In this episode, Amelia gets to discuss her proudest academic moment and reveal her terrible grasp on spherical algebra with the wonderful Lucinda Sheriffs. The pair offer their thoughts on how science and religion interact, and how that could be managed by science communicators. As they discuss the Golden Age of Islam, Amelia also briefly discusses how the Islamic faith interacts with science by interviewing Hafsa Mohammed about her views of the two.

Before the recording, we read:

Religion and Science (Whitehead, 1925): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/

Framing Science (Nisbet and Mooney, 2007): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1142030

For more on:

Islamic Scholars, and non-western history of science in general: Horizons by James Poskett (2022)

Ibn al-Haytham: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-an-ancient-muslim-scientist-cast-his-light-into-the-21st-century

Al-Biruni’s globe experiment: https://owlcation.com/stem/How-to-Determin-the-Radius-of-the-Earth-Al-Birunis-Classic-Experiment

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