Science Talk
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Radioactive Spy Dust and the Litvinenko Case; Ode To Grad Students
20 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michigan State University historian of science Kristie Macrakis discusses the use of radioactive isotopes in the cloak and dagger wor...
Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus and Rocky the Flying Mesozoic Mammal
13 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus talks about the challenges facing the U.S. in science and technology competitiveness and some possib...
Singing New Songs: Urban Birds Vocalize Differently; Insurance Industry Worries About Warming
06 Dec 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Leiden University bird song expert Hans Slabbekorrn notes the changes in bird vocalizations when they move from the forest to the cit...
Tomorrow's Newspapers and Next Week's Cars
29 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MIT Communications Forum Director David Thorburn discusses the future of newspapers and news in light of new technology. Scientific ...
Tiny Technology and Talking Turkey
22 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American's "SA 50" research leader of the year, MIT's Angela Belcher, discusses her work using viruses and other organisms...
Looking Into the Future At The World Science Forum; Poetry And Science with Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann
15 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie talks about the World Science Forum, held in New York City last week. Forum speaker ...
Hide and Seen: Gestures and Facial Expressions Help Communication; Government Attempts to Keep Science Information Hidden
08 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American Mind executive editor Mariette Dichristina talks about a special section of the magazine devoted to the roles of ...
Shocking Research: Electroshock Therapy and Stem Cells
01 Nov 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, journalist Larry Tye talks about his new book, SHOCK, written with electroshock patient Kitty Dukakis, wife of former governor and pr...
The Making of the Fittest: A Conversation with Evolutionary Biologist Sean Carroll
25 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about his new book, "The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evo...
Test Tube Babies; Old Time Radio; What's In A Name
18 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, journalist Robin Marantz Henig discusses a TV program airing on October 23 based in part on Pandora's Baby, the title of her book and...
Virus-State Electronics; Baseball Oddsmaking; Star Trek Memorabilia Auction
11 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, journalist Philip Ross discusses his article in the October Scientific American, called "Viral Nanoelectronics," about wires, batteri...
Judging Science: Making Judges Scientifically Literate; Eating Like An Animal; Listener Mail
04 Oct 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Court cases increasingly deal with complex science and technical issues. And the last time some judges were in a science classroom was before Watson ...
Six Big Science Debates; Missions to Map Planets; Breaking Down Barriers: Women in Science
27 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the National Academy of Sciences and other institutions released a report titled Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Wome...
Human Evolution Fossil Find and Oil Company Conservation Comments
20 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
A major paleoanthropological fossil find was announced on September 20th. Donald Johanson is the director of the Institute of Human Origins and profe...
Nuclear Energy's Future, the Mouse-Cheese Relationship
13 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MIT physicist Ernest Moniz discusses the future of nuclear energy and the article he co-authored in the September issue of Scientific...
Dark Matter; New Daily Scientific American Podcast, 60-Second Science; Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter"
06 Sep 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, MIT astrophysicist Paul Schechter offers some perspective on recent research about the universe's mysterious "dark matter." Journali...
The Teen Brain; Flipping Magnetic Poles; What's Pluto?
30 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, journalist Leslie Sabbagh discusses the teen brain, the subject of her cover story in the August/September issue of Scientific Americ...
Scientific American Magazine single topic issue--Energy's Future: Beyond Carbon; and Well-Read Doctors.
23 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie talks about the September, single-topic issue of the magazine, the focus of which is ...
Is the Universe Bigger and Older; and the Status of Pluto.
16 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American editor George Musser explains recent research that could mean that the entire universe is 15 percent bigger and a...
EPA Pesticide Controversy and Impact Astronomy
09 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, journalist Paul Raeburn talks about how the Environmental Protection Agency has been taking a long time, decades in fact, to figure o...
The Expert Mind and the Interplanetary Bicycle Ride
02 Aug 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Phil Ross talks about what scientists have learned is necessary to achieve expertise in virtually any field. Ross's article on the s...
The Mountain/Climate Relation and Patient Safety
26 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, geologist Kip Hodges discusses how climate and mountain evolution influence each other in the Himalayas, the subject of his article i...
Space Shuttle and Fingerprints
19 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, former astronaut Dr. James Bagian, currently the director of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety, t...
CSI Reality and Coke/Pepsi Espionage
12 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Max Houck, director of the Forensic Science Initiative at West Virginia University and author of the July Scientific American article...
Ice Cream Science
05 Jul 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we go to the research and development facility of Ben and Jerry's in Vermont, to talk about the science of ice cream. We'll talk to ...
Bering Sea, radiation, historic tortoise.
28 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, science writer Karen de Seve shares her adventures in the Bering Sea; journalist Dr. John Miller talks about a radiation health confe...
Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist Edward O. Wilson
21 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the special guest is renowned biologist and author Edward O. Wilson. First we'll hear clips from a talk he gave last week at the Ame...
Evolution Update
14 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, freelance reporter Beth Baldwin talks about some of the goings-on at the recent annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology a...
A Walk in the Park: Central Park and the Spring Bird Migration.
07 Jun 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Liz Johnson and Felicity Arengo from the American Museum of Natural History take Scientific American podcast host Steve Mirsky for a ...
In Search of Memory: An Interview with Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel
24 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the guest is Eric Kandel, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Kandel discusses his research, his personal b...
Inside the Tevatron; the Human-Computer Interface; DNA Computing.
17 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his trip inside the Tevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, at t...
The Environment: birds; strategic conservation; big cats.
10 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Joh...
Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine.
03 May 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek talks about his new book, Fantastic Realities, as well as his research and the current an...
Early Universe, Benjamin Franklin Science, Evolution Education.
26 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, physicist William Zajc talks about how the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at the Brookhaven National Laboratory is giving scientists...
Animal intelligence, Mars Rovers, Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health.
12 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the conclusion of a two-part interview with anthropologist Carel Van Schaik about intelligence in animals; astronomer Steven Squyres ...
Animal intelligence, Einstein, Szilard and the bomb, sustainable development.
05 Apr 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the first of a two-part interview with anthropologist Carel Van Schaik about the role of culture in boosting intelligence in animals;...
Attacking antibiotic resistance; William Shockley biography; flu data policy.
29 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American writer Gary Stix talks about the ingenious way researcher Floyd Romesberg is attacking the problem of antibiotic ...
Combat stress, Intel high school science competition, GLOBE At Night astronomy project
22 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, clinical psychologist and U.S. Army Captain Bret Moore discusses combat stress in Iraq and his article on combat stress in the Februa...
Flores hobbit update, chemistry in art, environmental impostors.
15 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American.com editorial director Kate Wong talks about the anthropology community's latest take on the remains of tiny huma...
Genetics of longevity, diaper-free movement, possible plane problems from personal electronics
08 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, biologist Lenny Guarente talks about his Scientific American article on the genetics of aging; anthropologist Meredith Small discusse...
Cosmic ray threat, sasquatch DNA, geochemist cook
01 Mar 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, astrophysicist Eugene Parker talks about his Scientific American article on the threat that cosmic rays pose to astronauts; geneticis...
Computer security, curling, AAAS meeting
22 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American senior writer Wayt Gibbs talks about what he learned at a major computer security conference, the RSA Conference ...
Avian flu, marijuana policy, new tyrannosaur
15 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American staff editor Christine Soares talks about avian flu; Bruce Mirken discusses marijuana policy in the U.S. and Engl...
Evolution, stem cells and the National Inventors Hall of Fame
08 Feb 2006
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie reflects on the Korean stem cell debacle; the National Inventors Hall of Fame announc...