Will Your Plug-In Car Actually Be Coal-Powered? And Other July Stories
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:32.0 | Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American posted on July 8th, 2010. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm Steve Mursky. |
| 0:39.7 | This week on the podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | When we were thinking about the new introduction of plug-in cars, |
| 0:44.9 | so we got to thinking, well, how are they going to get their power? |
| 0:47.6 | You know, when you plug them into this outlet, kind of what's on the other end of that outlet? |
| 0:52.1 | That's Scientific American editor Michael Moyer, who will talk about his feature in the July |
| 0:56.4 | issue on where plug-in electric vehicles power really comes from. |
| 1:00.8 | And editor-in-chief Mariette de Christina talks about some of the other articles in the |
| 1:05.1 | new July issue. |
| 1:06.4 | Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. |
| 1:10.1 | First up, Michael and Mariette. |
| 1:11.9 | The three of us sat down in the new recording studio at the Scientific American offices on July 6th. |
| 1:21.3 | Mariette, before we talk about the July issue, you just got back from Lindau. |
| 1:25.4 | I just got back from the Nobel laureate meetings at Lindau. |
| 1:28.3 | These meetings were begun 60 years ago, and this was the 60th anniversary of them. |
| 1:32.3 | And the sole purpose of them is to bring Nobel laureates together, and they were about 60 of them this year, with young scientists, so roughly in their 20s, let's say, who have already begun publishing various pieces of research |
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