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Scientific American Podcast Podcasts

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Join host Steve Mirsky each week as he explores the latest developments in science and technology through interviews with leading scientists and journalists.

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The YouTube SpaceLab Competition

If you're 14 to 18 years old, you still have until December 14th to prepare a two-minute video of a suggestion for an experiment to be performed at the International Space Station and upload it to youtube.com/spacelab. Winners will see their experiment performed in space.

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Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder

Thomas LeCompte of Argonne National Lab was the physics coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He talks about the instrument and its future, as we await the December 13th announcement as to whether the LHc has found the Higgs particle.

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Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the Rise

Ocean and climate scientist Eelco Rohling talks with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about updated calculations of sea-level rise as a function of climate change

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Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

Physicist Brian Greene, host of the NOVA series "The Fabric of the Cosmos," addresses the question of faster-than-light neutrinos at a Q&A session after the debut of the PBS series

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The Mind's Hidden Switches

Eric Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine, on epigenetics and human behavior, called Hidden Switches In The Mind.

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The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Then hear comments from the president of the American Chemical Society, Nancy Jackson, of Sandia National Laboratories

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An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Following the formal announcement comes an explanation of the research, which tracked type Ia supernovae to discover that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. And a phone conversation with new Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt

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Cancer Vaccines

Eric von Hofe, cancer researcher and president of the biotech company Antigen Express talks about his article in the October issue of Scientific American called "A New Ally against Cancer," about cancer vaccines

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Science Legend Christian de Duve

Christian de Duve, 1974 Nobel Laureate for physiology or medicine, talks about going from a cell biologist to a theorist on evolution and the origin of life.

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Carl Zimmer On Rats, Cats, Viruses and Tattoos

In part 2 of our interview, award-winning author Carl Zimmer talks about his latest books, and a new study that shows how Toxoplasma influences the behavior of rats--and maybe of us.

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Carl Zimmer On Evolution in the Big City

The annual Scientific American September single topic issue is all about cities. And award-winning author Carl Zimmer recently penned a piece on evolution research in the urban environment for the New York Times. In part one of this interview, he talks about urban evolution.

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The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches About Urban Crime And Its Control

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring talks about his article How New York Beat Crime in the August issue of Scientific American

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Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra In The Cell

Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko, who determined cellular mechanisms for breaking down proteins, talks about his research in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. And Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the recent inaugural Google Science Fair.

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Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk

Peter Agre, 2003 Chemistry Nobel laureate for his work on aquaporins, the proteins that allow water into and out of cells, talks about his research, his upbringing and why he almost ran for the Senate, in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany

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Let's Make A Probabilistic Deal: A Fresh Look At The Monty Hall Problem

Scientific American math and physics editor Davide Castelvecchi revisits the Monty Hall problem so you can know whether you're better off holding on to your original pick or switching when new information presents itself.

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How Physics Limits Intelligence

Award-winning author Douglas Fox talks about his cover story in the July issue of Scientific American about The Limits Of Intelligence, placed there by the laws of physics.

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Dying For Science: The Hundredth Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Larson talks about his article Greater Glory in the June issue of Scientific American, on the forgotten science of the doomed Scott expedition a hundred years ago.

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Skirting Steak: The Case For Artificial Meat

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab, and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May issue on radical energy solutions.

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Astronaut Love: An Interview with Spacewalker Stanley Love

On the eve of the launch of the penultimate space shuttle mission, STS-134, Scientific American astronomy editor George Musser talks to veteran astronaut Stanley Love about being in space and the future of spaceflight

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Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports

Scientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an MIT 150th anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything

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Can It Be Bad To Be Too Clean?: The Hygiene Hypothesis

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researcher Kathleen Barnes talks about the Hygiene Hypothesis, which raises the possibility that our modern sterile environment may contribute to conditions such as asthma and eczema.

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Self-Aware Robots?

Journalist Charles Choi talks about work being down to make robots self-aware. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=automaton-robots-become-self-aware and http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=evolution-education

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The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable On The AAAS Meeting

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with Scientific American magazine editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina, news editor Anna Kuchment, feature editor Mark Fischetti and online news editor Robin Lloyd about various sessions at the recently completed annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. Websites related to this episode and the conference include http://snipurl.com/24wjkc http://snipurl.com/24wjmz http://snipurl.com/24wjpt http://snip ...

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The Spirit of Innovation: From High School To The Moon

Nancy Conrad, chair of the Conrad Foundation, talks about the Spirit of Innovation competition for high school students, and about her late husband, Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon. Websites related to this episode include http://conradawards.org

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What's New With Science News

Former Scientific American editor-in-chief and current Gleaming Retort blogger John Rennie, blogger and Scientific American blogs network director Bora Zivkovic and Scientific American online news editor Robin Lloyd talk about the future of science news. Websites related to this episode include blogs.plos.org/retort and www.scientificamerican.com/blog

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Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight against European Naturalists

Biologist and author Lee Dugatkin talks about his article "Jefferson's Moose" in the February issue of Scientific American, the story of Jefferson's battle against the European theory of American biological degeneracy. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=jeffersons-moose

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What Is The Watson Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer, Alex?

Scientific American editor Michael Moyer talks about the sneak preview he caught of of IBM's Watson Jeopardy-playing computer. And scientificamerican.com's Larry Greenemeier spoke with Ford's Brad Probert about the new all-electric Focus at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas.

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Vinod Khosla: Searching For The Radical Solution

Clean technology investor Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, talks with Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti about the energy payoffs to be had by reinventing mainstream technologies. Websites related to this episode include www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-search-of-the-radical-solution

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How You Gonna Keep Flu Down On The Farm?: Pig Farms and Public Health

Journalist Helen Branswell discusses her January Scientific American article, "Flu Factories", about the attempts to monitor new strains of flu that can originate on pig farms and the difficulties of balancing economic and public health constituencies. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/dFAQX4

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Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy

Actor, playwright and journalist Anna Deavere Smith talks about the health care crisis and her play about people dealing with illness, health and the health care system, Let Me Down Easy. Websites related to this episode include www.arenastage.org; www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11132009/profile.html

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The Spewings of Titan (And More From the AGU Meeting)

Scientific American editor Davide Castelvecchi joins us from San Francisco to talk about some of the highlights of the meeting of the American Geophysical Union, including volcanoes on Titan, x rays from lightning, the biota of the Sulawesi Sea and the connection between light pollution and air pollution. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include sciencewriter.org; snipurl.com/planethunters; snipurl.com/titanspew; snipurl.com ...

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Let's Talk Stuffing--Your Face

Cornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect. Websites related to this episode include www.mindlesseating.org

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Let's Talk Turkey!

Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research.

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Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina and podcast host Steve Mirsky talk about longevity differences in the sexes, the importance of music education, the pros and cons of the Kindle, and other content from the November issue. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://snipurl.com/larrydreams

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Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg

Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/9wr82b and http://bit.ly/92ANca

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Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 1 of 2)

Photograph 51 is a new play about Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick, and the race to determine the structure of DNA, at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York City, running through November 21st. This November 2nd panel discussion about the play and the issues it raises featured crystallography expert Helen Berman, biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin, science journalist Nicholas Wade, playwright Anna Ziegler and moderator Stuart Firestein. Websites related to this episode in ...

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The Quest For The Giant Pumpkin

Susan Warren, author of the book Backyard Giants, talks about "the passionate, heartbreaking and glorious quest to grow the biggest pumpkin ever." Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.bigpumpkins.com, www.backyardgiants.com

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Not Your Grandfather's Scientific American

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the new look and new outlook of Scientific American magazine and of www.scientificamerican.com. Plus we discuss the results of a poll of the readers of Scientific American and Nature.

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The Harlem Science Renaissance

Molecular geneticist Sat Bhattacharya talks about his creation, the Harlem Children Society, which gets underprivileged kids involved in scientific research. And 13-year-olds Mitchell Haverty and Angus Fung talk about their research on algae as alternative fuel. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.harlemchildrensociety.org

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Totally Bogus: The Science Talk Quiz

In this special stand-alone edition, see if you know which of four science news stories is Totally Bogus.

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Exactly When Is A Person Dead?

Award-winning science journalist Robin Marantz Henig and podcast host Steve Mirsky discuss Robin's article in the September issue about organ donation and definitions of death. Plus we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/ctIDsx; http://bit.ly/9Us1lE

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Could Time End?

Scientific American staff editor George Musser joins podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) to discuss his article in the September issue about the possibility of time itself coming to an end.

