Mar. 07, 2013
What Are the Drivers of Global Change?
by Al Gore
An excerpt from The Future, by Al Gore
Feb. 20, 2013
Open Invitation to Lamar Smith, House Science Committee Chairman: Accepted
by Ira Flatow
Science Friday invites Chairman Lamar Smith to discuss technology that will track objects such as asteroids that threaten Earth.
Feb. 15, 2013
Silence Is Noisy
by Katherine Bouton
An excerpt from "Shouting Won't Help: Why I--and 50 Million Other Americans--Can't Hear You"
Feb. 12, 2013
Battle of the Electric Cars: "Hydrogen Sucks," Says Elon Musk
by Ira Flatow
War of the Currents Redux: Fuel Cells vs Batteries
Jan. 10, 2013
A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion
by Robert Lustig, M.D.
An excerpt from Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Dr. Robert Lustig.
Jan. 04, 2013
Food: The Weak Link
by Lester R. Brown
Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.
Dec. 05, 2012
Ask an Astronaut
by Leslie Taylor
What do you want to know about living and working in space?
Nov. 16, 2012
Preface to 'The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix'
by Alexander Gann & Jann Witkowski
New reminiscences and illustrations enrich James Watson's 1968 autobiography.
Nov. 08, 2012
An Excerpt from 'Flight Behavior'
by Barbara Kingsolver
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Nov. 08, 2012
Hearing Things
by Oliver Sacks
During the days when I was living alone in a foreign city — I was a young man at the time — I quite often heard my name suddenly called by an unmistakable and beloved voice; I then noted down the exact moment of the hallucination and made anxious enquiries of those at home about what had happened at that time. Nothing had happened.
Oct. 26, 2012
The Science of Monsters
by Matt Kaplan
At their most basic level, monsters represent fears held by society, fears associated with dangers perceived in the surrounding world.
Oct. 18, 2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Infectious disease is a kind of natural mortar binding one creature to another, one species to another, within the elaborate biophysical edifices we call ecosystems
Oct. 05, 2012
Math Is Everywhere
by Steven Strogatz
We’ll spot sine waves in zebra stripes, hear echoes of Euclid in the Declaration of Independence, and recognize signs of negative numbers in the run-up to World War I. And we’ll see how our lives today are being touched by new kinds of math, as we search for restaurants online and try to understand — not to mention survive — the frightening swings in the stock market.
Oct. 04, 2012
Paint by Numbers
by Annette Heist
Math-inspired art, to get you primed for thinking about equations.
Oct. 02, 2012
Meet a 'Genius' -- Nancy Rabalais
by Charles Bergquist
Science Friday extends its congratulations to marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais, one of the newly-named MacArthur Fellows for 2012.
Sep. 25, 2012
Return of the Flame Challenge: Kids, What Would You Ask Next?
by Leslie Taylor
Attention 10 to 12-year-olds! Alan Alda wants to know what question you would like scientists to answer.
Sep. 20, 2012
Preface to 'The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'
by Ian Stewart
Just as Euclid’s plane is embedded in the surrounding richness of three-dimensional space, so Flatland is embedded in rich veins of history and science.
Sep. 07, 2012
The 'Secret Documents'
by Robert N. Proctor
Now accessible online, the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library is the largest business archive in the world.
Sep. 07, 2012
Who Knew What and When?
by Robert N. Proctor
A great deal of attention has been given to when the tobacco industry could have—or at least should have—known that smoking was killing people.
Sep. 07, 2012
Trolling for Annoyance
by Marc Abrahams
Trolls creep into and crop up anywhere they can, wheedling for attention in chat rooms, listservs, twitter streams, blogs, and as you may have noticed, in the comments section of online news articles.
Aug. 30, 2012
Bones Are Forever
by Kathy Reichs
An excerpt from the newest Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs
Aug. 23, 2012
There’s Someone in My Head, But It’s Not Me
by David Eagleman
Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision making. And most of the time, it’s not.
Aug. 16, 2012
Hot Guys and Smelly Socks
by Danica McKellar
An excerpt from the book "Girls Get Curves" by Danica McKellar provides an introduction to logic and reasoning.
Jun. 28, 2012
Catching Up with Conrad Anker
by Eli Chen
In 1963, James "Big Jim" Whittaker planted an American flag at the summit of Mount Everest, marking the first American ascent. Nearly 50 years later, National Geographic explorer Conrad Anker set out to retrace Whittaker’s historic route up the mountain--and worked to solve some scientific mysteries along the way.
Jun. 26, 2012
The Physics of Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy
by Leslie Taylor
What killed Spider-Man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy? In the infamous comic The Night Gwen Stacy Died, was it the fall from the George Washington bridge that killed her? Or was it whiplash from being caught by Spidey's web?
Jun. 08, 2012
Dark Matter vs. Aether
by Sean Carroll
Probably the biggest single misconception I come across in popular discussions of dark matter and dark energy is the accusation that these concepts are a return to the discredited idea of the aether. They are not -- in fact, they are precisely the opposite.
May. 24, 2012
Ascending Everest
by Leslie Taylor
Mountaineer and former Science Friday guest Conrad Anker will attempt to reach the peak of Mt. Everest tonight.
May. 16, 2012
Foraged Feasts
by Leslie Taylor
Coming up this Friday as part of a story on urban agriculture we'll talk with Tama Matsuoka Wong, author of Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer's Market. She shared with us some recipes.
May. 11, 2012
Has Science Outgrown Democracy?
by Shawn Lawrence Otto
Is the ever-increasing burden of education that science places on the people making it hard for democracy to continue to function as a viable form of government? And if it is, what's the alternative?
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