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Podcast: The Story Collider
Episode: Shoot for the Stars: Stories about people who look to the night sky for inspiration
Pub date: 2019-12-27

This week we share two stories of people who were inspired by heroes of space.

Part 1: After watching a documentary about the moon landing, Kate Downey comes away with a love of all things Buzz Aldrin.

Part 2: Richard French gets the call to work for NASA, fulfilling a dream that started with his professor Carl Sagan.

Kate makes you fall in love with things you thought were boring. As the co-founder and Creative Director of Caveat, she heads up a team creating live shows that make you a little bit smarter and a little bit drunker. Previously, she directed Shakespeare and opera with the Public Theater and New York City Opera, and helped build Museum Hack, a renegade tour company at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you’ve seen any scientifically inaccurate whale illustrations from the 17th century, please alert her @wrongwhale on IG and TW.

Richard French is former Chair of the Astronomy Department at Wellesley College and is a founding science team member of NASA’s Cassini Mission to Saturn. He uses the Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes around the world to observe the rings and atmospheres of planets, and particularly enjoys introducing self-proclaimed “non-scientists” to the wonders of the Universe. He chose the life of an astronomer over that of an opera singer, but still loves music and the allied arts. Dick enjoys mountaineering, paddling, bicycling, photographing his travels around the world, and encouraging others to read “Moby Dick.”

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Podcast: Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves.
Episode: Transmitting Placebo Effects – Luke Chang
Pub date: 2020-01-07

Can your doctors’ beliefs about the efficacy of a treatment affect how you experience pain? In episode 65, we’re joined by Luke Chang from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He talks with us about his research into socially transmitted placebo effects, through which patients can pick up on subtle facial cues that reveal their doctor’s beliefs about how effective a treatment will be.

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Podcast: The Joy of x
Episode: Moon Duchin on Fair Voting and Random Walks
Pub date: 2020-04-07

Can geometry save democracy from gerrymandering? Mathematician Moon Duchin discusses the possibilities with host Steven Strogatz.

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Podcast: Half Hour of Heterodoxy
Episode: 69. Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations for Faculty and Students, Part 1
Pub date: 2019-10-18

Sheila Heen is my guest today. She’s the coauthor of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (1999), a New York Times Business Bestseller that has continuously been in print. An updated 10th anniversary edition was published in 2010. She’s also the coauthor of Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (Even When It’s Off-Base, Unfair, Poorly Delivered and Frankly, You’re Not in the Mood), a New York Times bestseller. She is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a founder of Triad Consulting Group.

We discuss difficult conversations between faculty and students in this episode, the first of two episodes with Sheila Heen.

We recorded this using Skype because of technical problems with the application that we normally use. You may notice lower audio quality.

Here is a transcript of this episode.

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Podcast: The Dissenter
Episode: #305 Steven Pinker: The Enlightenment, Cultural Evolution, and the Human Mind
Pub date: 2020-03-09

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In this episode, we talk go through some of the main topics Dr. Pinker tackles in his work. We start by discussing a new hypothesis put forth by Joe Henrich and his collaborators, about the possible influence the Catholic Church had on the evolution of our WEIRD psychology and the Enlightenment ideas. We then talk about cultural evolution, morality from an evolutionary perspective, and human progress. We also address if our folk psychology tracks scientific findings on human behavior. We also talk about language, and AI. Finally, we go through two questions coming from a patron, about the cognitive niche hypothesis, and the WEIRD problem.

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Podcast: Everything Hertz
Episode: 118: Evidence-free gatekeeping
Pub date: 2020-10-19

Dan and James answer audio listener questions on the worst review comments they’ve received (and how the responded), their thoughts on the current state of preprints, and how institutional prestige influences researcher evaluations.

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• Send in your audio question at our website
• Listen to our episode with Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti, on memes, TikTok, and science communication
• The worst peer reviewers we have received
• How do we respond to bad peer review comments
• The Research Square preprint server
• The current state of preprints
• The ‘readiness scale’ paper at Nature Human Behavipr
• How the prestige of one’s institition affects how they are assessed
• The mathematician Grigori Perelman, who declined the Fields medal
• The Laboratory Life book
• Double-blinded peer-review

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Podcast: The Story Collider
Episode: Labor Day: Stories about trying to make a baby
Pub date: 2019-08-30

This week we’re presenting two stories about people trying to become parents.

Part 1: After finally getting together in their forties, Chris Wade and his wife are determined to have a baby — even if it means following some unconventional advice.

Part 2: Struggling to conceive, Sara Sweet makes her third attempt at intrauterine insemination just before her family’s Christmas gathering.

Chris Wade is a native Washingtonian and a retired member of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC. He is a Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator and currently works in healthcare security. Chris is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Police Executive Leadership Program, is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor and a certified CPI Nonviolent Crisis Intervention instructor. He is married to his best friend and simply adores his children. His life is filled with countless adventures which he is willing to share through storytelling.

Sara Sweet is a writer and storyteller from Boston. She is a Moth Grand Slam champion and has been a featured teller with Fugitive Stories, Now Hear This, Listen Up Storytelling, Life Is Good and the Moth MainStage.Sara and her husband are aunt and uncle to 8 nieces and nephews.

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Podcast: Useful Science
Episode: 38: Clinical Trials, COVID-19, and Ethics
Pub date: 2020-07-07

[https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/38](https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/38)

The Useful Science team provides a breakdown on clinical trials – what they are, why they matter, and how long they take. As a wave of urgent clinical trials related to COVID19 is unfolding around the world, researchers try to balance the need for vaccines & treatment with ethical concerns and the health of study participants.

Music by [Solomon Krause-Imlach](https://solomonkrauseimlach.com/).

Follow us @usefulsci or email us at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).

## Show Notes

* [Ethics of controlled human infection to address COVID-19](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/832)

* [What risks should be permissible in controlled human infection model studies?](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12736)

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