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The End: Death, Endings and Things That Should End

Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and issue editor Michael Moyer talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about the September single-topic issue of Scientific American--endings in science. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Cooking For Geeks: Jeff Potter on Experimenting in the Kitchen

Jeff Potter, author of Cooking For Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks and Good Food, talks with daily podcast correspondent Cynthia Graber, and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) tests your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.cookingforgeeks.com

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Mary Roach Is Packing For Mars (Part 2)

Podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) talks with author Mary Roach about her new book Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. Part 2 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.net

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Mary Roach Is Packing For Mars (Part 1)

Podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) recently attended a talk by author Mary Roach about her new book Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. In part 1 of this 2-part episode, we'll hear that talk. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.net

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When Humans Almost Died Out; Earthy Exoplanets; And Scientific American's 165th Birthday

Podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago gave rise to all of us, a story told in the cover article of the August issue of Scientific American, our 165th anniversary edition. And editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the rest of the contents of the issue, including our coverage of the search for rocky exoplanets. Plus we test your knowledge about s ...

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Arguing With Non-Skeptics (Part 2 of 2)

A panel discussion on arguing with non-skeptics at the recent Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in New York City featured James Randi, George Hrab, DJ Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left). Julia Galef moderated. Part 2 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.necsscon.org

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Arguing With Non-Skeptics (Part 1 of 2)

A panel discussion on arguing with non-skeptics at the recent Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in New York City featured James Randi, George Hrab, DJ Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left). Julia Galef moderated. Part 1 of 2. Websites related to content of this podcast include www.nature.com/nature/podcast and www.necsscon.org

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Whiz Kids: Intel Science Talent Search Documentary

The new documentary film Whiz Kids follows three high school student-scientists as they attempt to get their projects accepted into the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) talks with the film's writer and editor, Jane Wagner, and with two of the stars of the documentary, Ana Cisneros and Hermain Khan. Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to content of this podcast include www. ...

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Will Your Plug-In Car Actually Be Coal-Powered? And Other July Stories

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and staff editor Michael Moyer join podcast host Steve Mirsky to talk about articles in the July issue, including: "The Dirty Truth about Plug-In Hybrids"; "How Babies Think"; and "Birds That Lived with Dinosaurs". Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.scientificamerican.com/sciammag; http://bit.ly/cwcTtR

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Paul Dirac: "The Strangest Man" of Science 2

Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Part 2 of 2. Web sites related to this episode include www.thestrangestman.com and http://bit.ly/dirac1963

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"The Strangest Man" Of Science

Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac. Part 1 of 2. Websites related to this episode include www.thestrangestman.com

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Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos To Galileo

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) about neutrinos and gravity waves. And Cynthia Graber talks with Paolo Galluzzi, director of the newly re-opened Museo Galileo, the science museum in Florence, Italy. Plus we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to content of this podcast include http://www.museogalileo.it

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The Big Dozen: 12 Events That Will Change Everything

Scientific American magazine editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina and news editor Phillip Yam join podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture left) to talk about the cover story of the June issue of the magazine, 12 Events That Will Change Everything. How things like the first human clone, an asteroid impact or the discovery of extra dimensions will change the world and our view of our place in the universe.

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Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas Hofstadter

Martin Gardner died May 22nd at 95. He wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American magazine for 25 years and published more than 70 books. Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with Gardner's friend Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, about Martin Gardner

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More from MacMania: Kindle v. iPad, Mac v. PC and App Development

MacWorld editorial director Jason Snell and app developer Peter Watling talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) about the iPad, computer culture and apps, aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic during MacMania, produced by insightcruises.com

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David Pogue On Tech, Twitter and Transgenic Goats

The ubiquitous David Pogue, author of the Missing Manual series and tech columnist for the New York Times, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left), aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic during MacMania, produced by insightcruises.com. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

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Your Inner Healers: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and More

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) about the contents of the May issue, including articles on induced pluripotent stem cells, high speed and maglev trains and blindsight. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Bill McKibben's Eaarth (conclusion)

Writer and activist Bill McKibben talks to Scientific American's Mark Fischetti about his new book Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet. Part 2 of 2. Edited and produced by podcast host Steve Mirsky [left].

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Bill McKibben's 'Eaarth'

Writer and activist Bill McKibben talks to Scientific American's Mark Fischetti about his new book Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet. Part 1 of 2. Edited and produced by podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left).

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Invisible Ink and Other Science of Spying in the Revolutionary War

John Nagy, author of Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution, discusses the codes, ciphers, chemistry and psychology of spying in the American Revolution, in a talk recorded by podcast host Steve Mirsky (picture at left) at the historic Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include http://snipurl.com/vnhy8

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The Science of Staying in Love; and Scientists As Communicators--and Heroes

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina and psychology researcher Robert Epstein, a contributing editor to Scientific American Mind magazine, talk about falling in love and staying that way. And science communicator Dennis Meredith discusses his book "Explaining Research", and the importance for scientists of reaching the public. Websites related to this episode include www.explainingresearch.com

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From Eternity To Here: Sean M. Carroll's Quest To Understand Time

Sean M. Carroll, theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology talks about his new book "From Eternity To Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time". Plus we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include preposterousuniverse.com

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Are We Pushing the Earth's Environmental Tipping Points?

Jon Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about his article in the April issue of Scientific American, "Boundaries for a Healthy Planet". Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include snipurl.com/foleyplanet

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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS

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Where's My Fusion Reactor?

Scientific American staff editor Michael Moyer talks about his article Fusion's False Dawn in the March issue, and Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the rest of the issue. Web sites related to this episode include www.sciamdigital.com; www.snipurl.com/mikefusion

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Algae, Art and Attitudes: A Roundtable About the AAAS Conference

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky (photo left) about sessions they attended--including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art and attitudes about climate change--at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.aaas.org, www.aven.com

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The Poisoner's Handbook : The Sinister Side of Chemistry

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her new work, The Poisoner's Handbook, a look at how easy it used to be to kill someone with poison and the researchers who made poisoning much harder to get away with. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include blog.deborahblum.com

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Ice, Ice, Baby: The Physics of Curling

Mark Shegelski of the University of Northern British Columbia talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about the physics of curling, currently taking its turn on the world stage at the Vancouver Olympics. (Shegelski is also the author of the new sci-fi collection "Remembering the Future.") Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

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Whaddya Do With A Dead Whale?

Scientific American magaine editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured left) about some of the articles in the February issue, including one on the ecosystems that arise around the carcasses of whales that die and fall to the ocean floor: the warfare between our cells, our allied microbes and disease-causing organisms; and ways to improve the internal combustion engine.

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Cleopatra's Alexandria Treasures

Renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio talks about his efforts to recover artifacts from the ancient cities of Alexandria, Heracleion and Canopus, with special attention to discoveries related to Cleopatra and her reign. The exhibit Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt opens at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on June 5th. Websites related to this episode include www.underwaterdiscovery.org

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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS.

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Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics

Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and with Randal Keynes, Darwin's great-great-grandson and one of the film's scriptwriters. Then we'll hear from a few of the exhibitors who spoke to scientificamerican.com's Larry Greenmeier at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS.

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Mining For Online Game Gold And Other Amazing Stories

Scientific American magazine editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the January issue, including articles on the chances of conditions conducive to life elsewhere in the multiverse and the growing practice of virtual gold farming, in which legions of online game players in developing countries acquire currency in the game that they sell to other players for real money. Websites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/nobelfrank; www.redcross.org; www.pih.org

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Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2

Alan Alda, host of the new PBS science series The Human Spark, talks about his experiences as a fictional physican, a real patient and an amateur scientist. Web sites related to this episode include www.pbs.org/humanspark

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Alan Alda's Human Spark

Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks about his new PBS science series The Human Spark, as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American. Websites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/sciammindeyewitness; www.snipurl.com/tzzde; www.pbs.org/humanspark

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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS.

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The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"

Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS.

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Christmas Season Science

Scientific American daily podcast contributor Karen Hopkin talks about a few recent studies related to the science of the Christmas season

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Christmas Season Science

Scientific American daily podcast contributor Karen Hopkin talks about a few recent studies related to the science of the Christmas season.

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Bonus Bogus Brainteaser

The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week

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Bonus Bogus Brainteaser

The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week

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Copenhagen and Everywhere Else

ScientificAmerican.com's David Biello is in Copenhagen at the climate conference, and he'll tell us what's going on there. And the Wildlife Conservation Society's Steven Sanderson discusses his Foreign Affairs article, "Where the Wild Things Were," worldwide conservation and the Everglades. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/sanderson; www.twitter.com/dbiello

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Copenhagen and Everywhere Else

ScientificAmerican.com's David Biello is in Copenhagen at the climate conference, and he'll tell us what's going on there. And the Wildlife Conservation Society's Steven Sanderson discusses his Foreign Affairs article, "Where the Wild Things Were," worldwide conservation and the Everglades. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/sanderson; www.twitter.com/dbiello

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World Changing Ideas: December's Scientific American

Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and editor Michael Moyer talk about the "World Changing Ideas" feature as well as other contents of the December issue. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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World Changing Ideas: December's Scientific American

Scientific American Magazine's editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina and editor Michael Moyer talk about the World Changing Ideas feature, as well as other contents of the December issue. Plus we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

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Bogus Brainteaser

The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week

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Bogus Brainteaser

The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week.

