Link to the Show / Show NotesScientific 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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