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Science, Spoken

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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10:40

The Plan to End Science’s Sexist #Manel Problem

Science, Spoken ·

2017/08/07

In October 2016, the organizers behind a conference on the microbiome sent promo materials to some prominent scientists. Elisabeth Bik was one of them: With her nearly 12,000 followers, her tweeting could help publicize their upcoming event in San Diego. But when she scanned the lineup, she noticed that almost every speaker was a man. Add more women, she suggested—or the conference should expect backlash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:15

Science Says 13 Reasons Why May Be the Public Health...

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2017/08/04

In March, when Netflix quietly dropped its original teen suicide mystery series 13 Reasons Why, it took a few days for people to start freaking out. But soon, schools started sending home notes warning parents about the show’s graphic depictions of suicide and rape. Psychologists wrote op-eds denouncing its disregard for the World Health Organization’s suicide portrayal guidelines. News outlets published more than 600,000 stories about it. And then, there was Twitter. Learn more about your ad

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13:02

The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot...

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2017/08/03

For a few months in the fall of 1957, citizens of Earth could look up and see the first artificial star. It shone as bright as Spica, but moved across the sky at a much faster clip. Lots of people thought they were seeing Sputnik—Russia’s antennaed, spherical satellite, and the first thing humans had flung into orbit. But it wasn’t: It was the body of the rocket that bore Sputnik to space—and Earth’s first piece of space junk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:17

The Physics Behind the Magical Parallax Effect...

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2017/08/02

There's something sort of cool in the next version of Apple's iOS. [It's call ARKit](https://developer.apple.com/arkit/—basically, it's a part of Apple's developer package to help programmers create awesome augmented reality apps. Like, maybe a program that adds dancing hotdogs to your screen so that they look like they are there in real life. Or better yet, something useful like an app that measures distances by just looking at stuff through your phone camera. Learn more about your ad choices

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12:55

Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science

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2017/08/01

Adam Russell, an anthropologist and program manager at the Department of Defense’s mad-science division Darpa, laughs at the suggestion that he is trying to build a real, live, bullshit detector. But he doesn’t really seem to think it’s funny. The quite serious call for proposals Russell just sent out on Darpa stationery asks people—anyone! Even you!—for ways to determine what findings from the social and behavioral sciences are actually, you know, true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:50

Physicists Try to Revive a Super-Safe, Decades-Old...

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2017/07/31

In a room at Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center, Robert Johnson keeps a small collection of plastic heads. At first glance, they look like they’ve been lopped off the top of department store mannequins. But they’re more lifelike than that—made of materials that mimic bone, flesh, and brain. “One of them even has a gold filling,” he says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:31

Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their...

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2017/07/28

When Etienne Schneider became Luxembourg's minister of the economy in 2012, one of his first trips abroad was to NASA’s Ames Research Center. It might have seemed strange for the tiny state's money man to solicit meetings with cosmic researchers, but Luxembourg is always on the lookout for its next big investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:13

How on Earth Did Aaron Judge Bean That Stadium Roof?...

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2017/07/27

During a recent Home Run Derby, Aaron Judge did something that no one thought was possible. He took a swing and hit a ball so hard that it collided with the ceiling at Marlins Park. The ball hit the ceiling about 170 feet above the ground. The height of the ceiling had been designed by engineers so that balls wouldn't hit it—but clearly, they can. OK, I don't really want to talk about sports. I want to talk about physics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:43

Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator

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2017/07/26

Many people know that work on nuclear weapons enabled the development of the first electronic computers. But it’s no less true that the humble refrigerator, in a roundabout way, enabled the development of the first atom bomb. While reading the newspaper one morning in 1926, Albert Einstein nearly choked on his eggs. An entire family in Berlin, including several children, had suffocated a few nights before when a seal on their refrigerator broke and toxic gas flooded their apartment. Learn more about

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12:56

Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery

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2017/07/25

Matthieu Komorowski wanted to be an astronaut. Still does. The French-born anesthesiologist, currently getting a PhD at Imperial College London, applied to the European Space Agency in 2008. But he knows his chances are limited. “Being basically a medical resident I didn’t get very far in the selection,” Komorowski says. “But I’ve been working on building up my skills.” Among those skills: administering anesthesia for surgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:17

Climate Change Is Here. It’s Time to Talk About...

