Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As the year comes to a close, we review the best science, the best stories, and the best books from 2019. Our end-of-the-year episode kicks off with Host Sarah Crespi and Online News Editor David Grimm talking about the top online stories on things like human self-domestication, the “wood wide web,” and more. News Editor Tim Appenzeller joins Sarah to discuss Science’s 2019 Breakthrough of the Year, some of the contenders for breakthrough, also known as runners-up, and the breakdowns—when science and politics just didn’t seem to mix this year. Finally, Science books editor Valerie Thompson brings her favorites from the world of science-inflected media. She and Sarah talk about some of the best books reviewed in Science this year, a food extinction book we should have reviewed, a pair of science-centric films, and even an award-winning birding board game. For more science books, films, and games, visit the books et al blog at blogs.sciencemag.org/books. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: Bayer; Lightstream; KiwiCo Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast ++ [Image: Roots, Craig Cloutier/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm; Tim Appenzeller; Valerie Thompson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,
0:05.0	offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,
0:12.0	is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.
0:16.0	Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.
0:20.0	With a four-year
0:21.6	quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, and eight new
0:26.4	national centers of excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next
0:32.4	five years. To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.
0:40.3	This week's episode of the science podcast is brought to you by Bayer.
0:43.7	Bayer develops digital tools to help farmers use less water to grow their crops.
0:48.5	From advances in health to innovations in agriculture, Bayer is advancing science for a better life. At Bayer, this is why we science.
1:01.0	Welcome to the science podcast for November 20th, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi. So this is our last episode of 2019. We'll be off next week and then back
1:13.4	the first week of January. And in this special roundup edition of the science podcast, we have
1:18.8	online news editor, David Grimm. He's going to walk us through some of the most remarkable
1:23.2	online news stories from the year. News editor Tim Appenzeller is going to reveal the breakthrough of
1:28.9	the year and some of the runners-up, as well as some breakdowns in science and politics. Last up,
1:35.3	we have books editor Valerie Thompson. She's going to share the top science-themed books,
1:40.9	films, and games from 2019. These are things you might want to read yourself
1:45.5	or maybe give someone else as a present.
1:50.6	For the first segment of our year-in-review episode,
1:54.3	we have David Grimm, online news editor for science.
1:57.5	He's going to walk us through some of the remarkable stories from 2019.
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