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Science Talk

The Cornucopia Conference: Roundtable on the AAAS Meeting

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2011

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Podcast host Steve Mirsky talks with Scientific American magazine Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina, news editor Anna Kuchment, feature editor Mark Fischetti and online news editor Robin Lloyd about various sessions at the recently completed annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

0:02.3

Hiya.

0:02.9

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

0:05.6

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

0:09.6

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

0:11.1

It's free to sell on there.

0:12.3

Free to sell?

0:13.4

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

0:16.8

You sold my guitar?

0:19.9

Shall we talk about Benny?

0:22.1

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

0:26.7

Things people love.

0:28.0

T's and Cs Apply, Exclusive vehicles.

0:31.1

Welcome to Science Talk, the more or less weekly podcast of Scientific American,

0:36.0

hosted on February 24, 2010. I'm Steve Merski.

0:40.5

The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science wrapped up Monday

0:45.0

the 21st in Washington, D.C. A bunch of us from Scientific American attended. We gathered

0:50.4

together on Tuesday back in New York to talk to each other about what we learned.

0:56.3

Let's go around the table.

0:57.7

Everybody introduced themselves.

0:59.9

I'm Anna Kuchman.

1:01.2

I edit the advances section for a Scientific American.

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