22 days ago by MiaLobel

Dedicated to my sports-crazed husband. J-E-T-S! (maybe next year) From the Distillations website: Whether it’s football season, baseball season, or basketball season, one thing is constant: a good chunk of the population has sports on the brain. On today’s episode of Distillations we explore why thi ...

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37 days ago by MiaLobel

The latest Distillations is all about the genome. This from the Distillations website: “Each of us is made of more than 20,000 genes that determine everything from our tendency towards baldness to our likelihood to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. On today’s episode of Distillations we look at how r ...

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65 days ago by Mia

On this episode of Distillations, it’s a symphony of science. First, our assistant producer Anne Fredrickson reveals one of the secrets of Stradivari violins’ phenomenal sound. Then, a profile of sound artist Susan Alexjander, who uses vibrational frequencies from the natural world – from DNA to pla ...

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79 days ago by Mia

Attention all shoppers, this episode of Distillations is all about what happens to you chemically when you hit the mall. First, producer Sheri Quinn has the story of her mom, a shopoholic. She interviewed my good friend Mauricio Delgado, a neuroscientist at Rutgers, Newark, about what happens in you ...

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93 days ago by Mia

In this latest episode of Distillations, we ask the age-old question: are we alone in the universe? First, a segment about how two famous cosmologists battled it out over the Big Bang. Then, producer Andrew Stelzer visits the SETI Institute to learn about the search for extra terrestrial life, and, ...

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106 days ago by Mia

I’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Hyde Park’s CIA since I moved to the Hudson Valley, and I finally found one. On this Halloween episode of Distillations, I learn to make candy corn with the Culinary Institute’s Peter Greweling. Plus, I find an excuse to call my friend Iris – a Dutch expat no ...

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121 days ago by Mia

My upstate NY garden is offering up the last of its bounty for the season – a few green beans, the final tomatoes, some late-season lettuces. And in this week’s episode of Distillations, we celebrate the end of the fall harvest. First, a segment on the Doomsday Vault, a safe-deposit box for plant se ...

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135 days ago by Mia

We love to talk about history on Distillations and on today’s show we go way back to the Jurassic Era. First, a look at how some recent fossilized finds have strengthened the link between birds and dinosaurs. Then, producer Lindsay Patterson talks to paleontologist Jack Horner and others about why t ...

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148 days ago by Mia

This is the fourth and final episode of Distillations’ series Our Chemical Landscape – a look at how science has shaped each of these four areas: the city, the suburb, the farm, and today, the wild. In this sound-rich show, we look at how animals use chemistry to communicate. From the Distillations ...

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162 days ago by Mia

Back in Distillations episode #88 we explored the sense of smell. In this show, we take on another sense – TASTE. First, producer Audrey Quinn examines the ubiquitous and wildly inaccurate tongue map. Then, Andrew Stelzer talks to the man who put Stevia—a sweetener 300 times sweeter than sugar—on th ...

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