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Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about a few of this year’s top stories from our online news site, like ones on a major error in the monarch butterfly biological record and using massive balloons to build tunnels, and why they were chosen. Hint: It’s not just the stats. Sarah also interviews Staff Writer Adrian Cho about the 2017 Breakthrough of the Year. Adrian talks about why Science gave the nod to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory team for a second year in a row—for the detection of a pair of merging neutron stars. Jen Golbeck is also back for the last book review segment of the year. She talks with Sarah about her first year on the show, her favorite books, what we should have covered, and some suggestions for books as gifts. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: f99aq8ove/Flickr; 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,
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1:08.3	Welcome to the science podcast for December 22, 2017.
1:13.1	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:14.9	In this week's show, our last of the year, David Grimm is here with his favorite online stories of 2017.
1:22.2	And yes, there's one about dogs.
1:24.6	Adrian Cho talks about science's breakthrough of the year, the detection of two
1:29.7	merging neutron stars via their gravitational waves and other signals. And lastly, Jen Goldbeck is
1:36.6	here to discuss the year in books. What did we love? What did we miss out on? And what we should
1:42.6	read next.
1:49.2	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
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