This week on The Monitor: This week: Rounding up of the best stories from the AAAS annual meeting, questioning social networks, and an open call to viewers-- help us rename this show!

No, really. "The Monitor" needs a new name—preferably one that actually shows up in a Google search. Send your ideas to help.SciAm@gmail.com!

 Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez

Episode 1: Facebook Sociology and Dog Bark Translations (1/24/2008)
Episode 2: Free Will, Death, Brains (2/6/2008)
Episode 3: Malaria, Physicists, Video Game Science, Cousin Love (2/13/2008)
Episode 4: Dinosaurs, Hot or Not Psychology, Ocean Temperatures and Virtual Surgery (2/19/2008)

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8 Comments

1. 1. bowdentj 02:00 AM 2/27/08

   How about calling your show "agnosology" That will get you a place in Google.

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2. 2. klc613 04:56 PM 2/27/08

   how about Pronto Science?
   meaning quick science news site.

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3. 3. Christie Nicholson 08:48 PM 2/27/08

   Great ideas, thank you....please keep em coming!
   
   - christie

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4. 4. TTminx 02:58 AM 2/28/08

   -The Empiricist-
   
   ...Not to be confused with the 2003 movie about 'the relationship between a second year resident and his hospital librarian fiancée that begins to unravel as he becomes engrossed in a theory the rules of medicine he has being taught do not restore ill people to wellbeing'....but there could be a sequel you'd have to compete against.

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5. 5. Vanamonde 10:15 AM 3/2/08

   I wish I could read it. Damn, video is no substitute for journalism!

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6. 6. David Kohn 08:51 AM 3/5/08

   Please have the girl speak more slowly, and have the man speak the last word in each paragraph instead of swallowing it.

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7. 7. Christie Nicholson 03:32 PM 3/5/08

   David...thank you for your comment -- I'll talk with John about clearer enunciation and slower speech (I work on that in my weekly podcast, [url http://www.sciam.com/podcast/podcasts.cfm?type=60-second-psych]60 Second Psych[/url], let me know if that pace is more clear.)
   
   @ Vanamonde....I commiserate with you on the fact that video is no substitute for print. It absolutely isn't...but it can be a complement to print (a sidebar to a print piece, for instance) - and like it or not, it doesn't appear to be slowing down - only growing in the world of the new, new media.
   
   As for reading - definitely check out our [url http://www.sciam.com/search/index.cfm?q=news+bytes&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=submit]News Bytes[/url] which publishes online every Friday. It's like an extended "Monitor" in print. (and i'll ask the exec producer if we can publish the scripts to go along with the Monitor.)
   
   Thanks again for all your input -- any ideas for a new name, please send those in too -- we will feature you on the show if we use your idea!

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8. 8. Katch1 04:37 AM 4/4/08

   "lots of fun, keep em comming" now... hmmm... "Knowledge is the seed of an idea, water it and it will grow." Call you your show: "The Seed"

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