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Science Talk

Science Talk takes you deeply into the world of science audio. Sometimes we travel deep into the wilderness. Sometimes deep into the mind of a scientific expert. The experience will always stimulate y... Read more

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Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics

Creating Darwin's Biopic; and Consumer Electronics

Science Talk correspondent John Pavlus talks with Jon Amiel, director of the new Darwin biography movie Creation, and wi... Read more

23 Jan 2010

21mins

Ranked #2

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Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1

Michael C. Hall Analyzes His Dexter's Mind, Part 1

Actor Michael C. Hall , TV's Dexter , talks with psychologist Kevin Dutton , author of The Wisdom of Psychopaths , at th... Read more

24 Jan 2013

36mins

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What Science Has Learned about the Coronavirus One Year On

What Science Has Learned about the Coronavirus One Year On

About a year ago, SARS-CoV-2 (which wasn’t called that yet) was just beginning to emerge in a cluster of cases inside Ch... Read more

11 Dec 2020

29mins

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Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg

Physics Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg

Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg spoke to an audience of science journalists, and then to podcast host Steve Mirsky

16 Nov 2010

16mins

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"The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1

"The Strangest Man" of Science, Part 1

Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about The Strangest Man, Farmelo'... Read more

25 Jun 2010

34mins

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How Physics Limits Intelligence

How Physics Limits Intelligence

Award-winning author Douglas Fox talks about his cover story in the July issue of Scientific American on The Limits of I... Read more

17 Jun 2011

26mins

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Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better

Super-Earths: Bigger, and Maybe Better

Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and the founder and director of the Harvard Origins of Li... Read more

22 Jun 2012

37mins

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Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo

Physics Now and Then: From Neutrinos to Galileo

Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, talks with podcas... Read more

16 Jun 2010

25mins

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COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues

COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues

Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan , head of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s division of m... Read more

7 Aug 2020

24mins

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The Mind's Hidden Switches

The Mind's Hidden Switches

Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, talks abou... Read more

23 Nov 2011

28mins

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Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy

Nuts, Bolts, Photons and Electrons of Solar Energy

Jeff Wolfe, the CEO and co-founder of groSolar, talks about solar energy's present and future. Plus, we'll test your kno... Read more

24 Jul 2009

28mins

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The Epic History of the Horse

The Epic History of the Horse

Science journalist and equestrian Wendy Williams talks about her new book The Horse: The Epic History of Our Noble Compa... Read more

11 Dec 2015

32mins

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The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1

The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1

Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man . His latest book is Churchill’s Bom... Read more

25 Apr 2014

28mins

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150 Years of the Journal Nature

150 Years of the Journal Nature

Nature is arguably the world’s most prestigious scientific journal. Editor in chief Magdalena Skipper spoke with Scienti... Read more

11 Nov 2019

33mins

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Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 3

Movie Magic (<i>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs</i>), Part 3

In this series of episodes, we talk to many of the scientists at Blue Sky Studios, which created the Ice Age series of a... Read more

14 Jul 2009

29mins

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The Messenger Is the Message

The Messenger Is the Message

Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and psychologist Joseph Marks talk about their book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Wh... Read more

26 Jun 2020

36mins

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Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger

Air Pollution: An Unclear and Present Danger

Journalist and author Beth Gardiner talks about her new book Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution . And C... Read more

21 Nov 2019

37mins

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Found in Space, Part 1

Found in Space, Part 1

Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars , Part ... Read more

27 Feb 2014

20mins

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Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest

Gravitational Wave Scientists Astounded--by Your Interest

Caltech’s Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever and MIT’s Rainer Weiss were the founders of the LIGO experiment that detected gra... Read more

14 Jun 2016

6mins

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High Achievement High Schoolers

High Achievement High Schoolers

High school scientists Sruti Swaminathan, Maia ten Brink, Alyssa Bailey, Moyukh Chatterjee and Fedja Kadribasic, all win... Read more

19 May 2009

28mins

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