John Agar

This is an episode of Temple of Bad that includes several firsts. It's our first discussion of a black-and-white film. It's our first discussion of a film that has such a ridiculously short running time. It's our first film starring John Carradine, and our first film starring the oh-so-dreamy John Agar. Unfortunately, it's also our first episode in which I wasn't able to participate. So this time around, Invisible Invaders -- a late '50s exercis...

Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. By Jon Agar. Polity; 614 pages; $35 and £30. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukSCIENCE works with problems by making them into manageable, manipulable abstractions. Jon Agar’s ambitious new book sets out to synthesise the insights of many recent historians of science. These might be anything from a field biologist’s notes of lemming populations on Spitzbergen to a physicist’s creation of muon tracks in a cloud chamber, or from a set of eq...