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New Hopes for Malaria Vaccine, The Dying Trees of Canal du Midi
Podcast 136: Field trials of a new malaria vaccine yields promising results. Trees lining France's Canal du Midi are dying. Efforts to prevent water wars in the Australian Outback. more »
What’s the Deal with “Planking?”
Technology Podcast 329: What is this woman doing? Why, she's planking, of course! Find out more about this crazy, some would say deadly, game whose global popularity is being spurred by social networks. more »
Rationing Health Care, Socks for Malaria Control, Cholera in Haiti
Podcast 97: A South African committee that rations life-saving medical treatments. Smelly socks may aid malaria control. The controversial cause of Haiti's cholera outbreak. more »
Preventing Blindness, Clues to Bilingualism, Science in Singapore
Podcast 29: Fighting blindness in Ethiopia. Creating a science workforce for Singapore. Walking in circles in the woods. Plus: malaria, bilingualism, and a strange giant planet. more »
Our All-Animal Special: Jags, Crocs, Seals and Tasmanian Devils
Podcast 28: We present you with an all-animal podcast. We have stories about creatures in Canada, Cambodia, Australia and Panama. more »
Frogs at Risk, Flu Redux, Bumbling Bees
Podcast 14: Swine flu may not be so bad after all. Good news and bad on climate. An aircraft manufacturer tries to green its image. A giant frog flies to safety. more »
Dangerously Hot Tea, Claustrophobic Cosmonauts
Podcast 8: Cosmonaut claustrophobia in Moscow. Car pollution and hot tea in Iran. A mass toad killing in Australia. And your brain knows what you want before you do. more »
Prehistoric Sex, Ancient Footprints
Podcast 3: Prehistoric sex. Ancient human footprints. A lost city in the Amazon. The cult of the future. And a hormone that increases a woman's odds of cheating on her partner. more »
Finding Osama, Looting in Iraq
Podcast 2: A scientific search for Osama bin Laden. Archaeological looting in Iraq. Water troubles in Australia and Mexico City. And a doctor who fought Ebola in Africa. more »
Latest Comments from the Forum
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Life and Work at the South Pole
Harrison January 16, 2012 at 1:33Hello my name is Harrison and I just have a couple question. What would I have to go to school for to go on one of those arctic expeditions? And my other question is do you guys get free time there to...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 14, 2011 at 19:04Thanks to everyone for the great comments. There is some very serious international momentum building around the idea of happiness-based frameworks of progress. We can thank Bhutan for throwing the fi...
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Does Corruption Make Earthquakes Deadlier?
Roger Bilham October 14, 2011 at 9:43Check out this article for a fuller discussion http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/MalletMilneXIIBilham.pdf
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Does Corruption Make Earthquakes Deadlier?
Sarah Cox October 13, 2011 at 7:09Very interesting theory indeed. But there are other factors that are much more relevant to earthquakes. You have to admit that some of the most developed countries at present are situated in areas wit...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
Hillary October 12, 2011 at 7:58What a great study, post, and discussion. It seems to me it's long overdue that happiness is one of the things that we as a race focus on. I'm not a college graduate, I'm not wealthy, and I live in OH...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 11, 2011 at 15:24There has been an exponential growth in publications and books on happiness during the past decade so it is hard to recommend specific books or articles. Anything recent by Ed Diener, Martin Seligman ...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 11, 2011 at 14:50Not aware of any locations. The Victoria survey was just completed for a second time, almost three years after the original version. They plan on doing it every two years so the effects of one adminst...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
John Magana October 9, 2011 at 15:21Dear Mr. Pennock, Perhaps I'm too late to participate in this discussion... Could you please recommend some good source material for what makes people happy? ...Or perhaps share some of your own...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
Al October 9, 2011 at 14:07Hi Mr. Pennock, Have there been locations where the same happiness survey has been repeated? I'm wondering if the publication of the results itself has an influence on future surveys of the same p...
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Seth Mnookin's 'The Panic Virus'
Sue Mahany October 6, 2011 at 11:37The vaccination decision has been the most stressful decision I have made as a parent. A naturopath told me to do tetanus and make sure to ask for a single dose vial. I do personally know a mother of ...
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