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John Rennie's 7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense

On the eve of the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen and in the wake of the hacked climate researchers' e-mails, former Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie discusses his ScientificAmerican.com article "7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense," available at http://bit.ly/8bg9Fx

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John Rennie's Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense

On the eve of the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen and in the wake of the hacked climate researchers' emails, former Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie discusses his ScientificAmerican.com article Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense, available at http://bit.ly/8bg9Fx

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Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, we review Darwin's influence on the the modern world, as analyzed by Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's most prolific evolutionary theorists. We review Mayr's July 2000 Scientific American article, "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought". The original, complete essay is temporarily available free of charge at http://snipurl.com/darwinsciam

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Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water

Tree ring expert Kevin Anchukaitis, of the tree ring lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University's Earth Institute, talks about the information available in tree rings. And Colin Chartres, the director general of the International Water Management Institute, talks to Lynne Peeples about water issues. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news, specifically the November issue of Scientific American magazine. Web sites related to this episode ...

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Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water

Tree ring expert Kevin Anchukaitis, of the tree ring lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University's Earth Institute, talks about the information available in tree rings. And Colin Chartres, the director general of the International Water Management Institute, talks to Lynne Peeples about water issues. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news, specifically the November issue of Scientific American magazine. Web sites related to this episode ...

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Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and "Becoming Human" NOVA Preview

Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin - Madison talks about recent human evolution, especially of our ability to digest lactose. And producer Graham Townsley discusses his three-part PBS NOVA premiering on November 3rd called "Becoming Human". Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/t1ivr

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Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and Becoming Human NOVA Preview

Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about recent human evolution, especially of our ability to digest lactose. And producer Graham Townsley discusses his three-part PBS NOVA premiering on November 3rd called Becoming Human. Plus we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/t1ivr

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Human Evolution: Lucy and Neandertals

Anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London talks about Neandertals. And Scientific American's Kate Wong, co-author with Donald Johanson of Lucy's Legacy, talks about the discovery and impact of the famous Lucy fossil. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/lucyfinder; http://bit.ly/bntu0

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Human Evolution: Lucy And Neanderthals

Anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London talks about Neanderthals. And Scientific American's Kate Wong, co-author with Donald Johanson of Lucy's Legacy, talks about the discovery and impact of the famous Lucy fossil. Plus we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/lucyfinder; http://bit.ly/bntu0

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Brain Enhancement: October Issue of Scientific American

In this episode Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the contents of the October issue of Scientific American, including articles on brain enhancement, lost cities of the Amazon and a century-old plan to make subway rides more entertaining

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Brain Enhancement: October Issue of Scientific American

In this episode Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the contents of the October issue of Scientific American, including articles on brain enhancement, lost cities of the Amazon and a century-old plan to make subway rides more entertaining

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New Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak and Surrogates Film Director Jonathan Mostow

Jack Szostak, who just shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, talks about his latest research on the origin of life. And Scientific American editor George Musser talks to Jonathan Mostow, director of the new Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller Surrogates. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/surrogates; www.snipurl.com/telomere; www.snipurl.com/origin

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New Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak and Surrogates Film Director Jonathan Mostow

Jack Szostak, who just shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, talks about his latest research on the origin of life. And Scientific American editor George Musser talks to Jonathan Mostow, director of the new Bruce Willis scifi thriller Surrogates. Websites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/surrogates; www.snipurl.com/telomere; www.snipurl.com/origin

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Clean Energy Contest; and Counting Crickets and Katydids

Scientific American podcast correspondent Cynthia Graber talks about the M.I.T. Clean Energy Prize Competition. And we take part in the recent Cricket Crawl, an effort to take a census of crickets and katydids in the New York metropolitan area. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.amnh.org and www.discoverlife.org/cricket

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Clean Energy Contest; and Counting Crickets and Katydids

Scientific American podcast correspondent Cynthia Graber talks about the MIT Clean Energy Prize Competition. And we take part in the recent Cricket Crawl, an effort to take a census of crickets and katydids in the New York metropolitan area. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.amnh.org and www.discoverlife.org/cricket

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Where There Was Smoke There's Science

Wake Forest University School of Medicine neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin talks about the the Winston-Salem area's adoption of biomedical research, as well as meetings with Congress about science funding and his comic strip contributions to Scientific American Mind. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

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Where There Was Smoke, There's Science

Wake Forest University School of Medicine neuroscientist Dwayne Godwin talks about the the Winston-Salem area's adoption of biomedical research as well as meetings with Congress about science funding and his comic strip contributions to Scientific American Mind. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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From Spooky Action to Tiny Radios

Scientific AmericanEditor in Chief John Rennie talks about the contents of the March issue of the magazine, including articles on quantum entanglement, nano radios, fresh brain cells and more. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Science Talk: February 04, 2009

The Naked Singularity Meets Social Media

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Origins of Everything: The September Scientific American Magazine

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina discusses the September special single-topic issue of Scientific American magazine, which covers origins, from the universe to the horse stirrup. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.thelongtail.com

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Origins of Everything: The September Scientific American Magazine

Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina discusses the September special single-topic issue of Scientific American magazine, which covers origins, from the universe to the horse stirrup. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.thelongtail.com

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Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax

John Williams, the beekeeper at Down House in England, talks about Darwin's bees. And May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about the latest publication related to colony collapse disorder and ribosome damage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Web sites related to this episode include www.bee-craft.com

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Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax

John Williams, the beekeeper at Down House in England, talks about Darwin's bees. And May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about the latest publication related to colony collapse disorder and ribosome damage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Web sites related to this episode include www.bee-craft.com

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To Bee or Not to Bee

In part 2 of our bee podcast, we talk with May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, about bees, other insects and how life history analysis can make us rest easy during scary sci-fi invasion movies. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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To Bee or Not to Bee

In part 2 of our bee podcast, we talk with May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, about bees, other insects and how life history analysis can make us rest easy during scary sci-fi invasion movies. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid

May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, talks about colony collapse disorder and disappearing bees as well as the importance of honeybees in agriculture

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Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid

May Berenbaum, entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and inspiration for the X Files fictional entomologist Bambi Berenbaum, talks about colony collapse disorder and disappearing bees as well as the importance of honeybees in agriculture

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Swimming In Spacetime and Other Stories

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and staff editor Kate Wong talk about the contents of the August issue, including articles on some of the odd consequences of general relativity, life as a Neandertal, and the latest research on celiac disease. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Swimming In Spacetime and Other Stories

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and staff editor Kate Wong talk about the contents of the August issue, including articles on some of the odd consequences of general relativity, life as a Neandertal, and the latest research on celiac disease. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy

Jeff Wolfe, the CEO and co-founder of groSolar, talks about solar energy's present and future. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.grosolar.com

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Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy

Jeff Wolfe, the CEO and co-founder of groSolar, talks about solar energy's present and future. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.grosolar.com

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 3

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 3, we hear from co-director Mike Thurmeier, art director Mike Knapp and head of lighting Andew Beddini. Special thanks to Hugo Ayala. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com and www.iceagemovie.com

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 3

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 3, we hear from co-director Mike Thurmeier, art director Mike Knapp and head of lighting Andew Beddini. Special thanks to Hugo Ayala. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com and www.iceagemovie.com

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 2

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 2, we hear from the research and development team about their backgrounds, the kinds of technical challenges they face and the ways they use math and computers to solve those problems. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com; www.iceagemovie.com; www.scient ...

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 2

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 2, we hear from the research and development team about their backgrounds, the kinds of technical challenges they face and the ways they use math and computers to solve those problems. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com; www.iceagemovie.com; www.scient ...

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 1

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 1, we hear from company founders Carl Ludwig and Eugene Troubetzkoy and senior research associate Hugo Ayala. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com and www.iceagemovie.com

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Movie Magic ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ), Part 1

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of animated features, including the recently released Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. In episode 1, we hear from company founders Carl Ludwig and Eugene Troubetzkoy and senior research associate Hugo Ayala. Web sites related to this episode include www.blueskystudios.com and www.iceagemovie.com

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Atul Gawande Redux

While Steve's at the conference of the World Federation of Science Journalists in London, we look ahead to some of the programming coming your way in the coming weeks, and we replay our 2007 interview with surgeon Atul Gawande, whose recent research in The New England Journal of Medicine and writing in The New Yorker have caused a big stir in the medical and health care reform communities. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_ ...

