Science Talk
By Scientific American
Science Talk is a weekly science audio show covering the latest in the world of science and technology. Join Steve Mirsky each week as he explores cutting-edge breakthroughs and controversial issues with leading scientists and journalists. He is also an articles editor and columnist at Scientific American magazine. His column, "Antigravity," is one of science writing's great humor venues. Also check our daily podcast from Scientific American : "60-Second Science." To view all of our archived podcasts please go to www.scientificamerican.com/podcast
A Breakdown of Beavers
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Environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb talks about his book Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter .
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Kidney disease affects millions of Americans, but corporate capture of dialysis, along with disparities in treatment and transplant access, mean that not everyone's journey is the same. On this Science Talk podcast, we speak with Carrie Arnold, lead reporter in an ambitious, year-long reporting project into the current state of chronic kidney disease treatment in the U.S., from diagnosis to dialysis, and from maintenance treatment to transplant (for those who are lucky). You can read the first part in the series here . It's a story of technological and procedural advance, but also one that has seen just two large, for-profit enterprises come to dominate the market for dialysis delivery. It's a story of expanding access, but also one still marked by racial and ethnic disparities. And it's a tale of medical innovation and adaptation, but also one beset by conflicts of interest and an inability to adapt to holistic modes of care that other disease specialities, from cardiology to oncology, have long ago embraced. For the 37 million Americans navigating the corridors of kidney disease, these are likely familiar issues. But for the third of Americans at risk for renal disease — and for anyone who cares about how the nation's health care dollars are spent — this five-part collaboration between Undark Magazine and Scientific American pulls back the curtain and provides an unflinching look at what's working, and what's not.
What Science Has Learned about the Coronavirus One Year On
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About a year ago, SARS-CoV-2 (which wasn't called that yet) was just beginning to emerge in a cluster of cases inside China . We know what has happened since then, but it bears repeating: there have been 69 million cases and more than 1.5 million deaths globally as of December 10, 2020, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. And as the virus raced around the world, science has also raced to understand how it actually works, biologically. Today on the Science Talk podcast, a virologist who has been part of that massive effort joins us. Britt Glaunsinger is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has been studying viruses for 25 years, with a particular focus, before December 2019, on the herpesvirus. Over the past 12 months, her lab has been focusing on strategies the virus uses to suppress the body's innate immune system.
2020's Top 10 Tech Innovations
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Scientific American and the World Economic Forum sifted through more than 75 nominations for the most innovative and potentially game-changing technologies in 2020. The final top 10 span the fields of medicine, engineering, environmental sciences and chemistry. And to win the nod, the technologies must have the potential to spur progress in societies and economies by outperforming established ways of doing things. They also need to be novel (that is, not currently in wide use) yet likely to have a major impact within the next three to five years. Here's your guide for the (hopefully) near future. Read the full report here .
Inventing Us: How Inventions Shaped Humanity
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Materials scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez talks about her latest book The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another .
175 Years of Scientific American: The Good, the Bad and the Debunking
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We look back at some highlights, midlights and lowlights of the history of Scientific American, featuring former editor in chief John Rennie. Astrophysicist Alan Guth also appears in a sponsored segment.
Bread Science: A Yeasty Conversation
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"Baking is applied microbiology," according to the book Modernist Bread . During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own bread. Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs talks about Modernist Bread, for which he was a writer and editor.
The Coming or Possibly Nearly Here Storm
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Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest sci-fi thriller The Coming Storm, which warns about the consequences of unethical scientific research and of ignoring the scientific findings you don't like.
COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
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Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan , head of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine's division of medical ethics, about some of the ethical issues that researchers have to consider in testing and distributing vaccines against COVID-19.
How Your Homes and Buildings Affect You
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Journalist and author Emily Anthes talks about her book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness .
African-Americans, Nature and Environmental Justice
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Journalist Bob Hirshon reports from the Taking Nature Black conference, reporter Shahla Farzan talks about tracking copperhead snakes, and nanoscientist Ondrej Krivanek discusses microscopes with subangstrom resolution.
How Nature Helps Body and Soul
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Journalist and author Florence Williams talks about her book The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative .
The Messenger Is the Message
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Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and psychologist Joseph Marks talk about their book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, and Why .
Air, Sea and Space: Ocean Health, Atmosphere Insights and Black Holes
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Biological oceanography expert Miriam Goldstein talks about issues facing the oceans. Reporter Adam Levy discusses air pollution info available because of the pandemic. And astrophysicist Andrew Fabian chats about black holes.
Science on the Hill: Calculating Climate
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For the fourth Science on the Hill event, Future Climate: What We Know, What We Don't, experts talked with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about what goes into modeling our climate—and how such models are used in addition to long-term climate prediction.
Your Brain, Free Will and the Law
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Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky talks about human behavior, the penal system and the question of free will.
No, No Nobel: How to Lose the Prize
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Physicist Brian Keating talks about his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor .
Galileo's Fight against Science Denial
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio talks about his latest book, Galileo: And the Science Deniers, and how the legendary scientist's battles are still relevant today.
Where Is Everybody Else in the Universe?
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Guest host W. Wayt Gibbs talks with Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds, about what's known as the Fermi paradox: In a universe of trillions of planets, where is everybody?
Why Exercise Is So Good For You
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Health journalist Judy Foreman talks about her new book Exercise Is Medicine: How Physical Activity Boosts Health and Slows Aging .
COVID-19: What the Autopsies Reveal
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Pathologists are starting to get a closer look at the damage that COVID-19 does to the body by carefully examining the internal organs of people who have died from the novel coronavirus.
COVID-19: The Need for Secure Labs--and Their Risks
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Coronavirus research requires high-containment labs. Journalist Elisabeth Eaves talks with Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs about her article "The Risks of Building Too Many Bio Labs," a joint project of the New Yorker and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists .
Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
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Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities.
COVID-19: Predicting the Path and Analyzing Immunity
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Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs continues to report on the coronavirus outbreak from his home in Kirkland, Wash., site of the first U.S. cases. In this installment, he talks with researchers about what their models show for the future of the pandemic and on research to create tests to see who has developed immunity.
COVID-19: How and Why the Virus Spreads Quickly
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Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the original U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak: Kirkland, Wash. In this installment of our ongoing series, he talks with researchers about the properties of the virus and why it spreads so quickly.
COVID-19: The Wildlife Trade and Human Disease
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Christian Walzer, executive director of global health at the Wildlife Conservation Society, talks about how the wildlife trade, especially for human consumption, can lead to disease outbreaks.
David Quammen: How Animal Infections Spill Over to Humans
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In this 2012 interview, David Quammen talks about his book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which is highly relevant to the emergence of the coronavirus that has changed our lives.
COVID-19: Dealing with Social Distancing
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Judy Moskowitz, a professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern University, talks about ways to cope during this time of missing out on our usual diet of social interactions.
Coronavirus Hot Zone: Research and Responses in the U.S. Epicenter
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Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak: Kirkland, Wash. In this installment of our ongoing series, he talks with researchers about the efforts to create vaccines and treatments and the challenges the outbreak poses to cancer patients and others who are immunocompromised.
Coronavirus Hot Zone: The View from the U.S. Epicenter
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Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs reports from the U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak: Kirkland, Wash. In this first installment of an ongoing series, he looks at why children seem to weather this disease better than adults and the complicated issue of shuttering schools.
The New Cosmos: A Conversation with Ann Druyan
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Emmy and Peabody Award–winning science writer, producer and director Ann Druyan talks about Cosmos: Possible Worlds, the next installment of the Cosmos series.
Advancing Efforts in Disease Interception
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Ben Wiegand, global head of the World without Disease Accelerator at Janssen, the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, talks about efforts to prevent a disease or to identify it in its earliest stages for more effective treatments.
Kirk, Spock and Darwin
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Duke University evolutionary biologist Mohamed A. F. Noor talks about his book Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds .
How to Make a Mass Extinction
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Journalist and author Peter Brannen talks about his book The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions .
Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger
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Journalist and author Beth Gardiner talks about her new book Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution . And CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna talks about gene editing.
150 Years of the Journal Nature
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Nature is arguably the world's most prestigious scientific journal. Editor in chief Magdalena Skipper spoke with Scientific American 's acting editor in chief Curtis Brainard about her journal as it celebrates its 150th anniversary.
Lithium-Ion Battery Creators Win Chemistry Nobel Prize
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John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of lithium-ion batteries" that have led to portable electronic devices that are rechargeable virtually anywhere on the planet.
How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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William Kaelin, Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability." New therapies for cancer and conditions such as anemia are in the pipeline, based on these discoveries.
Talking Health and Energy at U.N. Climate Action Summit
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Scientific American senior editor Jen Schwartz talks with WHO officials Maria Neira and Agnès Soucat about climate and health and with Rachel Kyte, special representative to the U.N. secretary-general for, and CEO of, Sustainable Energy for All.
Kicking Climate Change: Wins for Health, the Economy and Security
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Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy talks with Scientific American 's Andrea Thompson about the widespread benefits of taking action against climate change.
The Mathematical Language of Nature
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Physics historian Graham Farmelo talks about his latest book, The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets.
Jacks-of-All-Trades Make the Grade
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Journalist and author David Epstein talks about his new book Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World .
It's Melting: Science on Ice
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Glaciologist Elizabeth Case of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University's Earth Institute takes us out near Juneau, Alaska, to study and live on the shifting ice.
Joseph Lange's Campaign against HIV
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Seema Yasmin, director of research and education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, talks about her book The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man's Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic. Lange was killed five years ago today when flight MH17 was shot down.
Bone Up on What's Inside You
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Author and self-described fossil fanatic Brian Switek talks about his new book Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone.
Solving Our Plastic Problem
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At Scientific American 's third Science on the Hill event, experts from academia and the private sector met at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill to talk with Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about solutions to our plethora-of-plastics problem.
Secrets of the Universe Revealed!
00:36:39 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7C66963F-11AF-4787-89F5F6544E696FFB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 186815147 80E14411-4FF2-43EE-AB8755D936D234F0
Cornell University applied mathematics professor Steven Strogatz talks about his new book Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe.
How the Black Hole Said Cheese
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Scientific American 's chief features editor Seth Fletcher talks about his book Einstein's Shadow, an account of the long effort to image a black hole that recently came to fruition.
