Science Talk

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Science Talk episodes

June 11, 2014 Classroom Decorations Can Distract Young Students
Five-year-olds in highly decorated classrooms were less able to hold their focus, spent more time off-task and had smaller learning gains than kids in bare rooms. Erika Beras reports

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3 min
June 10, 2014 Kid Scientist Finds Sweet Pest Control
Eleven-year-old Simon Kaschock-Marenda's science fair project led to a publication about the insecticidal effects of the sweetener Truvia. Karen Hopkin reports

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3 min
June 09, 2014 Light Colors Become Fashion Rage for Northern Europe's Insects
As northern Europe warms, the light-colored butterflies and dragonflies typically found in the Mediterranean are moving north, and outcompeting their darker-colored rivals. Erika Beras reports

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4 min
June 06, 2014 London Fish Chip Away at Historical Unknowns
Isotope composition within fish tails found in London archaeological digs shows that the city began importing cod from northern Scandinavia some 800 years ago. Cynthia Graber reports

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3 min
June 04, 2014 Meteor Storm Went from Sizzle to Fizzle
The May Camelopardalids meteor outburst turned out to be a dud, because meteor storm prediction is not a sure thing, unlike, for example, calculating the next eclipse

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3 min
May 23, 2014 Hunting the Wild Neutrino
Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, of the University of Toronto, talks about his new book Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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23 min
April 30, 2014 Sometimes the Hoofprints Are from Zebras
David J. Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics at Imperial College London, talks about his new book The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day

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34 min
April 24, 2014 The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

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24 min
April 24, 2014 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 Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

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30 min
March 18, 2014 Take Me Out to the Run Expectancy Matrix Analysis
Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist talks about his latest book, The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball (co-authored with Benjamin Baumer), at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, with proprietor Jay Goldberg

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40 min

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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.