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Atul Gawande Redux

While Steve's at the conference of the World Federation of Science Journalists in London, we look ahead to some of the programming coming your way in the coming weeks, and we replay our 2007 interview with surgeon Atul Gawande, whose recent research in The New England Journal of Medicine and writing in The New Yorker have caused a big stir in the medical and health care reform communities. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_ ...

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Hello Moon, Good-Bye Rennie

We look at the contents of the July issue of Scientific American magazine, the last under outgoing Editor in Chief John Rennie, including an article by moon explorer Harrison Schmitt, a piece on the fight against superbugs, a report on the potential of biofuels such as grassoline, and a recollection of the pernicious effects of chess! Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Hello Moon, Good-Bye Rennie

We look at the contents of the July issue of Scientific American magazine, the last under outgoing Editor in Chief John Rennie, including an article by moon explorer Harrison Schmitt, a piece on the fight against superbugs, a report on the potential of biofuels such as grassoline, and a recollection of the pernicious effects of chess! Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Panamania!: A Visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

We take a walking tour of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, with the STRI's Beth King and Harilaos Lessios. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web Sites related to this episode include www.stri.org

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Panamania!: A Visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

We take a walking tour of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, with the STRI's Beth King and Harilaos Lessios. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web Sites related to this episode include www.stri.org

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The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the contents of the June issue, including articles on the evolution of cats and the physiology of sled dogs. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the contents of the June issue, including articles on the evolution of cats and the physiology of sled dogs. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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High Achievement High Schoolers

High school scientists Sruti Swaminathan, Maia ten Brink, Alyssa Bailey, Moyukh Chatterjee and Fedja Kadribasic, all winners of state competitions sponsored by the American Junior Academy of Sciences, talk about their research. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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High Achievement High Schoolers

High school scientists Sruti Swaminathan, Maia ten Brink, Alyssa Bailey, Moyukh Chatterjee and Fedja Kadribasic, all winners of state competitions sponsored by the American Junior Academy of Sciences, talk about their research. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Beauty Is Truth (and Science)

Procter & Gamble scientists Greg Hillebrand and Jay Tiesman talk about scientific research related to beauty products and cosmetics. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.pg.com/science

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People, Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) and Pigs

Scientific Americaneditor Christine Soares discusses the swine flu situation and Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the May issue--topics include the specific genetic differences between humans and chimps, side-channel hacking, food shortages, and our leaky atmosphere. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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People, Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) and Pigs

Scientific American editor Christine Soares discusses the swine flu situation and Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the May issue--topics include the specific genetic differences between humans and chimps, side-channel hacking, food shortages, and our leaky atmosphere. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Sherwin Nuland's Tales from the Bedside

Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland talks about his new bookThe Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside,a Chaucerian take on doctors and their relationships with patients and each other. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Sherwin Nuland's Tales from the Bedside

Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland talks about his new book The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside, a Chaucerian take on doctors and their relationships with patients and each other. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Life Goes on within You and without You: Health and the Environment

In this episode, we'll hear parts of three talks from the recent symposium, Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Health and the Environment, organized by the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Speakers include Penn State's Peter Hudson, who talks about disease transmission; Oxford's Oliver Pybus, on how genome analysis exonerated health care workers accused of infecting children with HIV; and N.Y.U.'s Martin Blaser on our disappearing stomac ...

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Life Goes on within You and without You: Health and the Environment

In this episode, we'll hear parts of three talks from the recent symposium, Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Health and the Environment, organized by the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Speakers include Penn State's Peter Hudson, who talks about disease transmission; Oxford's Oliver Pybus, on how genome analysis exonerated health care workers accused of infecting children with HIV; and N.Y.U.'s Martin Blaser on our disappearing stomac ...

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Why People Believe What They Do

University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Tania Lombrozo talks about why people believe what they do, especially regarding evolution or creationism. Author Steve Miller discusses his new book The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Science of Everything. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/tlombrozo.html

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From Dark Energy to Lone Star Lunacy

Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about articles in the April issue, covering dark energy, bee colony collapse and post-traumatic stress. And Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, discusses anti-evolution-education efforts by the Texas School Board. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.ncseweb.org; www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd

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What Shape Is Your Galaxy?

Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo, a distributed computing project in which laypeople can help researchers characterize galaxies. And we tour Kroon Hall, the new green home of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.galaxyzoo.org; www.environment.yale.edu/kroon

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What Shape Is Your Galaxy?

Yale astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo, a distributed computing project in which laypeople can help researchers characterize galaxies. And we tour Kroon Hall, the new green home of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.galaxyzoo.org; www.environment.yale.edu/kroon

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In Search of Time

Journalist and writer Dan Falk talks about his new bookIn Search of Time,about the cultural, physical and psychological aspects of the mysterious ticking clocks all around us. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.danfalk.ca

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In Search of Time

Journalist and writer Dan Falk talks about his new book In Search of Time, about the cultural, physical and psychological aspects of the mysterious ticking clocks all around us. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.danfalk.ca

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Phrasing a Coyne: Jerry Coyne on Why Evolution Is True

During a Scientific American cruise in the Caribbean, University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne talks about his new book Why Evolution Is True. And we hear a brief example of what it's like to attend science lectures at sea. Plus, we'll test your knowlege of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.insightcruises.com; www.whyevolutionistrue.com

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From Spooky Action to Tiny Radios

Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the contents of the March issue of the magazine, including articles on quantum entanglement, nano radios, fresh brain cells and more. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Remarkable Creatures (and Getting Them Fixed)

University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about his new book,Remarkable Creatures,which chronicles the derring-do of some of natural history's brightest stars. AndFoundAnimals.org's Katy Palfrey discusses the Michelson Prize, for the development of a nonsurgical pet-neutering technique. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include foundanimals.org; seanbcarroll.com

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Remarkable Creatures (and Getting Them Fixed)

University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about his new book, Remarkable Creatures, which chronicles the derring-do of some of natural history's brightest stars. And FoundAnimals.org's Katy Palfrey discusses the Michelson Prize, for the development of a nonsurgical pet-neutering technique. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include foundanimals.org; seanbcarroll.com

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Stars of Cosmology, Part 2

In part 2 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson take reporters'questions at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on February 16th

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Stars of Cosmology, Part 2

In part 2 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson take reporters' questions at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on February 16th

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Stars of Cosmology, Part 1

In part 1 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson discuss the state of cosmology--and the universe's possible dismal future--at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on February 16th

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Stars of Cosmology, Part 1

In part 1 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson discuss the state of cosmology--and the universe's possible dismal future--at a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on February 16th

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Darwin Day Special, Part 3: Origins of Paleontology and the Impact of Religion on the Development of Evolutionary Theory

In part 3 of this special Darwin Day podcast, the Reverend Thomas Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches and author of the bookCurious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology,talks about Anning and how religion informed Darwin and the scientists who led to him.

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Darwin Day Special, Part 3: Origins of Paleontology and the Impact of Religion on the Development of Evolutionary Theory

In part 3 of this special Darwin Day podcast, the Reverend Thomas Goodhue, executive director of the Long Island Council of Churches and author of the book Curious Bones: Mary Anning and the Birth of Paleontology, talks about Anning and how religion informed Darwin and the scientists who led to him.

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Darwin Day Special, Part 2: Evolutionary Psychology and Religion

In part 2 of this special Darwin Day podcast, Hofstra University religion professor John Teehan discusses the study of religion from an evolutionary psychology perspective

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Darwin Day Special, Part 2: Evolutionary Psychology and Religion

In part 2 of this special Darwin Day podcast, Hofstra University religion professor John Teehan discusses the study of religion from an evolutionary psychology perspective

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Darwin Day Special: Bicentennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin

In part 1 of this special Darwin Day podcast, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin on February 12th, Richard Milner performs part of his one-man show about Darwin;Scientific AmericanEditor in Chief John Rennie and Darwin descendant Matthew Chapman read fromThe Origin of Species; and Chapman talks about his book40 Days and 40 Nights,about the Dover intelligent design trial as well as about his efforts to get presidential candidates to discuss science--a project called Sci ...

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Darwin Day Special: Bicentennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin

In part 1 of this special Darwin Day podcast, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin on February 12th, Richard Milner performs part of his one-man show about Darwin; Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie and Darwin descendant Matthew Chapman read from The Origin of Species; and Chapman talks about his book 40 Days and 40 Nights, about the Dover intelligent design trial as well as about his efforts to get presidential candidates to discuss science--a project calle ...

