Posted on November 25th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 32 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author (with Chris Mooney) of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. The focus of our interview was on why it is increasingly important that scientists become skilled at communicating what we do to political leaders and to our fellow citizens. [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by docartemis
Last week I announced the new iPhone (and iPod Touch) application for the Brain Science Podcast. This week we are launching a similar application for the Books and Ideas podcast. It features access to all episodes the episodes going back to December 2006, episode transcripts, and direct links to this website, my email and [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 63 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with David Bainbridge, author of Teenagers: A Natural History. Our focus is on how the brain changes during the teenage years. Bainbridge teaches vetinary anatomy and reproductive biology at Cambridge University and has published several other popular science books including Beyond the Zonules of [...]
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by docartemis
The new Brain Science Podcast application is now available in the iTunes Store. You will need an iPhone or an iPod Touch to use the application but it does offer several useful features:
Listen to any episode without downloading it via iTunes*
Read episode trancripts right on your iPhone or Touch
One click links to the website, [...]
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