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The New York Academy of Sciences — 256 episodes

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Women Who Code | A Catalyst for Innovation: Philanthropy in Science and Tech

2

Ethics In Pediatric Research

3

The Intersection of Conflicts of Interest and Healthcare

4

Big Data: Balancing Privacy and Innovation

5

Finding Better Treatments for Children with Cancer

6

Discovering New Liver Disease Treatments

7

Deciphering ZIKA

8

Proof of Concept Centers: Changing Weather

9

Inspiring Stories from the Future of STEM

10

Rethinking Climate Change

11

Proof of Concept Centers: Small Materials Solving Big Problems

12

Reevaluating Clinical Trial Design

13

Proof of Concept Centers: Tackling Industrial Waste

14

Working Together for People, Planet, and Prosperity

15

Proof of Concept Centers: Meeting the Market

16

Finding the Nutritional Key to Longevity

17

A Cross-Fertilization of Ideas: 200 Years of the New York Academy of Sciences

18

The Face of Science: Mentors and Connections

19

A Quantum State of Mind

20

The Face of Science: Teaching Teachers

21

Are We Alone in the Universe?

22

The Face of Science: Myths and Misconceptions

23

The Rise of Human Consciousness

24

Proof of Concept Centers: From Proof to Product

25

The Emerging Science of Complexity

26

Understanding the Biological Basis of Pediatric Cancer

27

Where Physics and Philosophy Intersect

28

Bioethics Meets R&D: The Ethics of Pre-approval Access

29

Is There a Limit to Human Knowledge?

30

Little Beans, Big Opportunities

31

Building an Evidence Base for Effective Obesity Policy

32

Improving Clinical Trials through Mobile Technology

33

Proof of Concept Centers: Energy Technology

34

Bringing It All Together: A Systems Approach to Nutrition

35

Can We Prevent Dementia Through Our Diet?

36

Dementia Decoded: Moving Forward

37

Dementia Decoded: Fighting Forgetting

38

Dementia Decoded: Decisions, Negotiations, and Choices

39

Dementia Decoded: Plaques and Tangles

40

Dementia Decoded: A Special Illness

41

Curing Human Diseases: Targeting the Lysosome

42

Food as Medicine: Nutrition and Global Health

43

Micronutrients: Supplementation, Fortification, and Beyond

44

Clean Energy Inspired by Nature: Artificial Leaves

45

Making Connections with Conservation Biology

46

Fighting Food Waste with Creativity

47

Bronx River Alliance: Restoring Nature in the City

48

The Synapse Project: Inspiring the Future of Neuroscience

49

Alzheimer's Disease: Prospects for a Cure

50

Nutrition and Early Childhood Development

51

The Problem with Protein

52

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Activating the Agenda

53

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Mobilizing the Community

54

A Research Agenda for Nutrition Science: Why and How?

55

Engineering Sustainable Futures

56

Wizard and Orc Debate Climate Science and Middle Earth Warming

57

Hats Off to Bacteria!

58

Your Brain: The Final Frontier

59

Can We Feed the Planet?

60

Making (and Learning) History!

61

The Science of Moral Decisions

62

Art and Evidence: Scientific Images

63

Greed: Hormones and Moral Behavior

64

A Thought for Food: Eating Animals

65

A Thought for Food: The Best Thing Ever

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A Thought for Food: Veg Everlasting

67

A Thought for Food: Bad Milk Gone Good

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A Thought for Food: Going to Seed

69

A Thought for Food: Meet the Meat

70

Prioritizing Health Disparities in Medical Education to Improve Care

71

Envy: The Cutthroat Side of Science

72

Neuroscience, Prediction, and Law

73

Diagnosing Urban Design

74

Digital Healthcare Technology Part 2: Take One App a Day with Food

75

Digital Healthcare Technology Part 1: Virtual Patients, AI Doctors, and Beyond

76

Medicine’s Missing Half: How Withholding Clinical Trials Degrades the Evidence Base

77

Lab Bench Meets Federal Bench: The Supreme Court and Stem Cell Research

78

Dinosaur Sex!

79

The Science of Sleep and Dreams

80

Prideful Predictions?

81

Wrath Goes Viral: Part 2

82

Wrath Goes Viral: Part 1

83

Dustyn's Robots

84

Fractals: Art, Science, Math and Culture

85

Learning By Play

86

A Thought for Food: How Do We Know What We Know?

87

A Thought for Food: Rock Steady

88

The Science of Local Food

89

A Thought for Food: Sugar in the Morning...

90

Getting Behind the Resveratrol Hype

91

A Thought for Food: Fat Lot of Good

92

A Thought for Food: Fire in Your Belly

93

The Mighty Oysters of New York Harbor

94

Junior Roboticists Take on a Food Challenge

95

Unraveling the Obesity-Cancer Connection

96

Science Stories Ep. 2: Trials & Terrors of High School Bio

97

Science Stories Ep. 1: Have Lobster, Will Travel

98

A Thought for Food: Tiny Amounts

99

A Thought for Food: My Dinner with My Dinner

100

Matchmaking in the Digital Age

101

Virtual Humanity - Part 2

102

Virtual Humanity - Part 1

103

What Your Brain Can Tell You About Learning

104

Now Screening: Life in the Lab

105

Micronutrients Without Borders

106

Healthy Hearts: Fighting an Epidemic

107

Experimenting with Summer Science Ed

108

Exploring the Universe with Brian Cox

109

The Sustainable City: Farming Upwards

110

An Alternative Fuel Future?

