Does the growing interest of scientific themes in the literary, performing and visual arts contribute to the public understanding of science? Can works of fiction be critical tools to critique the sciences?

What roles do images play in each domain? Has the concept of beauty been banished by art and resuscitated by science? Suzanne Anker and her guests discuss authenticity and information as embedded narratives in pictures.

This edition tackles the interactions of art and science as mechanisms embedded in knowledge systems. The discussion centers around an exhibition at Pratt Institute where the work of both artists and scientists were exhibited across disciplines.

Exploring the changing relationship of humans towards animals brought about by novel bio-technologies, this edition focuses on animals as scientific research models and their incorporation in works of art.

This episode examines religious references such as the relic, "incarnational consciousness" and immortality with regard to the genetic decoding of the "book of life" and art's magico-religious roots.

Host Suzanne Anker and guests reconsider the virus as both a biological and cultural phenomenon. In its mutating form, new strains have been able to cross species boundaries, just as globalization has created permeable boundaries in geopolitics.

Genetic profiling can be as troubling as it can be helpful - but helpful to whom, exactly, and in what ways? Here Suzanne Anker and her guests examine the legal and social effects of expanding DNA databases.

Plastic surgery has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and Suzanne Anker gathers a crew of insiders to examine some of the aesthetic and social issues raised by transforming the body through augmentations, reductions and cosmetic procedures.

Laura Lindgren, Allan Ludwig and Pete Mauro join host Suzanne Anker for this discussion of representations of the mortal coil among the "formaldehyde photography set," on gravestones, and elsewhere.