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Welcome to the science podcast for October 30th, 2020. I'm Sarah Cresby. Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up,

I talk with news intern,

Kathleen O'Grady, about mini-publics. This is a new strategy for figuring out tough policy

problems in democracies. I also talked with researcher Samadigal Paiyke about her contribution to a series

of essays on landmark papers published in science. She profiles Charles Turner, a long-overlooked black

zoologist, whose thinking on animal cognition was way ahead of its time. And books host,

Kiki Sanford, chats with author Pia Sorensen about her book, Science and Cooking, Physics Meets Food,

from Homemade to Hope Cuisine. Now we have news intern Kathleen O'Grady. food from homemade to home cuisine.

Now we have news intern Kathleen O'Grady.

She's here to talk about mini-publics, a strategy for democracies to figure out tough policy problems.

Hi, Kathleen.

Hi.

These are sometimes called mini-publics, citizen juries, deliberative democracy. What exactly are we talking about here? We're talking about bodies made up of randomly selected citizens who deliberate in

very controlled conditions, answering often very constrained questions, and who at the end of the

process produce a set of recommendations.

There are different kinds of bodies. They're really big ones that take a long time.

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