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Revisionist History podcast
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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.
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Let's Talk Turkey!
Oct 3, 202200:08:55Tap to summarizeTurkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research
Transcribe →Roman Sanitation Didn't Stop Roaming Parasites
Oct 3, 202200:08:21Tap to summarizeCambridge's Piers Mitchell, author of the 2015 book Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations, talks about the counterintuitive findings in his recent paper in the journal Parasitology titled "Human parasites in the Roman World: health consequences of conquering an empire."
Transcribe →Teaching Machines to Learn on Their Own
Oct 3, 202200:06:27Tap to summarizetalks with Scientific American tech editor Larry Greenemeier about the revolution underway in machine learning, in which the machine eventually programs itself
Transcribe →Nobel Prize Explainer: Autophagy
Oct 3, 202200:08:54Tap to summarizeThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries concerning autophagy. Following the announcement, journalist Lotta Fredholm spoke to Juleen Zierath, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, about the research.
Transcribe →Thule and the Apes of Earth
Oct 3, 202200:08:30Tap to summarizeAs 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.
Transcribe →Hope Lies in Dreams,' a New Podcast from Nature Biotechnology
Oct 3, 202200:04:32Tap to summarizeThis is a story of desperation, anger, poverty—and triumph over long odds to crack the code of a degenerative disease that had been stealing the lives of children since it was first discovered more than a century ago.
Transcribe →Love History? Listen to This Podcast
Oct 3, 202200:05:06Tap to summarizeIn the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.
Transcribe →American after Sandy
Oct 3, 202200:06:54Tap to summarizeAmerican Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina brings us up to date on the state of our New York City-based operation after Sandy. Recorded October 31 at 2:30 P.M Eastern time
Transcribe →Dark Energy Made Light
Oct 3, 202200:12:00Tap to summarizeResearchers are making small claws out of dead spiders, dandelion seeds are inspiring scientists to mimic their distribution with small sensors to be able to better track ecological information, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is helping us create a 3D map of the universe.
Transcribe →Perks of Whale Poop, Found Dino Tracks
Oct 3, 202200:12:04Tap to summarizeA Swedish company has created a new anti-hangover pill that reduces the short-term effects of drinking, whale poop is helping our ocean’s ecosystems, and a recent drought in Texas revealed the footprints from a dinosaur over 100 million years ag
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