Topic: Science and Technology (general)
Do you apply an engineering mindset to your cooking? On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, consider the catastrophic culinary implications of weighing flour before or after it has settled in a cup. Also, learn about the wide ranging benefits of emerging green roofs in New York and Chicago, and meet two people who spend their time debunking the extensive artistic liberties taken with physics and science by Hollywood directors.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with NASA's Christopher Jones, the Director for Solar System Exploration, about the hair raising return to earth of the astronauts left aboard the International Space Station after the Columbia disaster.
Jesse James Garrett, co-founder of both Adaptive Path and the Information Architecture Institute, thoughtfully examines what is behind the long-term success of truly transformative consumer technology products like TiVo, Flickr, and the iPod. It's about understanding the psychology underlying the user experience, and developing the product from the consumer experience perspective. Garrett gets to the heart of how products developed using the experience strategy quickly make us wonder how we ever lived without them.
Craig Burton has said that the best geometric representation of the net's end-to-end architecture is a hollow sphere comprised of everything and everybody on it. Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal, uses this statement to describe the hollow sphere as a "giant zero" that puts every point at virtually zero distance from every other point. He joins Phil and Scott to discuss such topics as Internet celebrities, previous attempts to improve communications using technology, and how blogging forms new relationships.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Oregon State University Professors Peter Barth and Francis Chan. They discuss the use of underwater robots to study the oxygen-starved dead zones in the Pacific off the Oregon coast.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Kim Todd, who in her book "Chrysalis" recounts the tale of Maria Sibylla Merian and her documentation of the secrets of metamorphosis.
On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, learn about the new Darwin exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, what it's like to be a Disneyland Imagineer flying over California, the changing face of American R&D and how one entrepreneur is leading the development of IT in Ghana.
When we think about the interaction of speech and technology, many of us tend to focus on speech recognition. But computational speech scientist Kevin Lenzo is adamant that text-to-speech is actually the key speech technology. In this quick-fire overview of the current and potential applications of text-to-speech, Lenzo presents convincing evidence for his position.
IEEE Spectrum's Susan Hassler speaks with Science & Society Radio host Dr. David Lemberg. They talk about how Science & Society began interviewing members of and the trends within the scientific community. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, learn about Dr. Lemberg's many guests and the wide range in topics they discuss - from breakthroughs in particle physics to green chemistry.
Dr. Pauline Mele, a soil microbiologist, tells Dr. Moira Gunn what is so interesting about dirt. On the Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan reviews the greatest science books of all time.
