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Under the Dome: <i>Scientific American</i> Editor in Chief Talks to the Senate Jul 22, 2014

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Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation about the value of scientific research and development. Also testifying is Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and Google’s vice president and "chief Internet evangelist." The hearings took place July 17, 2014

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Wild Sex: Beyond the Birds and the Bees Jul 15, 2014

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Joy Reidenberg, comparative anatomist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, talks about her new PBS series Sex in the Wild, about the sex lives of elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins. The series debuts July 16, 2014

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What's So Funny?: The Science of Humor Jul 07, 2014

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Cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems talks about his book HA!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why

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Hunting the Wild Neutrino May 23, 2014

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Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, of the University of Toronto, talks about his new book Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Sometimes the Hoofprints Are from Zebras Apr 30, 2014

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David J. Hand, emeritus professor of mathematics at Imperial College London, talks about his new book The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles and Rare Events Happen Every Day

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The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 2 Apr 24, 2014

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Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

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The First Nuclear Arms Race: Churchill's Bomb, Part 1 Apr 24, 2014

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Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

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Take Me Out to the Run Expectancy Matrix Analysis Mar 18, 2014

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Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist talks about his latest book, The Sabermetric Revolution: Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball (co-authored with Benjamin Baumer), at the Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, with proprietor Jay Goldberg

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Found in Space, Part 2 Feb 27, 2014

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Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 2 of 2

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Found in Space, Part 1 Feb 26, 2014

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Journalist Lee Billings Talks about his book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search For Life Among the Stars, Part 1 of 2

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