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 C's Apply, Excludes vehicles.

Welcome to Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting July 19th.

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

we'll hear a little bit more from Max Howe. He's a forensics expert and author of the article

CSI Reality that appears in the July Scientific American. On last week's podcast, he talked about the

article. He had also just returned from a forensics conference and we'll share some very interesting

news about fingerprints that he picked up there.

We'll also test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

First, though, a couple of weeks ago, I got email from a podcast listener named James Begin, and I thought you'd like to meet him.

For one thing, he's a physician and the director of the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety.

Before that, he was an astronaut and flew two shuttle missions.

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