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Mar 20, 2015 • 19min

Humans and the Amazon: A 13,000-Year Coexistence

University of Exeter archaeologist José Iriarte talks to freelance journalist Cynthia Graber about his efforts to understand human activity in and influence on the Amazon region for the last 13 millennia     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Mar 12, 2015 • 19min

The Placement Excitation: <i>Scientific American</i> on <i>The Big Bang Theory</i>

In conjunction with this magazine's inclusion on the March 12 episode of The Big Bang Theory, here's an edited version of a talk by the sitcom's science advisor, U.C.L.A. physicist David Saltzberg, about his role and the show's reach   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Feb 20, 2015 • 10min

<i>Science Goes to the Movies</i>: A New TV Program

Heather Berlin, assistant professor of psychiatry and of neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, is the co-host of the new CUNY TV program Science Goes to the Movies   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jan 30, 2015 • 22min

Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 2: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 2 of 2   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jan 30, 2015 • 33min

Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 1: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann

Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in-Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 1 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 27, 2014 • 14min

Best of Thanksgiving, Part 2: Let's Talk Stuffing—Your Face!

Cornell University's Brian Wansink talks about eating behavior and how mindless eating has us consuming way more calories than we suspect   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 27, 2014 • 10min

Best of Thanksgiving, Part 1: Let's Talk Turkey!

Turkey scientist Rich Buchholz of the University of Mississippi talks about the turkey on your plate and his own turkey research    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 14, 2014 • 22min

Doctors Without Borders Fight on Ebola's Front Lines

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks with Armand Sprecher of Doctors Without Borders, who has fought Ebola in Guinea and Liberia. And Steve talks Ebola with Stanford's David Relman, chair of the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 5, 2014 • 26min

Ebola Expert Update

Scientific American health and medicine correspondent Dina Fine Maron talks about Ebola with tropical medicine and infectious disease expert Daniel Bausch of Tulane University at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 15, 2014 • 33min

Let's Get Small: A Panel on Nanoscience

Scientific American senior editor Josh Fischman joins nanoscience researchers Shana Kelly, Yamuna Krishnan, Benjamin Bratton, along with moderator Bridget Kendall from the BBC World Service program The Forum   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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