55 mins  
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