Virtually Speaking Science

Virtually Speaking Science


Latest Episodes

Kelly Hills & Alice Dreger • Galileo's Middle Finger
March 25, 2015

Anatomy, identity, intersex. Medical historian/ethicist Alice Dreger (Northwestern) and Kelly Hills discuss Dreger's new book, Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretic

Alan Boyle, Seth Shostak, Don Lincoln: Aliens!
March 04, 2015

What questions are scientists asking about the existence of intelligent extraterrestial life? Alan Boyle taks with Seth Shostak – Senior Astronomer and Director

Kelly Hills & Glenn Cohen • Medical Tourism
February 25, 2015

I. Glenn Cohen talks with Kelly about the multi-billion dollar industry of medical tourism and his recent book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law and

Jennifer Ouellette & Laurie Paul • Empathy & Identity
February 11, 2015

Jennifer Ouellette & Laurie Paul • Empathy & Identity

Alan Boyle & Don Lincoln • Restarting the Large Hadron Collider
February 04, 2015

Alan Boyle & Don Lincoln • Restarting the Large Hadron Collider

Kelly Hills & Dr Adia Benton • HIV Exceptionalism
January 28, 2015

Kelly Hills & Dr Adia Benton • HIV Exceptionalism

Jennifer Ouellette & Ainissa Ramirez • Newton’s Football & Science Underground
January 14, 2015

Physicist Ainissa Ramirez, co-author of Newton’s Football: The Science Behind America's Game talks wih host Jennifer Ouellette about Newton's Football, life as a science evangelist and Science Underground, her new micro-podcast with journalist part

Alan Boyle & Marc Abrahams • Ig Nobel's & Annals of Improbable Research
January 07, 2015

Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research returns to talk with Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle. B0yle on strange science. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cas

Kelly Hills & SciCurious aka Bethany Brookshire
December 17, 2014

Bethany Brookshire talks with Kelly about science in the kitchen. Follow @rocza @SciCurious Read Kelly at Life as an Extreme Sport  Read Bethany at ScienceNews/SciCurious and Eureka!Lab.

Jennifer Ouellette & Neurologist Jeff Zacks • Your Brain on Movies
December 10, 2014

Cognitive neuroscientist and author of FLICKER, Your Brain on Movies Jeff Zacks talks with Jennifer Ouellette about the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens between your ears when you sit down in the theatre and the lights g