New York Academy of Sciences Podcast

Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as "Bunhead," in part two of our science-storytelling podcast series.

Author, storyteller, and teacher Matthew Dicks tells the story of his high-school arch nemesis, a biology teacher known as "Bunhead," in part two of our science-storytelling podcast series.

Kelly Vaughan isn't your average middle school science teacher. She's willing to go out on a limb to engage her students—even if that means wrangling crustaceans now and then. She recounted her story during the Science & the City-Story Collider "Science Teachers"-themed storytelling night this February. Now, you can hear it live.

Scurvy was once the scourge of the seven seas, but it turned out to have a simple solution: Vitamin C. In the second installment of our nutrition series, learn all about the power of vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients.

How do we know what's really good for us in an age of information overload? The first installment in our new podcast series on nutrition follows the journey of food from the table through the digestive tract to begin to get to the bottom of that big question.

As internet dating gains popularity, millions of singles are turning over large amounts of personal data to computers in the hopes that an algorithm will find them the perfect mate. OK Cupid's data blogger Christian Rudder explains how all that data can reveal some interesting—and often funny—facts about the sex lives of humans online.

In the world of online gaming, natural reality often blends and blurs with virtual reality. This November, anthropologist Thomas Malaby and game designer Lee T. Guzofski spoke at the Academy on "The Anthropology of Online Worlds"; in this two-part series, we bring you that talk.

In the world of online gaming, natural reality often blends and blurs with virtual reality. This November, anthropologist Thomas Malaby and game designer Lee T. Guzofski spoke at the Academy on "The Anthropology of Online Worlds"; in this two-part series, we bring you that talk.

Cognitive neuroscientists are discovering new insights into how our brains learn all the time, but lab research doesn't always translate to real world of education. S&C asked three brain scientists—and organizers of the Academy's Aspen Brain Forum—about their own work and how it can be applied to the classroom.

As a medium, film has the power to bring us into the inner world of science, breaking down misconceptions by creating an alternative narrative. Alexis Gambis, founder of the Imagine Science Film Festival, and filmmaker and scientist Valerie Weiss share their insights.

This special podcast looks at the problem of folic acid delivery to women in the developing world, an issue the Academy's first annual Scientists Without Borders Nutrition Prize looked to solve.

Heart disease is the leading death for Americans today. In this special edition of the Science & the City podcast, hear what Dr. Valentin Fuster—Physician-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, director of the Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and scientific organizer of the Academy's upcoming conference on cardiovascular health in Barcelona, Spain—has to say about heart healthy behavior in children, youth, and adults.

This year, the Academy launched its new "Summer Matters" mentoring program, which paired grad students with primary school kids for a hands-on brand of science-ed over the summer. S&C visited one of those schools to get a deeper look into STEM education—that is, Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math—in the city.

Physicist Brian Cox talks about his new TV show Wonders of the Universe and the future of physics as the search for the Higgs Boson heats up at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Professor Dickson Despommier talks to Science & the City about the city, climate change and how his "big idea", the Vertical Farm, is becoming a reality.