The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable

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Science Podcast

News Commentary, News, Science

4.2 • 791 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Science’s editor-in-chief and an award-winning broadcast journalist discuss the struggles shared by journalism and science, and we learn about what makes something stand out in our memories First up on the show this week: Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp talks with Amna Nawaz, an award-winning broadcast journalist and host of the PBS NewsHour, about the value of new voices in science and journalism and other things the two fields have in common. Next up, what makes something stand out in your memory? Is an object or word memorable because it is unique or expressive? Are there features of things that make them memorable, regardless of meaning? Wilma Bainbridge, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at the University of Chicago, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss her Science Advances paper on teasing apart the features of memorability. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast [Image: madabandon/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: array of lemons with podcast overlay] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Holden Thorp Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4383 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,
0:05.0	offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,
0:12.0	is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.
0:16.0	Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.
0:20.0	With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,
0:25.7	and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.
0:33.7	To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.
0:40.5	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:48.1	Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.
0:55.7	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in
1:02.0	many fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,
1:08.8	cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
1:12.6	The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
1:22.2	This is the science podcast for April 28, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, what do journalism and science have in common?
1:31.3	Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorpe discusses
1:34.3	common struggles for journalists and scientists
1:37.3	with award-winning journalists and PBS NewsHour host,
1:40.3	Amna Nawaz.
1:42.3	After that, why do we remember something so easily and others not so much?
1:48.6	I talked with researcher Wilma Bainbridge about her work on the problem of what exactly makes
1:53.6	things memorable. Is it intrinsic to them? Is it their meaning? Or is it something about
1:59.6	their appearance? Or is there some other key to
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