Johanna Mayer appears in the following:
Science Diction Digs Into Food
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Over the next few weeks, we'll investigate the science, language, and history of food.
Quarantine
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Quarantine is on all our minds lately. But the word goes all the way back to the time of the Black Death.
SciFri Extra: Science Diction On The Word 'Quarantine'
Tuesday, April 07, 2020
Quarantine is on all our minds lately. But the word goes all the way back to the time of the Black Death.
SciFri Extra: Science Diction On The Word 'Cobalt'
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
‘Cobalt’ takes its name from a pesky goblin—and mischief is baked into its name.
SciFri Extra: Science Diction On The Word 'Dinosaur'
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The origin of the word ‘dinosaur,’ and the story of its self-sabotaging inventor.
SciFri Extra: Science Diction On The Word 'Vaccine'
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
The origin of the word ‘vaccine’ stretches back to a disease, a test subject, and… a cow.
SciFri Extra: Science Diction On The Word 'Meme'
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The word ‘meme’ has more to do with evolutionary biology than the internet.
Cobalt
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
‘Cobalt’ takes its name from a pesky goblin—and mischief is baked into its name.
Meme
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The word ‘meme’ has more to do with evolutionary biology than the internet.
Vaccine
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The origin of the word ‘vaccine’ stretches back to a disease, a test subject, and… a cow.
Dinosaur
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The origin of the word ‘dinosaur,’ and the story of its self-sabotaging inventor.
PFAS, Urban Evolution, Science Diction
Friday, July 27, 2018
Just how and why do city mice and country mice diverge? It’s urban evolution in action. Plus, how biologists turn birds into data in the streets of New York City.
Transcript: Glenn Greenwald's Takeaway
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
The Takeaway's Host John Hockenberry talked with Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who worked with leaker Edward Snowden to reveal the cache of classified NSA documents. Being involved ...
Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Is Not Safer Since 9/11
Monday, December 16, 2013
“I think what we did made the threat much, much worse, and at the same time, destroyed many of the freedoms that we’ve all been taught define what the United States is all about,” say...
