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SciFri 021012 Hour 2: A Guitar Zero Learns Music, Audio Science Updated: 2012-02-13 06:05:00 Description: Why it may not be to late to learn how to play a musical instrument, and two experts explain the audio science behind the music....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 021012 Hour 1: Experimental Alzheimers Drug, The Science of Yoga, Supercontinets, The Look of Love Updated: 2012-02-10 20:28:34 Description: A drug given to mice with Alzheimers quickly improved symptoms, NYT science writer William Broad investigates popular health claims about yoga, theories on where the next supercontinent will form, and a look at the pupil....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 020312 Hour 2: Drone Technology, Decoding Speech From Brain Signals Updated: 2012-02-06 06:05:00 Description: Experts discuss the military and commercial applications of increasingly sophisticated drones, and a study details how researchers decoded brain electrical activity to reconstruct speech....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 020312 Hour 1: IBEX, The Psychology of Disgust, Alzheimers Research, Blue Marble Updated: 2012-02-03 20:11:35 Description: Studying the composition of the Milky Way, why people find things disgusting, tracking the progression of Alzheimers in mouse brains, and a video about the making of the iconic Earth-from-space images....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 012712 Hour 2: Stem Cell Eye Therapy Trial, Open Science, Dog Domestication Updated: 2012-01-30 06:05:00 Description: An early trial of stem cell therapy, making scientific research more open, and what an ancient skull find can tell us about our history with domesticated dogs....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 012712 Hour 1: Magnetic Soap, Space Weather, Mobile Wallet, Ice Updated: 2012-01-27 20:42:38 Description: Scientists have created a soap containing iron, solar flares and their effects, mobile payment options, and the coolness of ice. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 012012 Hour 2: Synthetic Trachea Transplant, Renewable Energy, Navigating Large Ships, Science Diction: Moon Updated: 2012-01-23 06:05:00 Description: The surgeon behind a recent synthetic windpipe transplant, a look at new projects in wind power and geothermal energy, the technology behind ship navigation, and the origins of the word moon....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 012012 Hour 1: Teaching Climate Science, Mindfulness, Martian Meteorites, Super-Fast Animals Updated: 2012-01-20 20:16:37 Description: NCSE on teaching about climate, a psychologist discusses meditation and mindfullness, a look at recent meteorites from mars, and a video about speedy critters....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 011312 Hour 2: Science Tattoos, Surgery, HuffPost Science Updated: 2012-01-16 06:05:00 Description: Tattoos of the science obsessed, a surgeon takes readers behind the operating room doors, and Arianna Huffington discusses a new science section at The Huffington Post....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 011312 Hour 1: AAS Meeting, Cosmology, Super-TB, Computing Bubbles Updated: 2012-01-13 20:21:50 Description: American Astronomical Society meeting, Lawrence Krauss on modern cosmology, a strain of tuberculosis that thwarts all antibiotics, and a video about computing with bubbles. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 010612 Hour 2: Bee Parasite, Wintertime Science Updated: 2012-01-09 06:05:00 Description: A parasitic fly may threaten honey bees, and a panel of experts discusses the science of the winter season....more... 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 122311 Hour 2: Breaking Bad, Woodpecker Search, Bird Count Updated: 2011-12-26 06:05:00 Description: The science adviser for the chemistry-themed tv series, an expedition to save a woodpecker, and the annual Christmas Bird Count....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 122311 Hour 1: Planet hunt, War on Cancer, Plastic Bridges Updated: 2011-12-23 20:22:23 Description: A search for Earth-sized exoplanets, Harold Varmus, and bridge engineering....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 121611 Hour 2: Higgs Search, Inflight Science, Wings Updated: 2011-12-19 06:05:00 Description: The search for the elusive Higgs boson, a book on the technology and science of airline travel, and a video about flight physics....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 121611 Hour 1: Music Therapy, Petri Dish Updated: 2011-12-16 20:16:35 Description: Neurologists and therapists discuss how music therapy works. Plus, how Julius Petri created his famous dish. