New York Academy of Sciences Podcast
Summary: The Academy brings you regular podcasts featuring cutting-edge research and science from New York City and beyond. Leading scientists tell their stories in a mixture of documentaries, interviews, and lectures. Visit www.nyas.org/podcast.
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Podcasts:
Learn all that goes into making Scotland's traditional drink, which turns out to be a lot of culture, a bit of science, and just a pinch of art.
Gerard Liger-Belair has been studying the science of champagne bubbles for 10 years. Learn just how important bubbles are to the taste this celebratory drink - and find out the science behind it.
Meet the Sundance Institute's Sloan Fellowship winner and the 2008 Sundance-Sloan Grant recipient - two screenwriters with a serious science focus.Editor's Note: The Sundance Screenwriter's Lab was held in Park City, Utah.
Join a New York naturalist as he leads a spring food foraging tour in Central Park. Learn the history, science, and folklore behind foraging for your own food. www.wildmanstevebrill.com.
Experts in language, literature, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychoanalysis discuss what is known about how we store and subsequently recall the past.
The cofounder of string field theory offers a scientific exploration of the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel.
Investors, economists, and quantitative finance experts discuss how technological innovations have hastened the growth of the markets.
A Mt. Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist explains the morpho-molecular features that render certain neuronal populations of the brain vulnerable to degeneration.
The University of Chicago's Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy speaks about his new book, which gives the 3.5 billion year history of the human body.
A lead author with the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gives a global warming overview.
The head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University describes how ethics may be a hardwired function of the human brain.
Psychoanalysts and neuroscientists discuss the effect of the environment on brain activity and micro-anatomy.
A nutrition scientist from Tufts University gives an overview of the health benefits of chocolate. Sponsor: Chocolate Manufacturers Association
The leader of the private-sector human genome project has published an autobiography.
The Global Environment and Energy Correspondent for The Economist takes an up-close look at global warming, the auto industry, and government.
