Episode 2: Old Oil Spills
In today's episode, Dr. Christopher Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution talks to Adam about old oil spills. The news media may move on from disasters like the Exxon Valdez incident after a few months, but the ecological consequences don't disappear quite as quickly. Join Adam as he learns how old oil spills still have a significant impact on marine and coastal life even decades after their obvious effects have faded.
In today's episode, Dr. Christopher Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution talks to Adam about old oil spills. The news media may move on from disasters like the Exxon Valdez incident after a few months, but the ecological consequences don't disappear quite as quickly. Join Adam as he learns how old oil spills still have a significant impact on marine and coastal life even decades after their obvious effects have faded.
Episode 1: The Mona Lisa's Smile
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Simply Science. Please join us every week as Adam Weiss interviews leading scientists and asks them to explain phenomena of science in brief, visual ways. In this episode, Dr. Margaret Livingstone of the Livingstone lab at Harvard teaches Adam why Leonardo da Vinci may have been an early filmmaker. Join Adam as he discovers how counter-intuitive decisions that Leonardo made when painting the Mona Lisa interact with the structure of the human eye to create a sense of living motion in Old Master paintings. [4m 30s]
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