Sam Flatow is a former production assistant for Science Friday.
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A Web of Doubt
Author Charles Seife spots the falsehoods and fakes that make their way onto the information super highway.
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Robot Builders with Bugs for Brains
The bugs meet the bots in the world of swarm robotics.
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Radio Rewind: Leon Lederman
Physicist Leon Lederman discusses the Standard Model versus a Unified Theory of particle physics.
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SciFri Snapshot: Monty Hall
The Monty Hall Problem: using probability to win a car…or a goat.
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Turning Girl Scout Cookies Into Graphene
Scientists have transformed baked goods into graphene, worth two million times the price of gold.
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A Spider Charade
The octopus may be the king of camouflage, but if there’s an animal whose name is synonymous with deception, it’s the spider.
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A View from the Flip Side
Ten days is all it takes your brain to right a world that looks upside down.
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Learning From the Things That Annoy Us
Why you have to overcome irritation in order to examine it.
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The Importance of Strange Science
Science doesn’t have to be serious—you can always learn from it.