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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

posted on December 11, 2009. I'm Steve Murerski. Editor-in-chief Mariette

D. Christina joins me for a discussion of the contents of the December issue of Scientific

American magazine on this episode. We'll look once again at this year's Science Nobels after that,

and we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. First up, Mariette D. Christina, who has been our acting editor-in-chief,

but was named our permanent editor this past week.

We spoke in her suddenly bigger, more opulent office.

The December issue is out. Mariette de Christina is our editor-in-chief.

Hi, Marriott.

Hi, Steve. Thanks for having me.

Sure. So some interesting stuff. The big cover article, world-changing ideas is actually a section, really, not an article. Yes, it's a 10-page section on 20 spectacularly innovative ideas for the future of the world. And it's not just the two of us in this room today. No, today we also are joined by Michael Moyer.

Hello, Internet.

So, Michael, you actually put this whole section together.

I did put the whole section together, though I should be clear I did not come up with the turning world changing ideas myself.

We actually went and found some of the greatest ideas and most creative ones floating around in academia and people in startup companies

and things coming out of the labs that hopefully will be impacting the world in the next decade

or so.

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