A Tree and Its People in a Warming Landscape
00:35:51 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4739D4AA-A3BA-44A8-9C484FA42E2DD167 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369529 C552FE28-E012-43E2-8CD2BC1699733D80
Conservation scientist Lauren Oakes discusses her book about Alaska ecology and sociology, In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World.
Science Couple Phages Out Superbug
00:34:32 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5F71B837-BD63-45FA-89D471A7CE6F2CA3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369530 3602B833-2AC2-4CF8-9EFA00284852F1EC
Medical researcher Steffanie Strathdee needed to save the life of her husband, researcher Tom Patterson, when he contracted one of the world's worst infections. She turned to phage therapy: using a virus to kill the bacteria.
Vaccine Rejection: Truth and Consequences
00:24:52 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8F365FE1-7EEF-4521-847808547C40811C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369531 8962541E-4A2F-4245-BC8CD71EDDE99157
Kent State epidemiologist Tara Smith talks about vaccines, recent preventable measles outbreaks and her 2017 journal article on vaccine rejection.
On the Origin of Darwin
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On this 210th anniversary of Darwin's birth we hear evolution writer and historian Richard Milner perform a brief monologue as Charles Darwin, and former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie and Darwin's great-great-grandson Matthew Chapman read excerpts from The Origin of Species .
Warming Arctic on Thin Ice
00:16:08 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=ABA83AC6-9A56-4C97-BF9D3F708371E2F2 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369533 95F52584-C372-4FBC-BAAC88C65C54EC28
Scientific American collections editor Andrea Gawrylewski talks to managing editor Curtis Brainard about how warming in the Arctic affects us all. And glaciologist Elizabeth Case takes us out near Juneau to study and live on the shifting ice.
Fake Whiskeys and Octo-Ecstasy
00:28:18 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A64A77DC-1C82-42D9-ADB0738665581EF4 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369534 11F8F61E-7DC9-4436-86AA14169B4C5543
Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, take a deeper look at two short articles from the Advances news section of the December issue, on counterfeit whiskeys and the effect of real ecstasy...on octopuses.
Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth
00:07:25 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=26384B71-6598-4207-BE26FF581552E34E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369535 898D4711-C86D-4E9E-97D7927348A53179
As the New Horizons mission approached Ultima Thule, Rowan University paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara put our close-up study of the Kuiper Belt object into a deep-time perspective.
Meet the Real Ravenmaster
00:38:19 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C0396F76-450E-44D2-B26F66A59B48AB75 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369536 21C303FD-78A8-47CB-8242A1089919FB56
Christopher Skaife talks about his new book The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, in front of a live audience at Caveat, "the speakeasy bar for intelligent nightlife" in Lower Manhattan.
The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2
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Pulitzer Priz​e–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 2.
00:30:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=192A00C3-2F95-4B26-8EDF5B0C71257D8A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369538 7F7947FA-1987-402A-9CFAF881978E3E72
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Deborah Blum talks about her book The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the 20th Century, Part 1.
Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology
00:32:53 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AA2DC951-750F-42AC-935B8FF25E227027 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369539 916C62B9-4837-4D81-B62DB2BDFE6D63A9
A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums.
Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness
00:25:31 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1C07CFD6-0C9F-48E4-928BF2171164DA26 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369540 92C2CE0B-5A0D-4B6E-8BE35E5C19D91DF3
Scientific American assistant news editor, Tanya Lewis, and collections editor, Andrea Gawrylewski, host a new podcast that takes a deeper look at short articles from the Advances news section of the magazine.
Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
00:14:28 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=65337D60-8E86-42A8-89931B313A406354 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369541 FAD80F88-A7C5-43B3-A1B83120FE062F97
Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using evolutionary principles to create highly efficient enzymes and antibodies, with numerous practical applications.
Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics
00:29:15 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A1F339E1-EA81-460B-88E4EA9942023128 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369542 EC050592-2616-426B-A0303F0FD83F7347
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland shared the Nobel Prize for finding ways to control and enhance laser light, leading to numerous common applications.
Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
00:20:47 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EBFAF00B-1154-434C-B133B76636B1CFD3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369543 5C1C0558-A447-43B7-B803D32EFA6A23F9
James P. Allison and and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for their discovery of inhibition of negative immune regulation, the basis of new drugs against cancer.
Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise
00:30:50 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8D6EA176-58CB-4CF3-A4BB55803A031F6E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369544 E738A799-9AAF-4313-B347B00409B52E79
Astrophysicist and sports data scientist Meredith Wills talks about why a subtle change in Major League baseballs may be behind the jump in home runs after 2014.
More People, but Less Hardship?
00:26:34 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=9B805461-AA15-4911-B91165265A293EF8 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369545 D2BACD88-20EF-4382-BCFFFA860C46CD93
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann talks about the just-issued Goalkeepers Report, tracking progress against poverty and disease even as the population keeps rising.
Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid
00:24:49 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1A7B7092-033F-4458-9C4A4D6C6646A65E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369546 5EFD50A4-D9E8-4B15-9D760E31843B0E6C
Senior Editor Gary Stix talks about the September special issue of Scientific American , devoted to the science of being human. And Brown University evolutionary biologist Ken Miller discusses human chromosome 2 and what it tells us about us.
Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination
00:40:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=32A45204-3EBD-47CF-92AE3B85D738C0C7 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369547 79BA576E-B963-4E3C-8D813767C8FB6E16
Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion .
Out with the Bad Science
00:37:52 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8181EAAF-4449-49CE-8426034B1433B795 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369548 BFC4C1FA-EB84-4385-912F424DB70B02CB
NPR science journalist Richard Harris talks about his book, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope and Wastes Billions .
AI, Robotics and Your Health
00:31:27 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BDFBF570-6DE6-4849-993B38ED486E4EED https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369549 D25759ED-ACA7-48BB-87138D6503FD457C
At the second Science on the Hill event, AI, Robotics and Your Health, experts from academia and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about the future of AI and robotics in medicine.
Dinosaurs: From Humble Beginnings to Global Dominance
00:35:55 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D0ED982B-2ECD-403E-9FBD6D69C9FC65D5 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369550 75C2FA11-92F4-452F-B77A81FF751633F3
Edinburgh University paleontologist Steve Brusatte talks about his May 2018 Scientific American article, "The Unlikely Triumph of the Dinosaurs," and his new book, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World .
Humans Evolved but Are Still Special
00:40:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B6C1F7B-58CC-4BBF-B4A0E05AEE5123B5 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369551 1E649E6F-6AF7-43B5-906AD55633460BE5
Brown University biologist and author Ken Miller talks about his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness and Free Will .
A Brain Deprived of Memory
00:29:54 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2FB748FD-3B69-4E91-840A1B83A641D653 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369552 C5B873AF-0F97-42A0-A99071282B91CBA3
Michael Lemonick, opinion editor at Scientific American , talks about his most recent book, The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory and Love , about Lonni Sue Johnson, who suffered a specific kind of brain damage that robbed her of much of her memory and her ability to form new memories, and what she has revealed to neuroscientists about memory and the brain.
Blockchain beyond Bitcoin: The Energy Sector
00:11:37 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=64FB94E6-B058-4B15-93CF4FF6688A80DD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369553 1EFF3FE6-901B-4C84-BF9933C12D3A1EEF
Freelance science journalist Kevin Begos reports from the U.S. Power and Renewable Summit in Austin, Texas, on the use of blockchain technology to make more efficient energy markets and distribution.
Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
00:39:19 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D49FBAA0-7820-4DAC-93D33E198D919EA5 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369554 BFA43381-2F0C-4A28-8ED8C57CF536F6D7
David N. Schwartz talks about his latest book, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age .
A Future for American Energy
00:39:44 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=CA78448C-4811-4278-A58310A19F0839FB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369555 64DB234F-4990-4C14-B052EB7BA3E379C5
At the first Science Meets Congress event, Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future, energy and innovation experts from academia, government and the private sector talked with Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina about American's energy future.
The Skinny on Fat
00:38:23 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E09A3B89-2337-4330-BD7FB460AA35DBC0 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369556 6E27C7E4-2B7F-42BE-BB8DFA0873CCE098
Biochemist Sylvia Tara talks about her book The Secret Life of Fat: The Science behind the Body's Least-Understood Organ and What It Means for You .
Your Brain Is So Easily Fooled
00:32:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0F748F10-F395-4089-BABCF1621E5A60FB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369557 4BBEC28B-B2A9-4DBF-802A12DB16B63E2B
Journalist Erik Vance talks about his first book, Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform and Heal .
Come On and Zoom (through the Universe)
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Caleb Scharf, director of Columbia University's Astrobiology Center talks about his latest book, The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Almost Nothing, and the OSIRIS-REx space mission.
Monsters: Not Just for Halloween
00:38:43 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EE629F72-F2E5-48F4-9C158500C4D795D1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369559 D57D04BB-067A-471E-8573D842C3E40638
Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago and author of On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, talks about our enduring fascination with monsters.
Maryn McKenna's Big Chicken, Part 2
00:19:19 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4409D0CE-5182-4B4E-851F80F1AB9191A1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369560 1D54B162-36FC-411E-9CF0F3577E569B35
Award-winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats . (Part 2 of 2)
00:30:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E8FD1F42-0F5D-4ABF-AE07F420F54C8047 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369561 880B7AD0-5360-4A55-9B4265B033098D1C
Nobel Prize Explainer: Catching Proteins in the Act
00:10:49 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1A2301BE-2A52-41DD-BD06507500813AD0 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369562 83A35970-20F7-4A40-B434A95CB0690E8A
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy that can determine high-resolution structures of biomolecules in solution.
Nobel Prize Explainer: Gravitational Waves and the LIGO Detector
00:17:29 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=12AE06DB-496D-4283-84961BF99C99244B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369563 318BB683-D3BC-484D-A035D4F6B3EC8C06
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
Nobel Prize Explainer: Circadian Rhythm's Oscillatory Control Mechanism
00:16:44 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E92279EA-B51E-4FC8-9C7AAA27EAFB2826 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369564 84779C96-CDD6-4C64-B8E5FB9E5D210459
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms.
Does Evolution Repeat Itself?
