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sellers.

Hey, Steve Murski here for Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American,

posted on July 1st, 2009 this week.

We're going to have a slightly different episode from usual because I'm in London this week,

where I am speaking at the Conference of the World Federation of Science Journalists. I just want to tell you about some of the

things we have planned for you in the next few weeks. We're going to have a series of

interviews actually with the research and development team from Blue Sky Studios, which I conducted a couple

of weeks ago. If the name Blue Sky Studios doesn't mean anything to you, perhaps the Ice Age

movies will mean something to you with the voices of Ray Romano and John Leguizamo and Queen Latifah.

Well, the R&D guys at Blue Sky Studios are the scientists, the computer scientists, the physicists,

the folks who make all that animation magic happen.

And I spent a full day up at their offices up in Greenwich, Connecticut a couple of weeks ago,

and one of the founders of that company who used to be a nuclear physicist working on weapons and now makes cartoons, actually took his doctorate with Louis de Brogley.

And if that name means something to you, well, then you'll know how knocked out of my socks I was when I heard that.

We're also going to play for you in the coming weeks an interview with Jeff Wolfe,

who is the CEO and founder of Grow Solar,

one of the most successful solar energy companies in the country.

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