Podcast: Nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of lies, and how sliced meat drove human evolution

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the honesty of individuals, what happened when our ancestors cut back on the amount of time spent chewing food, and how plants use sand to grind herbivores‘ gears. Science’s International News Editor Rich Stone joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his forensics story on how to track down the culprits after a nuclear detonation. [Image: Miroslav Boskov] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	Thank you. and quote, science podcast to receive special offers. Welcome to the science podcast for March 11, 2016. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
0:48.8	International News editor, Rich Stone, talks about finding a source of a nuclear weapon
0:53.5	using post-detonation forensics.
0:56.8	And David Grimm is here with the roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:03.7	Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement
1:09.5	of Science.
1:12.8	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.
1:16.4	He's here to talk about some recent online stories.
1:19.0	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:20.3	It's kind of sad that we don't have any stories about having a head cold because I have, this is the frogiest podcast I've ever done.
1:27.4	Oh, no.
1:28.2	I know.
1:28.8	Our first story is on lying, actually, as a national pastime.
1:34.2	The broken windows theory, the idea that being surrounded by tidy streets means people are less
1:39.9	likely to act in a lawless manner.
1:42.8	It's controversial, you know, for example, in the U.S.,
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