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Adam is on vacation this week, but don't worry because I have a great guest and I'm also going to bring in some interview clips to round out the news.
My guest is science book reviewer Phillip Manning, and we'll be talking about the new book by the esteemed scientist Francis Collins called The Language of God. And, I'll also have another funny science sketch from our friends at the Teknikal Difficulties podcast, we'll update our planet mnemonic, and announce a new contest, but first let's hear some science news. The first story is about antidepressants and the second story is about stem cells. Here we go.
Science News
Ketamine for Depression (Transcript)
Courtesy of the Science Magazine Podcast
New Method of Creating Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Courtesy of the Nature Magazine Podcast
Book Review
Phillip Manning of SciBooks joined us to discuss the new science book The Language of God by Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome project. We also briefly discussed the book Our Inner Ape.
Funny Stuff
"Beyond the Known" clip, courtesy of the funniest guy on earth, Cayenne Chris Conroy of Teknikal Difficulties.
Also, Jake from the CTLcast sent a link to a video of a really cool robot that can navigate a lot of different types of terrain.
Memonics
We already need to update the mnemonic we introduced in Episode 26 about the planets because the ninth planet, Pluto, has just been demoted!
The International Astronomical Union just voted to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet rather than a full planet, mostly because new research has identified lot and lots of objects that are just like Pluto. I've heard that there could have been literally hundreds of new planets if they allowed the newly discovered bodies like Pluto to be called planets. If you're interested in learning more about this, the August 17th episode of the Point of Inquiry podcast just had a really great guest who talked about the controversy surrounding Pluto. But for us, the important this is to update that mnemoic to help you remember the planet names. Will From Smart Bomb Radio recommended this sentence:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos.
My - Mercury
Very - Venus
Educated- Earth
Mother - Mars
Just - Jupiter
Served - Saturn
Us - Uranus
Nachos - Neptune
Show News
Podcast Awards - We didn't win, but a big THANK YOU to everyone who votes
Podcast Peer Awards - We're still in the running!
New player so you can now listen while you surf - Pupa player at the homepage
Science calendar, call for submissions - Send science images to absolutescience@welltopia.com
Listen Now
Adam is on vacation this week, but don't worry because I have a great guest and I'm also going to bring in some interview clips to round out the news.
My guest is science book reviewer Phillip Manning, and we'll be talking about the new book by the esteemed scientist Francis Collins called The Language of God. And, I'll also have another funny science sketch from our friends at the Teknikal Difficulties podcast, we'll update our planet mnemonic, and announce a new contest, but first let's hear some science news. The first story is about antidepressants and the second story is about stem cells. Here we go.
Science News
Ketamine for Depression (Transcript)
Courtesy of the Science Magazine Podcast
New Method of Creating Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Courtesy of the Nature Magazine Podcast
Book Review
Phillip Manning of SciBooks joined us to discuss the new science book The Language of God by Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome project. We also briefly discussed the book Our Inner Ape.
Funny Stuff
"Beyond the Known" clip, courtesy of the funniest guy on earth, Cayenne Chris Conroy of Teknikal Difficulties.
Also, Jake from the CTLcast sent a link to a video of a really cool robot that can navigate a lot of different types of terrain.
Memonics
We already need to update the mnemonic we introduced in Episode 26 about the planets because the ninth planet, Pluto, has just been demoted!
The International Astronomical Union just voted to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet rather than a full planet, mostly because new research has identified lot and lots of objects that are just like Pluto. I've heard that there could have been literally hundreds of new planets if they allowed the newly discovered bodies like Pluto to be called planets. If you're interested in learning more about this, the August 17th episode of the Point of Inquiry podcast just had a really great guest who talked about the controversy surrounding Pluto. But for us, the important this is to update that mnemoic to help you remember the planet names. Will From Smart Bomb Radio recommended this sentence:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos.
My - Mercury
Very - Venus
Educated- Earth
Mother - Mars
Just - Jupiter
Served - Saturn
Us - Uranus
Nachos - Neptune
Show News
Podcast Awards - We didn't win, but a big THANK YOU to everyone who votes
Podcast Peer Awards - We're still in the running!
New player so you can now listen while you surf - Pupa player at the homepage
Science calendar, call for submissions - Send science images to absolutescience@welltopia.com
1 Comments:
We're a pasta family so we like noodles instead of nachos. :) Diane has already taught this to her kindergarteners. :) I'm enjoying the show guys, keep it up. Charles
By Charles of Mostly News, at 5:59 AM
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