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Why Do Psychology?
Saddle
Up That Stegosaurus -- A Visit to the Creation Museum (July 25, 2007)
In
this episode Columbia College Chicago's Stephen Asma discusses the new antievolution
Science
Societies Urge Education (January 3, 2008)
A consortium of
scientific societies wants the scientific community to get more involved in science
education, including evolution -- before it's too late. Steve Mirsky reports.
Resonant
Request For Research Respect (December 7, 2006)
In the last
days of World War II, American forces in
How Do Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions?
Canning
the Cookbook May Mean Better Science Education (February 19, 2007)
In
a classroom setting, non-science majors who were challenged to come up with their
own experimental methods learned far more than students taught to do experiments
by following familiar recipes.
Peer
Review of Peer Review; and the Franklin Institute Awards (April 25,
2007)
In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie
discusses peer review of scientific literature, the subject of a panel he recently
served on at the World Conference of Science Journalists. He also talks about
some out-of-the-box thinking about burial rites. And physicist Bo Hammer talks
about the awards being presented this week at the Franklin Institute in
Who
Speaks For Science? (February 28, 2007)
In this episode, Scientific
American contributing editor Wayt Gibbs talks about a session at the recent meeting
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science devoted to the question
of scientific authority: who has it, how they got it and what the public should
know about it. Plus we'll read listener mail, talk about the movie Something The
Lord Made (which depicts the first heart surgeries) and test your knowledge about
some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.aaas.org;
www.sciamdigital.com; www.sciam.com/news; www.hbo.com/films/stlm.