meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Wonder Cabinet

Lab Lit

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Science is moving out of the lab and into the pages of literary fiction.  This week, we introduce the “Lab Lit” movement and talk about why fiction needs more realistic portrayals of scientists and science culture Science in Fiction - Jennifer Rohn; Archangel - Andrea Barrett; Sonic Sidebar: Antarctica in Fiction and Art; Women and Plants - Elizabeth Gilbert; BookMark - Karl Ove Knausgaard on "The Flame Alphabet"; On Our Minds: Science and the Avant Garde.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Support for WPR comes from For Imprint, providers of promotional products for businesses,

0:05.1

including embroidered apparel, trade show giveaways, and logoed business gifts.

0:09.3

More about the For Imprint dedication to customer satisfaction is at 4imprint.com.

0:18.4

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.

0:21.5

Today, Lab Lit, making the case for more serious, realistic fiction about science.

0:27.9

Because if you ever noticed how many of the stories we tell about scientists sound like this?

0:33.7

Using layman's terms, use a retaining magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons.

0:39.3

These in turn fold space time consistent with veil tensile...

0:43.3

Everybody getting this so far?

0:44.3

And you produce a singularity now.

0:46.3

There's a psychomagnetheric slime flow of immense proportions is building up beneath the city.

0:50.3

She's alive.

0:51.3

Alive!

0:52.3

1.21 Shako watts! What the hell does it kill you are?

0:57.0

Do?

0:58.0

Use the intensifier disk. Place it in position on your right.

1:01.0

I guess this thing where Bob goes into the woods in here.

1:05.0

Now turn the control, 18 degrees to the left.

1:10.0

You have successfully accomplished your task start to meet you. You have successfully accomplished your tasks, Dr. Meachim.

1:13.4

You've assembled an interracitor, a feat of which few men are capable. So, come up to the left.

1:23.1

Mad scientists, evil geniuses and unshique geeks.

1:30.4

There are so many ways to make fun of scientists.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wonder Cabinet Productions, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wonder Cabinet Productions and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.