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Up next, a psychiatrist examines marijuana, though she doesn't like to call it marijuana. We'll find out why because next month, voters in four states will be deciding on whether to loosen laws regulating marijuana, even though federal laws still say it's an illegal drug.
'Pot Book' Explores History And Science Of Marijuana : NPR
Google Isn't The First To Dream Of Robotic Cars : NPR
A couple of weeks ago, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, took the stage at a tech conference in San Francisco, and he rolled out his vision for the future of search technology, the future of mobile computing, the future of human life, right down to the way we get around.
Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman, One Laptop per Child, co-founder and former director, MIT Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. In 1985, when high-tech computing meant a Commodore 128, Jerome Wiesner and Nicholas Negroponte formed the MIT Media Lab, the birthplace of innovations such as e-ink for digital readers and the technology behind the game Guitar Hero. Negroponte talks about the lab's past, present and future.
Celebrating The MIT Media Lab's 25th Birthday : NPR
LICHTMAN: To see immune cells in action. So researchers, Paul Kubes and some of his colleagues, from the University of Calgary, took a live mouse and they burned some of the liver cells. And it's bacteria free so this is a sterile wound.
How Do Immune Cells Find Wounds? : NPR
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A History of Space Science, In Ink : NPR
A little bit later in the program we'll be talking with a gentleman who wants your advice. He wants to know what space station - well, not space station -what space missions, all those space missions we have, what kind of space missions he should tattoo on his arms.
4-H Clubs Conduct Nationwide Science Experiments : NPR
Does Sleep (Or Lack Of It) Affect Weight Loss? : NPR
Up next this hour: weight loss and sleep. If you're trying to lose weight, you might want to start paying attention to how much you sleep because a new report this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine looks at weight loss and dieters who get different amounts of sleep. And the study followed only 10 overweight people, who were all on a calorie-restricted diet.
Let's say you're running for office and you want to smear your opponent. Where can you or one of your supporters go to spread a nasty rumor?
Tracking The 'Truthiness' Of Tweets : NPR
Take A Spin In An Electric Car : NPR
FLORA LICHTMAN : It is a special treat. I think this is the kind of treat that SCIENCE FRIDAY listeners have probably been waiting for for a long time. The pick of the week this week is you, Ira.A Fizzy Ocean May Lie Beneath Enceladus' Icy Crust : NPR
All week long, scientists have been swapping stories about our solar system, talking about the winds and sulfurous clouds on Venus, the icy volcanoes and dunes on Titan, Saturn's largest moon; and debating how the planets and their moons and rings formed - still a bit of a mystery. All that took place at the American Astronomical Society's meeting out there in Pasadena, California. My next guest joins us now with a few stories from that meeting.Earlier this week, two Russian scientists working in the U.K. got the Nobel Prize call, you know, the one that usually wakes them up in the morning, with the news that they had won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on a material called graphene. It's a chicken-wire-shaped lattice of carbon atoms.
Graphene: A Sandbox For Physicists, 1 Atom Thick : NPR
Next up: What's on your plate?
Few Americans Finish Their Vegetables : NPR
Mark Twain And Science: It's Complicated : NPR
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