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Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future – or the past?

Bestselling novelist Iain Pears discusses his new work ARCADIA, to be read as an app, written using specially-commissioned software and developed for readers by Touchpress and Faber, the partners behind multi-award-winning apps including The Waste Land and Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad. It will be released as a free app with in-app purchase on the App Store for iPhone and iPad at the end of August, prior to the novel’s UK hardback publication on 3 September 2015. 

www.appstore.com/arcadiabyiainpears

Faber Podcast -  Arcadia by Iain Pears

A conversation exploring the implications of trans identities for religious faith with Christina Beardsley, an Anglican hospital chaplain, Surat-Shaan Knan, founder Twighlight People, and chaired by Duncan Dormor, St John’s College. 

Rebellious bodies, faithful minds? Religion and gender identity

Comic Book Club comes live from Justin&#8217;s apartment, for a very special episode! Check out the website at comicbookclublive.com to find out how to watch the show live! And follow the show on Twitter: @comicbooklive, @azalben, @jtsizzle, and @realpetelepage.

Comic Book Club: Live From Justin’s Apartment

Two weeks ago, Science Friday’s Science Club challenged listeners to invent and build a device that could get a message from one place to another. We ruled out using walkie-talkies or cell phone text messages, but left most of the other options wide open. This week, club founders Ariel Zych and Charles Bergquist meet with Ira Flatow to share some of your solutions, and educator Karen Haddas describes some of the innovative messaging methods developed by her fourth grade students in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

How YOU Solved the Science Club Message Challenge

The World Health Organization launched its first World Antibiotic Awareness Week this past Monday. (The campaign runs until November 22, 2015.) The idea behind the initiative is to help the general public, as well as health workers and government agencies, understand how to prevent “the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.” But do people even understand what “antibiotic resistance” is in the first place? Science writer Ed Yong explores this very question in a recent article for The Atlantic. Examining a report from The Wellcome Trust—a foundation in London—he describes how most people interviewed did not know what the term “antimicrobial resistance” means (one respondent said, “I need a dictionary for that”). And even worse, they fundamentally misunderstood that the bacteria—not their own bodies—are what develop resistance to a given drug. Yong discusses these findings and how to improve the way we talk about antibiotics. He also shares other selected short subjects in science, including how common insecticides may be turning bees into bad pollinators.

Plus, if you played with Barbies growing up, did you ever chat with or confide in your plastic, smiling pal, wishing she could talk back? If so, Mattel’s recently released Hello Barbie (developed in conjunction with the company ToyTalk) is an answer to that childhood wish. The Wi-Fi enabled doll is programmed with 8,000 lines of dialogue, including positive statements about science (“The study of physics is incredible,” she exclaims). But its ability to record conversations is raising concerns about privacy, among other things. James Vlahos, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine who took an in-depth look at this artificially intelligent toy, joins Ira Flatow to discuss the good and bad of conversing with Barbara Millicent Roberts.

News Round-Up: Antibiotic Awareness, Bee Blunders, and Barbie Becomes a ‘Chatty Cathy’

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Science News for Students talks to researchers who study nutrition and diet about their careers.

Cool Jobs: Counting calories

Scientists who study nutrition describe when they knew they had found the right career

Nutrition scientists describe how they got interested in their field of research

Scientist Say: Continent

Scientists Say: Chromosome

Scientists Say: Aufeis

Science, technology, and other cool stuff from public radio's Science Friday. It's brain fun, for curious people. From WNYC Studios.

How YOU Solved the Science Club Message Challenge

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