Recorded Jan 4, 2012 (Marc & Alan return Jan 2, 2013) Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle talks with Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research. "Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These com

How do the US presidential candidates view science and technology issues? MSNBC's Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with ScienceDebate.org's Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America about climate and the 2012 e

Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Nancy Hopkins, Amgen professor of biology at MIT about molecular biology, cancer research, Jim Watson, Rosalind Franklin, the 'leaky pipeline' for women in the sciences and more. To

Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette welcomes Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing (why the Myers Briggs and similar tests are little more than modern horoscopes); Origins, about how processes happening whlie we're still i

Robert Gould, MD, San Francisco Bay Chapter President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, briefed a group of writers on the importance of California's historic Proposition 37 – and why the labeling of genetically engineered food and drinks (GM

Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Director of the Sustainable Food Systems Program and Senior Scientist for Pesticide Action Network briefed a group of writers on the science of genetically engineered foods and why California's historic Proposition 37 – and th

Tom Levenson - Filmmaker and Prof of Science Writing at MIT - talks with Maggie Koerth-Baker, Science Editor at Boingboing.net and columnist for @nytmag. Maggie is the author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us

Prof. Matt Strassler (Rutgers U.) and The Quest for the Higgs Particle A new Higgs-like particle has recently been observed at the Large Hadron Collider. The quest to find this particle goes back nearly 50 years. Slides at More at Matt leads us through t

NBC Science Editor Alan Boyle (Cosmic Log) talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about the Higgs boson and Sean's new book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Particle-End-Universe-Higgs/dp/0525953590/ • http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/05/

Tom Levenson - Prof of Writing at MIT - talks with Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette. They talk about surviving the zombi apocalypse and other uses of abstract math. Tom wrote about it here: http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/5688/