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 120911 Hour 2: Transgenic Salmon, Pythons and Hearts Updated: 2011-12-12 06:05:00 Description: Two scientists discuss food safety and environmental concerns associated with transgenic salmon, and molecular biologist Leslie Leinwand discusses how studying python metabolism could help treat heart disease....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 120911 Hour 1: Rat Empathy, Asian Space Race, Bedbug Breeding, Jump Rope Video Updated: 2011-12-09 20:19:53 Description: A study suggests primates are not the only mammals with empathy, a look at a space race in Asia, bedbug inbreeding, and two engineers giving the jump rope a spin. ...more... 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 112511 Hour 1: IgNobel Prizes Salute The Silly In Science Updated: 2011-11-23 14:43:49 Description: An annual awards ceremony salutes dubious and unusual research and inventions....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 111811 Hour 2: Toilet Technology, Stem Cells Updated: 2011-11-21 06:05:00 Description: Tomorrow is World Toilet Day, so we look at the state of toilet technology. Plus, biotech firm Greon says it is getting out of the business of stem cell research. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 111811 Hour 1: Moon and Climate, Solar Update, Oxytocin, Balloon Video Updated: 2011-11-18 21:19:33 Description: Why a moon may not be necessary for life, a battle over solar panel taxes, detecting a genetic difference through observing empathy, and a look at balloon engineering for a major parade....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 111111 Hour 2: Informal Science Education, Meet the Mythbusters Updated: 2011-11-14 06:05:00 Description: How much science do kids learn outside the classroom? Then, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman talk mythbusting....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 111111 Hour 1: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Walter Isaacson re Steve Jobs, Woodpecker Video Updated: 2011-11-11 20:34:51 Description: Treatments for the winter blues, Walter Isaacson discusses his biography of the Apple leader, and a hunt for an elusive bird....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 110411 Hour 2: Anti-Dengue Mosquitoes, Early Antarctic Expeditions Updated: 2011-11-07 06:05:00 Description: Engineering mosquitoes to crash dengue mosquito populations, and a look back at the Antarctic expeditions of Scott and others....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 110411 Hour 1: Brain Imaging, Dolphins, Constants, Hawk Moth Video Updated: 2011-11-04 19:23:14 Description: Tying to determing brain function by studying structure, dolphin communication and cognition, questioning the constancy of basic physical rules, and a video about moth flight....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 102811 Hour 2: Anthrax Attacks Investigation, Probiotics Updated: 2011-10-31 05:05:00 Description: New reports question whether scientific evidence against the prime suspect was ready for court. And a study suggests good bacteria in yogurt affect digestion, but not by repopulating the gut flora....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 102811 Hour 1: Flu Shot Effectiveness, The Fabric Of The Cosmos Updated: 2011-10-28 19:14:27 Description: A new report says evidence that the flu shot works for seniors is lacking. And a new four-part TV series looks at big questions in cosmology....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 102111 Hour 2: Predicting The Fall of Space Junk, Getting Beyond Fossil Fuels, Origin Of the Bunsen Burner Updated: 2011-10-24 05:05:00 Description: This weekend, another satellite is scheduled to crash to Earth, just a month after the last one. Then, Amory Lovins advocates a mix of energy efficiency and renewables to get society off fossil fuels. And in Science Diction, historian Howard Markel t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 102111 Hour 1: Blue Stragglers, Multiple Personalities, Jack-O-Lantern 2.0 Updated: 2011-10-21 19:25:18 Description: Astronomers have a new theory on how blue straggler stars are formed, an author claims a writer, therapist, and patient created a sensational tale of multiple personality disorder, and a video looks at pumpkin carving....