Posted on December 31st, 2008 by marcpelletier
Part I of a conversation with Dr. Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Exploring touch…
Host: Marc Pelletier
Guest: Dr. Martin Chalfie
A few weeks ago, I had the great fortune to speak with Dr. Martin Chalfie. Through both his passion for science and tremendous focus, he has unraveled many of the secrets of how organisms interact [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2008 by VRacaniello
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove
Vincent and Alan talk about President-elect Obama’s choices for his science advisors, SARS sensationalism, a new enteric picornavirus, and the top 10 virology stories of 2008.
Obama’s science advisors (Yahoo story)
CDC RSS feed on influenza
PNAS paper on a new enteric picornavirus
TWiV’s top 10 virology stories of 2008:
1. Nobel Prize in Medicine to Montagnier, Barré-Sinoussi, and zur Hausen
2. AIDS elite [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2008 by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.
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For the past five years or so, Positive Psychology has been the next big thing in psychology. Dr. James Pawelski is currently the director of education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, which supports the University’s newest masters program, the Master of Applied Positive Psychology. Before going to [...]
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Posted on December 24th, 2008 by weiszdoc
Findings are reviewed from the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine (December issue) on a study investigating differences in weight loss in children in group interventions versus a control condition. In this study, the group condition was superior, supporting group programs for changing eating behavior and weight loss in chidlren.
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Ginger Campbell
Episode 24 of Books and Ideas is a follow-up interview with Nobel Prize winning physicist. Dr. Frank Wilczek. We discuss the questions that we didn’t get around to in Episode 23, including the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, String Theory, and dark matter and dark energy. Dr. Wilczek also answers some questions from listeners [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by naturepodcasts
In this month’s show, Kerri finds out why researchers are studying slumbering flies, looks back on the life of famous amnesiac patient HM, finds a load of brain proteins whose function is changed by adding fat, and takes a tour of a brain bank in London.
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by The Mr Science Show
Geek Pop is the world’s only sci-pop festival – a free online music event featuring songs about science. The festival brings together science-inspired artists from around the globe in a gleeful celebration of geek culture. In 2009, Geek Pop will take place between 6-15th March.
This week on the podcast I spoke to Hayley Birch, the [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by podmedic
Part 2 of last week’s critical incident stress panel discussion and live call-in show on the MedicCast is now posted. EMTs and paramedics are put in difficult situations all of the time. Sometimes these situations present problems for the ems providers who have to deal with them after the fact. Critical incident stress can quickly [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by podmedic
Caring for patients’ everyday needs is part of general nursing practice. In today’s busy and overworked hospital facilities, nurses are often distracted from these basic tasks by the demands of caring for multiple patients without assistance from other staff members. Yet these simpler nursing interventions are more important than they might seem on the surface.
Nurses [...]
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Posted on December 21st, 2008 by VRacaniello
Host: Vincent Racaniello (Wikipedia entry, and photo with Hilary Koprowski)
Guests: Alan Dove and Angela Rasmussen
Vincent, Alan, and Angela discuss Kuru, prions in milk, ancient lentiviruses found in the chromosomes of lemurs, a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine failure in the 1960s, and recent outbreaks of H5N1 influenza in chickens.
D. Carleton Gajdusek obituary in the NY Times. We forgot to mention that he won the 1976 [...]
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