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The Naked Singularity Meets Social Media

Scientific AmericanEditor in Chief John Rennie talks about the content of the February issue, including naked singularities and the greenhouse hamburger. N.Y.U. journalism professor Jay Rosen discusses social media. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink

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The Naked Singularity Meets Social Media

Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about the content of the February issue, including naked singularities and the greenhouse hamburger. N.Y.U. journalism professor Jay Rosen discusses social media. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink

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CO2 Rising: Follow the Bouncing Carbon Atom

Scientist and author Tyler Volk talks about his new bookCO2Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://pages.nyu.edu/~tv1/Volk.htm

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Science Talk: January 28, 2009

CO2Rising: Follow the Bouncing Carbon Atom

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CO 2 Rising: Follow the Bouncing Carbon Atom

Scientist and author Tyler Volk talks about his new book CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://pages.nyu.edu/~tv1/Volk.htm

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Darwin: Ghostbuster, Muse and Magistrate

Darwin historian Richard Milner shares some of the lesser known aspects of Darwin's life. AndScientific Americancolumnist Michael Shermer talks about the stock market, religion and other belief systems. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.darwinlive.com; www.michaelshermer.com

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Science Talk: January 22, 2009

Darwin: Ghostbuster, Muse and Magistrate

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Darwin: Ghostbuster, Muse and Magistrate

Darwin historian Richard Milner shares some of the lesser known aspects of Darwin's life. And Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer talks about the stock market, religion and other belief systems. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.darwinlive.com; www.michaelshermer.com

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From Astronomy to Zune

Scientific Americanastronomy expert George Musser discusses the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society andSciAm.com's Larry Greenemeier reports on the Consumer Electronics Show. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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From Astronomy to Zune

Scientific American astronomy expert George Musser discusses the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society and SciAm.com's Larry Greenemeier reports on the Consumer Electronics Show. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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The Evolution of Evolution

Scientific AmericanEditor in Chief John Rennie discusses the special January issue of the magazine, which focuses on evolution--2009 being the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication ofThe Origin of Species. Subjects in the issue include the importance of natural selection, the sources of genetic variability, human evolution's past and future, pop evolutionary psychology, everyday applications of evolutionary theory, the science of the game Spor ...

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Science Talk: January 14, 2009

From Astronomy to Zune

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Science Talk: January 07, 2009

The Evolution of Evolution

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The Evolution of Evolution

Scientific American Editor in Chief John Rennie discusses the special January issue of the magazine, which focuses on evolution--2009 being the 200th anniversary of the birth of Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Subjects in the issue include the importance of natural selection, the sources of genetic variability, human evolution's past and future, pop evolutionary psychology, everyday applications of evolutionary theory, the science of the game Sp ...

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The Manhattan Project and the Met

The Metropolitan Opera's production of the new operaDoctor Atomicaired on PBS on December 29th. We'll hear from Manhattan Project veterans Roy Glauber (Nobel laureate), Murray Peshkin, Leonard Jossem, Al Bartlett, Hans Courant, Harold Agnew, Benjamin Bederson, who spoke at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. And we talk to the Metropolitan Opera's Patricia Steiner. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode i ...

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Science Talk: December 31, 2008

The Manhattan Project and the Met

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The Manhattan Project and the Met

The Metropolitan Opera's production of the new opera Doctor Atomic aired on PBS on December 29th. We'll hear from Manhattan Project veterans Roy Glauber (Nobel laureate), Murray Peshkin, Leonard Jossem, Al Bartlett, Hans Courant, Harold Agnew, Benjamin Bederson, who spoke at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. And we talk to the Metropolitan Opera's Patricia Steiner. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode ...

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Christmas at the Moon; and Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind

Scientific Americaneditor Michael Battaglia discusses the online In-Depth-Report onApollo 8,which orbited the moon 40 years ago this week. And author Emily Anthes talks about her new book,Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=apollo8; www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=science-movies; www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/tag/doctor-atomic

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Christmas at the Moon; and Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind

Scientific American editor Michael Battaglia discusses the online In-Depth-Report on Apollo 8, which orbited the moon 40 years ago this week. And author Emily Anthes talks about her new book, Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=apollo8; www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=science-movies; www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/tag/doctor-atomic

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From Carbon to the Cretaceous: Report from the American Geophysical Union Meeting

Scientific Americaneditor Davide Castelvecchi reports from the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. Subjects include the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. AndCNETSenior Associate Editor Michelle Thatcher gives us the lowdown on netbooks and tablet PCs. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.agu.org; crave.cnet.com

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Science Talk: December 24, 2008

Christmas At the Moon; and Instant Egghead Guide: Mind

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From Carbon to the Cretaceous: Report from the American Geophysical Union Meeting

Scientific American editor Davide Castelvecchi reports from the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. Subjects include the extinction of the dinosaurs and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. And CNET Senior Associate Editor Michelle Thatcher gives us the lowdown on netbooks and tablet PCs. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.agu.org; crave.cnet.com

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Klaatu's Back and He's Not Happy

Scott Derrickson, director of the new version ofThe Day the Earth Stood Still,talks about his take on the iconic sci-fi movie. And Nobel laureate Richard Roberts discusses the importance of open-access science publishing. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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Science Talk: December 19, 2008

From Carbon to the Cretaceous: Report from the American Geophysical Union Meeting

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Klaatu's Back and He's Not Happy

Scott Derrickson, director of the new version of The Day the Earth Stood Still, talks about his take on the iconic sci-fi movie. And Nobel laureate Richard Roberts discusses the importance of open-access science publishing. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news

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The Science of Pain

Stanford University pain expert Sean Mackey talks about the modern take on pain, how to treat it, why treatment is so important, and the relationship between pain and empathy. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/2008/10; paincenter.stanford.edu

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Science Talk: December 10, 2008

Klaatu's Back and He's Not Happy

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The Science of Pain

Stanford University pain expert Sean Mackey talks about the modern take on pain, how to treat it, why treatment is so important, and the relationship between pain and empathy. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/2008/10; paincenter.stanford.edu

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Science Talk: December 03, 2008

The Science of Pain

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Viruses against Disease; Going Batty for Bats

Scientific Americaneditor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the contents of the December issue, including bat evolution and how magicians are helping neuroscience. And Boro Dropulic of Lentigen talks about converting viruses into disease fighters. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=bat-guide; http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=thanksgiving

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Viruses against Disease; Going Batty for Bats

Scientific American editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the contents of the December issue, including bat evolution and how magicians are helping neuroscience. And Boro Dropulic of Lentigen talks about converting viruses into disease fighters. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=bat-guide; http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=thanksgiving

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Science Talk: November 26, 2008

Viruses against Disease; Going Batty for Bats

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Approval of Seals: Wildlife Docs and Their Exotic Patients

Some veterinarians treat animals much more exotic than the family pet. Jeffrey Boehm, executive director of the Marine Mammal Center, talks about the challenges of caring for sick sea mammals. And Alisa"Harley"Newton, a pathologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses how vets figured out that a pathogen attacking humans was in fact West Nile Virus. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.tmmc.org; www.wc ...

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Approval of Seals: Wildlife Docs and Their Exotic Patients

Some veterinarians treat animals much more exotic than the family pet. Jeffrey Boehm, executive director of the Marine Mammal Center, talks about the challenges of caring for sick sea mammals. And Alisa "Harley" Newton, a pathologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, discusses how vets figured out that a pathogen attacking humans was in fact West Nile Virus. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.tmmc.org; www. ...

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Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster

How a warming climate leads to freezing penguins, with journalist and author Jon Bowermaster, who has kayaked the world's seas, most recently in Antarctica. And Cynthia Graber takes us on a tour with a new M.I.T. underwater autonomous vehicle. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.jonbowermaster.com

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Science Talk: November 19, 2008

Approval of Seals: Wildlife Docs and Their Exotic Patients

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Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster

How a warming climate leads to freezing penguins, with journalist and author Jon Bowermaster, who has kayaked the world's seas, most recently in Antarctica. And Cynthia Graber takes us on a tour with a new M.I.T. underwater autonomous vehicle. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites related to this episode include www.jonbowermaster.com

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The Day After: Science in the Obama Administration

Stanford University biologist Sharon Long, a science advisor to the Barack Obama campaign, talks about science in the upcoming administration. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=election2008

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Science Talk: November 12, 2008

Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster

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The Day After: Science in the Obama Administration

Stanford University biologist Sharon Long, a science advisor to the Barack Obama campaign, talks about science in the upcoming administration. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/report.cfm?id=election2008

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Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums

For Halloween, we take a tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., with geologist Sidney Horenstein and Woodlawn expert Susan Olsen, concentrating on the geology of the rock used in the memorials. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.bigpumpkins.com; www.thewoodlawncemetery.org

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Science Talk: November 05, 2008

