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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on September 30th, 2013.

I'm Steve Murski.

On August 7th, Scientific American and McMillan Science and Education hosted a summit called Learning in the Digital Age at Google's New York City offices.

As part of the summit, editor-in-chief Mariette de Christina sat down with

science aficionado and longtime scientific American Alan Aldo.

I know I don't actually have to introduce the man who's sitting next to me, but I'm just so

thrilled to have the privilege of

sitting here and talking a bit. I want to just frame, and you probably all know this, but I like

to say things out loud. It's one of the things editors in chief like to do. So I'm going to tell you

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