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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 21st, 2008. I'm Steve

Mirsky. This week on the podcast, Big Brains, Little Brains, and a Nobel Brain. Our resident

anthropology expert, Kate Wong, talks about the latest findings and feelings about the

Hobbit, the tiny human fossil found in Indonesia.

Ivan Oransky, the new managing editor online, reports from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

Plus, we'll have comedy from Nobel Prize winner Gerald Edelman.

And we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

First up, Kate Wong, we spoke in the library at Scientific American.

Kate, you were at this big meeting in, where, in Columbus, Ohio? Yeah, I was at the annual

meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Columbus last month.

And what goes on at this meeting? Well, you have people from all areas of physical anthropology, including primatology and human genetics and paleoanthropology, convening and hashing out the latest findings.

The Flores fossil, Homo Florentia, how do you say it?

Floresiensis. Floresiensis. The Hobbit, as it's popularly known. homo florenciate floren how do you say it Florisiansis

Floresiensis the Hobbit as it's popularly known

is still a huge subject of controversy

It is in fact all of the talks that I went to

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