The Day After: Science in the Obama Administration

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Science Talk: October 30, 2008

Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums

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Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums

For Halloween, we take a tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., with geologist Sidney Horenstein and Woodlawn expert Susan Olsen, concentrating on the geology of the rock used in the memorials. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.bigpumpkins.com; www.thewoodlawncemetery.org

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Today's Alternative Energy; and November Issue Topics, Including Computer-Brain Interfaces and DNA Computing

Scientific Americanmagazine editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the November issue's contents, including computer-brain interfaces, DNA computing, the ongoing attempts to find an HIV vaccine and getting closer to theStar Trektricorder with portable NMR. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include snipurl.com/4LJ71; SciAm.com/sciammag

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More Than Pickles and Ice Cream: The Link Between Diet and Fertility

Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist Walter Willett talks toSciAmcorrespondent Cynthia Graber about his latest book,The Fertility Dietas well as about the links between nutrition and health generally. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Science Talk: October 22, 2008

Today's Alternative Energy; and November Issue Topics, Including Computer-Brain Interfaces and DNA Computing

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli Part II

Carl Zimmer continues his discussion ofE. coli,the bacteria that are the subject of his new bookMicrocosm:E. Coliand the New Science of Life. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about the Nobel Prizes awarded this week. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.carlzimmer.com; improbable.com; nobelprize.org

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Science Talk: October 15, 2008

More Than Pickles and Ice Cream: The Link Between Diet and Fertility

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli Part I

Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks aboutE. coli,the bacteria that are the subject of his new bookMicrocosm:E. Coliand the New Science of Life. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.carlzimmer.com

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Science Talk: October 09, 2008

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli Part II

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Searching for Intelligence

Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about the search for the physiological and biological basis of intelligence, the subject of his article in the October issue ofScientific Americanmagazine. And editor-in-chief, John Rennie, discusses other articles in the issue, including the cover story on the possibility of a big bounce instead of the big bang and the science of the World Wide Web. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this epi ...

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Science Talk: October 08, 2008

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli Part I

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Earth 3.0

Scientific Americaneditor Mark Fischetti talks aboutEarth 3.0,a newSciAmpublication concerning energy, sustainability and the environment. AndScientificAmerican.comwriter Larry Greenemeier discusses the interface between nanotech and biology. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.sciamearth3.com

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Science Talk: October 01, 2008

Searching for Intelligence

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The Large Hadron Collider Goes to Work

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek andScientific Americaneditor George Musser talk about the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator ever built, which went online this week. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.frankwilczek.com; www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM; http://www.sciam.com/report.cfm?id=lhc-countdown

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Science Talk: September 24, 2008

Earth 3.0

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Tom Friedman's New Book--Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Pulitzer Prize-winningNew York Timescolumnist Tom Friedman discusses his new book,Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.thomaslfriedman.com

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Science Talk: September 11, 2008

The Large Hadron Collider Goes to Work

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Who's Watching You: The Future of Privacy

Scientific Americaneditor in chief, John Rennie, discusses the future of privacy and security, the subject of the September single-topic issue ofScientific Americanmagazine. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; www.snipurl.com/sciamfootball

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Science Talk: September 09, 2008

Tom Friedman's New Book--Hot, Flat, and Crowded

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Return of a Killer: Tuberculosis in Russia

Veteran journalist Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, discusses his series of articles forSciAm.comon the rise of tuberculosis in Russia. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.gooznews.com; www.snipurl.com/goozner

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Science Talk: September 03, 2008

Who's Watching You: The Future of Privacy

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What's the Buzz: A Conversation with Buzz Aldrin

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, talks about solar energy, buses between the planets, the Constellation program, his time on the moon and his new animated movie,Fly Me to the Moon. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.snipurl.com/aldrin; www.sciamdigital.com; www.flymetothemoonthemovie.com

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Science Talk: August 27, 2008

Return of a Killer: Tuberculosis in Russia

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Superdove!: The Straight Poop on Pigeons

Courtney Humphries talks about her new book,Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan...And the World. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.birds.cornell.edu/pigeonwatch; chumphries.org

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Science Talk: August 20, 2008

What's the Buzz: A Conversation with Buzz Aldrin

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Inside SciAm: The August Issue

In this special edition ofScience Talk,Scientific Americaneditor in chief, John Rennie, talks to Steve about the August issue of the magazine, which features articles on migraine, solar superstorms and self-cleaning materials

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Science Talk: August 13, 2008

Superdove!: The Straight Poop on Pigeons

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Inside China: Science, Technology, Energy and the Environment

FormerWashington PostBeijing bureau chief, Philip Pan, author ofOut of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China,discusses the science, technology, environment and culture of China withScientific American's David Biello, who recently spent almost a month reporting from the country. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

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Science Talk: August 08, 2008

Inside SciAm: The August Issue

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Outsmarting Bombers; and A Warless Future?

IEEE Spectrumeditor in chief, Glenn Zorpette, talks about high-tech attempts to battle improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq as well as the state of reconstruction of Iraq's electricity grid. And journalist John Horgan talks about the possibility of eliminating war. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include: www.saferoadmaps.org, www.thomaslfriedman.com; www.spectrum.ieee.org

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Science Talk: August 06, 2008

Inside China: Science, Technology, Energy and the Environment

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Visit to the Fair: Inside a Tech Expo

In this episode we feature five interviews conducted at the Digital Experience! computer and electronics expo that took place in New York City in June. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include: www.eye.fi; www.skype.net; www.synaptics.com; www.jakkspacific.com; www.m-audio.com

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Science Talk: July 30, 2008

Outsmarting Bombers; and A Warless Future?

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory

George Musser talks about his new book,The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news

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Science Talk: July 23, 2008

Visit to the Fair: Inside a Tech Expo

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The Long and Winding Road: DNA Evidence for Human Migration; Plus July Issue Highlights

Gary Stix discusses his JulyScientific Americancover article on DNA evidence for the history of human migration. And editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the neuroscience of dance, the quantum cosmos and Rubik's Cubes. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.sciam.com/sciammag

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Science Talk: July 16, 2008

The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory

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Gott Ya: Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott on Time Travel and Presidential Polling

Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott discusses some of the realities and speculations of time travel (one human holds the record for time travel--1/48 of a second) as well as how best to evaluate presidential election polling data. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.colleyrankings.com, snipurl.com/2oorv

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Science Talk: July 07, 2008

The Long and Winding Road: DNA Evidence for Human Migration; Plus July Issue Highlights

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One Singular Sensation: Will We Upload Our Brains, and Other Questions Related to"The Coming Singularity"

Glenn Zorpette, executive editor ofIEEE Spectrummagazine, and journalist John Horgan discuss various ideas related to what some call"the coming singularity,"a point where computers will allegedly attain consciousness and superintelligence. Or not. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.spectrum.ieee.org/singularity

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Science Talk: June 25, 2008

Gott Ya: Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott on Time Travel and Presidential Polling

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The Happening: A Conversation with Director M. Night Shyamalan

M. Night Shyamalan's new film,The Happening,involves an environmental backlash, the limits of reason and the beauty of math.SciAmeditor George Musser discusses the film with the director. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.sciam.com/daily

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Science Talk: June 18, 2008

One Singular Sensation: Will We Upload Our Brains, and Other Questions Related to "The Coming Singularity"

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Fact and Fiction: James Randi's"Amaz!ng Meeting"and Mark Alpert's Physics Novel, Final Theory

James Randi, famous debunker of frauds, talks about the"Amaz!ng Meeting"coming up in Las Vegas, andSciAmeditor Mark Alpert discusses his new physics novel,Final Theory. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.sciam.com/daily, www.badscience.net, www.randi.org, www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vgsZmleoE

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Science Talk: June 12, 2008

The Happening: A Conversation with Director M. Night Shyamalan

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The Feral Biologist: A Talk with George Schaller; A Look in the June SciAm

The Wildlife Conservation Society's George Schaller talks about his new book,"A Naturalist and Other Beasts,"which covers his 50 years of documenting important large animal species in the field. AndScientific Americaneditor in chief, John Rennie, offers a look at some articles in the June issue. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.SciAm.com/daily, www.wcs.org

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Science Talk: June 04, 2008

Fact and Fiction: James Randi's "Amaz!ng Meeting" and Mark Alpert's Physics Novel, Final Theory

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Science Talk: May 28, 2008

The Feral Biologist: A Talk with George Schaller; A Look in the June SciAm

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Little Brains, Big Brains: Latest Flores Hobbit News and the Intel Science Fair

Kate Wong brings us up to date on the ongoing research into fossils of the tiny human, called the Hobbit, found on the island of Flores. And Ivan Oransky reports from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Plus, Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman illustrates problems with reductionism and refrigerators. And we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.SciAm.com/daily, www.nybg.org/darwin/symposium.php, www.intel.com/ ...

