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 cash,

Host Tom Levenson (MIT) talks with Maryn McKenna and Janet Stemwedel about about sexual harassment, gender discrimination and science writing. Follow @docfreeride @marynmck @TomLevenson Links, bios at VirtuallySpeaking.us Lightly edited 12/21 Uploaded 10:

MIT's Tom Levenson (Inverse Square and Balloon Juice) talks with theoretical physicist Matt Strassler about the Higg's Field, the Large Hadron Collider, the large data problem and what all this means for our understanding of physical reality at the sub-at

Theoretical physicists Sean Carroll & Matt Strassler comment on spreading scientific knowledge to a diverse and diversely informed public. They respond to a question asked during this hour-long conversation with Alan Boyle: Why the Higgs Particle Matters.

Once again, Sean Carroll – author The Particle at the End of the Universe – & Matt Strassler talk particle physics, time and space and the importance of the Higgs Boson particle with Host Alan Boyle. Hosted in Second Life by the Exploratorium.

Tom Levenson hosts Allan Adams, a theoretical physicist working at the intersection of fluid dynamics, quantum field theory and string theory. His latest work uses the physics of black holes to study turbulence in quantum liquids. He is currently working

Maia Szalavitz – neuroscience journalist at TIME – specializes in drug and alcohol addiction. She and Jennifer Ouellette begin with the recent MDMA ("Molly") deaths. Follow @JenLucPiquant @maiasz

Alan Boyle, science editor, NBC News Digital talks with David Brain about the MAVEN orbiter mission and what it means for Mars science and exploration. Dr. Dave Brain - Co-Investigator on the MAVEN science team -serves as a science advisor for Invisible M

Science Writer Jennifer Ouellette talks with complexity theorist Simon DeDeo, Research Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, about the basis for approaching an understanding of complex social systems, e.g. Wiki.

Phil Plait comes by to talk with Alan Boyle about the Apollo 11 anniversary, moon hoaxes you have known, and the outlook for lunar science and exploration. Follow @BadAstronomer @B0yle