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Serengeti’s Conservation Battles, Whiskey Biofuel, Bacteria in Space
Podcast 81: Controversy over proposal to build a road through Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. Scientists have made biofuel from whiskey byproducts. A newly found bacteria survived a year in space. »
A Controversy Over Commercial Whaling, Racial Bias & Empathy
Podcast no. 69: Should small-scale commercial whaling be legalized? Unconscious bias affects our ability to empathize with people of different racial origin. Locust brains get bigger in swarms. Air traffic emissions. »
Unconscious Minds, Sound of Silver in a Chemistry Lab
Podcast 55: The hidden brain controls our actions and influences our decisions. A St. Louis-based chemist tells us about his favorite album for doing lab work. »
How the Hidden Brain Controls Our Lives
Forum 11: Our decisions are largely controlled by unconscious biases in our brains, says science journalist Shankar Vedantam, author of the new book The Hidden Brain. »
Music on Your Brain
Forum 7: Are humans hard-wired to appreciate music? How did music come to play such an important role in our lives. Talk with neuroscientist Daniel Levitin to find out. »
A Special Podcast on Music and its Origins
Podcast 46: How does music affect our brains, and how did it come to have such a hold on our lives and celebrations? »
Swine Flu Vaccine, Mother-to-Daughter Cancer, Vegetarian Spider
Podcast 36: Responses to swine flu vaccine differ on either side of the Atlantic. A mother passed cancer cells to her fetus. Dyslexia more complex among Chinese speakers. »
Indonesian Mangroves, Plastic in the Pacific, A Fake Moon Rock
Podcast 30: Struggling Senegalese fisheries. A volcanic island reborn. New evidence of a warming Arctic. Plus mangroves, ocean garbage and earthquake trauma. »
Decisions, Decisions
Forum 1: We talk to Jonah Lehrer, author of "How We Decide.” He examines how humans make decisions, from choosing breakfast cereals to waging wars. »
Factory Farms, Swine Slaughter, and Sleeping Americans
Podcast 13: How factory farms may incubate swine flu. Egypt decides to kill its pigs. And another big piece of Antarctic ice breaks off. »
The World Science Forum
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The World Science Podcast