00:43:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8BDFB3F9-7B18-4E7D-9DF670110D77DB58 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369565 D61FE784-EE6C-4940-B4E7771884880D31
Jonathan Losos, biology professor at Harvard and curator of herpetology at the university's Museum of Comparative Zoology, talks about his latest book, Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance and the Future of Evolution .
00:38:09 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E5E416A5-2CF3-4FB4-B25A8F4C727AEF9B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369566 D9518B56-0CE2-4A53-B266AB88C122DEEA
In advance of the big solar eclipse on August 21, author and journalist David Baron talks about his new book American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World .
00:25:04 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=800B4C69-30BE-45C0-906151C8FA50CEAA https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369567 AADB4465-C2EC-489F-A3BF40AD9698CCB3
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio ventures deep into the human mind in his new book, Why? What Makes Us Curious .
The Shark That Conquered the Whorl
00:39:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4B5E2FE9-7BF0-4048-99330BF68CFCAE6E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369568 0704020F-5743-41CC-A42572C6EA715124
Journalist and author Susan Ewing talks about her new book Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil . (And we'll discuss how Helicoprion is not technically a shark, but it's really close!)
Undersea National Monument Could Be Left High and Dry
00:23:47 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4D1CB4BD-008F-47C0-99B3B04E1AE933AB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369569 362AE67D-E639-4A02-9DA8C38C80E7318F
Scott Kraus, vice president and senior science advisor at the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium in Boston, talks about the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, created last year and already under threat.
Wacky Florida's Weird Science
00:31:37 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A2A6895B-C381-4903-A45752B8148C33F0 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369570 2157AF2D-54F8-4F42-97304A1F904FA787
Journalist Craig Pittman of the Tampa Bay Times talks about his book, Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country .
The Gestation Equation: Testing Babies' Genes
00:38:37 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B79E9842-F01B-478F-B3E1866D61C3AF3E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369571 BED0E4AA-97F5-4184-B95ADB30D22FF5C6
Journalist Bonnie Rochman talks about her new Scientific American /Farrar, Straus and Giroux book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have .
5G Wiz: What's on the Horizon for Mobile
00:17:42 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C10526FD-E5DF-4FC8-987FCFF8485F9E0A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369572 CC2547C0-3425-4840-BA69037F698C1C2A
Verizon's director of network planning, Sanyogita Shamsunder, talks with Scientific American 's Larry Greenemeier about the coming 5G and EM-spectrum-based communications in general.
Take the Tube: Underground as a Way of Life
00:30:24 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B862D480-BF4C-4CEC-96659A04623DF26F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369573 E5802E9F-FE45-46A2-8B3CEB9235A7D647
Emory University paleontologist, geologist and ichnologist Anthony J. Martin talks about his new book, The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers and the Marvelous Subterranean World beneath Our Feet .
Killer Cats Bash Biodiversity
00:23:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6C30E835-F9C8-4143-A00C77135CEE9019 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369574 7FD86EFE-78DC-4046-B9816FBAAF7191E5
Conservation biologist Peter Marra talks with journalist Rene Ebersole about the threat of outdoor cats to wild animals and to human health. Marra is the co-author, with writer Chris Santella, of the book Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer .
Dogging It: Turning Wild Foxes into Man's Second-Best Friend
00:32:49 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F5010804-AB70-4EC5-A63DEAB16B32EDF9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369575 5CEAB027-D434-412E-934E9E16266BE4F2
Evolutionary biologist and science historian Lee Dugatkin talks about the legendary six-decade Siberian experiment in fox domestication run by Lyudmila Trut, his co-author of a new book and Scientific American article about the research.
What's Driving the Self-Driving Cars Rush
00:11:15 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B2898531-7F6E-4B78-A1F1B9B204599A3B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369576 630D19C9-55E3-4F7F-9691C7B672282872
Scientific American technology editor Larry Greenemeier talks with Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford, about self-driving cars.
Biology's Lessons for Business
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Martin K. Reeves and Simon Levin talk about their Scientific American essay "Building a Resilient Business Inspired by Biology."
Churchill's Extraterrestrials
00:11:56 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E859DC92-4B8C-4165-A1251DF45A92B5D8 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369578 AE385BCE-C2E5-43A9-A9EDBAC25F7D9963
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio writes in the journal Nature and talks to Scientific American about the recently rediscovered essay by Winston Churchill that analyzed with impressive scientific accuracy the conditions under which extraterrestrial life might exist.
Rapid-Response Vaccines for Epidemic Outbreaks
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Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.
Exit Interview: Presidential Science Advisor John Holdren
00:32:51 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F9948BC2-8BEE-403B-826CD886202C834D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369580 76B13F1D-D3EB-4C52-B91F786988A4D76A
Scientific American executive editor Fred Guterl talks with Pres. Obama's science advisor, John Holdren , about climate science, space travel, the issue of reproducibility in science, the brain initiative and more .
We're Taking You to Bellevue
00:37:58 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8EF8D6F6-F485-414F-B2A41E91A8C6EEBD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369581 395072DA-6C64-47BD-981F0C705A9C316C
Pulitzer Prize–winning N.Y.U. historian David Oshinsky, director of the Division of Medical Humanities at the N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center, talks about his latest book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital .
Best Science Books of 2016
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Barbara Kiser, books and arts editor at Nature , talks about her favorite science books of 2016, especially three works about the little-known history of women mathematicians.
Getting Robots to Say No
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Gordon Briggs, a postdoc at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, talks about the article he and Matthias Scheutz, director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory at Tufts University, wrote in the January Scientific American titled "The Case for Robot Disobedience."
How Myths Evolve over Time and Migrations
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Julien d'Huy, of the Pantheon–Sorbonne University in Paris, talks about the use of evolutionary theory and computer modeling in the comparative analysis of myths and folktales, the subject of his article in the December 2016 Scientific American .
Attack On the Internet: Weak-Link Nanny Cams
00:18:25 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AEFDB14F-5303-46C6-B2F680C01447AF16 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369585 867B2F65-8670-46D5-8A61EF1D9806447F
Paul Rosenzweig, former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Homeland Security and founder of Red Branch Consulting, PLLC, talks about the October 21 attack on internet service in the U.S. that left millions without connectivity for hours.
Flint's Water and Environmental Justice
00:18:31 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C743ECC9-E7D0-4D89-A65B1BDB02C8A93D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369586 FD5BDA82-E094-4DF0-AA7622D84DB60D0A
The University of Michigan's Paul Mohai, a leading researcher of issues related to environmental justice, talked about the Flint water crisis at a workshop sponsored by the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, attended by Scientific American contributing editor Robin Lloyd.
Chemistry Nobel Prize: Machines Too Small to See
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded today to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
Physics Nobel Prize: Buns, Bagels and Pretzels Help Explain Exotic Matter
00:18:51 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=69C4F337-B127-499C-B66939DB3DBBA756 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369588 37FD32EC-6B14-47A2-93FB8B1BE62139E6
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to David J. Thouless, F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
Nobel Prize Explainer: Autophagy
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries concerning autophagy. Following the announcement, journalist Lotta Fredholm spoke to Juleen Zierath, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, about the research.
They Do What?!: The Wide Wild World of Animal Sex
00:28:05 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=984464FB-3027-49CA-858EFF0B9240728C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369590 DF1BD48F-2470-42B3-959D467F1D39C028
Carin Bondar talks about her new book Wild Sex, which covers the strange, surreal and sometimes scary sex lives of our animal cousins.
Big Bang of Body Types: Sports Science at the Olympics and beyond
00:34:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BAFF5D43-1373-4817-BF958C106A4F79B6 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369591 824119BC-7F14-4D1D-B6794BB9A921A646
David Epstein talks about his 2013 bestseller The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance and his recent Scientific American article "Magic Blood and Carbon-Fiber Legs at the Brave New Olympics."
Grand Canyon Rapids Ride for Evolution Education
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Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall-face with striking examples of geologic and evolutionary processes.
The Science of Soldiering: Mary Roach's Grunt
00:36:37 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5C372F7A-061D-4C18-B8A5F3A9EB803125 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369593 1EB83514-84DE-43B8-9BC38981BE198F3B
Best-selling science writer Mary Roach talks about her latest book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.
Electric Eels versus Horses: Shocking but True
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Kenneth Catania of Vanderbilt University talks to Cynthia Graber about electric eel research that led him to accept 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's account of electric eels attacking horses.
Tiger, Tiger, Being Tracked
00:24:34 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D1EA4586-5548-4FAE-B78921A0A7E19735 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369595 A5176778-BFE6-4394-911DB6C68AB25AEF
Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state-of-the-art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health.
Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest
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Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT's Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gravitational waves. They were just awarded the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics and two of them spoke with Scientific American 's Clara Moskowitz about LIGO and the public's reaction.
Sean M. Carroll Looks at The Big Picture
00:30:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=76531597-C7D0-46DB-BAC129F111B99A1C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369597 20A4FD55-BAED-43A0-A7618D04B70DB4B6
Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself . (Dutton, 2016)
The Bowling Ball That Invaded Earth
00:34:39 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=3F1800DF-34BD-43D5-BEA4599FE07CBEB9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369598 2771AE65-018C-416C-A0F7C82E4A2759DA
Former Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his latest science fiction thriller, The Orion Plan, featuring the method whereby aliens most likely really would colonize our planet.
Different Minds: The Wide World of Animal Smarts
00:36:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A90E8E39-6C33-4A07-A5F16F981C4BA44F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369599 4AE4676B-45CB-4A83-99EDCC4D108D411C
Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his latest book, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Norton, 2016).
The Perfect Bet: Taking the Gambling out of Gambling
00:34:29 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=52E4B93E-A336-43B7-B8FB9418B7433C86 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369600 C6B4214E-2F0A-42A9-A60547322F636559
Mathematician and author Adam Kucharski talks about his new book The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (Basic Books, 2016).
Gorilla's Hum Is a Do-Not-Disturb Sign
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If a socially prominent gorilla is in the midst of a meal, it may hum or sing to tell others nearby that it's busy at the moment and will get back to you later.
Bill Gates Wants a Miracle
00:35:21 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D4BEE7C6-70B3-4F82-AA76B319586207D4 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369602 F6840EB2-9F0D-4B50-9AF8841AE4522BBB
Scientific American 's energy and environment editor, David Biello, met with Bill Gates on February 22 to discuss tackling carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to ever more of the globe's growing population.