111

Improv for Scientists

112

On the Cutting Edge of Autism Research

113

Behind the Scenes with Cancer's Biographer

114

The Diabetes-Gum Disease Connection

115

The Sci/Tech Kitchen

116

Tales from the Brain

117

Are You What You Eat?

118

Your Brain, Now in Technicolor

119

This is Your Brain on Tech

120

Science as a Modern Creation Story

121

What's So Personal about Personalized Medicine?

122

What Makes Us Wise?

123

Better Brains

124

How Prosperity Evolves

125

Oxidative Stress

126

Moon, Mars, and Beyond

127

What's that Smell?

128

The Secret Lives of Bees

129

Between Earth and Sky

130

What Time Is It?

131

Why Him, Why Her?

132

How the Universe Got Its Spots

133

Adventures in Taxidermy

134

Why Humans Have Sex

135

Does Chaos Have Meaning?

136

Adventures with Sea Monsters

137

More than a Yogurt Cup

138

Go Green Ideas

139

Hypermusic: Ascension

140

Meditating Health

141

Where the Grizzly Bears Go

142

What to Eat

143

Extreme Fear

144

Circadian Science

145

Advances in Autism

146

ADHD and the Brain

147

The Silk Road

148

Feeling the Light

149

The Science of Love and Whom We Choose

150

The Science of Sushi

151

No Small Matter

152

150 Years of the Origin of Species

153

Climate Change in the City

154

Great Science Reads

155

The Man behind the Dioramas

156

MIT's Math Maze

157

Antioxidant Science

158

Extreme Mammals

159

The Greatest Show on Earth

160

Looking for the Key in P53

161

Around the Americas

162

The End of Aging

163

Diabetes Epidemic?

164

The New Executive Brain

165

Metal Origami

166

The Tangled Bank

167

Twisted Molecules

168

The Buzz About Bees

169

DNA Barcoding Plants

170

Rocket Park

171

Greening Columbia

172

Cryogen-etics

173

Seismic Climate Change

174

Painting the Genome

175

From Animal to Person

176

Bridging Science and the Humanities

177

The ScentOpera

178

The Science of H1N1

179

Inventing Scientists

180

Go Fly a Kite

181

Taking Science to Congress

182

The Sweetest Sounds: What is Music to Your Ears?

183

The Circuits of Life's Program

184

Go Green Solutions

185

Back Me Up

186

Teaching Robots to See

187

Our Toxic World?

188

From Planets to Plutoids

189

Naturally Obsessed

190

Forget Me Not

191

The Psychobiology of Genocide

192

Gold Medal Glory

193

Test Your Tongue: The Science of Taste

194

An AMNH PhD?

195

Getting Cellular

196

Egg and Nest

197

See What You've Been Missing

198

Playing Science

199

A Pianocktail, Anyone?

200

Carl Sagan's Search for God

201

Gifting Science

202

The Science of Smell

203

Genes and Jazz

204

Science and Innovation Week: Innovation Models

205

Science and Innovation Week: Green Science

206

Science and Innovation Week: Education and Universities

207

Science and Innovation Week: Health and Medicine

208

Fearful Brains in an Anxious World

209

Our Brain, the Kluge

210

Hooked on a Feeling: The Science of Touch

211

Paraphilias: Does Sex Need Science?

212

Science in Fiction on the Big Screen

213

The Science of Getting a Grip

214

The Neuroscience of Elections

215

The Time Paradox

216

The LHC: Physics' New Golden Age

217

New York's Paper Solutions

218

Bat-tastic

219

Ferocious Beauty: Genome

220

Fuel Cell Future

221

The Sex Lives of Animals

222

Back to Black

223

Conserving Madagascar

224

What the Nose Knows

225

One Bryant Park

226

The Science Barge

227

Experimental Cuisine Collective

228

Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation

229

Buckminster Fuller

230

Science in the Middle East

231

The Elegant Universe

232

Project Walkway

233

Mixing Science and Policy

234

The Science of Scotch

235

The Science of Champagne

236

Sundance-Sloan Film Awards

237

Food Foraging in Central Park

238

Distortions of Memory

239

Physics of the Impossible

240

Future of the Stockmarket

241

The Origin of Brain Degenerative Disorders

242

Your Inner Fish

243

The Rapidly Changing Climate System

244

The Neuroscience of Fair Play

245

Biology of Freedom

246

Science of Chocolate

247

A Life Decoded

248

Fueling the Car of the Future

249

Unbowed

250

Perception through the Five Senses

251

The Mind of the Market

252

Childhood Depression

253

Life in the Valley of Death

254

The Science of Coffee

255

Blame It on My Genes! Behavioral Genetics and the Causes of Crime

256

Father of String Theory Muses on the Megaverse