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Category: Science

Retro Report’s Jill Rosenbaum: “The Long War on Cancer”

November 4, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually all of us have dreams for a cure to cancer. But in December, 1971, the hope for a cure couldn’t have been higher. President

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Retro Report’s Matthew Spolar: “Dolly the Sheep”

October 16, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

It was a scientific feat for the ages. A result so exciting and scary, that one reporter wondered , “Should we be applauding a mind-boggling

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Retro Report’s Kit Roane: “The Shadow of Thalidomide”

September 27, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

Virtually no legal drug in American history carries as much fear as Thalidomide. A wonder drug, imported from Germany in the late 50s, that would

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Retro Report’s Josh Fisher: “Freeing Willy”

September 18, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Some 20 years ago, the surprise hit film “Free Willy” followed a boy’s fictional quest to free a dancing, swimming, performing whale named Willy. While

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Diane Powell, NASA, Office of the Chief Technologist

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Technology, Uncategorized

Harvard University recently announced the Top 25 programs in this year’s Innovations in American Government Award competition. We’re here to talk about one of them.

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Zack Kopplin, Student Leader of Repeal Creationism

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

The battle to teach Creationism in classes is playing out in the Bayou. In 2008, Louisiana passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which many people

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David Rose, MIT Media Lab

May 7, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Science, Technology, Uncategorized

Today more than ever, great, new, innovative ideas come from anywhere. But if you had to name a capital for this place called anywhere, it

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Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, Director, Yale University Project on Climate Change Communication

January 29, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Science, Uncategorized

If you heard President Obama’s Inauguration speech last week, it was as surprising to many as it was unmistakable: Climate change is back on the

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David DeSteno, Northeastern Univ. Social Emotions Group & Author, “Out of Character”

January 28, 2013 admin All Conversations, Culture, Science, Uncategorized

This conversation is for the most rational among us. You know who you are: You collect the data. You even assign probabilities. Guess what —

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Lawrence Krauss, Theoretical Physicist; Director, Origins Project

December 21, 2012 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

In late 1977, many of us were amazed by the possibility: NASA had launched Voyagers I & II to study the outer reaches of space.

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Dr. Gabrielle Walker, Scientist & Author of “Antarctica”

December 18, 2012 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

It’s got no trees. No grass. No culture has ever lived there. It was the site to the greatest race among explorers in our time.

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Leon Neyfakh, Boston Globe Ideas Reporter

December 16, 2012 admin All Conversations, Culture, Science, Uncategorized

If you want to really feel panic, I’ve got some news for you: Only 8 shopping days left until Christmas. And if you’re still trying

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