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

for the seven days starting May 14th, 2008. I'm Steve

Murski. This week on the podcast, it's all in the family with three scientific

American staffers on board. We'll talk to editor and novelist Mark Alpert about scientists

in fiction. Ivan Oranski, the new managing editor online, is going to talk about what's going on at siam.com.

But first, Scientific Americans David Beello happens to be in China on assignment.

I spoke with him the evening of May 13th about the earthquake.

Dave, good to talk to you.

Good to talk to you.

Tell everybody exactly where you are.

I am in Shanghai presently and traveling to Beijing

later today. And how far are you from the earthquake? China is roughly the same size as the continental

U.S. minus Alaska. I am on the far eastern seaboard, so the equivalent maybe of New York,

and this earthquake is in the far west,

maybe the equivalent of Arizona.

Okay, nevertheless, you're a lot closer than we are.

Yes.

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