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Science Talk: May 21, 2008

Little Brains, Big Brains: Latest Flores Hobbit News and the Intel Science Fair

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China Quake Update; Fictional Scientists; What's New at SciAm.com

David Biello reports from China on the aftermath of the major earthquake that struck this week. Mark Alpert talks about the portrayal of scientists in fiction. And new online managing editor Ivan Oransky discusses what's up on the Web site. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.sciam.com/daily, www.snipurl.com/madsci, www.snipurl.com/hotpepper

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Science Talk: May 14, 2008

China Quake Update; Fictional Scientists; What's New at SciAm.com

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Evolution Enclaves: Darwin the Botanist and Origins of Life Research

David Kohn, curator of the Darwin's Garden exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden, discusses Darwin's botanical studies. And Harvard Medical School's Jack Szostak talks about research into the origins of life. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.nybg.org/darwin; www.hhmi.org; www.sciam.com/daily

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Plasma Physics: From Black Holes to Radio Reception

Plasma plays a big role from the ionosphere to black holes. Stanford physicist Roger Blandford explains plasma and its connection to black holes in a conversation withScientific American's JR Minkel. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.snipurl.com/26dun-sciam1; www.snipurl.com/26dv2-sciam2; www.nybg.org/darwin

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Science Talk: May 7, 2008

Evolution Enclaves: Darwin the Botanist and Origins of Life Research

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Can Science Save the Banana?

The banana is the world's most important fruit. But it's under threat from a disease spreading around the world. We'll hear from Dan Koeppel, author of the book"Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World."And we'll visit a Guatemala banana plantation with guide Julio Cordova. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.bananabook.org

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Science Talk: April 30, 2008

Plasma Physics: From Black Holes to Radio Reception

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On The Shoulders of Giants: John Wheeler and Salome Waelsch

Physicist John Wheeler and geneticist Salome Waelsch both had incredibly long and fruitful careers, providing numerous fundamental insights in their respective fields. We'll hear from Kenneth Ford, former director of the American Institute of Physics, about Wheeler, who died April 13th at 96. And Princeton's Lee Silver talks about Waelsch, who died last fall at 100 and who was memorialized on April 14th at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Plus we'll test your knowle ...

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Science Talk: April 23, 2008

Can Science Save the Banana?

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Science Talk: April 16, 2008

On The Shoulders of Giants: John Wheeler and Salome Waelsch

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Expelled Explained

A new movie, Expelled, claims that intelligent design is good science that is being censored by adherents to evolution, which is nothing but Darwinian dogma. Scientific American's editor-in-chief, John Rennie, and podcast host Steve Mirsky discuss the movie. And Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education, talks about being interviewed for the film as well as her organization's efforts to provide correct information about the claims in Expelled. Plus we'll test your ...

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A Scientists'Bill of Rights?

Francesca Grifo from the Union of Concerned Scientists talks about the need for legislation to protect federal scientists. We'll also hear from the UCS's Kurt Gottfried and Anthony Robbins, who spoke at a press conference in Boston in February. And Scientific American's editor-in-chief, John Rennie, previews the April issue of the magazine. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.ucsusa.org

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Science Talk: April 9, 2008

Expelled Explained

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Baseball Science

Dan Gordon, editor of the new book"Your Brain On Cubs"from the Dana Foundation, talks about the neuroscience of baseball players and their fans. And statistician Shane Jensen of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School discusses attempts to get a statistical handle on defense in baseball. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.dana.org, www.snakejazz.com

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Science Talk: April 2, 2008

A Scientists' Bill of Rights?

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For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics

Ornithologist and conservation biologist Jeffrey Wells talks about birds and their roles as markers for environmental health. He also discusses the Boreal Forest, the Boreal Birdsong Initiative, the eBird research project (that you can assist) and his new book, The Birder's Conservation Handbook. We also have a brief tribute to the late Arthur C. Clarke. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.ebird.org; www.borealbir ...

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Science Talk: March 26, 2008

Baseball Science

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Science Talk: March 19, 2008

For the Birds: A look at birds, habitat conservation and environmental economics

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Science and America's Future

Argonne National Laboratory director Robert Rosner talks about the role of science in keeping America an economic leader. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.anl.gov

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A Mars Rovers Once Over

We look at the state of the rovers currently on Mars, the big accidental discovery by the Spirit rover, and the next-generation device slated to join them in 2010, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Interviews with Cornell's Melissa Rice, the payload downlink lead for the rover cameras, and the Jet Propulsion Lab's Michelle Viotti, about the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Also press conference clips featuring Cornell's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science instruments on th ...

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Science Talk: March 12, 2008

Science and America's Future

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Arachnophilia! And War...What Was It Good for (in Human Evolution)?

Spider expert Greta Binford, from Lewis&Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and her student MG Weber talk about the fascinating world of spiders. And economist Samuel Bowles, from the Santa Fe Institute, discusses the co-evolution of war and altruism. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.santafe.edu/~bowles

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Science Talk: March 5, 2008

A Mars Rovers Once Over

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Science, Science Everywhere: AAAS Conference Highlights

In this episode, we'll hear about the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which took place last week in Boston. Nobel Laureate and AAAS President David Baltimore talks about the ongoing challenges of HIV vaccine research; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi discusses the lab's next batch of missions; and Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti summarizes a few sessions he went to covering the environment. Plus we'll test ...

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Fat Chance: Do Dietary Guidelines Actually Contribute to Obesity?

In this episode, Albert Einstein College of Medicine public health researcher Paul Marantz questions whether dietary guidelines are counterproductive and talks about the philosophy of recommendations based on population studies. We'll hear a Valentine's Day poem. Plus we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include sciammind.com, sciamdigital.com, snipurl.com/sing-sciam, snipurl.com/paul-sciam, snipurl.com/paul2-sciam, snipurl.com/pau ...

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Science Talk: February 22, 2007

Science, Science Everywhere: AAAS Conference Highlights

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Science Talk: February 13, 2007

Fat Chance: Do Dietary Guidelines Actually Contribute to Obesity?

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Science Talk: February 6, 2008

You Say Potato, I Say Cassava: Language, Culture and Perception

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Science Talk: January 30, 2008

Knock, Knock, Hal's There: Teaching Computers Humor; and the 50th Anniversary of America's First Satellite

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Science Talk: January 23, 2008

What's The Matter?: Cold Dark Matter and the Milky Way's Missing Satellites

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Science Talk: January 16, 2008

Mindful Motion: Miguel Nicolelis and Mind-Powered Robots; and Creating Science Cities in Brazil and Beyond

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Science Talk: January 9, 2008

Whose Phone Is It, Anyway: Did Bell Steal The Invention?

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Science Talk: January 2, 2008

Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Sci Am's History of Debunking

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Science Talk: December 26, 2007

What's In A Latin Name: The Legacy of Linnaeus

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Science Talk: December 19, 2007

Here Comes the Sun--A Grand Plan for Solar Energy; and Sci Am's New Body

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Science Talk: December 12, 2007

Are There (Microbial) Aliens On Earth?

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Science Talk: December 5, 2007

Three Whiz Kids, Two Winning Projects And A Nobel Laureate

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Science Talk: November 28, 2007

Neuroscience and the Law

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Science Talk: November 21, 2007

The Science of Cheese; and Scientific American's New Community

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Science Talk: November 14, 2007

Need For New Nukes?; and News From Neuroscience

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Science Talk: November 7, 2007

The Ethics of Climate Change; and NOVA Does Dover

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60-Second Science: October 31, 2007

Quest for the Giant Pumpkin

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Science Talk: October 24, 2007

Good Germs, Bad Germs

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Science Talk: October 17, 2007

Chickens and Pigs and Yeast, Oh My!: The Public Health Threat of Animal Diseases; and Gene Duplication in Evolution

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Science Talk: October 10, 2007

When Worlds Collide: The Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes

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Science Talk: October 3, 2007

The Final Frontier: Our Future in Space

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Science Talk: September 26, 2007

Who Do You Think You Are: Chatting With Bots, and the Sexuality Spectrum

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Science Talk: September 19, 2007

What's In A Rose: Ethnobotany and the Search for Useful Plants

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Science Talk: September 12, 2007

Can Fat Be Fit?

