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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. Primary Format : Science Language : English Also Listed as: City : New York State/Province : NY Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Scientific American Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of Scientific American Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Scientific American Podcast 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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_ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website