Stephen Braude chairs the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland, but he's long been interested in parapsychology, especially psycho-kinesis.
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Jazz pianist and cognitive scientist Vijay Iyer just won a MacArthur "genius" award. He's also landed a job at Harvard teaching music. He tells Anne Strainchamps how he incorporates science into his music.
Walter Simson is CEO of Infigen - a biotech company that uses nuclear transfer to create cloned pigs and cows.
Would televised football be the same without the announcer? They give us background, commentary and insight.Listen as Allen St. John talks about the Fox game coverage strategy that has made the broadcast iconic, and recalls some of the greatest televised moments of Superbowls past.
Sean Carroll tells Steve Paulson about new discoveries in evolutionary history, including the existence and purpose of fossil genes.
Producer Charles Monroe-Kane interviewed artist and barber Faisal Abdu'Allah in Madison, WI, at the Atwood Family Barber Shop.
The process of data sonification is exactly what it sounds like: the translation of data points into various sounds, each with unique characteristics that can change over time. So instead of turning your spreadsheets into charts and graphs, they can now be turned into a kind of music. Matt Kenney demonstrates how it's done.
Simon Wilde is one of the scientists who found a tiny, four billion year old zircon in Australia. He brought it to his colleague Joe Skullan at the University of Wisconsin and they established that it’s the oldest object on earth...
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