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How did an architect help pioneer blood transfusion in the 1660s? Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children? And what role did a sausage skin and an enamel bath play in making kidney transplants a reality?

In today's episode, I talked with Dr. Paul Craddock about the history of body transplants. We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a  history more surprising than we might expect.

Shortened Bio: Dr. Paul Craddock is a cultural historian and award-winning author  based in London. His debut book, Spare Parts: A Surprising History of  Transplants was a Daily Mail Book of the Week and won the Special  Commendation of the Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Awards.

Paul  is a Science Museum Group Senior Research Associate (SMGSRA), an  Honorary Senior Research Associate of UCL’s Division of Surgery, and a  Visiting Lecturer at Imperial College London.

He is represented by Jenny Hewson at Lutyens and Rubinstein Literary Agency.

Website - https://paulcraddock.com/

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What is Solar Physics? What are sunspots, how does the suns magnetism work, and how does this affect us? I was glad to welcome Dr. Maria Weber on The Way to talk about Coronal Mass Ejections, Solar Dynamo, Red Dwarfs and much much more.

Shortened Bio: My name is Maria Weber, and I’m an  astrophysicist. I study the Sun and other cool, low-mass stars. Through  computer models and simulations, I explore the processes taking place  deep in stellar interiors, well beyond the reach of telescopes. These  internal processes ultimately lead to the remarkable magnetism observed  on stellar surfaces. In the case of our Sun, this magnetism is the  source of the ‘solar storms’ that occasionally impact our planet, simultaneously wreaking havoc on earth-orbiting satellites while spawing beautiful aurora. We still don’t have a complete theory to describe,  and ultimately predict, the Sun’s magnetic behavior. My work is an  important piece of this intricate and complicated puzzle.

I began my career as a solar physicist. Recently, I have extended my  work to include other cool, low-mass stars – from F-type stars as large  as 140% of the Sun’s mass to M-type (or red dwarf) stars as small as 10%  of the Sun’s mass. Red dwarfs are statistically the most abundant and  magnetically active stars in our galaxy. Many of these stars have  orbiting planets in the habitable zone, located at just the right  distance from the host star to sustain liquid water. It is still unclear  how these small stars build such strong magnetism, with energetic  events often rivaling the magnetic storms of our own Sun. Tackling this  problem is another crucial part of my on-going research.

Website - http://www.solarismaria.com/

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War is an unrelenting undercurrent of human civilization and has always been so. Today, economist and political scientist Chris Blattman, author of Why We Fight, offers an explanation as to the psychological and strategic forces that propel nations to opt for such ruinous violence. 

Bio: Chris Blattman is an economist and political scientist who uses field  work and statistics to study poverty, political engagement, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. He is a professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

Background: Most of my current research is with armed groups, gangs, organized  crime, and the people who join violent organizations. This work involves  a blend of qualitative interviews, large-scale surveys, statistical  analysis, and field experiments.

I also want to bring big ideas  and research to a general audience, which is why I wrote Why We Fight:  The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace.

I co-lead the Crime & Violence Initiative for MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) as well as the Peace and Recovery Program for the research NGO Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).

I’m also a Research Affiliate at UChicago’s Crime and Inclusive Economy Labs.

Finally, I’m a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Website/Book - https://chrisblattman.com/why-we-fight/

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A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II—and how America allowed them to get away with it. 

Bio: David de Jong is a journalist and author. His first book, Nazi Billionaires, is published in the US and the UK by HarperCollins. He spent four years reporting from Berlin while researching and writing this book. David previously covered European banking and finance from Amsterdam and hidden wealth and billionaire fortunes from New York for Bloomberg News. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Dutch Financial Daily. A native of the Netherlands, he currently lives in Tel Aviv.

Website/Book - https://daviddejong.net/ 

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When a massive asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, a devastating  mass extinction followed, taking with it more than half of the world's  species. The consequences, both immediate and long-term, of this disastrous event are detailed by author and paleontologist Riley Black in her latest book, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning. Today she joins me to further discuss the incredible evolutionary opportunities that arose out of the worst day in history.

Bio: Riley has been a fossil fanatic since the time she was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. A prolific writer, Riley wrote her popular Laelaps blog for publications such as WIRED, National Geographic, and Scientific American for more than a decade. Her fossil-filled tweets have led Business Insider to call her one of the top "science social media wizards" and HLN to dub her one of "Twitter's 8 coolest geeks", as well, and she was the host of Parallax Film’s Dinologue. And in a childhood dream come true, Riley was also hired to be the "resident paleontologist" for Jurassic World. 

In between blogs, Riley also freelances for a variety of publications - from National Geographic to Slate - and writes books. Her first, Written in Stone, was an exploration about what evolution's great transitions tell us about our place in nature, and her second, My Beloved Brontosaurus, was a critically-acclaimed romp with the new dinosaurs science is bringing to life.

Website - http://rileyblack.net/

Book - http://rileyblack.net/books

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