The following is an excerpt from Brain Storms, by Jon Palfreman. Listen to SciFri on September 18, 2015, to hear Palfreman talk more about Parkinson’s disease. There are no portraits or engravings of James Parkinson,* just a commemorative stone tablet in St. Leonard’s church, Shoreditch, the East London parish where he was born, lived, and […]
The following is excerpted from The Cost of Cutting, by Paul Ruggieri. Tune in to Science Friday on September 19, 2014 to hear Ruggieri dissect the politics and money behind healthcare. The woman seated on the exam table was lean and fit and seemed to be enjoying perusing one of the magazines from our slightly […]
Tune in to SciFri on August 29, 2014 for an hour-long chat about the science of the silver screen. Moviegoers might identify psychopaths on the big screen by their murderous blood lust and disregard for human life—think Michael Myers in Halloween. Such portrayals hardly paint an accurate picture, however. In reality, psychopathy is more complex, […]
Tune in to SciFri on Friday, May 23, to hear author Martin Blaser chat about his new book. I never knew two of my father’s sisters. In the little town where they were born, early in the last century, they didn’t see their second birthdays. They had high fevers, and I am not sure what else. The situation […]
When Kevin Mackenzie passed a small kidney stone six years ago, it didn’t look like much—certainly not what he envisioned as the culprit behind all his agony. But as manager of the microscopy facility at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, he has a knack for shining new light on objects. “At life size, [the […]