Il podcast di Antonino Privitera

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  

Online etiquette, fixes for cheap plywood, and batch cutting dovetails by hand.

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  

Wood warping after a resaw, trouble with a smoothing plane, and octagonal frame joinery.

Solvent confusion, box joints and short ceilings, workbenches and T tracks, and selecting wood for your projects.

Safe finishes for comic book storage, drawer guide positioning, and restoring an antique workbench.

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  

We celebrate 200 episodes of Wood Talk by doing another episode of Wood Talk!

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  

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  

Finishes for kitchen cabinets, dealing with glue squeezeout, and should you get a really small hand plane?

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  

Steam bending vs bent lamination, choosing your tools based on sharpening methods, and replacing your dust collector's filtration bags.

Design rules for grain orientation, filling cracks with finish, and making really long panels.

Avoiding rounding over with a random orbit sander, splines or biscuits as a glue-up aide, a bit of marquetry on a box, and a WIA wrap-up with a discussion of Lee Valley's new custom planes.

Preventing cupped panels, respirators for the permanently bearded, box hinges, Spraying outdoors, acclimating lumber before a project, and avoiding tearout while turning.

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

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.

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Juneau, Alaska

Scientific American Bright Horizons Cruise 22 arrives in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe    

Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe    

Tortured outdoor finishes, string inlay resources, and leap frogging planes.

Mixing profiles and breadboard ends, using a chisel plane, and making dadoes and grooves with hand tools.

Scientific American editor–turned-sci-fi-writer Mark Alpert, author of Final Theory and Extinction , talks about his latest book, The Furies