From AI to Zika: AAAS Conference Highlights
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Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just-concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. Subjects covered include gravitational waves, whether there's really a war on science, the growing concern over Zika virus, sea level rise and advances in artificial intelligence.
Gravitational Waves Found: Kip Thorne Explains
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Scientific American 's Josh Fischman talks with renowned astrophysicist and general relativity expert Kip Thorne about the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO Project, co-founded by Thorne.
The Big Gath Dig: Goliath's Hometown
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Freelance journalist Kevin Begos talks with archaeologist Aren Maeir, from Bar Ilan University in Israel, at his dig site in Gath, thought to be Goliath's hometown and a major city of the Philistine civilization.
Roman Sanitation Didn't Stop Roaming Parasites
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The University of Cambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled "Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire."
Evolution Still on Trial 10 Years after Dover
00:31:33 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7B1A72C9-6220-4BFF-AED088785B033957 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369607 91C69D0E-46A2-4692-9377B8B7596E9ABF
Evolutionary biologist Nicholas Matzke talks about the Kitzmiller v. Dover evolution trial on the 10th anniversary of the decision. He advised the plaintiffs while working for the National Center for Science Education. He also discusses the continuing post- Dover attempts to get creationist narratives taught in public school science classrooms.
Lifting the Visor on Virtual Reality
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Ken Perlin, a New York University computer science professor and virtual reality pioneer, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the state of virtual reality , its history and where it's heading
The Epic History of the Horse
00:32:41 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=211B8EEE-239D-4E58-9E3C74E71E962481 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369609 68A3C3EB-B7EC-48AE-ADC907AA1E8D6C1A
Science journalist and equestrian Wendy Williams talks about her new book The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Companion
Math Can Equal Fun
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Harvey Mudd College math professor Arthur Benjamin talks about his new book The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own
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Stephen Hoover, CEO of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, talks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine eventually programs itself
Chemistry Nobel: Keeping DNA in Good Repair
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for discoveries of the mechanisms by which cells maintain the integrity of their DNA sequences
Physics Nobel: Neutrinos Do Have Mass
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
Medicine Nobel: Sifting Nature for Antiparasite Drugs
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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discoveries of a medication against roundworm parasites and to Youyou Tu for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria. Some 3.4 billion people are at risk for the diseases these drugs treat
The Hunt for the Fat Gene
00:32:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=879E90FA-F49D-41EC-9440186347799E78 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369615 5AA409B2-8A1B-4DDA-BA34E109AD7555FC
Medical researcher Richard Johnson, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, talks about his October Scientific American article "The Fat Gene," co-authored by anthropologist Peter Andrews of University College London and the Natural History Museum in London. Their piece is about how a genetic mutation in prehistoric apes may underlie today's pandemic of obesity and diabetes
The Errors of Albert
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Physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, talks about his article "What Einstein Got Wrong," in Scientific American 's September issue, devoted to the 100th anniversary of Einstein's publication of general relativity
Public Health Hero Jimmy Carter; SA Turns 170
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Jimmy Carter talks about his public health efforts to eradicate guinea worm and improve global mental health and women's health. Plus, magazine collector Steven Lomazow brings part of his collection to the Scientific American 170th birthday party
Olympics Loser Boston Wins Big Economically
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Smith College sports economist Andrew Zimbalist talks about why the Olympics is almost always a big financial hardship for the host city, a subject he treats at length in his book Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup . Recorded at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in New York City
Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations, Part 2
00:35:55 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0B0D2F0F-5F94-4B56-BB03918DAA123C9C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369619 D53643EA-880C-4D80-8814B3CF8AFE856C
Stephen Hawking and entrepreneur and former physicist Yuri Milner announce a $100-million, 10-year initiative to look for signs of intelligent life in the cosmos
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Pluto Mission Finally Calls Home
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At 8:52 P.M. Eastern time, July 14, 2015, an all's-well signal from the New Horizons spacecraft finished its 4.5-hour, three-billion-mile trip from near Pluto through the solar system to alert mission control on Earth that it was in working order and had succeeded in gathering data
Pluto, Ready for Your Close-Up!
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At just before 7:50 A.M. today, July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto. After a 9.5-year, three-billion-mile voyage, the ship got within about 7,750 miles from the surface
Restore Research to Preserve the American Dream
00:30:03 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=EA53482B-6EE5-495A-80FC684D4FBA507B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369623 A284E458-B9BC-4605-AF4A782AC6F2D940
Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin and former undersecretary of the Army talks about the report he co-chaired for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, "Restoring the Foundation: The Vital Role of Research in Preserving the American Dream"
Migratory Birds: What a Long-Range Trip It's Been
00:21:08 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=84BA09F9-BA3F-4064-92D8867C0EADCC19 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369624 78FC188D-37E2-4A35-B41B340ACA890909
Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo-Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field
Take a Bite out of the Math of Math
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Mathematician Eugenia Cheng, tenured in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. and currently Scientist in Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago talks about her new book How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
Animals Don't Use Facebook but They Have Social Networks, Too
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Lee Dugatkin, evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist at the University of Louisville, talks about his article in the June Scientific American called "The Networked Animal," about how social networks in disparate animals species affect the lives of the entire group and its individual members. His co-author is Matthew Hasenjager, a doctoral candidate in his lab
Mississippi Mound Builders Meet the 33rd Legion
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Astronomer Alan Smale spends his days at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center exploring celestial objects, but he's also the author of Clash of Eagles, an alternate-history novel in which a Roman Legion invades North America
The Ebola Outbreak: Past, Present and Future
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Scientific American 's Dina Maron talks with Keiji Fukuda, assistant director general for health security at the World Health Organization, about the current Ebola outbreak, the threat of sexual transmission and the hope for a vaccine. They were both at an Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats held at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C., concentrating on Ebola in west Africa
Humans and the Amazon: A 13,000-Year Coexistence
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University of Exeter archaeologist José Iriarte talks to freelance journalist Cynthia Graber about his efforts to understand human activity in and influence on the Amazon region for the last 13 millennia
The Placement Excitation: Scientific American on The Big Bang Theory
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In conjunction with this magazine's inclusion on the March 12 episode of The Big Bang Theory , here's an edited version of a talk by the sitcom's science advisor, U.C.L.A. physicist David Saltzberg, about his role and the show's reach
Science Goes to the Movies: A New TV Program
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Heather Berlin, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, is the co-host of the new CUNY TV program Science Goes to the Movies
Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 2: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
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Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 2 of 2
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Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in-Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 1 of 2
Best of Thanksgiving, Part 2: Let's Talk Stuffing—Your Face!
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Cornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect
Best of Thanksgiving, Part 1: Let's Talk Turkey!
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Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research
Doctors Without Borders Fight on Ebola's Front Lines
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Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine
Ebola Expert Update
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Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks about Ebola with tropical medicine and infectious disease expert Daniel Bausch of Tulane University at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Let's Get Small: A Panel on Nanoscience
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Scientific American senior editor Josh Fischman joins nanoscience researchers Shana Kelly, Yamuna Krishnan, Benjamin Bratton, along with moderator Bridget Kendall from the BBC World Service program The Forum
Building a Better Microscope: 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. The winning work is explained by chemistry Nobel Committee members Sven Lidin and Måns Ehrenberg
Blue Light Special: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light–emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources. The winning work is explained by physics Nobel Committee members Per Delsing and Olle Inganäs
The Map in Your Mind: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain—an inner GPS. The winning work is explained by Karolinska Institute faculty and Nobel Committee members Göran Hansson, Ole Kiehn, Hans Forssberg and Juleen Zierath
Kodiak Update: Scientific American Alaska Cruise, Part 4
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Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 is in port in Kodiak, Alaska, on September 2nd. We talk about our last few stops and hear from passenger and Manhattan Project veteran Margaret Asprey
The Juneau Tour: Scientific American Alaska Cruise, Part 3
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Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 31st, which allows us to post audio from a fascinating taxi trip through Juneau on August 28th.
Juneau Where I Am: Scientific American Alaska Cruise, Part 2
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Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Juneau, Alaska
Catch Me If You Ketchikan: Scientific American Alaska Cruise, Part 1
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Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Ketchikan, Alaska.
Shakespeare and Science, Part 2
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Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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Furious New Science Fiction from Mark Alpert
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Scientific American editor–turned-sci-fi-writer Mark Alpert, author of Final Theory and Extinction , talks about his latest book, The Furies
Under the Dome: Scientific American Editor in Chief Talks to the Senate
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Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the value of scientific research and development. Also testifying is Vint Cerf , one of the fathers of the Internet and Google's vice president and "chief Internet evangelist." The hearings took place July 17, 2014
Wild Sex: Beyond the Birds and the Bees
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Joy Reidenberg , comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about her new PBS series Sex in the Wild , about the sex lives of elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins. The series debuts July 16, 2014
What's So Funny?: The Science of Humor
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Cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems talks about his book HA!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Hunting the Wild Neutrino
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Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana , of the University of Toronto, talks about his new book Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Sometimes the Hoofprints Are from Zebras
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David J. Hand , emeritus professor of mathematics at Imperial College London, talks about his new book The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day
The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2
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Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man . His latest book is Churchill's Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
00:28:28 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D1F0764F-A5FB-42A4-A1B41AE90443398B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369655 6E01B36D-5881-4518-97F8EAEF40AB0A16
Take Me Out to the Run Expectancy Matrix Analysis
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Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist talks about his latest book, The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball (co-authored with Benjamin Baumer), at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, with proprietor Jay Goldberg
Found in Space, Part 2
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Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars , Part 2 of 2
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From Gadgets to Galaxies: Conference Reports
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Scientific American technology editor Seth Fletcher talks about the recent Consumer Electronics Show and astronomy editor Clara Moskowitz discusses last month's American Astronomical Society conference
Fighting Cancer with Physics
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Rakesh K. Jain, director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology in the radiation oncology department of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, talks about his article in the February issue of Scientific American about interfering with extracellular matrix as a way to increase the efficacy of cancer therapy
The Man Who Wasn't Darwin: Alfred Russel Wallace on the Centenary of His Death
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Alfred Russel Wallace biographer Peter Raby of the University of Cambridge talks about the great naturalist and co-creator of the theory of evolution by natural selection on the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death
Perv-View: Jesse Bering's New Book PERV
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Psychologist Jesse Bering talks about his latest book PERV: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us .
