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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 »
Prehistoric Cave Art by Kids, Measuring Happiness
Podcast 134: A Canadian scientist is helping cities around the world promote happiness as part of public policy. Archaeologists have found prehistoric cave drawings by children in a cave in France. more »
The 100th episode! Cacao & Strawberry Genomes, Click Languages
Podcast 100: Join us in our celebration of our 100th episode. We bring updates on old stories, and give you a preview of stories we'll cover this year. Also, news about strawberry and cacao genomes. more »
CSI in 19th Century France, Bird-friendly Coffee
Podcast 92: A grisly tale about a 19th century serial killer in France and the birth of modern forensic science. How coffee endangers songbirds. Also, join our online discussion on nuclear energy. more »
Arab Women in Science, Endangered Species Treaty, Moldy Winds
Podcast 87: Challenges facing Arab women scientists. The limits of an international treaty for endangered species. Efforts to save French cave's ice-age paintings. Molds create their own spore-bearing winds. more »
Saving Lebanon’s Cedar Trees, Black Carbon & Climate Change
Podcast 80: Efforts to save Lebanon's threatened cedar trees. Black carbon, a component of soot, is a potent climate warmer. Scientists have stumbled upon a rare magnetic star. more »
Nile Delta, Humming Bears, A Jurassic Sea Monster
Podcast 38: Nile Delta is among the top three places at risk from rising seas. American researchers find that Black Bears hum. Male French Brown bears short of females. And a Jurassic Sea Monster fossil. more »
Tiny T. Rex, Low-Carbon World Tour, Iceland Buries CO2
Podcast 32: A fossil find from Inner Mongolia. French President wants a carbon tax. A Londoner sets out on a low-carbon world tour. Iceland pumps CO2 underground. more »
Trains, a Bio-Truck, and Winston the High-Speed Pigeon
[Technology Podcast 258: Meet Winston, the 11 month old carrier pigeon who is faster than broadband Internet in South Africa. At least, that's what one company in South Africa set out to prove. You can hear more about that in this week's podcast. You can also take a ride on the Battambang Bamboo Railway in Cambodia, and follow along... more »
Castle Building Gets Medieval, Bertrand Piccard, and GPS Atari Art
[Technology Podcast 254: On this week's show, castle builders in France use medieval technologies and techniques to build a castle...from scratch. Also, we have an interview with Bertrand Piccard, who wants to one day fly a solar-powered plane, non-stop, around the world. And we end with one podcast listener's amazing art project. He and his buddies use GPS and... 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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