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Science Friday > Archives > 2003 > January
> January 10, 2003:
Hour Two: News Round-Up
The scientific community is skeptical of claims made by the company
Clonaid that they have created the first human clone. In this hour,
we'll talk with Michael Guillen, the journalist who was originally
to oversee an independent team of reviewers examining the company's
cloning claims. Guillen stepped down this week after the company failed
to provide evidence for the reviewers to review, and he now says the
entire project might be an 'elaborate hoax'.
We'll also talk about recent studies looking at how climate change
may be affecting plants and animals around the world, and discuss
whether physics principles can be used to explain what's happening
in the stock market.
Call in with your questions and comments at 1-800-989-8255, and
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Guests:
Michael Guillen
Scientist and Journalist
Former Science Editor, ABC News
Massachusetts
Terry Root
Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental
Science and Policy
Institute for International Studies
Stanford University
Stanford, California
H. Eugene Stanley
Director, Center for Polymer Studies
Department of Physics
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Books/Articles Discussed:
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"Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants"
Terry L. Root, Jeff T. Price, Kimberly R. Hall, Stephen H. Schneider,
Cynthia Rosenzweig k & J. Alan Pounds. Nature, VOL.421 NO.6918.
"Two-phase behaviour of financial markets," Vasiliki
Plerou, Parameswaran Gopikrishnan, H. Eugene Stanley.Nature
421, p130.
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Related Links:
ABCNEWS.com
: Reporter Regrets Actions With Clonaid
Welcome
to the Raelian Revolution
The
first human cloning company.
NY
Times: Scientist in Clone Tests Says Hoax Is Possible
NY
Times: Networks Say Former Editor Tried to Sell Clone 'Exclusive'
Minute
Shift in Temperature Has Had a Major Effect on Earth, Studies Show
Global
Warming Found to Displace Species
Effects
of global warming already being felt on plants and animals worldwide:
1/03
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
PhysicsWeb
- Physics and the stock market: playing with fire
PhysicsWeb
- Anti-bubbles hint at fragile economic prospects
Stock
market crashes are predictable, major decline is coming in 2003 and
2004, says UCLA physicist
May
1, 1998, Hour 2: Physicists on Wall Street
This segment produced by Karin
Vergoth
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