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Karplus, Levitt and Warshel
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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for applying both quantum and classical physics to develop computer models of chemical systems that show details of chemical reactions
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Englert and Higgs
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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the theory of how particles acquire mass, requiring the existence of the Higgs Boson, experimentally confirmed to exist in 2012
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Rothman, Schekman and Südhof
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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells
Alan Alda Communicates Science
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At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Alan Alda about communicating science to the general public.
Ira Flatow and the Teachable Moment
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At the Learning in the Digital Age summit at Google's New York City offices, Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talked with Science Friday host Ira Flatow about the "teachable moment in science and culture"
Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (The Real Kind) Part 2
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Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself , which looks at the science of the origin of life and at the emerging science of synthetic biology.
Kids JUMP for Math [John Mighton's Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies]
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Mathematician John Mighton talks with Scientific American MIND editor Ingrid Wickelgren about getting math-shy kids interested, via JUMP: Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies
Adam Rutherford's Creation Science (the Real Kind), Part 1
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Science journalist, author and Nature editor Adam Rutherford talks about new book Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself, which looks at the science of the origin of life and at the emerging science of synthetic biology
Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: The Threatened Enlightenment
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Nobel laureate Harry Kroto, who shared the 1996 chemistry prize, talks with Scientific American Executive Editor Fred Guterl at the recent Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting, about the role of science in society
Penis Enlightenment: Bering Straight Talk
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Jesse Bering discusses his 2012 book Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? (And Other Reflections on Being Human)
Close Shave for Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Bill Nye the Science Guy ponders Superman's tonsorial travails, and science education
Is There a Doctor in the Spaceship?
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NASA astronaut and medical doctor Michael Barratt spoke to schoolkids at the Family Science Days event at this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston
Mary Roach Cruises the Alimentary Canal
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Mary Roach talks about her new book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, which traces what she calls "the whole food chute"
Start Talking: Synthetic Biology and Conservation Biology Meet, Part 2
00:13:16 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=750EC1DE-4414-4EE0-B318F9D23E40E022 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369676 008F81A3-C850-A33F-3A889D25B867150A
Conservation biologist Kent Redford talks about the issues facing the intersection of synthetic biology and conservation biology and a conference that starts April 9th called "How will synthetic biology and conservation shape the future of nature?"
00:24:05 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C8029543-B4CF-4A25-A5CAA0DF79F18561 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369677 FF4A965D-BC6C-9392-C1476F34D4482817
Imagine All the People Turning Blue and Green
00:15:39 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=70577C79-0C49-4B27-B47C4FCB83DC6439 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369678 35F06FD6-CEEC-F76A-80CA72A66D21411B
Science writer Dennis Meredith talks about his new science fiction book The Rainbow Virus, in which a bioterror plot turns people all the colors of the rainbow
Biotech's Brave New Beasts, Part 2
00:16:22 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=90C08826-EDA1-4427-B6CCDD5A1B3B6E4E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369679 B691DAC4-A5D3-5458-BCCEC994978344E6
Journalist and author Emily Anthes talks about her new book, Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
00:20:21 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=88EBAE7B-53A7-46EB-AD92B524ED201576 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369680 9C576C6C-90D8-E4BA-D1BB7338B627C00A
CSI: 19th-Century France and the Birth of Forensic Science
00:31:56 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B9E1515E-9A47-4294-85FEE3491C9F6CDF https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369681 6A540134-FE69-9E39-CD43FDBAB301B224
Reporter and storyteller Steven Berkowitz talks to science journalist and author Douglas Starr about his book The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
John Rennie Hacks the Planet
00:21:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7A989EC7-B1BF-46DB-B6C6A104CD994898 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369682 5168BBAD-B215-4C82-3D1F9068C6158489
Former Scientific American editor in chief John Rennie talks about his new six-episode Weather Channel TV Show, Hacking the Planet, which debuts February 28
Inside Isaac: A Discussion of Newton, Part 2
00:20:50 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C4D5F514-BAF9-4545-90F815120BFD7DBD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369683 B2C78471-D128-6D35-0453F90B41BBDC3F
A panel of physicists, science historians and playwright Lucas Hnath discuss Newton following a performance of Hnath's play about Newton, called Isaac's Eye, at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York City on February 20th. The play runs through March 10, 2013
00:28:27 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=689A6B4A-A1B4-414B-903F41B86B2CC974 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369684 B1DD1894-E53B-5FCB-2329D638E40C14F3
Extinction: New Sci-Fi from Mark Alpert
00:23:01 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E711BAE8-36D2-4EEA-A4EE903C536833F9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369685 7A6EEA5D-BBC2-58D8-7AD3603A14E8B327
Mark Alpert is a former editor at Scientific American who has gone on to become a best-selling science fiction writer. We talk about his latest book, Extinction , an apocalyptic tale hinging on brain-machine interfaces.
Science and Tech in President Obama's SOTU
00:13:38 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C764174B-EEA0-46C4-A0B5EAD506811B21 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369686 5F6BA17B-D1BE-2C6D-257836CA6A867198
In his 2013 State of the Union address, Pres. Obama talked about climate change, energy and manufacturing technology innovation, and STEM education—that is, science, technology, engineering and math
Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 2
00:27:32 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D55C910D-CA45-43B5-A5574A8F72C38B7B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369687 435AFE38-07FF-3080-D1DA7BE6647F8A76
Actor Michael C. Hall , TV's Dexter , talks with psychologist Kevin Dutton , author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths , at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City
00:36:30 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5DBA8BDB-F4A3-42DF-817D3EB89A37DA29 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369688 4227BDC3-BBAA-9865-31DB8ED3D313D689
Psychopathy's Bright Side: Kevin Dutton on the Benefits of Being a Bit Psychopathic, Part 2
00:15:42 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E861A795-B5FE-4DD4-85248051608A6994 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369689 F1A1A772-A40D-2AF7-2CAEA7772990E21D
Kevin Dutton is a psychologist at the University of Oxford. He talks about his latest book, The W isdom of Psychopaths : What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success
00:26:03 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=67AE52A3-B326-48E5-B09447A189D7503C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369690 F17AA127-0B61-D41B-271CD9A6FC721567
Creativity's Dark Side: Dan Ariely on Creativity, Rationalization and Dishonesty
00:31:41 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2285927F-DBC6-4829-8D79BDCF24527339 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369691 817BAE1E-EDC9-8899-4628AB094B8C27BE
Dan Ariely is professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. He talks about the subject of his most recent book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves . Also see: Unveiling the Real Evil Genius
Darwin in Space: How Multigenerational Missions Could Shape Human Evolution
00:15:44 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1F05A2EE-5854-455A-BE65AD32A031D1FF https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369692 0A8175AB-E92B-5BB9-09EB943B8000BD64
Portland State University anthropologist Cameron Smith talks with Scientific American 's John Matson about how multigenerational space exploration missions and colonization might change the human genome and thus shape human evolution
David Quammen: The Spillover of Animal Infections to Humans
00:32:50 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=61AB68CC-B404-4D91-BAA12063D6E497B2 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369693 C5985A25-C28B-1125-48C4219C2489EDA0
David Quammen talks about his latest book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic . From his Web site : "The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease--new to humans, anyway. The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen--most likely a virus--will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal"
Scientific American after Sandy
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Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina brings us up to date on the state of our New York City-based operation after Sandy. Recorded October 31 at 2:30 P.M Eastern time
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors, which are the portals by which information about the environment reaches the interior of cells and leads to their responses. About half of all drugs work by interacting with G-protein-coupled receptors
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics
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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
The Climate of Climate Science
00:25:32 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2066602F-BB9F-4BF7-B18BEFAD248E31DE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369698 87BAD48D-D138-9CF1-0CC1D6B03C9663E1
James McCarthy , Alexander Agassiz professor of biological oceanography at Harvard, talks about climate science and testifying before Congress, and the collaborations between climate scientists and the national security community as well as with evangelicals. And the Union of Concerned Scientists releases a report about the misleading coverage of climate science at Fox News and The Wall Street Journal
The Flynn Effect: Modernity Made Us Smarter
00:33:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B7D7BDA3-4A2C-4D10-94693D1B528DDC57 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369699 B61D4789-9AFC-2970-8A1BDFEC16D72828
James Flynn studies intelligence at the University of Otago in New Zealand. And he features prominently in an article called "Can We Keep Getting Smarter?" in the September issue of Scientific American magazine. Back on July 10, Flynn visited the SA offices, where he chatted with a group of editors
What's Next for Curiosity on Mars
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Scientific American contributor David Appell talks with Mars Science Lab Project leader John Grotzinger, professor of geology at Caltech, about the plans for the rover on the Martian surface
Curiosity Lands on Mars
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Less than an hour after NASA received confirmation that the Curiosity rover was safely on the Martian surface , some principal members of the mission briefed the press. This is an edited presentation of that briefing, which started at about 11:20 P.M, Pacific time on August 5th.
Plants Know Stuff
00:32:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=17958CE2-7AF5-40FE-9CD5BF142EBEB747 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369702 4A2E19B9-C151-292A-EA90A773BF5C6DD3
Daniel Chamovitz , director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University, talks about his new book What a Plant Knows .
Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better
00:37:05 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5AB218C7-99D8-4988-92AD09DCDD6FCC36 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369703 AD8E631A-D439-D72F-352ED3039C18BE73
Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and the founder and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative, talks about his new book The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet
The Transit of Venus, Part 2
00:12:54 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=556BF40F-160F-4483-8BF24510F37A606D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369704 69BDE787-CE02-0864-92256EE73837D7F1
Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun , talks about the transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world and how it will be of use to astronomers searching for exoplanets
00:27:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=952CDF6F-C571-4A9A-911413F247131D74 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369705 414570B5-D69E-997A-163C204372291DEA
With a transit of Venus coming up on June 5th or 6th in different parts of the world, Mark Anderson, author of the book The Day The World Discovered the Sun, talks about the great efforts to track the transits of Venus in the 1760s and the science they would produce
Virus Victors: People Who Control HIV
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Bruce Walker, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, M.I.T. and Harvard, talks about his article in the July issue of Scientific American magazine called "Controlling HIV," about rare individuals who never develop AIDS after being infected by the virus
The Football Concussion Crisis
00:31:34 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=FFF941A0-9DDF-4114-A2C569608C08B3AB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369707 3B869879-A26D-E902-613D1CA8459DD346
NFL Hall of Famer Harry Carson joins former NBC anchor Stone Phillips and pathologist Bennet Omalu for a discussion of chronic traumatic encephalopathy among football players. Recorded May 12th at the Ensemblestudiotheatre.org, site of the new play Headstrong about the brain injury issue
Killer Chimps and Funny Feet: Report from the AAPA Conference
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Scientific American editor Kate Wong talks about the recent conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Portland, Ore., where subjects included killer chimps, unprecedented fossil sharing among researchers and divergent hominid foot forms
Getting Guinea Worm Gone: Report from the AHCJ Conference
00:16:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=57F2E1C0-956E-4E8B-9CBFC4C9906ACF38 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369709 5E57236D-92A0-B4BC-7750BC2F34696676
Scientific American editor Christine Gorman talks about the recent conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, including Jimmy Carter's efforts against guinea worm and trachoma, and Rosalynn Carter's mental health initiatives
Food Poisoning's Lasting Legacy
00:20:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BBF458F4-37E4-41A9-9B5D50112F2C661F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369710 FC7657EA-F172-6AFF-2015D8F0E7D63B96
Scientific American Science of Health columnist Maryn McKenna talks about the new understanding that food poisoning can have long-lasting negative health effects
Fukushima Anniversary: We Listen Back
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Scientific American editor David Biello takes us through newly released audio from the first week of the nuclear meltdown crisis at Fukushima Daiichi
AAAS Report: Fracking, Whale Rights, Higgs Evidence and Twitter Truthiness
00:15:14 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DA970420-DE48-4CA3-BB664F254EFFF8DB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369712 5ECC2428-B3F8-6AC1-A759E3AFD26351A0
Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti and Michael Moyer discuss some of the sessions they attended at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Subjects covered include fracking, cetacean rights, the Higgs boson and Twitter 's truthiness
If You're Happy, How You Know It
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Social scientist Roly Russell, of the Sandhill Institute in British Columbia, talked with Scientific American 's Mark Fischetti at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about potentially better measures than GDP of a nation's well-being
The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis
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Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor Fred Guterl about the technological "Entanglement" and the attempts to build the other, hardier Internet
More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance
00:28:38 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7480A537-3876-4B27-BE30E19130728130 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369715 8B72E062-F364-E23D-DEC91A288020226C
In part 2 of our conversation with journalist and author Maryn McKenna, she talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and offers a brief coda on the subject of fecal transplants
Fecal Transplants: The Straight Poop
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Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about fecal transplants, which have proved to be exceptionally effective at restoring a healthy intestinal microbiome and curing C. diff infections, yet remain in regulatory limbo
State of the Union: Research, Technology and Energy
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About six minutes of President Obama's State of the Union address dealt with research, technology and energy
A Second Science Front: Evolution Champions Rise to Climate Science Defense
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Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science education
00:35:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=14519350-5D05-4EEE-A622C47C7E1D7DDE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369719 A2053E83-ADDC-867D-A4FD8DD849549E22
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
Man from Mars: Health and Nutrition Research at Mars, Inc., and Beyond
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Hagen Schroeter, the director of fundamental health and nutrition research at Mars, Inc., talks about research on bio-active food compounds and the search for why a healthful diet is good for you
The YouTube SpaceLab Competition
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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
Large Hadron Collider Backgrounder
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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
Out of Our Depth: Sea Level on the Rise
00:09:33 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E897F077-2F74-4DA6-BF7379310DC202A1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369723 2D2AAF5D-B514-3F64-5F21F230EAF808A8
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
Brian Greene Talks Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos
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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
The Mind's Hidden Switches
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Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the 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"
The Discovery of Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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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
An Accelerating Universe: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Listen to the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, 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
Cancer Vaccines
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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
Science Legend Christian de Duve
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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
Carl Zimmer on Rats, Cats, Viruses and Tattoos
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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
Carl Zimmer on Evolution in the Big City
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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 1 of this interview, he talks about urban evolution
The City That Became Safe: What New York Teaches about Urban Crime and Its Control
00:27:29 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AC7FE448-7EFA-4688-AA3A52BF2A8C712A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369732 B134C63A-D518-F5D2-1876D87BD670B1EC
U.C. Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring talks about his article, "How New York Beat Crime," in the August issue of Scientific American
Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra in the Cell
00:25:53 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=CFF74202-5415-4139-90529A27B73563FF https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369733 6DFD74DF-ED63-FA76-94B6B7AD05595A1B
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
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk
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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
Let's Make a Probabilistic Deal: A Fresh Look at the Monty Hall Problem
00:13:54 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=95D2F2CA-B56A-4150-AB70A58484340617 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369735 C7B9E7DE-B58A-47FA-A643568B7527BFD7
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
How Physics Limits Intelligence
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Award-winning author Douglas Fox talks about his cover story in the July issue of Scientific American on The Limits of Intelligence, placed there by the laws of physics
Dying for Science: The 100th Anniversary of the Doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition
00:22:50 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=39C6F507-660E-46CF-BA9A9FAF1D5A1ADE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369737 2E3DAD9F-CC76-AFF9-4C5F0B6EE81F6330
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
Skirting Steak: The Case for Artificial Meat
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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
Astronaut Love: An Interview with Spacewalker Stanley Love
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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
Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports
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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 M.I.T. 150th-anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything
Can It Be Bad to Be Too Clean?: The Hygiene Hypothesis
00:25:11 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B41118CC-276A-4760-B3C83CC5E08FC00D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369741 2D4EB42C-0519-22E3-B7A96F9B7CEB9FB8
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
Self-Aware Robots?
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Journalist Charles Choi talks about work being done to make robots self-aware. Plus, we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news
The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable on the AAAS Meeting
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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.
The Spirit of Innovation: From High School to the Moon
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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
What's New with Science News
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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
Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight against European Naturalists
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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
What Is the Watson Jeopardy-Playing Supercomputer, Alex?
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Scientific American editor Michael Moyer talks about the sneak preview he caught 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
Vinod Khosla: Searching for the Radical Solution
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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
How You Gonna Keep Flu Down on the Farm?: Pig Farms and Public Health
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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
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The Spewings of Titan (and More from the AGU Meeting)
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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
Let's Talk Stuffing--Your Face
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00:08:55 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=516BC166-3EBE-4932-B90CA58304F0C199 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369753 80A84377-083D-D1DD-2F1C21AA7168F4FE
Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research
Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
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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
Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg
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Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky
Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race For The Double Helix of DNA (Part 2 of 2)
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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 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
Photograph 51: Rosalind Franklin and the Race for the Double Helix of DNA, Part 1 of 2
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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 Theatre in New York City, running through November 21st. This November 2nd, a 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
The Quest for the Giant Pumpkin
00:21:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A44AEEA9-4B0D-453C-A3187A5CEE36C7F8 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369758 F999C385-F924-0847-5CF5D94D8B660FB2
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
Not Your Grandfather's Scientific American
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Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks about the new look and new outlook of Scientific American magazine and of ScientificAmerican.com Plus, we discuss the results of a poll of the readers of Scientific American and Nature
The Harlem Science Renaissance
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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
Totally Bogus: The Science Talk Quiz
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In this special stand-alone edition, see if you know which of four science news stories is Totally Bogus.
Exactly When Is a Person Dead?
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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. Web sites related to this episode include http://bit.ly/ctIDsx; http://bit.ly/9Us1lE
Could Time End?
00:35:30 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5FAEF850-ED58-4940-A3EE527712054151 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369763 37865811-B59D-8AC1-1F22A81387844750
Scientific American staff editor George Musser joins podcast host Steve Mirsky to discuss his article in the September issue about the possibility of time itself coming to an end
The End: Death, Endings and Things That Should End
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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
Cooking for Geeks: Jeff Potter on Experimenting in the Kitchen
00:24:22 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D38C1B38-424B-4232-985DA3A0BB0633BF https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369765 D99553B6-F9A0-33D9-14E26AC5FD0B2F70
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 tests your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.cookingforgeeks.com
Mary Roach Is Packing for Mars, Part 2
00:17:29 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=3DF256D6-2DF6-4CD7-8437DED178C9FD3D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369766 92220972-C136-6355-1EBF325A312A97C4
Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with author Mary Roach about her new book "Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void." Part 2 of 2. (Part 1 is at http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=mary-roach-is-packing-for-mars-10-08-20). Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.net.
