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Science Notes 2008 Podcasts Recorded and produced by each author.
Oil on the Rocks
Rachel Tompa takes listeners to the shoreline to
reveal the impacts of oil on intertidal creatures. Ecologist Pete
Raimondi describes the messy coastal surveys his team conducted
after a 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay. Listen (opens in new window) | Story Cracking
the Earthquake Code
Roberta Kwok
interviews two of her key sources: engineers Tom Bleier and Antony
Fraser-Smith. The researchers discuss their controversial vision
for an earthquake early-warning system based on magnetic signals.
Listen (opens in new window) | Story My Cell
Phone Rings in A Minor
Alissa Poh
explores the curious origins of absolute pitch with two researchers
at UC San Francisco. Is perfect pitch a blessing or a curse? Learn
how one subject uses the skill in her market's produce section.
Listen (opens in new window) | Story Physicists
Shine Some Light on the Brain
Amber
Dance reports from the innards of the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center about high-energy x-rays that expose metals in the brain.
A Canadian biologist reveals how she sends slices of human brain
across the border. Listen
(opens in new window) | Story Dry Fields
with Great Yields
Hayley Rutger speaks
with plant biologist Eduardo Blumwald about his team's efforts to
produce drought-resistant crops. Blumwald offers his frank opinions
about the fears surrounding genetically modified plants.
Listen (opens in new window) | Story Are Living
Foods Getting a Raw Deal?
Jane Liaw
reports from the kitchen and dining room of La Vie, a popular
raw-foods restaurant in Santa Cruz. The chef explains how he
prepares some of La Vie's signature creations and reveals his own
tastes in food. Listen
(opens in new window) | Story Fossils
of Our Genetic Past
John Cannon explains
the bizarre genetic warfare that has allowed alien bits of DNA
endogenous retroviruses to take up residence in our cells. Biologist
Ting Wang takes listeners through the evolutionary implications.
Listen (opens in new window) | Story The Forest
Laboratory
Madolyn Rogers walks into
the woods, literally, for this report from an ecological plot in a
remote part of the UC Santa Cruz campus. The researchers map trees
and plants down to the centimeter to trace the spread of fungi.
Listen (opens in new window) | Story Small
Things Considered
Massie Santos Ballon
introduces a UC Berkeley engineering team working on new and improved
microscanners. The devices, which allow laser beams to scan barcodes,
could form the heart of a new handheld projector. Listen (opens in new window) | Story The
Empathetic Internet
Erin Digitale
examines how well the Internet knows us. A UC Santa Cruz computer
engineer is developing better ways for computers to help us find
products and information; should we worry about our privacy?
Listen
(opens in new window) | Story Special report: Science Notes
Update Condors: A Modern
Phoenix
Maria Jos Vias follows up her
2007 story on the California condor recovery
program with a report on the state's ban on lead bullets within the
condor's range. Will the ban motivated by the findings of a UC
Santa Cruz team help the birds endure?
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