Undark: Truth, Beauty, Science
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- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 35:41:25
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Sinopsis
This is Undark. Were a digital science magazine situated at that place where science, culture, and politics collide. Tune in for in-depth interviews with some of the worlds top science journalists, a healthy serving of media criticism, and reported pieces from the intersection of science and society. Hosted by the former editor of The New York Times' weekly Science Times section, David Corcoran.
Episodios
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Ep. 24 Finding Nubia
28/02/2018 Duración: 36minOur latest Undark podcast looks at an ancient civilization, rediscovered but threatened; science and the media; and the world's strangest flower.
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Ep. 23 Food Fight
29/01/2018 Duración: 41minJoin Undark podcast host and former NYT editor David Corcoran as he talks with Kerstin Hoppenhaus and Sibylle Grunze about their Undark documentary on stem rust. Also: commentator Seth Mnookin on how people get their science news; and reporter Kate Morgan visits a fossil park in New Jersey where dinosaurs met their fate.
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Ep. 22 The Poisoning of Michigan
30/12/2017 Duración: 43minJoin our podcast host and former NYT editor David Corcoran as he talks with Carrie Arnold about her Undark Case Study on the he toxic legacy of a 1973 chemical accident. Also: commentator Seth Mnookin on the biggest science stories of 2017, and Randy Scott Carroll on what it means to be alive.
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Ep. 21 Dangerous Dams
01/12/2017 Duración: 24minThe environmental price of clean energy in the Balkan states and the rise of predatory journals. Plus, Part 1 of a two part series on what it means to be "alive."
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Ep. 20 The War on Polio
03/11/2017 Duración: 37minA campaign to wipe out polio in a corner of Nigeria where it stubbornly hangs on, issues in science journalism, and growing your own produce at home.
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Ep. 19 National Parks
30/09/2017 Duración: 41minThreats to the national parks, a controversial editorial in Nature, and a rare genetic disorder afflicting descendants of New Mexico’s Spanish settlers.
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Ep. 18 Atomic Bill
02/09/2017 Duración: 30minThe ethical debate surrounding a New York Times reporter hired by the Manhattan Project to be its chronicler and cheerleader, as well as an effort to increase science communication in the public sphere.
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Ep. 17 Shades of REDD
28/07/2017 Duración: 37minA program to stop deforestation and protect wildlife in Kenya, a controversial literature review on gender identity, and whirling disease in Banff National Park.
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Ep. 16 North Korea
30/06/2017 Duración: 39minAn effort to monitor public health in North Korea by studying refugees who defected to the South, media coverage of health care and addiction, and the effects on your body from being buried at sea.
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Ep. 15 The Virus Hunters
30/05/2017 Duración: 37minA visit with the virus hunters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the state of long form science journalism, and a tool for treating obsessive hair-pulling.
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Ep. 14 Broken Prairie
27/04/2017 Duración: 36minThe future of the Great Plains ecosystem, the downside of conservation in East Africa, and a recap of the March for Science.
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Ep. 13 The Great Black Swamp
01/04/2017 Duración: 38minThe toxic legacy and uncertain future of Ohio's former Great Black Swamp, why you should be skeptical of scientific studies you read about, and the fight to restore some of North America’s greatest rapids.
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Ep. 12 Wear & Tear
01/03/2017 Duración: 32minThe movement and evolution of the global leather tanning and textile trades, science journalism in the Trump era, and improving hospital food.
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Ep. 11 Bullet Proof
30/01/2017 Duración: 39minThe risks of lead ammunition, how to cover science deniers, and confessions of a standardized patients.
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Ep. 10 Old Friends
31/12/2016 Duración: 31minHelminth hacking, the rise of fake news, and uncovering the mystery behind ASMR.
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Ep. 9 For All They Know
01/12/2016 Duración: 34minThe aftermath of a water crisis in Flint, the impact of a political election on science, and the psychology of GMOs.
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Ep. 8 Worse Than The Disease
29/10/2016 Duración: 37minA controversial treatment for a mysterious disease, a vote for equality among the ranks of science writers, and flesh eating beetles. Happy Halloween!
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Ep. 7 Bombturbation
05/10/2016 Duración: 35minThe unintended consequences of war, recalling science's most famous patient, and a trip to the rainforest with the author of "Stellaluna."
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Ep. 6 The Criminalization of HIV
31/08/2016 Duración: 29minHIV and the criminal justice system, covering harassment in academic research, and the science behind near death experiences.
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Ep. 5 Endangered: A Bird and a Tribe
01/08/2016 Duración: 26minThe search for a rare bird and the murky world of fair use.