Posted on March 15th, 2010 by SETI
Physics Phrontiers
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Physics means getting physical if you’re tackling the biggest, most mysterious questions in the universe. Stoic scientists endure the driest, darkest, coldest spots on the planet to find out how it all began and why there’s something rather than nothing. From the bottom of an old iron mine to the top of the Andes, we’ll hear their stories.
Plus, Steven Weinberg on this weird stuff called dark energy, and Leonard Susskind sees double, no, triple, no, …infinite universes.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by bmhost
In this episode, the Ordinary Guy talks to Evan Bittner from the University of Melbourne in Brains Matter’s continuing series on Asian Elephants. Evan discusses:
- Elephants and infrasound communications
- Determining how to measure elephant reactions to elephant vocalisations
- What are the meanings of some of the elephant behaviours we observe?
- The follow up experiment to Roger Short’s observation on Asian elephant vocalisations being played to African elephants – this time, African elephant vocalisations played to Asian elephants
- What further research can be done in this area?
- Do elephants really have a good memory?
- How do elephants recognise each other through sound?
- How far can elephants typically communicate?
- What is being done in elephant conservation work?
- What are some of the reasons causing the drop in elephant numbers? Why are they becoming endangered?
- Some of the work Evan has done in Laos
- The new elephant conservation charity, “Never Forget Elephants” that has been set up, and what it aims to do
- Some techniques to ensure that rainforests are conserved
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Brains Matter is a podcast out of Australia, which features stories on science, curiosities and general knowledge. It also features interviews with various experts in science and other interesting areas.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by podmedic
The Nursing Show
In this interview episode with army nurse Lydia Cristobal, nurses, nursing students and those thinking of shifting their careers to nursing, will have an overview of a different nursing field as host Jamie Davis explores a branch of nursing career, Army Nursing. Learn more on army nurses’ scope of practice, the benefits army nurses receive, as well as the downside of army nursing. The show also provides relevant news for nurses and links for more information on this week’s feature.
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Posted on March 15th, 2010 by podmedic
The MedicCast
In this week’s episode of the MedicCast, the podmedic features last Tuesday’s live episode where he is joined by guests Angel Burba of Howard Community College and former president of NAEMSE (National Association of EMS Educators), EMS podcaster and blogger Chris Montera of the EMS Garage, Scott of the GenMed show, and EMS Educator Kyle David Bates.
Listen in on their discussion on professional organizations for EMS, what they do, the importance of provider memberships, what members get from joining these organizations and more.
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Posted on March 14th, 2010 by VRacaniello
Vincent, Dickson, and Rich discuss multipotent progenitor bone marrow cells as a reservoir of HIV-1, integration of HHV-6 into telomeres, and dispersal of West Nile virus across the US by mosquitoes.
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Weekly Science Picks
Dickson Whole-Genome Sequencing in a Patient with Charcot–Marie–Tooth Neuropathy (NEJM and NY Times)
Rich Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen Hall
Vincent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections – videocasts
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by AmSocMicrobiology
From the flu to HIV, RNA viruses challenge our immune systems like no other infectious agent on the planet. RNA viruses provide unique insights into the patterns and processes of evolutionary change in real time. The study of viral evolution is especially topical given the growing awareness that emerging and re-emerging diseases (most of which are caused by RNA viruses) represent a major threat to public health. How do RNA viruses adapt and change, and how do our bodies respond? Why are diseases like HIV so difficult to predict and contain?
In episode 35 of MicrobeWorld Video, Eddie Holmes, professor in Biology at Pennsylvania State University leads a discussion before a live audience at Busboys & Poets in Washington, D.C. on the genetics and evolution of RNA viruses and how we can combat them.
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Posted on March 12th, 2010 by AmSocMicrobiology
Y ahora disponible Mundo de los Microbios Podcast Ep. 44. Escucha http://bit.ly/microbios44 o subscríbete con iTunes http://bit.ly/nDFjTA. Los temas que vamos a tratar esta semana son: la salud del coral, censo de los microbios marinos, la gripe que viene del hielo, y microbios del infierno.
La salud del coral
Los científicos calculan que, debido a la contaminación producida por factores que van desde los residuos tóxicos y las bacterias patógenas hasta los barcos embarrancados y los proyectos urbanísticos en primera línea de mar, para el año 2030 el sesenta por ciento del coral del mundo habrá desaparecido. Pero si usted es un ávido submarinista o buceador, puede ayudar de manera muy sencilla a que esto no ocurra. Read more »
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by OmegaTau
This episode covers neutron science at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble. Helmut Schober and Ulli Köster cover what neutron science is used for, some interesting scientific experiments conducted at ILL as well as the physical fundamentals and the workings of the reactor and the detectors. We conclude the epsiode with a discussion of the ILL as a “research service facility” that offers all-around research support to visiting scientists.
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Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Ginger Campbell
The free podcast version of Brain Science Podcast 67 is now available. It is an interview with German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self and Being No One. Dr. Metzinger argues that any credible model for how the brain generates the mind must incorporate unusual human experiences, such as so-called out of body experiences (OBE), and psychiatric conditions. In this interview we explore how OBE and virtual reality experiments shed light on how the brain generates the sense of self that characterizes normal human experience.
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Posted on March 9th, 2010 by SETI
Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor
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Arctic ice is melting, atmospheric temperatures are climbing – yet climate change science is under attack. Detractors claim that researchers are manipulating data and hoodwinking the public. And the public is increasingly skeptical about the science.
Find out what’s behind the surge of climate change skepticism – and what global warming deniers learned from big tobacco about how to spin scientific evidence.
It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!
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