00:31:57 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DE012023-DF4D-40AF-AD2121C2627B50E1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369767 91844CC5-B86E-DD2A-13BA7A2C656C20A8
Podcast host Steve Mirsky 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 two-part episode, we'll hear that talk. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.maryroach.net
When Humans Almost Died Out; Earthy Exoplanets; And Scientific American's 165th Birthday
00:31:51 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=ED5ED433-1A8A-4B0D-9F8DB1D13BA14D7E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369768 685B2032-DA8C-BC4C-8EDB8A92EC2FE72F
Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with human evolution expert Kate Wong about the small group of humans who survived tough times beginning about 195,000 years ago and 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 some recent science in the news. Web sites related to content of this podcast include http://snipurl.com/10louu
Arguing with Non-Skeptics, Part 2 of 2
00:19:37 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=13B12DAA-5AE0-4163-94033F7406019140 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369769 1B030EE1-0E54-5053-D6156FB46F92944C
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, D. J. Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky. Julia Galef moderated. Part 2 of 2. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.necsscon.org
00:32:30 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AB7F9636-551A-446C-9D83BB5CCC69E268 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369770 169D2797-0664-46AB-6261E1B50470810B
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, D. J. Grothe and podcast host Steve Mirsky. Julia Galef moderated. Part 1 of 2. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.nature.com/nature/podcast and www.necsscon.org
Whiz Kids: Intel Science Talent Search Documentary
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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 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. Web sites related to content of this podcast include www.nature.com/nature/podcast and http://whizkidsmovie.com
Will Your Plug-In Car Actually Be Coal-Powered? And Other July Stories
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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
Paul Dirac: "The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 2
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Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
"The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1
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Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo
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Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about neutrinos and gravity waves. And Cynthia Graber talks with Paolo Galluzzi, director of the newly reopened Museo Galileo, the science museum in Florence, Italy. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to content of this podcast include http://www.museogalileo.it
The Big Dozen: 12 Events That Will Change Everything
00:26:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B60B1865-FB68-4071-B64079DE02533BF4 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369776 FB9D9C61-C115-5782-7F1A35BBE0E919A8
Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina and news editor Philip Yam join podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas Hofstadter
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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 Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, about Martin Gardner
More from MacMania: Kindle v. iPad, Mac v. PC and App Development
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MacWorld editorial director Jason Snell and app developer Peter Watling talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about the iPad, computer culture and apps, aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic during MacMania, produced by insightcruises.com
David Pogue on Tech, Twitter and Transgenic Goats
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The ubiquitous David Pogue, author of the Missing Manual series and tech columnist for The New York Times, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
Your Inner Healers: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and More
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Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
Bill McKibben's Eaarth, Part 2
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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
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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
Invisible Ink and More: The Science of Spying in the Revolutionary War
00:24:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DF4B79C1-4202-428D-90C6E21E984D3CF4 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369790 1DEFFF88-CAE3-C15D-8EA2C082E84DD9F9
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 at the historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include http://snipurl.com/vnhy8
The Science of Staying in Love; and Scientists as Communicators--and Heroes
00:23:31 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=5EA26DC8-AA82-4354-8F6B5A20CF8CC483 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369793 DA5F1A3A-FBB9-F849-6E88C7429848E9CD
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. Web sites related to this episode include www.explainingresearch.com
From Eternity to Here: Sean M. Carroll's Quest to Understand Time
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Sean M. Carroll, theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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. Web sites related to this episode include preposterousuniverse.com
Are We Pushing Earth's Environmental Tipping Points?
00:24:46 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D7BE7BFD-D99C-4550-91B54BBB756C53FC https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369798 76E817E5-EF32-6BEE-80B07186F0BDA3B6
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
The Science Talk Quiz: "Totally Bogus"
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Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS
Where's My Fusion Reactor?
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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
Algae, Art and Attitudes: A Roundtable about the AAAS Conference
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Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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. Web sites related to this episode include www.aaas.org, www.aven.com
The Poisoner's Handbook: The Sinister Side of Chemistry
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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
Ice, Ice, Baby: The Physics of Curling
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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
Whaddaya Do with a Dead Whale?
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Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
Cleopatra's Alexandria Treasures
00:28:23 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A721B139-3177-4653-A6C815E0354112F1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369812 87120B91-A769-298E-D6079673C8EA57BC
Renowned archaeologist Franck Goddio talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky 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. Web sites related to this episode include www.underwaterdiscovery.org
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Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics
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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 Greenemeier at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
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Here are four science stories, but only three are true. See if you know which story is TOTALLY BOGUS.
Mining for Online Game Gold and Other Amazing Stories
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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. Web sites related to this episode include www.snipurl.com/nobelfrank; www.redcross.org; www.pih.org
Alan Alda's Human Spark, Part 2
00:22:27 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D98F0B87-5A4B-4681-B9ED2E09BE15C6FC https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369826 0FA590A6-E0DB-3CBC-D643BFDD2B4D1E83
Alan Alda, host of the new PBS science series The Human Spark, talks to podcast host Steve Mirsky 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
Alan Alda's Human Spark
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Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about his new PBS science series The Human Spark as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American
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Christmas Season Science
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Scientific American daily podcast contributor Karen Hopkin talks about a few recent studies related to the science of the Christmas season
Bonus Bogus Brainteaser
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The Totally Bogus Quiz for this week
Copenhagen and Everywhere Else
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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
World Changing Ideas: December's Scientific American
00:26:06 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7D1FC333-4DCE-4553-88BD0D3A2E2D0737 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369838 7FF7FA69-D897-6F5E-D5AA29F6F090AFC8
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
Bogus Brainteaser
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John Rennie's 7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
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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
Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought
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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
Tree Ring Science and Tomorrow's Water
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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 include http://snipurl.com/sciamwater; http://snipurl.com/sciamnov
Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and "Becoming Human" NOVA Preview
00:34:30 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6D014564-F1C2-4BE4-850089583A9F6E47 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369846 BB0ABD13-0467-931B-3F1E240EB4433C0A
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
Human Evolution: Lucy and Neandertals
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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
Brain Enhancement: October Issue of Scientific American
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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
New Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak and Surrogates Film Director Jonathan Mostow
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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
Clean Energy Contest; and Counting Crickets and Katydids
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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
Where There Was Smoke, There's Science
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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
Origins of Everything: The September Scientific American Magazine
00:26:36 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C962C0FE-C77C-478B-80AE50A6DC4C4595 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369860 72D43DE3-0DC3-7507-D1C04958FCC09125
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
Colony Collapse and Ruptured Ribosomes; Minding Darwin's Beeswax
00:17:31 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=48C9FC68-A531-4452-B5C6E236DC792D8B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369863 53EB5103-D2B3-712E-774258D0DC7ECD11
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
To Bee or Not to Bee
00:23:22 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2E148EC0-EDE5-4836-80B12935B3153D01 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369864 3F2D0E93-0593-268B-DB26DA6FAC27684D
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
Bee Afraid, Bee Very Afraid
00:22:08 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DF3B647D-5202-4AAA-9B7E2AB1D928D520 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369867 1A7FD933-DECB-7C7A-807DE0C80B09480E
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
Swimming In Spacetime and Other Stories
00:30:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0FB8B4FB-E53A-4B37-99BC49B3DBCB3681 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369869 D3FF4002-F496-9AA3-04FAED47982AF3E2
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
Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy
00:28:15 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DD5C5C91-BCE7-4F20-B21831968F97E6FD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369870 A9E71417-D642-85E3-0020AADA2BBACDCC
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
Movie Magic (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs), Part 3
00:29:41 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=35D19A33-DAB6-4A42-841F7A05824CD5F9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369871 77793EAD-CFEC-667E-3763B2522E4B3044
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
00:20:17 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A95A91DB-89C4-4C05-A815A851E907E060 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369872 6AC358E9-C6AC-9893-DD8600CB4C7A2FC5
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.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=magic-and-the-brain
00:21:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B75121A5-FC01-4BF6-A413CE0B525B2573 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369873 67EAF7D0-BD36-6E6D-9CE171721A893E5F
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
Atul Gawande Redux
00:29:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=85AE11B8-11C7-4490-A3E77BDB5D032710 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369874 2828E082-BA53-3B29-9EF93A91248FAD2C
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_gawande?yrail and http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMsa0810119
Hello Moon, Good-Bye Rennie
00:29:16 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A56BA9C9-29B9-40EB-9DB07E73B18927ED https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369875 1D1A2C9F-E821-5764-E2EDA6EC363518B9
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
Panamania!: A Visit to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
00:27:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1AE1E254-43C2-48C2-87CB43173AD2AE1E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369876 F0812F8E-C81E-8F21-BE0FF7A5E82293EF
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
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
00:27:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=412D720E-AFA0-4BF9-95BB6AD2BA910DF1 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369877 8CD1A874-DF90-032E-FC274CB6178726A1
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
High Achievement High Schoolers
00:28:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4ABB4572-6273-48AF-8A552331C39CD155 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369878 5A63F2DE-08EA-59C9-186F5669FFBA7331
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
Beauty Is Truth (and Science)
00:20:31 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=67E91284-386E-45BC-9E149C61C18D6B0E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369879 304C2916-0CA7-B63E-CEC2E64663E04A37
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
People, Pan Troglodytes (Chimps) and Pigs
00:29:36 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F751A55D-98AF-4DD5-9B5D4E14ABC21EB6 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369880 FD128DBF-F0A0-DE6F-9691B98DEAB53663
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
Sherwin Nuland's Tales from the Bedside
00:29:36 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=DFA25721-A89F-4A1C-BAFAEACBC5669BAD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369881 D34FFACC-D662-AB3B-E14472BC0C726D87
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
Life Goes on within You and without You: Health and the Environment
00:27:29 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=ABD7C8BB-01D6-46FA-A1B18F5F18C6DC73 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369882 B4878618-D783-F0EC-4DB17B3507BF4B1C
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 stomach flora. Plus, we'll test your knowlege of some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.symposia.cbc.amnh.org/health
Why People Believe What They Do
00:25:11 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=13940156-25C8-4F45-A0978DE92B260BA0 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369883 903B0D47-9076-318C-4752245CF586D529
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
From Dark Energy to Lone Star Lunacy
00:28:55 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=70C46571-64A0-4395-8E06BA8EA2511DA9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369884 6714EA09-0A94-B966-7F6E45195BBE2392
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
What Shape Is Your Galaxy?
00:23:02 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=65596839-57F8-4B39-8485D300265FA9AE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369885 44C65DCF-C34A-3B32-4CC7B73902076F72
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
In Search of Time
00:33:20 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=3A8E3A9A-C77C-4973-8152D6031CC9D88C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369886 20ACD861-B5AC-88F3-9734D3211D94FA71
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
Phrasing a Coyne: Jerry Coyne on Why Evolution Is True
00:20:28 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C3F17046-EF26-4D63-88016880FB7075CE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369887 002B5892-954E-672D-59FD6344E5536CF0
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
From Spooky Action to Tiny Radios
00:27:41 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1AD24E42-10DD-485C-8A2079606FC76A18 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369888 B3426B91-AE9E-E6A8-16D43D7C656973E5
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
Remarkable Creatures (and Getting Them Fixed)
00:22:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=78B2D1EA-6FC6-4702-8058DB1C3D05DD5C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369889 AE7E4C0B-0BD0-7154-0E75150816FD4431
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
Stars of Cosmology, Part 2
00:33:26 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C505539F-3C5C-4E29-B8F3D89274EE6AB5 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369890 8CD6F826-F55E-41E2-5C25372ECD7CEEB0
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
00:17:08 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4A39C100-D87C-43C3-A6DFC5D985C6907E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369891 8B29E41E-ADAA-5903-D508D04C79AEC82B
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
Darwin Day Special, Part 3: Origins of Paleontology and the Impact of Religion on the Development of Evolutionary Theory
00:28:08 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BCD1BB37-F93D-4A8E-BF2A3D124289A4F6 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369892 6B975B39-E2DC-4C97-4BBBCEAF34AC902E
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.
