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NPR’s David Kestenbaum ran a piece yesterday on Morning Edition about a 16-year-old climate skeptic named Kristen Byrnes. This ambitious teenager has set up a website and dedicated huge chunks of her time to arguing that the rise of global temperature is part of a natural cycle and not, as most climate scientists agree, […]
Author Archives: Soren Wheeler
Climate change and critical thinking
April 16, 2008 – 1:24 pm
The mark of a dedicated scientist
April 9, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Not all scientists are the quiet, serious type. Science writer Carl Zimmer offers a unique peek under the lab coat on his site Science Tattoo Emporium. Julian, who sent Carl the above picture of his tattoo of the testosterone molecule, writes:
The tat has to do with my love of lifting heavy weights and the most […]
On the Road Again, in Latvia
April 2, 2008 – 11:31 am
Soren here, one of Radio Lab’s worker bees … With our Pop Music show on the way (the podcast will be released next week), I thought I’d prime the pump with a little personal pop music story:
When I was a kid, my family drove across the country every summer - from Montana, where we […]
Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008
March 19, 2008 – 12:01 pm
Arthur C. Clarke at his home office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, photo by Amy Marash.
Arthur C. Clarke, the author of the book “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which became a Stanely Kubrick movie, died yesterday. Clarke was a visionary science fiction writer who foresaw the use of satellites for communications and planted a seed of […]
The Code of Life
March 12, 2008 – 10:55 am
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The genes of all living things are made of DNA. And DNA is made of four chemicals, called A, T, C, and G. These days, scientists can read those “letters” of DNA for any creature (including you and me). And they can make strands of DNA from jars of A, T, C, and G. […]
Brain scans indicate … this blog is informative
March 5, 2008 – 12:09 pm
MRI Brain Scan from University of Southern California
Brain scans give us a whole new way of explaining how and why we do the things we do. But while brain scans can help scientists understand how the person inside the scanner thinks, they also make those of us outside the scanner a little bit less savvy. […]
To Tell the Truth
February 27, 2008 – 1:28 pm
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Most of us can’t get through a day without telling a lie (at least, that’s what scientists who study deception say). But what would the world be like if we were totally honest, all the time? Well, in our upcoming show on Deception, Paul Ekman describes his personal attempt to walk the […]
Blue Brain
February 13, 2008 – 11:55 am
Scientists like to make computer models of really complicated stuff, like economic markets, global weather, and the beginning of the universe. Now they’ve made a computer model of what might be the most complicated and mysterious object we know of: the brain.
The Blue Brain Project is a collaboration between IBM and a group […]