Virtually Speaking Science

Kelly Hills talks to Madhusudan Katti about reconciliation ecology: managing urban ecosystems for biodiversity; which includes managing the impact of droughts. Read Dr. Katti on water management in cities in the American West, and on global urb

Alan Boyle & Tom Jones • Celebrating Asteroid Day

Jun 30th, 2015 1h 1m

Former NASA astronaut and planetary scientist Tom Jones and Alan Boyle preview Asteroid Day, an occasion that highlights the threats and opportunities posed by near-Earth objects. Scores of Asteroid Day events are scheduled around the world on

Kelly Hills and Kaberi Kar Gupta • Survival of the Slender Loris

Jun 25th, 2015 1h 18m

Kelly talks with Dr. Kaberi Kar Gupta, Principal Scientist of the Urban Slender Loris Project, where citizens and scientists learn about this small nocturnal primate found only in Sri Lanka and Southern India in order to figure out how urban co

Jennifer Ouellette, Brendan Nyhan: Measles, Identity Politics, Cognitive Biases

Jun 11th, 2015 57m 29s

The science of swaying popular opinion: think vaccines. Dartmouth political scientist/psychologist Brendan Nyhan specializes in the cognitive biases that come with identity politics. Jennifer and Brendan talk about the psychology of changing mi

Alan Boyle & Mark Showalter: New Horizons, Pluto & Its moons

Jun 4th, 2015 42m

Alan Boyle talks with Mark Showalter, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, about the latest findings about Pluto and its moons, next month's flyby of the dwarf planet by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, the "Our Pluto" program to name ge

Alan Boyle & Matt Strassler • Large Hadron Collider

May 7th, 2015 1h 17m

Discuss upcoming plans for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, and the largest single machine in the world –The LHC allows physicists to test the predictions of different theories of part

Jennifer Ouellette, Shaun Maguire • Quantum Info, Black Holes, Cyber Security

Apr 9th, 2015 1h 2m

Tensor networks, quantum information, emergent space-time, black hole firewalls, cyber security. J ennifer talks with Shaun Maguire, a mathematical physicist with expertise in control theory, statistics and quantum computing. PhD student workin

Alan Boyle & Will Pomerantz • Virgin Galactic on the Frontier

Apr 2nd, 2015 1h 9m

What’s up at Virgin Galactic? Five months after the tragic loss of SpaceShipTwo and one of its pilots, the company is building a new SpaceShipTwo – and moving ahead with a project called Launcher One to put small satellites in orbit. Alan Boyle

Kelly Hills & Alice Dreger • Galileo's Middle Finger

Mar 26th, 2015 1h 37m

Anatomy, identity, intersex. Medical historian/ethicist Alice Dreger (Northwestern) and Kelly Hills discuss Dreger's new book, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, andthe Search for Justice in Science.

Alan Boyle, Seth Shostak, Don Lincoln: Aliens!

Mar 5th, 2015 1h 5m

What questions are scientists asking about the existence of intelligent extraterrestial life? Alan Boyle taks with Seth Shostak – Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI – and Don Lincoln –physicist at Fermilab, member of the scie

Kelly Hills & Glenn Cohen • Medical Tourism

Feb 26th, 2015 41m

I. Glenn Cohen talks with Kelly about the multi-billion dollar industry of medical tourism and his recent book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law and Ethics (Nov. 12th; Oxford University Press) Cohen, Assistant Professor of Law at Ha

Jennifer Ouellette & Laurie Paul • Empathy & Identity

Feb 12th, 2015 58m

Laurie Paul, philosophy professor at UC-North Carollina, Chapel Hill; 2014 Guggenheim fellow talks with Jennifer Ouellette about empathy, identity and whether having a child can be considered a rational decision (she’s pro-childless despite ha

Alan Boyle & Don Lincoln • Restarting the Large Hadron Collider

Feb 5th, 2015 1h 2m

A physicist at Fermilab, member of the science team for the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider and the author of two books about the LHC, “The Quantum Frontier” and “The Large Hadron Collider” Don Lincoln has also written a book

Kelly Hills & Dr Adia Benton • HIV Exceptionalism

Jan 29th, 2015 1h 25m

Medical anthropologist, Adia Benton and Kelly Hills talk about Benton's new book and the spread of and response to Ebola. HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone (Feb 15, 2015), is an ethnographic account of how HIV exce

Jennifer Ouellette & Ainissa Ramirez • Newton’s Football & Science Underground

Jan 15th, 2015 1h

Physicist Ainissa Ramirez, co-author of Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America's Game talks wih host Jennifer Ouellette about Newton's Football, life as a science evangelist and Science Underground, her new micro-podcast with journalist

Alan Boyle & Marc Abrahams • Ig Nobel's & Annals of Improbable Research

Jan 8th, 2015 1h 1m

Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research returns to talk with Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle.B0yle on strange science."Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with

Kelly Hills & SciCurious aka Bethany Brookshire

Dec 18th, 2014 1h 13m

Bethany Brookshire talks with Kelly about science in the kitchen. Follow @rocza @SciCuriousRead Kelly at Life as an Extreme Sport Read Bethany at ScienceNews/SciCurious and Eureka!Lab.

Jennifer Ouellette & Neurologist Jeff Zacks • Your Brain on Movies

Dec 11th, 2014 1h 2m

Cognitive neuroscientist and author of FLICKER, Your Brain on Movies Jeff Zacks talks with Jennifer Ouellette about the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens between your ears when you sit down in the theatre and the

Jennifer Ouellette, Glen Whitman & James Dow • Zombie Economics

Nov 13th, 2014 1h 3m

Undead characters have terrified popular audiences for centuries, but when analyzed closely, their behaviors and stories—however farfetched—mirror our own in surprising ways. Jennifer talks with Glen Whitman & James Dow about Economics of the U

Alan Boyle & SETI's Seth Shostak: Interstellar

Nov 6th, 2014 1h 2m

Colonize our solar systerm? Seth Shostak – Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research – talks with Alan Boyle abut Interstellar and other ideas afloat in the culture.http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/science-interstella

Gaius Publius and Michael Mann on Climate

Oct 27th, 2014 59m

Guest host Gaius Publius discusses climate change with Dr. Michael Mann. Gaius has written extensively on climate issues at AmericaBlog and Naked Capitalism. Gaius' write-up of Dr. Mann's Scientific American article, discussed in the interview,

Alan Boyle: Commercial Spaceflight & the XPRIZE

Oct 2nd, 2014 1h 5m

Ten years after the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE opened up the age of private-sector spaceflight, two XPRIZE pioneers reflect on the past decade and look ahead to the future of innovation prizes. Tune in to hear from Robert Weiss, a Hollywood prod

Kelly Hills & Raychelle Burks: Forensic Chemistry, Zombies & Science Fiction

Sep 25th, 2014 1h 17m

Analytical chemist Raychelle Burks talks forensic chemistry, using pop culture to explain chemistry, the Curly-haired Mafia, #BlackandSTEM, girls in science, DIY Science Zone with ethicist and science writer Kelly Hills. Follow @DrRubidium @roc

Jennifer Ouellette & Spiros Michalakis • Quantum Physics

Sep 11th, 2014 1h 1m

Jennifer Ouellette talks with Caltech physicist Spyridon (Spiros) Michalakis about quantum computing and quantum information. Read quantumfrontiers.com Follow @quantum_spiros @JenLucPiquant