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The Life and Death of Booze (with Adam Rogers)

The author of Proof: The Science of Booze on the magic and alchemy of alcohol, and our violent, pleasurable, centuries-long relationship with it.

Adam Rogers is a science journalist and the author of two amazing books about how we experience the world. His second, Full Spectrum, is about color. But we're here to discuss his first, Proof: The Science of Booze. Not just booze, though — what it symbolizes about magic and alchemy and history and chaos, and why our relationship to it is so fraught and…

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