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Inside <i>SciAm</i>: The August Issue

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🗓️ 8 August 2008

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In this special edition of Science Talk, Scientific American editor in chief, John Rennie, talks to Steve about the August issue of the magazine, which features articles on migraine, solar superstorms and self-cleaning materials 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 Benning?

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. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.

0:35.8

The August issue of Scientific American is available. One of the big articles is related to the China

0:43.5

coverage, and that's the health impact of all the smoke on kids, and it's a growing problem.

0:51.0

Yes, we're very interested in running this article. Obviously, China's got a lot of

0:55.8

pollution problems at the moment. Air pollution is one that's going to be very obvious, even to people

1:00.7

who are just watching the Olympics coverage. They're most likely going to see that a lot of the air

1:06.2

in parts of China is pretty filthy. And some of that's related to pollutants that are released in, for example, the coal-burning power plants.

1:16.4

The article we have China's Children of Smoke in the August issue talks about some work in the

1:22.8

rather new field of molecular epidemiology, trying to link some of the pollutants that are found in the

1:30.4

air to certain chemicals that are attaching themselves apparently to the DNA of children in this

1:37.3

area, and that may be responsible for some of the children having some forms of lessened intellectual performance.

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