Underreported: Popular Science

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Professor Frank N. von Hippel, co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton, on what happens when the media chooses not to cover important science issues. He is joined by Steven Pinker, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

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