Six Big Science Debates; Missions to Map Planets; Breaking Down Barriers: Women in Science

Science Talk

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🗓️ 27 September 2006

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Last week, the National Academy of Sciences and other institutions released a report titled Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Maria Zuber, head of the department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the members of the committee that prepared that report. We talk to her about the findings and recommendations of the committee. She also discusses her research mapping Mars, Mercury and the Moon. Scientific American reporter JR Minkel chats about his web article called That's Debatable: Six Debates at the Frontier of Science. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Websites mentioned on this episode include www.nap.edu; www.tinyurl.com/qa6bz; www.sciam.com/news; www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005726E-214A-1514-A14A83414B7F013F Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.8	Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting September 27th. I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, Scientific American writer
0:49.3	J.R. Minkel joins us to talk about six big current debates in science. We'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news, too.
0:57.1	First up, we'll hear from Maria Zuber.
0:59.6	She's the head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences over at MIT,
1:05.0	and she was also a member of the committee that last week released a major new report on women in science
1:10.7	under the auspices
1:11.9	of the National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health and other institutions.
1:17.2	On Friday, I visited her at MIT, where we talked about the report and also about her research
1:22.1	on planetary mapping.
1:24.7	Professor Zuber, thanks for talking to us today.
1:27.0	It's good to be here.
1:28.3	Tell me about this report.
1:30.0	How did the report actually come into being?
1:32.9	Okay, this report is actually a follow-on from another National Academy report that's called Rising Above the Gathering Storm.
1:42.3	And this was a report that came out last year, and it
1:45.7	addressed the challenges to America maintaining its preeminence in competitiveness. So obviously,
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