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 101411 Hour 2: Kraken Controversy, Politics Meets Science, Eat Your Fruits and Veggies Updated: 2011-10-17 05:05:00 Description: Could a stash of ancient bones be the work of a giant cephalopod? We look at the controversial idea. Then Sean Otto, author of Fool Me Twice, discusses his idea for an American Science Pledge. And in some people, a fruit and vegetable-filled diet can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 101411 Hour 1: Nanostructure Crystals, Toaster Project, Space Experiments, Eggs In Space Updated: 2011-10-14 19:38:09 Description: Chad Mirkin describes using DNA molecules to shape nanoscale crystal structures, Toaster Project author Thomas Thwaites discusses his quest to build a toaster from scratch, and a student competition seeks space experiments. Plus - eggs in space!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 100711 Hour 2: Steven Pinker on Violence, Prosthetic Advances Updated: 2011-10-10 05:05:00 Description: In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker argues that violence is decreasing. Plus, a virtual arm tested in monkeys is a step toward artificial limbs that communicate with the brain....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 100711 Hour 1: Rover Update, Physics Nobel, Remembering Steve Jobs, Mapping Flames Updated: 2011-10-07 19:12:35 Description: Opportunity has reached a 14-mile-wide crater on Mars, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three American astronomers, and author Steven Levy remembers the life and contributions of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Plus the video pick - mapping f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 093011 Hour 2: China Lab Launch, Empathy, Science Diction, Contagion Updated: 2011-10-03 05:05:00 Description: China launches a space laboratory, empathy and cruelty, origins of the word epilepsy, and the virology behind the Contagion movie....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 093011 Hour 1: Pterosaurs, Cosmology, Dome Home Updated: 2011-09-30 19:32:27 Description: David Attenborough takes wing with pterosaurs, physicist Lisa Randall on cosmology and the LHC, and living in a geodesic dome home....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 092311 Hour 2: Arizona Remote: Grand Canyon, Lowell Observatory Updated: 2011-09-26 05:05:00 Description: Most geologists agree on the approximate age of the canyon, but puzzles remain about its carving. Plus, Lowell Observatory, famous for spotting Pluto, hunts for exoplanets today....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 092311 Hour 1: Arizona Remote: Wildfires, Science Festival Updated: 2011-09-23 20:25:32 Description: Scientists discuss how to control the fires that have shaped and scarred the Southwest, and a ten-day event in Flagstaff highlights science in Northern Arizona....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 091611 Hour 2: In the Plex, Biofuel Prospecting, Video Pick Updated: 2011-09-19 05:05:00 Description: Steven Levy on Google, bugs found in herbivore guts for use in biofuel production, and a video about using algae to boost water quality....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 091611 Hour 1: Science Budget, Siblings, Hackerspaces Updated: 2011-09-16 19:38:06 Description: Rush Holt on science fuding, Jeffrey Kluger on the science of brothers and sisters, and building a d.i.y club workshop....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 090911 Hour 2: Psychology and 9-11, Video Pick: Stalking the Wild Mushroom Updated: 2011-09-12 05:05:00 Description: Dealing with psychological trauma, and a video about fungi....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 090911 Hour 1: Caterpillar Virus, Australopithecus sediba, Move an Asteroid Updated: 2011-09-09 19:27:13 Description: Virus hypnotizes caterpillars before turning them to goo, an ancient hominid threatens to shake up the family tree, and a contest challenges students to move an asteroid....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 090211 Hour 2: Anti-Cancer Viruses, Big Roads, Space Station Updated: 2011-09-05 05:05:00 Description: Studying whether viruses can combat cancer, engineering our highway system, update on the International Space Station. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 090211 Hour 1: Bacteria and the Brain, Star Formation, Plague DNA Updated: 2011-09-02 20:34:03 Description: Changes in the gut alter brain chemistry and behavior in mice, star chemistry challenges formation theories, DNA detective work and the Black Death....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 082611 Hour 2: Higgs, Tomatoes, NOAA Satellites, Science Diction Updated: 2011-08-29 05:05:00 Description: Update on the Higgs boson hunt, industrial tomato farming, NOAA satellites and forecast ability, and the origins of the word chemistry....