Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately 400-million-year-old trees that grew by splitting their guts, and why fighting poverty might also mean worsening climate change with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks with cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France in Paris about consciousness—what is it and can machines have it? For our monthly books segment, Jen Golbeck reviews astronaut Scott Kelly’s book Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/Goddard; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
0:04.0	the academic arm of the Mount Sinai health system in New York City,
0:07.5	and one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:10.7	What are scientists and clinicians working on to improve medical care and health for women?
0:15.5	Find out in a special supplement to Science magazine prepared by the Icon School of Medicine
0:20.0	and Mount Sinai in partnership
0:21.6	with science. Visit our website at www.science.org and search for Frontiers of Medical
0:27.5	Research-Wedmen's Health. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
0:45.6	Welcome to the science podcast for October 27, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
0:51.8	Stanislas Dahan talks with us about consciousness. What is it? And can machines have it? And David Grimm gives us this week's hits from our online news site.
0:56.2	And in this month's book segment, Jen Goldbeck talks about Scott Kelly's memoir, Endurance.
1:01.3	Scott Kelly spent a record year in space aboard the International Space Station.
1:06.3	In Endurance, Kelly describes his voyage and his life leading up to the epic journey.
1:13.0	Support for the Science Podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1:19.7	AAAS, the Science Society, at www.aAAS.org.
1:31.4	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:33.8	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:34.7	Hi, Dave.
1:35.4	Hi, sir.
1:39.7	Our first story is on the sun pushing asteroids around.
1:42.8	This is about Mars Trojans.
1:48.5	This is two groups of asteroids that proceed and follow Mars as it orbits the sun.
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