106 episodes

Will today's sci-fi fantasies become tomorrow’s science realities? Top working scientists review popular movies, resulting in lively and informative conversations about what science is happening now, what science is heading towards us in the future, and what’s just fun fiction. Faith Salie is a television and national public radio host, political and pop culture commentator, interviewer, journalist, and actor.

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Will today's sci-fi fantasies become tomorrow’s science realities? Top working scientists review popular movies, resulting in lively and informative conversations about what science is happening now, what science is heading towards us in the future, and what’s just fun fiction. Faith Salie is a television and national public radio host, political and pop culture commentator, interviewer, journalist, and actor.

    • video
    Can Star Trek's "Enterprise" Really Hide in a Brown Dwarf?

    Can Star Trek's "Enterprise" Really Hide in a Brown Dwarf?

    Lisa Beth Kovetz & Emily Rice of CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College dig into black holes, brown dwarfs and Star Trek’s “Strange New Worlds!”

    • 26 min
    • video
    Infotainment and The Weather

    Infotainment and The Weather

    In the climate-change allegory, “Don’t Look Up” the media failed to report the reality of an oncoming comet. Are we doing the same with our ever wilder weather? CUNY’s Prof. Jimmy Booth; CUNY Alums Dr. Veeshan Narinesingh and Joe Rao weigh in.

    • 26 min
    • video
    Kingsborough ChefMark D'Alessandro Discusses The Bear

    Kingsborough ChefMark D'Alessandro Discusses The Bear

    Prof. and Chef, Mark D’Alessando, Dir. of Culinary Arts, at CUNY’s Kingsborough Community College joins us to talk about Hulu’s “The Bear,” why the science of baking can become so obsessive, and why community colleges have the best culinary arts degree.

    • 26 min
    • video
    The Intelligent Empathy of Dolphins with Prof. Diana Reiss

    The Intelligent Empathy of Dolphins with Prof. Diana Reiss

    Dolphins are often as creative and personable in real life as they are on the screen. Author and Prof. Diana Reiss Director of the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at CUNY’s own Hunter College joins us to explain why

    • 26 min
    • video
    "The Gilded Age" and Archeological Discoveries in NYC"

    "The Gilded Age" and Archeological Discoveries in NYC"

    HBO's "The Guided Age" details NYC's antique, ultra-rich, without giving much thought to the city that made it possible. Joining us to talk about what lies under our city, is triple CUNY alumna Alyssa Loorya of Chrysalis Archaeological Consultants.

    • 26 min
    • video
    Gifted Children and other Superheroes

    Gifted Children and other Superheroes

    Author and UConn Prof. Betsy McCoach joins us in a discussion about "Raising Dion" and gifted children.

    • 26 min

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