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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 02 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Fixing Food with Science

Fixing Food with Science
Cookbook author David Joachim shows how his book The Science Of Good Food can fix most any kitchen mess. And in this video you’ll learn how to turn a basic custard into a delicious orange flan. Joachim says you can turn to the book when you are baking a cake and something goes wrong. He’ll...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Backyard Science, Books, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Wind on 10 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle. Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips, The Brain on 09 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Dan Brown’s Quantum Entanglement

Dan Brown’s Quantum Entanglement
Entangled Photons and The Lost Symbol Avid fiction aficionados have anxiously awaited author Dan Brown’s latest rip-snorting adventure through the mysterious. The Lost Symbol is Brown’s new book, which features the largely unknown field of noetic sciences as a means to move his plot along. Loosely...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astrobiology, Books, Dinosaurs, Environment, Geology, Podcast, SciClips on 08 26th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Stories in Stone

Stories in Stone
Urban geologist David Williams is a big stone kinda guy. He is not one to shy away from a nice chunk of gneiss. Nor will he wilt at the sight of weathered brownstone–one of his favorites. Now, the author of Stories in Stone: Travels in Urban Geology, Williams shares his passion for rocks–from...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Featured Articles, SciClips on 06 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Top 10 Summer Science Books

Top 10 Summer Science Books
Here’s the REALscience Top 10 Summer Science Books. 1. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin 2. Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer 3. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angiers 4....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books on 01 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment

REALscience on NPR’s Science Friday

REALscience on NPR’s Science Friday
Price: $9.95 REALscience is excited to announce a partnership with Science, Naturally! to produce an audio version of its book, One-Minute Mysteries 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science! Click here to listen to A Fair Contest, the mystery featured on Science Friday. Book authors Eric and Natalie...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Books, Marine Science, Nanotechnology, Podcast, SciClips on 06 25th, 2007 | No Comments

Nano Bucks

Nano Bucks
Dr. Robert Tanguay Zebrafish embryo Will particles smaller than a virus or many chemical compounds hurt people, animals or the environment? That is the unanswered question of nanotechnology and one of the biggest fears. Government agencies are starting to fund scientists looking at this question...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Podcast on 04 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Science Writer Beth Geiger

Science Writer Beth Geiger
A Seattle freelance science writer talks to Real Science about winning a coveted American Association for the Advancement of Science journalism award while her young son Jacob adds his own soundtrack. Beth Geiger Beth Geiger [ 0:01 ]
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