Upcoming: Friday, January 9th, 2009

False-color image of self-assembled mesoscale helical structures Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University

Hour One- 2pm EDT

Third-Hand Smoke

You know smoking can be hazardous to your health. Then came 'second-hand smoke.' Now, health researchers are cautioning about 'third-hand smoke' -- residues from smoking that linger on surfaces. (more)

Understanding Medical Statistics

Relative risk? Survival rates? In this segment, we'll try to parse the language of medical studies and talk about how researchers and doctors interpret medical data. (more)

New Milky Way Measurements

The Milky Way galaxy is bigger, heavier, and faster-spinning than researchers once thought. (more)

Hour Two-3pm EDT

Building Nanobristle Structures

Researchers studying nanoscale structures have found materials that assemble themselves into spirals, capable of holding tightly to each other or to materials in their center. (more)

Gullibility

Can science explain why some swindles are so successful? (more)

Diabetes Research Update

In this segment, we'll get the latest on efforts to control Type 2 diabetes. (more)

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Season's Greetings! -- Let me take time thank you all and wish you a Happy Holiday Season! We would be nothing without your wonderful support... (more)

In the Big Three's Company (or...Tell Me What to Drive) -- My first car was a Ford Gran Torino. It was a chocolate brown, 8-cylinder mess... (more)

Why Should We Listen To Michael Pollan? -- Just before time ran out on their TOTN Science Friday radio segment, last Friday, Ira asked Michael Pollan an important question, Why should anyone listen to a guy who has never plowed a field in his life talk about farming? In those last seconds Pollan accurately pointed out that as "eaters" we are all stakeholders in the food system... (more)

China's Nobel Desire -- It's Nobel Prize season, and the inevitable question is appearing on China-related websites... (more)

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