Darwin Day Special, Part 2: Evolutionary Psychology and Religion
00:22:55 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0A5D141A-18F7-4736-B733F8DAD043FFFC https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369893 6B93039F-BA39-3C78-BC2BCEB133E766DD
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
Darwin Day Special: Bicentennial of the Birth of Charles Darwin
00:35:38 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=930498FF-9B29-4EE9-BF39ED08631474FE https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369894 68BBB76F-F202-37DF-B9BFEEB692A0F6B8
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 called ScienceDebate
The Naked Singularity Meets Social Media
00:31:11 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=088CE4E9-AC0C-4529-BA071D434B3E5F90 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369895 42B844D0-B178-A978-D93D360C438C1861
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
CO2 Rising: Follow the Bouncing Carbon Atom
00:33:48 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=46E4B1C0-4111-4AB8-91817140BA82938F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369896 2011CA90-A73A-6081-9ADD0993926E2898
Scientist and author Tyler Volk talks about his new book CO 2 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
Darwin: Ghostbuster, Muse and Magistrate
00:26:48 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=96CBC695-619F-47D2-B226904C592E2A70 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369897 FEC8A11E-FFB2-5C07-41D83ABA37DE55F8
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
From Astronomy to Zune
00:33:47 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=BE9DA0F2-514B-409E-BE4FF4EF19934C98 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369898 D5DB5478-D252-92A4-0061ADE565578C60
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
The Evolution of Evolution
00:21:32 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F262AD36-E9F1-4545-9C3BF4164F3F1465 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369899 B2350BBB-CA20-05E4-FD444AE95BF1E164
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 Spore, and the ongoing threat to science education posed by creationist activists. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites related to this episode include www.SciAm.com/jan2009
The Manhattan Project and the Met
00:46:24 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=46781D84-0585-40F0-8274BA13A98F90A3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369900 8E38A200-9586-ECB7-F91E2424C76C68AE
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 include tinyurl.com/3lmldy
Christmas at the Moon; and Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
00:29:04 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=2BDAA0AE-C4B2-4A7D-943912ADA9BFB1DA https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369901 6A19532E-E450-3A07-31D3F617C9B0657F
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
From Carbon to the Cretaceous: Report from the American Geophysical Union Meeting
00:24:50 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A0E67112-196F-4B4A-A5C35634F725643D https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369902 4FFC02B9-DB2D-4067-66E05AD63AB1864E
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
Klaatu's Back and He's Not Happy
00:23:17 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=48B6B65A-83B3-41E1-99C4117BA9B7C850 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369903 220CBB24-0237-63B4-0106212F95C1169A
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
The Science of Pain
00:31:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=033E77E6-BE1F-4981-969F63F36DCEDD99 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369904 FC6AEC10-9620-78A2-C8B6E54A3EA523A0
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
Viruses against Disease; Going Batty for Bats
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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
Approval of Seals: Wildlife Docs and Their Exotic Patients
00:27:35 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=01A0731E-D28B-4FFF-97FCBD7AC10FCF5C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369906 B55BE484-B141-3A1C-77EC12E63DBE9064
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.wcs.org
Kayaking Antarctica with Jon Bowermaster
00:27:15 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7CF8647C-7339-4537-A6212B4D4D74A362 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369907 9016D27A-F841-13C9-D8D1ACB8370F51BA
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
The Day After: Science in the Obama Administration
00:22:52 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=06E0F046-5824-4734-B5313FC6D5C57029 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369908 6D63919B-FAAA-6D46-39426FF306332FC8
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
Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums
00:37:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=0EE2F315-30EC-4ACB-979BCA5241E9CF43 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369909 4E3E00DF-D015-7309-0627C4BDF7AB3280
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
Today's Alternative Energy; and November Issue Topics, Including Computer-Brain Interfaces and DNA Computing
00:28:59 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=155B7EE6-D027-4228-B26FEC84AFAA86B9 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369910 25438649-ECE0-F1C2-6BFDB11EF28E26E9
Scientific American magazine 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 the Star Trek tricorder 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
More Than Pickles and Ice Cream: The Link Between Diet and Fertility
00:20:22 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F891E87C-A8D0-4B09-A1E66F6CF5B65427 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369911 FFE0B00E-957B-8738-3265476E5D4B9289
Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist Walter Willett talks to SciAm correspondent Cynthia Graber about his latest book, The Fertility Diet as well as about the links between nutrition and health generally. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli, Part 2
00:21:53 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=B9322D25-846D-4196-A3F476FB5CD1C335 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369912 DF14C135-EEE3-7713-63AEA48B797F2D4E
Carl Zimmer continues his discussion of E. coli, the bacteria that are the subject of his new book Microcosm: E. Coli and 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
00:26:46 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=FB2C2E8C-6682-4C97-831A2E197CBAAB1A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369913 DE45F11B-948A-FD83-93AE99868AA1BC04
Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about E. coli, the bacteria that are the subject of his new book Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life . Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.carlzimmer.com
Searching for Intelligence
00:28:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=E6424A56-8836-4B6D-B7C91E269BDD35F3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369914 B543C41A-07F4-2C3F-7091C5B500270100
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 of Scientific American magazine. 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 episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; www.carlzimmer.com
Earth 3.0
00:28:18 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=64A6C0FE-CA5A-45E2-951AE8614476799C https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369915 95BC42DD-0FA6-902A-5155D62F4049BF1B
Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti talks about Earth 3.0, a new SciAm publication concerning energy, sustainability and the environment. And ScientificAmerican.com writer 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
The Large Hadron Collider Goes to Work
00:30:35 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=8D0F189E-9348-49DB-81A56BEF4DFF1171 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369916 52F8BDE7-0723-18C9-4DD2BE500A89CEED
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek and Scientific American editor 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
Tom Friedman's New Book--Hot, Flat, and Crowded
00:29:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=78C63EAB-B4DD-401F-B9994F67211862B3 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369917 451D2588-FBF7-96B5-5767E30ECE43BA17
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist 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
Who's Watching You: The Future of Privacy
00:28:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=357D44DC-1B2E-4F8F-95F2A82C0368E92A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369918 28825D7D-D772-2192-12177C05B4B2AED7
Scientific American editor in chief, John Rennie, discusses the future of privacy and security, the subject of the September single-topic issue of Scientific American magazine. 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
Return of a Killer: Tuberculosis in Russia
00:29:02 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=4EB6B26A-494B-4B21-984AF095DD2CB7CD https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369919 01E663D3-0599-D2AC-E97E77DACE28849E
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 for SciAm.com on 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
What's the Buzz: A Conversation with Buzz Aldrin
00:20:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6C80D37A-1AAE-48E7-AD3C4A2DECADCB6A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369920 E06922B1-BDEB-A748-83A39C51D1F1B2B5
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
Superdove!: The Straight Poop on Pigeons
00:20:12 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=C64F8F06-4C57-4506-9F916FB23F7A9523 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369921 B96FC2BE-DF90-9438-9226156DA3218E35
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
Inside SciAm: The August Issue
00:14:13 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=163E8940-F528-4F15-A664561511422FAC https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369922 A381603B-D0A1-84BA-992CD6FCC4B46C5C
In this special edition of Science Talk, Scientific American editor 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
Inside China: Science, Technology, Energy and the Environment
00:28:51 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=A6DEAA16-FA1E-4FDF-AB478E3E6ED508E6 https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369923 9689A3D9-F293-FB6A-503C3B471C810AE6
Former Washington Post Beijing bureau chief, Philip Pan, author of Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, discusses the science, technology, environment and culture of China with Scientific 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.
Outsmarting Bombers; and A Warless Future?
00:27:36 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=6F2F9EBB-6A3B-4CE6-B8235B908FC029AB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369924 73FA0B43-A6C1-E6C7-68C7D5B9BB7C6D92
IEEE Spectrum editor 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
Visit to the Fair: Inside a Tech Expo
00:18:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=F6D6745F-6C89-438D-92F5ADF18B82479E https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369925 4FF3E7A3-F163-BE14-346CD5A72F60EE57
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
The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory
00:29:57 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=FCD471A3-4B8D-4F58-9801DF7AE180752F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369926 29DC2DA2-EFD5-3D06-4D2E64931BA46D2D
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
The Long and Winding Road: DNA Evidence for Human Migration; Plus July Issue Highlights
00:30:00 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1725FC03-434C-49D8-B95C3FFEE7898DDB https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369927 FE166E6B-F88F-3538-2702D97555F62442
Gary Stix discusses his July Scientific American cover 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
Gott Ya: Astrophysicist J. Richard Gott on Time Travel and Presidential Polling
00:22:34 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=1604EC53-EF45-4896-AB3A0F60EA8E130B https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369928 C00AE01A-C1D8-D8C5-56EDFE3264BAF825
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
One Singular Sensation: Will We Upload Our Brains, and Other Questions Related to "The Coming Singularity"
00:22:45 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=7D7065B9-9CAB-4D56-ABB58C1E5D8FA91F https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369929 99DBC638-FEF6-00F4-FC311CB7375CC44F
Glenn Zorpette, executive editor of IEEE Spectrum magazine, 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
The Happening: A Conversation with Director M. Night Shyamalan
00:23:44 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=AA2ECB88-3714-41C0-A653845FDDBAE7BF https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369930 7D143269-CDF5-97B4-8E87A33F3D39DA4B
M. Night Shyamalan's new film, The Happening, involves an environmental backlash, the limits of reason and the beauty of math. SciAm editor 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
Fact and Fiction: James Randi's "Amaz!ng Meeting" and Mark Alpert's Physics Novel, Final Theory
00:24:10 https://flex.acast.com/www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcast.mp3?fileId=D3F97B23-562B-4ACF-AED8397188246B7A https://images.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/122384595hd.jpg 11369931 53FC5DB9-CC9E-A00C-760A7F0BD708BA85
James Randi, famous debunker of frauds, talks about the "Amaz!ng Meeting" coming up in Las Vegas, and SciAm editor 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
The Feral Biologist: A Talk with George Schaller; A Look in the June SciAm