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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American for the week of April 10th, 2009. I'm Steve Murski. This week on the podcast, writer Steve Miller talks about his new book,

The Complete Idiots Guide to the Science of Everything.

We'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news.

And first up, cognitive psychologist Tanya Lombroso from the University of California, Berkeley.

Lombroso was a lecturer on the recent Siam Bright Horizons Evolution Cruise.

You may recall the March 13th podcast featuring the interview with Jerry Coyne from the cruise.

You may also recall the discussion last week of the Texas school boards problems with evolution education.

Lombroso studies why people believe what they do specifically about evolution or creationism.

We spoke aboard the rocking ship, the Zeitredam.

You're doing really interesting work.

You've decoupled sort of, is evolution true?

You know, what are problems with evolution from people's interpretations

of whether or not they accept evolution? Regardless of evolution itself, we're just talking about

the psychological profiles of how you come to either accept or not accept evolution.

Some of that work is yours, and some of it you're very well familiar with from other people.

So let's talk about some of the basics and some of the surprises about the people who accept

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