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Science Talk: September 5, 2007

Putting Food On The Table: What To Eat

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Science Talk: August 22, 2007

The World Is Fat: Obesity Now Outweighs Hunger WorldWide

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Science Talk: August 15, 2007

Is Your Food Contaminated; New Orleans Now; And the Science of Dogs

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Science Talk: August 8, 2007

Better Brains: The Revolution in Brain Science

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Science Talk: August 1, 2007

Is Privacy Dead? Technological Approaches to the Technological Threat

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Science Talk: July 25, 2007

Saddle Up That Stegosaurus--A Visit To The Creation Museum

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Science Talk: July 18, 2007

Space For Both?--Human Vs. Robotic Space Missions

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Science Talk: July 11, 2007

Systems Biology: The Future of Biomedical Science?

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Science Talk: July 4, 2007

Benjamin Franklin the Scientist

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Science Talk: June 27, 2007

The World Without Us: Suppose Humans Just Vanished--Then What?

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Science Talk: June 20, 2007

Why We Eat, Eat and Eat Some More; and Remembering Mr. Wizard

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Science Talk: June 13, 2007

Jared Diamond on the State of the World Environment

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Science Talk: June 6, 2007

Mark Twain: Fossil Hunter and Science Writer

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Science Talk: May 30, 2007

How Cargo Containers Shrank the World and Transformed Trade; and Smart Skylights

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Science Talk: May 23, 2007

Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (And A Few Men)

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Science Talk: May 16, 2007

The Encyclopedia of Life; and the End of John Horgan's Pessimism

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Science Talk: May 9, 2007

Beer Science; And A Cancer Research Report

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Science Talk: May 2, 2007

Small Matters: Microbes In Us And The Environment

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Science Talk: April 25, 2007

Peer Review of Peer Review; and the Franklin Institute Awards

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Science Talk: April 18, 2007

Atul Gawande, Author of Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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Science Talk: April 11, 2007

Catching Corrupted Photos; and Big Bird Brains

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Science Talk: April 4, 2006

Baseball Science

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Science Talk: March 28, 2006

Alcoholism and Genetics; and Why Aren't the Pioneer Spacecraft Where They Should Be?

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Science Talk: March 21, 2006

Naturally Speaking: Finding Nature's Treasure Trove with the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition; and Natural Products Chemistry

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Science Talk: March 14, 2007

Made To Stick: Crafting Memorable Messages; and Cycling For Days On A Gallon Of Gas

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Science Talk: March 07, 2007

Leave It To Beaver (To Return To New York City); and AccesScience '07, Communicating Science To Everyone

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Science Talk: February 28, 2007

Who Speaks For Science?

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Science Talk: February 21, 2007

No Laughing Matter: Mo Rocca On Humor Theory; Report From the AAAS Conference

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Science Talk: February 14, 2007

My Unfunny Valentine: The Truth About Online Dating; and The Myelin Repair Foundation--A New Model For Outcome-Oriented Biomedical Research

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Science Talk: February 07, 2007

The Heat IS On: International Global Warming Consensus; and Academy Award Winning Audio Science

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Science Talk: January 31, 2007

TV Of Tomorrow; Battle Of The Science Journals; US Budget Crunch Threatens National Lab

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Science Talk: January 24, 2007

Good News About Coffee And Amazing Skeptic Conference

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Science Talk: January 17, 2007

Better Ways To Cut A Cake and To Pick A Champion

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Science Talk: January 10, 2007

The Inevitability Of Cancer's Commonality; and High School Math Whiz

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Science Talk: January 3, 2007

Tears And Other Traits That Make Us Human; What Color Is Your Placebo Parachute

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Science Talk: December 27, 2006

Rampaging Robots and Killer Komodos

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Science Talk: December 20, 2006

Radioactive Spy Dust and the Litvinenko Case; Ode To Grad Students

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Science Talk: December 13, 2006

Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus and Rocky the Flying Mesozoic Mammal

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Science Talk: November 29, 2006

Tomorrow's Newspapers and Next Week's Cars

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Science Talk: November 22, 2006

Tiny Technology and Talking Turkey

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Science Talk: November 15, 2006

Looking Into the Future At The World Science Forum; Poetry And Science with Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann

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Science Talk: November 1, 2006

Shocking Research: Electroshock Therapy and Stem Cells

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Science Talk: October 25, 2006

The Making of the Fittest: A Conversation with Evolutionary Biologist Sean Carroll

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Science Talk: October 18, 2006

Test Tube Babies; Old Time Radio; What's In A Name

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Science Talk: August 30, 2006

The Teen Brain; Flipping Magnetic Poles; What's Pluto?

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Science Talk: September 27, 2006

Six Big Science Debates; Missions to Map Planets; Breaking Down Barriers: Women in Science

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Science Talk: September 20, 2006

Human Evolution Fossil Find and Oil Company Conservation Comments

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60-Second Science: September 6, 2006

Antidrug Money Up in Smoke?

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Science Talk: September 6, 2006

Dark Matter; New Daily Scientific American Podcast, 60-Second Science; Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter"

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Science Talk: August 23, 2006

Scientific American Magazine single topic issue--Energy's Future: Beyond Carbon; and Well-Read Doctors.

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Science Talk: August 9, 2006

EPA Pesticide Controversy and Impact Astronomy

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Science Talk: August 2, 2006

The Expert Mind and the Interplanetary Bicycle Ride

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Science Talk: July 26, 2006

The Mountain/Climate Relation and Patient Safety

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Science Talk: July 19, 2006

Space Shuttle and Fingerprints

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Science Talk: July 12, 2006

CSI: Reality

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Science Talk: July 5, 2006

Ice Cream Science

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Science Talk: June 28, 2006

Bering Sea, radiation, historic tortoise.

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June 14, 2006

Evolution Update

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Episode 17: May 31, 2006

Future of the Internet: Net Neutrality, the Semantic Web, plus some comments on science by the mayor of New York.

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Episode 15: May 17, 2006

Inside the Tevatron; the Human-Computer Interface; DNA Computing.

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Episode 14: May 10, 2006

The Environment: birds; strategic conservation; big cats.

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Episode 13: May 3, 2006

Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine.

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Episode 12: April 26, 2006

Early Universe, Benjamin Franklin Science, Evolution Education.

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Episode 11: April 19, 2006

Hybrid Cars, Drosophila Maggots, the Tribal Mind.

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Episode 10: April 12, 2006

Animal intelligence, Mars Rovers, Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health.

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Episode 9: April 5, 2006

Animal intelligence, Einstein, Szilard and the bomb, sustainable development.

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Episode 8: March 29, 2006

Attacking antibiotic resistance; William Shockley biography; flu data policy.

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Episode 7: March 22, 2006

Combat stress, Intel high school science competition, GLOBE At Night astronomy project

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Episode 6: March 15, 2006

Flores hobbit update, chemistry in art, environmental impostors.

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Episode 5: March 8, 2006

Genetics of longevity, diaper-free movement, possible plane problems from personal electronics

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Episode 4: March 1, 2006

Cosmic ray threat, sasquatch DNA, geochemist cook

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Episode 3: February 22, 2006

Computer security, curling, AAAS meeting

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Episode 2: February 15, 2006

Avian flu, marijuana policy, new tyrannosaur

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Episode 1: February 8, 2006

Evolution, stem cells and the National Inventors Hall of Fame

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Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 2 of 2)

Photograph 51is a new play about Rosalind Franklin, Watson and Crick, and the race to determine the structure of DNA, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, running through November 21st. A panel discussion about the play on November 2nd featured crystallography expert Helen Berman, biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin, science journalist Nicholas Wade, playwright Anna Ziegler and moderator Stuart Firestein. Websites related to this episode include www.ensemblestudioth ...

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From Dark Energy to Lone Star Lunacy

Scientific Americanmagazine Editor in Chief John Rennie talks about articles in the April issue, covering dark energy, bee colony collapse and post-traumatic stress. And Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, discusses anti-evolution-education efforts by the Texas School Board. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.ncseweb.org; www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd

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Phrasing a Coyne: Jerry Coyne on Why Evolution Is True

During aScientific Americancruise in the Caribbean, University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne talks about his new bookWhy Evolution Is True. And we hear a brief example of what it's like to attend science lectures at sea. Plus, we'll test your knowlege of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.insightcruises.com; www.whyevolutionistrue.com

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Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin'sOrigin of Species,we review Darwin's influence on the the modern world, as analyzed by Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's most prolific evolutionary theorists. We review Mayr's July 2000Scientific Americanarticle,"Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought". The original, complete essay is temporarily available free of charge at http://snipurl.com/darwinsciam

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Beauty Is Truth (and Science)

Procter&Gamble scientists Greg Hillebrand and Jay Tiesman talk about scientific research related to beauty products and cosmetics. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.pg.com/science

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Why People Believe What They Do

University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Tania Lombrozo talks about why people believe what they do, especially regarding evolution or creationism. Author Steve Miller discusses his new bookThe Complete Idiot's Guide to the Science of Everything. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/tlombrozo.html

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