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Virtually Speaking Science

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Informal conversations hosted by science writers Alan Boyle, Jennifer Ouellette, Kelly Hills and Tom Levenson, who, with their guests, explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy, the history and economics of science, science deniers and its relationship to democracy, and the role of women in the sciences. Produced by Sherry Reson. Hosted in Second Life by the Exploratorium.

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How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.org's Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in... more
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Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Nancy Hopkins, Amgen professor of biology at MIT about molecular biology, cancer research, Jim Watson, Rosalind Franklin, the 'leaky pipeline' for women in the... more
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Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette welcomes Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing (why the Myers Briggs and similar tests are little more than modern horoscopes); Origins, about how... more
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Robert Gould, MD, San Francisco Bay Chapter President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, briefed a group of writers on the importance of California's historic Proposition 37 – and why the labeling of genetically engineered food and... more
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Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Director of the Sustainable Food Systems Program and Senior Scientist for Pesticide Action Network briefed a group of writers on the science of genetically engineered foods and why California's historic Proposition... more
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Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor at Boingboing.net and columnist for @nytmag. Maggie is the author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the... more
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Prof. Matt Strassler (Rutgers U.) and The Quest for the Higgs Particle A new Higgs-like particle has recently been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. The quest to find this particle goes back nearly 50 years. Slides at More at Matt... more
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NBC Science Editor Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about the Higgs boson and Sean's new book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Particle-End-Universe-Higgs/dp/0525953590/ •... more
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Tom Levenson - Prof of Writing at MIT - talks with Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette. They talk about surviving the zombi apocalypse and other uses of abstract math. Tom wrote about it here:... more
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Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle (Science Editor NBCNews.com) talks with planetary scientist Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto. July marks the three-year countdown to New Horizons' Pluto flyby....read... more
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