Log in

goodpods headphones icon

To access all our features

Open the Goodpods app
Close icon
headphones
Science Quickly

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Host Rachel Feltman, alongside leading science and tech journalists, dives into the rich world of scientific discovery in this bite-size science variety show.
profile image
profile image
profile image

3 Listeners

bookmark
Share icon

All episodes

Best episodes

Seasons

Top 10 Science Quickly Episodes

Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Science Quickly episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Science Quickly for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Science Quickly episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Science Quickly - How to Make a Mass Extinction
play

01/30/20 • 41 min

Journalist and author Peter Brannen talks about his book The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

profile image
profile image

2 Listeners

comment icon

1 Comment

1

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - Bread Science: A Yeasty Conversation
play

08/24/20 • 46 min

“Baking is applied microbiology,” according to the book Modernist Bread. During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own bread. Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs talks about Modernist Bread, for which he was a writer and editor.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

profile image

1 Listener

bookmark
plus icon
share episode

We look back at some highlights, midlights and lowlights of the history of Scientific American, featuring former editor in chief John Rennie. Astrophysicist Alan Guth also appears in a sponsored segment.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

profile image

1 Listener

comment icon

1 Comment

1

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - Shakespeare and Science, Part 1
play

08/19/14 • 33 min

Dan Falk discusses his latest book, The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Graham Farmelo is the award-winning author of the Dirac biography The Strangest Man. His latest book is Churchill’s Bomb: How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - Scientific American after Sandy
play

10/31/12 • 7 min

Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina brings us up to date on the state of our New York City-based operation after Sandy. Recorded October 31 at 2:30 P.M Eastern time

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - The Deepest Dive to Find the Secrets of the Whales
play

04/22/21 • 27 min

On Earth Day, Scientific American sits down with National Geographic underwater photographer Brian Skerry to talk about free diving with whales and filming the giant mammals within five meters or less.

“We have to get within a few meters of our subject to get good pictures,” Skerry says. “I can't use a 1,000-millimeter lens underwater. Also, the sun has to be out because I can’t light a whale underwater; they're too big.”

Skerry has been tracking whales, their hidden lives, their feeding rituals and hunting practices—strategies that differ dramatically from one whale pod to another—for nearly four decades. Both his new book Secrets of the Whales, released on April 6, and Disney+ series with the same title, a four-episode documentary that is narrated by Sigourney Weaver and premieres today, boast jaw-dropping moments.

A visual feast of magnificent scenery, the book and streaming series show humpback whales breaching the water surface to catch herring, orcas trailing ancient pathways, narwhals flicking their giant tusks to sting their prey and ghost-white beluga whales frolicking in shallow waters with their young—some of them only a few days old and still dragging around their umbilical cord.

The footage that Skerry filmed takes the audience on a tour of whale cultures across Antarctica, Norway, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Alaska and other places. It tells stories of resilience, familial bonding and intimacy, generational knowledge sharing and deadly encounters—along with rich lives and complex behaviors that are reminiscent of humans and that were sometimes captured on camera for the first time.

“If we look at the ocean, through the lens of culture, these animals are doing so many things in many ways that mirror human culture,” Skerry says.

The Disney+ series, however, doesn’t only dwell on the magic and wonder of this world. It also warns against the effects of pollution and the ongoing climate emergency on a very delicate and interconnected marine ecosystem.

Secrets of the Whales was a perfect story to showcase both aspects, Skerry says, because it lives at the confluence of cutting-edge science and conservation. “I like to say, ‘It's not a conservation story,’” he adds. “And yet it could be the most important conservation story ever because if we can see these animals through that lens of culture, it changes how we perceive nature and our relation to it.”

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - The Mind's Hidden Switches
play

11/22/11 • 29 min

Eric J. Nestler, director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, talks about his article in the December issue of Scientific American magazine on epigenetics and human behavior, called "Hidden Switches in the Mind"

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Science Quickly - The Messenger Is the Message
play

06/25/20 • 37 min

Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and psychologist Joseph Marks talk about their book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode
Scientific American editor Kate Wong talks about the recent conference of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Portland, Ore., where subjects included killer chimps, unprecedented fossil sharing among researchers and divergent hominid foot forms

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

bookmark
plus icon
share episode

Show more best episodes

Toggle view more icon

FAQ

How many episodes does Science Quickly have?

Science Quickly currently has 2296 episodes available.

What topics does Science Quickly cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts and Science.

What is the most popular episode on Science Quickly?

The episode title 'How to Make a Mass Extinction' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Science Quickly?

The average episode length on Science Quickly is 11 minutes.

How often are episodes of Science Quickly released?

Episodes of Science Quickly are typically released every 1 day, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of Science Quickly?

The first episode of Science Quickly was released on Feb 8, 2006.

Show more FAQ

Toggle view more icon

Comments