Host Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and professor of science writing at MIT - talks with print and radio journalist Cynthia Graber. She writes about science, food, culture, international development and the environment. They talk about her ebook 'Elect

Science writer and author Jennifer Ouellette welcomes Jim Kakalios - author of THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES and THE AMAZING STORY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. They talk about his experiences with Hollywood consulting, his love for comic books and using them to co

Sean Carroll & Matt Strassler talk particle physics, time and space with Host Alan Boyle. Hosted in Second Life by the Exploratorium. Follow @seanmcarroll @mattstrassler @b0yle Links Alan writes about it here http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/06

Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and professor of science writing at MIT - talks with chronobiologist Bora Zivkovic, Blog Editor at Scientific American, blogger at A Blog Around The Clock, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences, and editor of Open Labora

Sam Wang, Associate professor, Department of Molecular Biology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, joins Jay Ackroyd to discuss his work in neuroscience, particulary the books he has co-authored with Sandra Aamodt. Kevin Drum - political writer @Mo

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. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and rew

Excerpted from a Dec 19 conversation, biologist David Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen, reflects on Rachel Carson and the gift of wonder. The entire program hosted by Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - is archived at

Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with biologist David Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen. Follow @DGHaskell @TomLevenson Links: http://theforestunseen.com/ http://davidhaskell.wordpress.com/ http://biology.sewanee.edu

The Exploratorium's Paul Doherty shares the latest news about NASA's Mars Curiosity mission from the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco – and joins NBCNews' Alan Boyle in a year-end, year-ahead survey of the top science topics. Fol

Science writer Jennifer Ouellette talks with evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi, about the ultimate foundations underlying why we think, feel and see as we do. Mark's research focuses on questions such as why we see in color, why we see illusions,