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  1. Science Weekly podcast: the origin of life

    Scientist, broadcaster and writer Adam Rutherford discusses his new book Creation which explores the chemical origins of life on Earth, and reveals why he believes our future is in the hands of genetic engineers.

    Alok Jha is joined by Adam Rutherford to discuss how life began some 4bn years ago – and the manipulation of its blueprint, DNA, through genetic engineering. Adam’s latest book, Creation: The Origin of Life/The Future of Life, is two books in one. The first details the latest research into how the first cellular life form emerged, and the second looks at the rapidly developing science of synthetic biology.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2013/apr/22/podcast-science-weekly-rutherford-creation

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  2. Science Weekly podcast: Jaron Lanier on Who Owns The Future?

    On this week’s Science Weekly podcast, Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample and Guardian digital correspondent Jemima Kiss meet scientist, musician and web guru Jaron Lanier to discuss his new book Who Owns The Future?

    Alok Jha discovers the lesser known role of Isaac Newton as radical historian when he meets Jed Buchwald and Mordechai Feingold, authors of Newton and The Origin of Civilization, about Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after his death, which unleashed a storm of controversy.

    Plus, Ian is joined by Observer science editor Robin McKie to discuss this week’s science news, including evidence of water vapour on exoplanets and the bicentenary of the father of epidemiology John Snow.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2013/mar/18/science-weekly-podcast-jaron-lanier

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  3. Science Weekly podcast: Cory Doctorow on an internet that sets us free

    This week’s edition of the podcast is dedicated to the Sense About Science Lecture 2013, given by the sci-fi writer and web activist Cory Doctorow.

    Cory’s lecture was entitled "We get to choose: How to demand an internet that sets us free" and was delivered to an invited audience at The Institution of Engineering and Technology on 13 May.

    To find out more about Cory Doctorow’s writings go to his website craphound.com.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2013/may/20/podcast-science-weekly-senseaboutscience-doctorow

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  4. Book Review: Lee Smolin’s ‘Time Reborn’ : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

    Time is special. How we see it helps determine how we see the rest of the Universe. Physicist Lee Smolin has a new book out that says we’ve been looking at time the wrong way. Adam Frank digs in and offers his own perspective on Smolin’s argument.

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/05/02/180037757/is-time-real

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  5. Movie Review - ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ - Exploring Familiar Territory, Boldly And With Twists : NPR

    The 12th film based on Gene Roddenberry’s ’60s sci-fi TV show is the second to star a new group of actors as Kirk, Spock and their crew. J.J. Abrams returns as director, and Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch plays the memorable villain.

    http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/184485990/into-darkness-boldly-and-with-a-few-twists

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  6. FilmAid Broadcast #3 – Damon Lindelof

    In Part 3 of our FilmAid broadcast, Damon Lindelof joins us to discuss his thoughts on internet fandom, the response to Prometheus, the logic of time travel, and taking chances with the Star Trek franchise.

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  7. Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction

    Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

    In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.

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  8. Margaret Atwood on Stranger Than Fiction

    In the third episode, Wu talks to Margaret Atwood, author of science-flavored dystopian fiction like Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. In 2012, she published In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, in which she explored science fiction as an author and as a reader.

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  9. Charles Stross at DortCon 2013

    Science fiction author Charles Stross http://www.antipope.org/charlie/ is most known for his near-future lovecraft-inspired "Laundry-Files" series, the near-future and more IT centric "Halting State" series as well as his far-future "Saturns Children" android book series - not to forget his science-fiction / fantasy "Merchant Princess" books and other numerous publications.

    When he attended DortCon http://www.dortcon.de/ (in Dortmund, Germany, hence its name) this year, he of course was the natural prey for us - so I asked for an interview. How does he manage those multiple universes, how does he cope with the special problems of looking into the near future…

    http://radio.sf-fantasy.de/rsff/rsff18_en/

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  10. Can big data save lives?

    With an avalanche of 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated daily, could this be used to change our lives and does it have a darker side?

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/moreorless

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