Clever Apes, a science series that airs on the Chicago public radio station WBEZ, won the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the Radio category. Gabriel Spitzer, host and founder of the show, created the WBEZ science beat, and works with producer Michael De Bonis on the bimonthly segment. In this TON podcast, Spitzer [...]
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Gabriel Spitzer explores the Chicago science scene
Posted by Cynthia Graber on February 15th, 2012
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews 
Tags: Clever Apes, Graber, Guest Contributor, Kavli Awards, Podcast, Spitzer, Writer Interview 
No Comments »Seeking to awe: An “Oops!” story
Posted by Robert Frederick and Corinna Wu on February 1st, 2012
When hundreds of snow geese landed in and subsequently died from Berkeley Pit’s toxic water, some of the microbes the geese carried found a home in the Butte, Montana lake and started soaking up the lake’s toxins. Bioremediation, however, isn’t the subject of Radiolab senior producer Soren Wheeler’s story, “Even the worst laid plans?” Instead, [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Environment, Frederick, Guest Contributor, Podcast, Radiolab, Wheeler, Writer Interview, Wu 2 Comments »Holly Tucker animates a centuries-old science story
Posted by Cynthia Graber on September 26th, 2011
In her new book Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, historian Holly Tucker weaves a tale of the first blood transfusion experiments (at the time, such transfusions were all animal-to-human) during the mid-17th century, about 150 years before blood transfusion began to enter modern medicine in earnest. Tucker delves into [...]
