New Heads For New People

This week we visit the gift shop and go down the space ice cream rabbit hole. Where did freeze-dried ice cream come from? And why do we eat it? Featuring Astronaut Foods, Smithsonian Air & Space, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.  

Fraud isn't uncommon in science. Why people fake data or specimens is a more complicated question. This week we have a story about scientific fraud as revenge.

This week, we talk with some of the artisans that help make scientific research possible.

This week: how we learned about the great Cascadia earthquake, and why we can't seem to get ready for it.

This week we take a trip to the distant, distant past. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/7/12/episode-12-best-guesses

This week we have a story by radio producer Lilly Sullivan. It's about loneliness, searching, love, and mysterious ocean sounds. Basically, it has it all! Show Notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/6/27/episode-11-the-loneliest-creature-on-earth

This week, we want you to meet someone who takes data to a very personal level. Also we talk about feelings! Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/6/13/episode-10-still-processing

We're doing something a little different this week and we're doing a follow-up to our last episode. Last episode we did a story about fossils, and asked, should you put a dollar value on them? And that was a really complicated question. We told you a story about one aspect of the debate around that question, but there were a lot of things we had to leave out that were still really interesting.

Do fossils have a value? They're valuable to scientists, and they bring people to museums. But are they worth money? That turns out to be a really big question, and this week we try to look at one way of addressing it. http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/5/16/episode-8-gray-areas

This week, Malcolm stumbles across a science paper from the 1970s about a graduate student with a really extraordinary and really specific ability. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/4/27/episode-7-dafila-and-the-swans

This week we have a story about what a lifetime of birdwatching can teach you about yourself and other people (spoiler alert: birding is not only about birds). We used clips from "Rules for the Black Birdwatcher" courtesy of BirdNote. "Rules for the Black Birdwatcher" was produced for BirdNote by Ari Daniel Shapiro, with executive producer Dominic Black, and featured J. Drew Lanham and James Wright. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/4/13/6-finding-the-sweet-spot

This week, we try to find out what it's like to learn that your house is full of insects and spiders, and we discover that this is a harder question to ask than we thought. By the way, your house is full of insects and spiders. That's just how it is. Show notes: www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/3/30/episode-5-bughouse

How do you make your sci-fi movie as realistic as possible? You hire a scientist to help you out! This week we look at what it's like to help make sure a movie is scientifically accurate, and why a movie director might want science accuracy in the first place.

Last episode we talked about how hard it can be to talk about your job as a scientist when your parents don't understand what you do. This week, we talk with Garrison Loope and his family to find out what talking about your job is like when you're a scientist from a family of scientists. http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/3/1/episode-3-loope-to-loope

Does becoming a scientist change the way you talk to your friends and family? This week, we talk with Sweta Agrawal about what being a scientist is like when your parents are not scientists. http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/2/16/8dxpxd0szp4rq4nws0rfbzip8ph99i

Imagine going into the office one day and finding out that your work has become famous overnight. It turns out it's not always as fun as it sounds. Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/2/2/episode-1-accidentally-famous

A preview of our podcast about how science and culture interact. Catch our first episode on February 3rd! Show notes: http://www.newheadsfornewpeople.com/episodes/2016/1/19/episode-1-before-and-after-1