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NSTA Hangout with Ainissa Ramirez
The National Science Teachers Association and Joanne Manaster (STEM advocate, and Scientific American blogger) proudly Present the 2014 NSTA STEM Forum and Expo Keynote Speaker Ainissa Ramirez in a Google Hangout on Air. Ainissa Ramirez, materials scientists, STEM advocate and author joined me for an enjoyable Google Hangout on Air to talk about inspiring kids for […]
Read Science! Episode 21 : The Zoonoses Edition, with David Quammen
Zoonoses, or infectious diseases that can pass from animals to humans, are commonplace and a danger to public health; the list of zoonotic diseases includes Ebola, influenza, SARS, MARS, HIV to name only a few. They are also the subject of David Quammen’s book “Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, and the […]
Read Science! Episode 20 : “Your Inner Fish” Edition
In this episode we talked with paleontologist, author, and television presenter Neil Shubin, author of “Your Inner Fish : A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”; and scientific illustrator Kalliopi Monoyios, who illustrated “Your Inner Fish”. We talked about the discovery of the Tiktaalik fossil by Shubin’s team (and saw a neat […]
The Perfect 46: The Future is Near
This article was originally posted at my Scientific American blog. Visit theperfect46.com, and it looks like any business web page. The Perfect 46 purports to be a company that uses the power of genomics, the information stored in the entirety of your DNA–your genome–to determine if you are with “the one” for you. This is […]
Read Science! Episode 19 : Sci-Comm Power Couple: Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll
We started our new season conversing with a science-communication power couple : Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, who happen to be married to each other. The books providing discussion material were Jennifer Ouellette’s _Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self_, and Sean Carroll’s _The Particle at the End of the Universe: […]
Read Science! Episode 22 : “My Dog Knows Physics” Edition
Joanne and Jeff had a lively discussion centered on what dogs, bunnies, and squirrels have to do with general relativity and quantum mechanics, with our guest Chad Orzel, author of “How to Teach Physics to Your Dog” and “How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog”.
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