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Science Talk

The Harlem Science Renaissance

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Molecular geneticist Sat Bhattacharya talks about his creation, the Harlem Children Society, which gets underprivileged kids involved in scientific research. And 13-year-olds Mitchell Haverty and Angus Fung talk about their research on algae as alternative fuel. Plus, we test your knowledge about some recent science in the news 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

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0:28.0

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0:31.2

Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on October 15th, 2010. I'm Steve Merski. When you think of Harlem,

0:40.5

maybe the famed Apollo Theater comes to mind, or the music and literary movement known as the

0:45.6

Harlem Renaissance. Well, there's a new Harlem Renaissance in science. A couple of Saturdays

0:50.9

ago, I headed to the corner of 125th Street in Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard

0:54.6

for a science fair under the auspices of the Harlem Children Society.

0:59.3

The society is the brainchild of molecular geneticist Sat Batacharya.

1:04.2

I spoke to him at the outdoor poster session.

1:08.4

Tell me about this event and give me the history of this entire project.

1:13.6

Well, I started the program 10 years ago at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in my laboratory

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