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Science Talk

Science EN ↓ 544 episodes

Science Talk is a podcast of longer-form audio experiments from Scientific American--from immersive sonic journeys into nature to deep dives into research with leading experts.

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Joseph Lange's Campaign against HIV 17.07.2019 49:23

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bone Up on What's Inside You 25.06.2019 45:54

Author and self-described fossil fanatic Brian Switek talks about his new book Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Solving Our Plastic Problem 19.06.2019 36:26

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Secrets of the Universe Revealed! 23.05.2019 37:54

Cornell University applied mathematics professor Steven Strogatz talks about his new book Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the Black Hole Said Cheese 29.04.2019 22:59

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Tree and Its People in a Warming Landscape 22.04.2019 37:06

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Science Couple Phages Out Superbug 13.03.2019 35:47

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaccine Rejection: Truth and Consequences 20.02.2019 26:07

Kent State epidemiologist Tara Smith talks about vaccines, recent preventable measles outbreaks and her 2017 journal article on vaccine rejection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the Origin of Darwin 12.02.2019 16:22

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warming Arctic on Thin Ice 31.01.2019 17:23

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fake Whiskeys and Octo-Ecstasy 14.01.2019 29:33

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ultima Thule and the Apes of Earth 03.01.2019 8:40

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meet the Real Ravenmaster 18.12.2018 39:34

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 2 22.11.2018 22:20

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 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crusade against Dangerous Food, Part 1 21.11.2018 31:15

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bones and Stones: Cemetery Geology 31.10.2018 34:08

A tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., focuses on the geology of the landscape and the mausoleums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tinder for Cheetahs; and an Unusual Blindness 17.10.2018 26:47

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Better Living through Evolution: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 03.10.2018 15:43

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics 02.10.2018 30:30

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unleashing Immunity against Cancer: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 01.10.2018 22:02

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where There's a Wills There's a Way to Explain the Home Run Rise 30.09.2018 32:05

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More People, but Less Hardship? 25.09.2018 27:49

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's Looking at Humanity, Kid 05.09.2018 26:04

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life at the Improv: The Power of Imagination 16.08.2018 42:00

Stephen Asma, professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago, talks about his two latest books, The Evolution of Imagination and Why We Need Religion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Out with the Bad Science 02.08.2018 39:07

NPR science journalist Richard Harris talks about his book, Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope and Wastes Billions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices