The Sounds of Science from the National Academies
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The Sounds of Science from the National Academies
This informative and entertaining bi-weekly series of audio podcasts puts the spotlight on the high-impact work of the National Academies. Focusing on a wide range of critical issues in science, engineering, and medicine, these short 10-minute episodes are a quick and easy way to tune in to the all...
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Weight Gain During Pregnancy: How Much is Too Much?
As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has...
Breast Cancer Treatment: Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women
In this podcast the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial consequences of the cancer experience, specifi...
Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem
The ocean has absorbed a significant portion of all human-made carbon dioxide emissions. This benefits human society by moderating the rate of climate...
School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children
This podcast provides a historical overview of the emergence of school meal programs and provides recommendations to update the nutrition standard and...
The Ocean's Role in Human Health
The ocean has greater affects on human health than the average person realizes. This report brief discusses the health and medical hazards, benefits,...
Is Soccer Bad for Children's Heads?
Given the popularity of the World Cup, the Sounds of Science revisits a 2002 IOM workshop reports on head injury in young soccer players. This podcast...
Driving and the Built Environment
This podcast examines the relationship between land development patterns and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States to assess whether petro...
Reducing the Sodium Intake in the United States
Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans. Since the 1970s, an array of public health interventions and national...
Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy
Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abilit...
Hispanics in America: Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies:
Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.S. residents will be of Hispanic origin by 2025. This major demographic shift and its implicati...
Chemistry in Primetime and Online: Communicating Chemistry in Informal Environments
Why is communicating chemistry so difficult relative to other scientific disciplines? The Chemical Sciences Roundtable will hold a workshop on May 26-...
Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines
Burning coal in electric utility plants produces, in addition to power, residues that contain constituents which may be harmful to the environment. Th...
Visual Culture and Evolution: An Online Symposium
This podcast introduces the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, which organizes events and exhibitions for the public that explore...
The Sky Is Falling; The Threat of Near Earth Objects
The United States spends approximately four million dollars each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that m...
Getting Better Health Care for Your Buck
Regardless of how we decide to pay for health care, we now have the tools and knowledge necessary to improve the performance of the U.S. health care s...
Como Se Dice... Multilingual and Loving it
This podcast offers a timely look at issues that are increasingly important in an interconnected world. It discusses the importance of foreign languag...
Hidden Costs of Energy
Description: We depend heavily on energy for a variety of modern goods and services. Yet the provision and use of that energy comes with many costs to...
Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future
A mismatch between the federal government's revenues and spending, now and in the foreseeable future, requires heavy borrowing, leading to a large and...
Reaping the Benefits of attending the TRB Annual Meeting
What if you could clearly define in dollars saved, crashes averted, and better technology implemented the benefits of attending an conference. When i...
Easy as 1, 2, 3: Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood
Early childhood mathematics is vitally important for young children's present and future educational success. Unfortunately, many children's potential...
Breast Cancer Treatment: Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women
In this podcast the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial consequences of the cancer experience, specifi...
School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children
This podcast provides a historical overview of the emergence of school meal programs and provides recommendations to update the nutrition standard and...
Learning Science in Informal Environments
Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families...
Up in the Cloud: the New Age of Computing
The internet is entering a new phase that represents a fundamental shift in how computing is done. This phase, called the Cloud, is discussed by Kevi...
America's Uninsured Crisis
When policy makers and researchers consider potential solutions to the crisis of uninsurance in the United States, the question of whether health insu...
Weight Gain During Pregnancy: How Much is Too Much?
As women of childbearing age have become heavier, the trade-off between maternal and child health created by variation in gestational weight gain has...
Treating Infectious Diseases in a Microbial World
Humans coexist with millions of harmless microorganisms, but emerging diseases, resistance to antibiotics, and the threat of bioterrorism are forcing...
What Works for Health Care?
There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services....
Revolutionizing Science: Managing Research Data in the Digital Age
As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring t...
Breaking the Cycle: Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate
Everyone--government agencies, private organizations, and individuals--is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent t...
Science 2.0: Communicating Science in a Web 2.0 World
The increasing popularity of blogs, social networking sites, and twitter has created many new and interactive forums for people to communicate about s...
Aging Gracefully: Building the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America
As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefu...
Lifting the Veil: Technology, Policy, Law and the Ethics of Cyberattack
The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other natio...
BeeGone: Pollinators in Crisis
Pollinators- insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction- are an ess...
Back to the Future: The 1918 Influenza Revisited
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pand...
Breast Cancer Treatment: Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women
In this podcast the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial consequences of the cancer experience, specifi...
Examining Proceedings
PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials and has been published by the National Academies since 1914. This podcast...
Ready...Set...Science!
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, scie...
Engaging Schools
When it comes to motivating people to learn, disadvantaged urban adolescents are usually perceived as a hard sell. Yet, in a recent MetLife survey, 89...
China and India: Emerging Technological Powers
China and India, both with populations of over 1 billion, are drawing increasing attention from the United States. Their growing populations and inte...