Sci Fri: The Cheese Chronicles

How is cheese made? Liz Thorpe, cheese expert and author of The Cheese Chronicles, dishes on the business and science of cheesemaking in the U.S. Thorpe says chemistry can explain what makes stilton stinky and goat cheese gooey.

DR Show: State Laws On Abortion

The Texas legislature is moving swiftly on a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks and impose new and costly rules on clinics performing the procedures. Yesterday, thousands rallied outside the Texas capital in protest. Last week, Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis blocked the initial effort to pass the bill with a marathon filibuster that garnered national attention. But Texas is clearly on course to join a number of states which have passed legislation reducing women’s access to abortion and reproductive health services.

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Game of Owns: Hodor and Friends

Game of Owns takes a break from its read-through of A Clash of Kings to welcome a special guest to the podcast… Kristian Nairn! Listen in as Kristian talks season 3, the books, and conventions… and there might even be a few season 4 teases sprinkled in there. Hodor!

The Power of Magnetism

This month we go down to atomic scales and investigate the properties of magnetism. We investigate the different forms of magnet and magnetic materials to see how they work, what applications they have, how they can increase our understanding of phenomena such as superconductors and how properties can be made to change in a class of materials known as multiferroics!

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IQ2US: Cutting the Pentagon's Budget is a Gift To Our Enemies

Political gridlock in Washington triggered across-the-board spending cuts, known as the sequester, in March. As a result, the Pentagon was given six months to eliminate $41 billion from the current year’s budget, and unlike past cuts, this time everything is on the table. In 2011, America spent $711 billion dollars on its defense—more than the next 13 highest spending countries combined. But the burdens it shoulders, both at home and abroad, are unprecedented. Could the sequester be a rare opportunity to overhaul the armed forces, or will its impact damage military readiness and endanger national security?