Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there.

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benny?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles.

Welcome to Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting September 13th.

I'm Steve Merski. This week on the podcast,

the nuclear option, nuclear energy, that is. We'll talk about that with MIT physicist Ernest Monez,

who also co-directs MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. David Holmes of

Manchester Metropolitan University in England joins us.

He blows the doors off the commonly held belief that mice like cheese.

That's a little later.

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

First up, Ernest Moniz.

He's the co-author of an article on the future of nuclear energy that appears in the September

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