Please Explain: The Year in Science 2012

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

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vor 13 Jahren

Corey S. Powell, Editor at Large of Discover magazine, talks about the biggest stories in science last year--including the new Mars rover; the discovery of the Higgs boson; the Human Microbiome Project; climate chande, storms, and melting polar ice; private space flight; self-driving cars; the comeback of measles, mumps, and whooping cough; and more! We've covered a number of the stories listed in Discover's top science stories of 2012:Please Explain: Fungal Meningitis and Compounding PharmaciesPlease Explain: Prosthetics (including mind-controlled prosthetics)Please Explain: The Higgs BosonPhysicist Lisa Randall on the Higgs boson discoveryPlease Explain: The Human Microbiome ProjectArsenic in Rice?