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 082611 Hour 1: I Heard the Sirens Scream, Earthquakes, Video Pick Updated: 2011-08-26 19:15:49 Description: A Pulitzer Prize winning science writer gives her account of the days after 9/11, a geologist explains why this weeks East Coast earthquake was felt by so may people, and the video pick: water striders....more... 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 081211 Hour 2: First Robotics Competition, Man of Numbers, Computer Generated Sounds, Flywheel Bike Updated: 2011-08-15 05:05:00 Description: Dean Kamen and will.i.am team up to get kids interested in science, the origin of arithmetic, the futuer of sound effects, and how to give your bike a boost. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 081211 Hour 1: Electronic Skin, Food Security Updated: 2011-08-12 19:08:23 Description: A flexible circuit adheres to skin like a temporary tattoo and monitors vital signs and the future of farming in a hotter, drier world....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 080511 Hour 2: Enviro Spending Bills, 2 Moon Theory, Possible Liquid Mars Water, Baseball Injury Stats Updated: 2011-08-08 05:05:00 Description: Following Congress and the environment, a theory involving lunar collisions, suggestive streaks on Martian cliffs, and mining the disabled list for insights into baseball injuries....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 080511 Hour 1: Lifestyles of the Long-Lived, Retractions, Underwater Camouflage Updated: 2011-08-05 19:28:53 Description: Study into the lifestyles of the very aged, a look at cases of fraud that have led to retractions of scientific studies, and camouflaged cephalopods....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 072911 Hour 2: Trojan Asteroid, Juno Mission, Mars Curiosity Updated: 2011-08-01 05:05:00 Description: A spaceapalooza in this hour....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 072911 Hour 1: Project Nim, Nature-Inspired Materials, Video Pick Updated: 2011-07-29 20:39:00 Description: A documentary about a controversial chimp language experiment, trying to learn from how nature assembles materials, and trip to a green roof....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 072211 Hour 2: Summer Science Road Trip, Anatomy of Addiction book Updated: 2011-07-25 05:05:00 Description: Your tips for a sciency summer vacation, the cocaine habits of Freud and Halsted....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 072211 Hour 1: Stem Cells and Heart Tissue, Wild Life of Our Bodies, Bananas, Video Pick Updated: 2011-07-22 19:25:53 Description: A trial of stem cells for repairing heart attack damage, how the organisms that share our world have shaped us, a potential bananapocalypse, and a video about cilia....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 071511 Hour 2: Editing the Genome, Google Plus, Weeds Updated: 2011-07-15 20:19:50 Description: Search-and-replace on bacterial DNA, a new social network from Google, and the bane of the backyard gardener: weeds....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 071511 Hour 1: Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea, Webb Telescope Funding, Light Bulbs Updated: 2011-07-15 19:16:07 Description: Multi-drug resistant strain of gonorrhea, funding for the successor to the Hubble, and a look at efficiency and lighting....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 070811 Hour 2: San Antonio Energy, Rock Art Updated: 2011-07-08 20:06:38 Description: Shifting to a more renewable energy economy, looking at prehistoric rock art....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 070811 Hour 1: Science of Beef, Longhorn DNA, Compost Updated: 2011-07-08 19:10:39 Description: Using science to raise the perfect porterhouse, the gentics of the iconic longhorn cattle, and a video about a composting king....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD scifri20110701-hr2 Updated: 2011-07-01 20:29:42 Description: scifri20110701-hr2 - ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD scifri20110701-hr1 Updated: 2011-07-01 20:18:59 Description: High-tech recipes for your summer BBQ, a new book about Sex,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD SciFri 062411 Hour 2: Sleep and Hammocks, Robopocalypse, Pervious Pavement, Science Diction: Radio Updated: 2011-06-24 21:06:57 Description: Your brain on hammocks, preparing for the robot uprising, greener paving options, and the origins of the word radio....more... 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