Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports

Science Talk

Scientific American

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4.2 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2011

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Scientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an M.I.T. 150th-anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there.
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love.
0:28.0	T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:31.2	Welcome to Science Talk, the more or less weekly podcast of Scientific American, posted on April 21st, 2011.
0:38.7	I'm Steve Merski.
0:40.1	In recent days, the scientific American crew has traveled far and wide to cover a variety
0:45.4	of scientific conferences.
0:47.3	On April 19th, I gathered four members of the staff to talk about what they'd learned.
0:54.0	Let's go around the table.
0:55.2	Everybody introduced themselves and say the name of the meeting that you were just at last week.
0:59.8	I'm Robin Lloyd.
1:01.0	I'm the news editor for our website, and I attended the annual meeting of the Association for Healthcare Journalists.
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