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

posted on November 19, 2010. I'm Steve Merski. Why do women live longer than men? What does David Pogue's complaint about the Kindle? Why is Scientific American pushing for more music education?

Editor-in-Chief Mariette, Christina, and I will discuss all these questions related to content in the November issue of the magazine.

We spoke at the Scientific American offices.

I'm going to do something a little different.

We usually talk about the feature articles in the magazine, but let's talk about the departments,

the columns and the other kinds of monthly feature, not feature articles, but features to

the magazine.

And one of them is the monthly editorial, which is now called. Science Agenda.

And the agenda item this month might look a little strange to people if they open up a science

magazine and they see this editorial from Scientific American all about the importance of

maintaining our arts education, especially music.

Right.

I mean, maybe C.P. Snow's two cultures has never been more prevalent in

certain ways. Let me address Steve why an arts and music editorial and scientific American is actually

not a strange thing, you know, or not a surprising thing in a science magazine. The fact of the matter is

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