Tue, 24 April 2012
This week Zach and Kelly talk about the surprising lack of scientific evidence supporting the lifestyle changes suggested by doctors to people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (AKA acid reflux disease). Elizabeth Iorn's blog post on Science Exchange starts a discussion on the importance of reproducibility in scientific research, and factors explaining the recent rise in retractions of scientific articles.
Direct download: Episode_21__GERD_and_Scientific_Reproducibility_and_Retractions.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:41am EDT |
Fri, 13 April 2012
Kelly and Zach talk to MIT's Dr. Bruce Lipschultz and Daniel Brunner about fusion, Alcator C-Mod, and the future of fusion research in the United States.
Direct download: Episode_20__Dr._Bruce_Lipschultz_Daniel_Brunner_Fusion_and_Alcator_C-Mod.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:37am EDT |
Fri, 6 April 2012
This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Michael Munger about Chilean politics, modeling in economics, and areas where economists and the general public tend to disagree. |