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Getting Guinea Worm Gone: Report from the AHCJ Conference Apr 26, 2012

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Scientific American editor Christine Gorman talks about the recent conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, including Jimmy Carter's efforts against guinea worm and trachoma, and Rosalynn Carter's mental health initiatives

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Food Poisoning's Lasting Legacy Apr 04, 2012

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Scientific American Science of Health columnist Maryn McKenna talks about the new understanding that food poisoning can have long-lasting negative health effects

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Fukushima Anniversary: We Listen Back Mar 11, 2012

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Scientific American editor David Biello takes us through newly released audio from the first week of the nuclear meltdown crisis at Fukushima Daiichi

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AAAS Report: Fracking, Whale Rights, Higgs Evidence and <i>Twitter</i> Truthiness Mar 07, 2012

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Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti and Michael Moyer discuss some of the sessions they attended at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Subjects covered include fracking, cetacean rights, the Higgs boson and Twitter's truthiness

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If You're Happy, How You Know It Feb 22, 2012

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Social scientist Roly Russell, of the Sandhill Institute in British Columbia, talked with Scientific American's Mark Fischetti at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about potentially better measures than GDP of a nation's well-being

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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis Feb 15, 2012

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Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor Fred Guterl about the technological "Entanglement" and the attempts to build the other, hardier Internet

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More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance Feb 02, 2012

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In part 2 of our conversation with journalist and author Maryn McKenna, she talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and offers a brief coda on the subject of fecal transplants

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Fecal Transplants: The Straight Poop Jan 31, 2012

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Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about fecal transplants, which have proved to be exceptionally effective at restoring a healthy intestinal microbiome and curing C. diff infections, yet remain in regulatory limbo

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State of the Union: Research, Technology and Energy Jan 25, 2012

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About six minutes of President Obama's State of the Union address dealt with research, technology and energy

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A Second Science Front: Evolution Champions Rise to Climate Science Defense Jan 16, 2012

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Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative to help climate science education

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