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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

posted on October 14th, 2009.

I'm Steve Merski.

And in this episode, we'll talk about some of the articles featured in the new issue,

the October issue of Scientific American Magazine.

Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

Mariette de Costina is the editor-in-chief of Scientific American Magazine.

We spoke in her office.

Hi, Mariette. Hi, Steve. So tell us about some of the highlights in this issue. Of course,

every page is a highlight. But what are some of the things that really jump out at you?

Well, the first one, when we speak of highlights, we have to start with the cover story,

which this issue is by Gary Sticks, one of our longtime staff editors, and it is called turbocharging the brain. And what do we mean by turbocharging? Well, lots of us are a little

older than we used to be. I said, we... I think everybody's a little older than they used to be.

Well, many, you know, the big force known as the baby boomers are all reaching, you know,

the lowest of, the youngest of us are 45 and oldest up into the early 60s now.

And many of us are starting to think about, hey, you know, tough

economy, got to keep our edge. And we're thinking, what are ways we can do that? Now, students have

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