Category Archives: Radio Segments

Reading the Doctors’ Writing

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Annette Heist

Once it seemed the physician who could write was something of a rarity. There’s Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman, Atul Gawande. But I’m starting to think doc-lit might soon need its own section at Barnes and Noble. A few weeks ago … Continue reading →

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Aurora’s Kodak Moment

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Annette Heist

Back in 1997, Science Friday listener Jeffrey D. Elam sent us these photos from Alaska.  Mr. Elam said he took the photos at midnight on March 29, 1997, using Kodak Gold 400 film. (Camera settings were f-stop 2.8 at a … Continue reading →

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Sun Turns On The Northern Lights

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Annette Heist

This week, we’ll talk about solar storms with David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and Doug Biesecker, a physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. They’ll tell us about recent activity on the sun, and … Continue reading →

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Show Us Those Aurora Photos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Annette Heist

This week we’ll be talking about the sun, and how what happens there can change our night sky. Intense solar storms can amp up the northern lights. After a particularly big flare this past weekend (pictured on the left) the … Continue reading →

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Winter Nature Photo Contest: And The Winners Are….

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Annette Heist

Thanks to everyone who submitted a photo to our winter nature photo contest. We’re so impressed! (View the whole album here.) Below are the winning photographs–the ones that got the most “likes” on our Facebook page. (There was a three … Continue reading →

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Because Science Is Forever

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Annette Heist

Science writer Carl Zimmer is back on the show this week, to talk about his new book Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed (Sterling, 2011). While he doesn’t have any tattoos himself (or any plans to get one) Zimmer … Continue reading →

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Push Play, Feel Better

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Annette Heist

This week one of our favorite guests, neurologist Oliver Sacks, makes a return visit to Science Friday. He and our other guests will be talking about music therapy, and how it’s being used to to treat a variety of conditions … Continue reading →

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What’s (Not) In A Name

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Annette Heist

As a published author and successful painter, James Prosek has more tools than most artists for communicating what he sees in nature. But he’s dissatisfied. Mostly with Linnaeus and his eponymous system for naming the natural world. (Remember? Kingdom, Phylum, … Continue reading →

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The Sky’s The Limit

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Annette Heist

This week Science Friday talks with Kate Ascher, author of the new book “The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper.” This is a true coffee table book–big and beautiful, with lots of interesting graphics. Page through it for some tidbits to … Continue reading →

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Found: The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Annette Heist

Next month marks the 100th year since the first Antarctic expedition reached the South Pole. (Congratulations, Mr. Amundsen.) This week Science Friday talks with the authors of two books about those famous first expeditions. Edward Larson’s Empire of Ice reexamines … Continue reading →

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