95 Wade Roush - How Disasters Affect Science

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 24 July 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to journalist and educator Wade Roush about how disasters can affect our appreciation of the science behind them—and what we can do to be sure the right story gets out.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:29.7	It seemed this week that we were kind of inundated by stories of impending disasters.
1:34.7	There was that great piece by Catherine Schultz and the New Yorker about the next really big
1:39.3	earthquake that apparently is going to devastate Seattle and other parts of the West Coast. And there was a
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