"Here's Looking at Eulcid."

Is that the best title ever, or what?

Have you read "On Human Communication" by Collin Cherry?
It's a clearly, written, fact based book. Here is a paraphrased sample:
"The intelligibility of a signal is inversely proportional to the amount of information it contains". This is why a "distress call" (... --- ... or mayday) contains so little information. They are very likely to be understood. On the other hand, pure noise, contains lots of information, but is unintelligible. Intelligibility, is directly proportional to repetition rate. Again explaining why distress signals are constantly repeated, and technical lectures are so hard to understand. Here is his Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Cherry.

Thank you! What a great resource!

Beautiful

Excellent! I tweeted @RadioLab about this very idea a few days ago and just casually noticed it's been here all along, since May last year. Did I miss it though, or did my tweet make it appear more prominently on the front page? ;-)

Either way, tremendous amount of work here guys. Thanks a bundle!

After listening to the episode "Talking with Machines" I thought it a good idea to suggest two books. "What Computers Still Can't Do" by Hubert Dreyfus and Martin Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics." In the later the author argues that physics was a much more inclusive term in ancient Greece, so a category of investigation included and should include, being. Hubert Dreyfus, at least in part, begins with Heidegger's assumptions to argue that we are a long way from developing computers with substantial human qualities.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! What a lot of work.

Where can I find a list of books for 'Cities' podcast?

Do you have any recommendations for magazines that make science and technology fun for students (college/high school age)? I'm a librarian at a community college looking for something more engaging than the usual stuff, and a big fan of your show! Definitely taking a look at adding some of the books on your list to our collection.

Not sure if you guys mentioned this book in any of the shows (maybe in Lucy), but you need to include Next of Kin by Roger Fouts!

this book looks cool
www.therainmansecret.com

Thank you so much for posting this, I've been wanting this book list since I started listening to your podcasts!

Don't forget about Einstein's Dreams!

Thank you! This is a great resource! You rock RadioLab!

Fascinating..would be great if there is a link to the podcast..one book didnt find the one featured in the talk about cities..in that episode you did the experiment on the walking speed

thanks! how about indicating which show each book was mentioned on? also, i hope you've set up to receive the referral fee from amazon so people can support the show in this way.

someone already mentioned this, but i must second it. In one of your shorts you mention Richard Holmes' "Age of Wonder" I picked it up because of the show, and it is the best read Ive had in years! Thank you RadioLab!

The wife told me about this site - and I am wonderfully pleased about learning about it! Many thanks for your individual and collective work.

Thank you! Amazing!

In the show on symmetry you guys mentioned a book called An Age of Wonder (?) or something similar. Could you add that to the list, I loved listening to the author and would be interested in his book.

Thanks!! Great as always.

Great to hear and see that there are more people in the world that care for science.

It's disparaging, in considering myself a writer, how few of these I've read or even know. Radiolab, I love you but you've piqued my self-loathing.

Thanks so much for sharing!

100% love the show, by the way. Thanks for featuring my buddy Sxip in your Cities episode. It was an amazing surprise to hear him talking on the radio about trippy Sxip things!

Keep on with the excellence, my friends.

Fabulous! Thanks for sharing!

Bless you Radiolab for remembering that we read! (I can no longer go out of my house, lest I have to speak to humans whose words are not in italics or surrounded by quotation marks...)

But you have brought joy! I happen to belong to the small but ever-hopeful band of those who read physics for fun though, we have no prayer of understanding it. The intellectual version of the Jamaican Bobsled team... We thank you...

Yay! This couldn't have come at a better time, right before summer vacation! Thank you so much!

Fantastic. Now I can stop saying, "I wish the Radiolab guys would make a list of all the books they mention on the show."

You just made my course design for introduction classes SO much easier.

Didn't you also feature Hidden Harmonies?

Don't forget The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

You don't know how many times I've said to myself, "They should compile a list of books." So thanks for reading my thoughts! This will make it easier to delve deeper into my favorite episodes!

awesome!

How about a list of the twitter usernames of your contributors?

Great! Now do the same for all the contributers who have their own podcast shows as well!

this is the greatest thing thats ever happened to me.

Oh I am so glad you did this... proof that wishes do come true. :-)

Cheers Radiolab! This should keep me busy for a bit!!!

Missing the Paul Ekman books from the episode on microexpressions.

Were is "How We Decide" by Jonah Lehrer?

I was surprised that there's only two Oliver Sacks books (unless I missed some). It seems he's on RadioLab fairly frequently. Or maybe I just like Oliver Sacks enough that I pay extra close attention when he's on RadioLab...

And when will these be available for brain download?

Wonderful list and genius idea! Thanks for putting this together!

One curiosity... is the list in any particular order?

Wonderful list and genius idea! Thanks for putting this together!

One curiosity... is the list in any particular order?

I'm inferring that somebody must've gone to Stanford, given the prominent quoting of Bob Sapolsky's books. I'm not saying it's over-quoting, as he's one of the best in the biz of science literacy. PS- There's on typo: Barry Schwartz wrote the Paradox of Choice.

This may be the very best thing that has ever been done in the history of the world.

Let's get reading! Thank you for the list

Thank you!
It would be great if the books were tagged or linked to associated episode(s).

FABULOUS!!!!

Thanks so much for this!