In The Moment... February 7, 2017 Show 025 Hour 1
Award-winning scientist and scholar Professor William Bialek visits students at the University of South Dakota tonight. He also gives a free public lecture at 4 p.m. in the Akeley-Lawrence Science Center. Bialek is the John Archibald Wheller/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University. We talk about what we know about how the brain works, the value of cross-discipline learning, and what the world needs from its young scholars in order to push science and thinking to the next level. Professor Bialek was brought to the University of South Dakota by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program.
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SDPB political reporter Lee Strubinger joins us to talk about the latest procedural developments regarding IM22. We’ll talk about the application of rules, cries about conflict of interest, and what happens next in this controversial conversation about ethics in politics.
- This segment starts at 22:37.
SDPB contributor Hugh Weber introduces us to podcaster Sarah Werner. We talk about writing, about creating compelling audio stories, and about the official launch of The Potluck Society podcast this week.
- This segment starts at 31:15.