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2017/07/24

Let's pretend that the US didn't recently pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Let's also pretend that all the other countries that scolded it for withdrawing also met their Paris pledges on deadline. Heck, let's pretend that that everyone in the whole world did their very best to cut emissions, starting today. Even if all that make-believing came true, the world would still get very hot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:42

Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories

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2017/07/21

Recall your favorite memory: the big game you won; the moment you first saw your child's face; the day you realized you had fallen in love. It's not a single memory, though, is it? Reconstructing it, you remember the smells, the colors, the funny thing some other person said, and the way it all made you feel. Your brain's ability to collect, connect, and create mosaics from these milliseconds-long impressions is the basis of every memory. By extension, it is the basis of you. Learn more about your

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9:36

The West Is on Fire. Blame the Housing Crisis

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2017/07/20

California is on fire again. CalFire, one of the agencies charged with putting those fires out, is tracking upward of two dozen conflagrations up and down the state at the moment—Detwiller, Grade, Bridge, Wall, Alamo, Garza, on and on—ranging in size from a couple hundred acres to nearly 50,000. And it’s not just the Golden State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:39

Thanks, Climate Change: Heat Waves Will Keep on...

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2017/07/19

Last month, Phoenix enduring a blistering heat wave, with temperatures so high that airport officials had to cancel dozens of flights. The reason was two-fold. First off, some jet engines risk catching on fire in extreme heat. And when air gets hot, it expands and becomes less dense—so an airplane’s wings can’t generate enough lift to get off the ground. Planes either need to speed up during take-off or use a longer runway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

The Physics of Throwing a Big Sack Over Trump's...

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2017/07/18

Suppose someone builds a wall. A great and tall wall that is both impenetrable and beautiful. Who knows—maybe it's even solar powered. This wall stands 10 meters tall and goes on and on and on. Now suppose someone wants to toss a bag of stuff over that wall. A big bag with a mass of, oh, 60 pounds. (I will say 27 kilograms, because kilograms are better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:35

Let’s Play Around With Two Big Ideas in Physics....

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2017/07/17

The first semester of an undergraduate physics course invariably spends a lot of time on two big ideas: The momentum principle and the work energy principle. Both deal with forces acting on an object, which often leads students to think they are similar. In a way, they are, and they play a huge role in almost everything you learn during an introduction to physics. Before I give you a great physics question that uses these ideas, I will go over them in a super-brief physics lesson. Learn more about

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7:30

Scientists Upload a Galloping Horse GIF Into Bacteria...

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2017/07/14

E. coli might best be known for giving street food connoisseurs occasional bouts of gastric regret. But the humble microbial workhorse, with its easy-to-edit genome, has given humankind so much more—insulin, antibiotics, cancer drugs, biofuels, synthetic rubber, and now: a place to keep your selfies safe for the next millennium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

Tesla's Super-Battery Could Help Lift an Aircraft...

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2017/07/13

Elon Musk is the closest thing this world has to a real-life Tony Stark. Think about it. He builds cool cars. He builds cool rockets. He builds cool tunneling machines. He wants to fire people through pneumatic tubes. He built a ginormous battery factory in the desert, and how he's building the world's largest battery. OK, technically, Elon Musk isn't building it. Tesla is. But same difference, because Tesla is his company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:14

US Farms Could Suffer as the Arctic Heats Up

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2017/07/12

Planet Earth is getting hotter. One of the more confusing aspects of this global trend is the persistent, undeniable discomfort of winter. Even more confusing is when that chilly weather continues into April, May, or godforbidpleasenot June. This might clear the confusion (but probably not the frustration): Those colder temperatures in the first half of the year might be due to warmer weather in the Arctic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:37

Biology's Roiling Debate Over Publishing Research Early

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2017/07/11

Five years ago, Daniel MacArthur set out to build a massive library of human gene sequences—one of the biggest ever. The 60,706 raw sequences, collected from colleagues all over the globe, took up a petabyte of memory. It was the kind of flashy, blockbuster project that would secure MacArthur a coveted spot in one of science’s top three journals, launching his new lab at the Broad Institute into the scientific spotlight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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