Science & the City
Science & the City delivers a podcast featuring interviews, conversations, and lectures by noted scientists and authors. To learn more, please visit us at www.scienceandthecity.org.
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Bridging Science and the Humanties
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner delivers his keynote address at Science and the City's Two Cultures in the 21st Century symposium held in May.
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The ScentOpera
Smells and sounds collide for the world premiere of "Green Aria," a synesthetic art and science fusion at the Guggenheim.
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The Science of H1N1
An in-depth look at the science behind the current influenza pandemic, plus some of the work research being done to keep us healthy.
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Inventing Scientists
One of the country's biggest inventors (think the Segway, iBot, and portable dialysis machine), talks about his FIRST program aimed to get high schoolers onto the path to become scientists.
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Go Fly a Kite
Check out one of New York's kite flying showdowns and the science, design, and history behind our earliest flying machines.
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Taking Science to Congress
A former Congressman gives scientists concrete suggestions on how to get government thinking science, in one of the keynote lectures of the Two Cultures conference.
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The Sweetest Sounds: What is Music to Your Ears?
A perception expert teams up with a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter to explore our sense of hearing, with a little musical accompaniment, of course.
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The Circuits of Life's Program
An NYU scientist delves into the complex interactions in biological systems - using the genome as his map.
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Go Green Solutions
We take you through NYC's Go Green Expo and find 5 easy ways for New Yorkers to green up.
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Back Me Up
New discoveries in spinal nerve regeneration are giving researchers hope in the race to cure spinal cord injuries.
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Teaching Robots to See
An NYU computer scientist looks to biological models to create vision systems, and artificial intelligence in machines.
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Our Toxic World?
The Experimental Man and a NYAS toxicologist delve into the dangers (and myths) of toxins in our everyday environment.
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From Planets to Plutoids
Six leading planetary scientists debate whether Pluto is a planet in a broadcast of the Hayden Planetarium's 2009 Isaac Asimov lecture.
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Naturally Obsessed
A look at Carole and Richard Rifkind's lastest documentary film on life in a crystallography lab. Learn the science and meet the characters.
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Forget Me Not
A Columbia University neurologist uses fMRI imaging on mice to research our aging brains. Turns out, you've got some control over how sharp you stay.
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The Psychobiology of Genocide
A multidisciplinary panel examine the psychobiology of human aggression and genocide at a recent roundtable at the Philoctetes Centre.
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Gold Medal Glory
When it comes to Olympic gold medal times, humans have been improving steadily over the past 100 years. But is there a limit to how good we can get? Learn about the technology, technique, and doping that keeps athletes improving.
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Test Your Tongue: The Science of Taste
Two taste gurus deconstruct our sense of taste -- from the molecules that give us flavor to the mystery of the fifth taste.
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An AMNH PhD?
Meet the first 5 students at the new graduate school at the American Museum of Natural History -- the first museum in America awarding PhDs.
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Getting Cellular
A Nobel Laureate delves into what we know about our cells - from their 4.5 billion year history, to modern-day mutations, and protein zip codes (cellular love letters).
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