Tag: WNYC
Radiolab: after birth and the formation of self
by Greg on Aug.25, 2009, under Science Life
I haven’t done a Radiolab Saturday in some time, but don’t worry, i will be posting more segments i find interesting in the Fall. Weekends have been packed with events and summer lounging. I wanted to write about this particular Radiolab short though, because it is linked to the current book i am trudging happily through: Metzingers’ The Ego Tunnel. So far, it is as mind blowingly disorienting as Jim told me. The concept that the self — the subjective point of view that humans use to interact with their environment– is a myth is not an easy understanding. But i think i am getting there, and this Radiolab, an extra morsel from their really compelling hour long show on the afterlife, starts to make me understand what it is like to develop ones ego tunnel, or sense of self.
wait wait, i will tell you
by Greg on Aug.06, 2009, under Science Life Alert
NPR’s wonderful weekend news quiz show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me is coming to NYC this fall:(continue reading…)
Leonard Lopate talks to Harold Varmus
by Greg on Mar.17, 2009, under Science Life
Comments Off :harold varmus, leonard lopate, WNYC more...WNYC Hosts: Science in the Media, A Panel Discussion
by Greg on Mar.11, 2009, under Science Event
Panelists:
Ellen Horne (Executive Producer, WNYC’s Radio Lab)
Ellis Rubinstein (President, New York Academy of Sciences)
Joseph Bonner (Director of Communications and Public Affairs, The Rockefeller University)
Adrienne Klein (Co-Director of Science and the Arts, The Graduate Center at CUNY)
Bruce McEwen (Alfred E. Mirsky Professor, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Labratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University)
Moderated by Robert Pollack (Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion)
Wednesday, March 11th, 7:00-9:00pm, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th Street.
(Light dinner refreshments will be served.)
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Nasa's Image of the Day
Curiosity at 'Cumberland'
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 15, 2013). The rover team plans to use Curiosity's drill to collect a powdered sample from the interior of the rock for analysis by laboratory instruments inside the rover. This is the mission's second rock-drilling target. The rover drove from its position beside the first drilling target, "John Klein," to its position beside Cumberland with drives of 121 inches (308 centimeters) on Sol 273 (May 13) and 26.6 inches (67.5 centimeters) on Sol 275. Curiosity's total odometry on Mars is now 2,385 feet (727 meters). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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