New Heads For New People

New Heads For New People

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  • 16: A Brief History Of Space Ice Cream

    This week we visit the gift shop and go down the space ice cream rabbit hole. Where did freeze-dried ice cream come from? And why do we eat it? Featuring Astronaut Foods, Smithsonian Air & Space, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.  

    12 min
  • 15: Lugensteine

    Fraud isn’t uncommon in science. Why people fake data or specimens is a more complicated question. This week we have a story about scientific fraud as revenge.

    14 min
  • 13: Cascadia
    This week: how we learned about the great Cascadia earthquake, and why we can't seem to get ready for it.
    23 min
  • 12: Best Guesses
    This week we take a trip to the distant, distant past. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/7/12/episode-12-best-guesses
    17 min
  • 11: The Loneliest Creature On Earth
    This week we have a story by radio producer Lilly Sullivan. It's about loneliness, searching, love, and mysterious ocean sounds. Basically, it has it all! Show Notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/6/27/episode-11-the-loneliest-creature-on-earth
    13 min
  • 10: Still Processing
    This week, we want you to meet someone who takes data to a very personal level. Also we talk about feelings! Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/6/13/episode-10-still-processing
    10 min
  • 9: It's Complicated
    We're doing something a little different this week and we're doing a follow-up to our last episode. Last episode we did a story about fossils, and asked, should you put a dollar value on them? And that was a really complicated question. We told you a story about one aspect of the debate around that question, but there were a lot of things we had to leave out that were still really interesting.
    10 min
  • 8: Gray Areas
    Do fossils have a value? They're valuable to scientists, and they bring people to museums. But are they worth money? That turns out to be a really big question, and this week we try to look at one way of addressing it. http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/5/16/episode-8-gray-areas
    18 min
  • 7: Dafila And The Swans
    This week, Malcolm stumbles across a science paper from the 1970s about a graduate student with a really extraordinary and really specific ability. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/4/27/episode-7-dafila-and-the-swans
    10 min

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New Heads For New People is a show about how science isn't just about science. We tell stories about how the human drive to discover shapes history, fiction, and culture in all kinds of ways.