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Local Doctors Lobbying for Proton Radiation Treatment Center
November 25, 2009
Some of the region’s top hospitals are hoping to bring the first proton radiation treatment center to the area. The tiny particles are uniquely effective in treating certain malignant tumors withou....
Nuclear Plant Clears One Hurdle, Groups Say Not Enough
August 12, 2009
Indian Point nuclear plant has passed a major test. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its final safety report today. It found owner Entergy can safely manage Indian Point 2 and 3 as they age o....
Supreme Court Rules Cost Issue in Plant Upgrade
April 01, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the government may consider cost when deciding if Indian Point and other nuclear power plants must upgrade. Alex Matthiessen is president of Riverkeeper - among ....
How To Cure What Ails You
Radiolab
December 05, 2008
Now that we have the ability to see inside the brain without opening anyone's skull, we'll be able to map and define brain activity and peg it to behavior and feelings. Right? Well, maybe not, or maybe not just yet. It seems the workings of our brains are rather too complex and diverse across individuals to really say for certain what a brain scan says about a person. But Nobel prize winner Eric Kandel and researcher Cynthia Fu tell us about groundbreaking work in the field of depression that just may help us toward better diagnosis and treatment.
Anything that helps us treat a disease better is welcome. Doctors have been led astray before by misunderstanding a disease and what makes it better. Neurologist Robert Sapolsky tells us about the turn of the last century, when doctors discovered that babies who died inexplicably in their sleep had thymus glands that seemed far too large. Blasting them with radiation shrank them effectively, and so was administered to perfectly healthy children to prevent this sudden infant death syndrome...
From the Archives: "Oppenheimer" (Originally Aired 10/7/05)
The Fishko Files
October 03, 2008
When this Fishko Files first aired in October 2005, a new opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars about building the atomic bomb was having its first performances at the San Francisco Opera. The "Dr. Atomic" of its title is the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and, as Sara Fishko tells us, Oppenheimer’s rise and fall has been the stuff of dramas of ALL kinds. How do we see him, more than six decades after the bomb was built? Here is an encore podcast of The Fishko Files...
Janna Levin
Studio 360
September 19, 2008
Kurt checks in with a Columbia University physicist (and novelist) who’s anxiously awaiting the LHC’s first particle collisions. Janna Levin is the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. (Originally aired: May 28, 2008)
What's Reality?
The Leonard Lopate Show
September 15, 2008
Find out how our understanding of the nature of reality has changed radically over the past 25 years. Leonard talks to physicist
Event: Frank Wilczek will be speaking Monday, September 15 at 6:30 PM New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center, 40th Floor 250 Greenwich Street at Barclay Street
Icarus Revisited
The Leonard Lopate Show
September 15, 2008
In his new book,
Event:
Brian Greene will be speaking and signing books
Monday, September 15 at 7:00 p.m.
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street
