Recently, there was a buzz in response to the leak of the Rorschach test images to Wikipedia. This leak is not only of the clinically used materials, used for assessment by mental health professionals for decades, but also detailed information about the most common responses, how various responses are interpreted, and so forth. There are [...]
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This month: how immune cells get through the blood-brain barrier, the brains of elite athletes, the structure of a curious set of receptors, and the genes behind an aggressive brain cancer.
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In this episode, we bring you mice made from induced stem cells, the early Earth’s disordered insides, jellyfish stirring up the oceans, and Saturn’s spinning speed.
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Dr. Jacquelyn Morie of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) will discuss the Transitional Online Post-Deployment Soldier Support in Virtual World, or Coming Home. This is a project that is creating a space within Second Life dedicated to providing camaraderie, support and resources for helping returning soldiers reintegrate into civilian life. [...]
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Rear Admiral Dave Titley, the Oceanographer of the Navy, joins us from Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city of the United States, where he is preparing for a flight to the Arctic coast. Admiral Titley will be visiting the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Healy, a light icebreaker primarily used for scientific research in [...]
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The Nursing Show
This week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast features a review on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP). It is important for nurses to be familiar with the procedure since it is indicated for patients with more severe respiratory problems and more frequent nursing assessments. The success of CPAP therapy depends on how well [...]
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The MedicCast
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure is one of the interventions used by emergency medical providers (paramedic and EMT) in improving the respiratory status of a patient. Since patients in distress are most often in a state of anxiety, it is also the paramedic’s duty to verbally calm the patient and provide coaching to relax the [...]
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Delthia Ricks
In episode #42 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Delthia Ricks discuss a new influenza virus-like particle vaccine, dog flu, ultrasensitive pen-sized virus detector, imported rabies in the US, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and next season’s flu vaccines.
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The Pentagon Force Protection Agency is testing their response procedures and decontamination methods in the event of a bio-attack on the Pentagon. Mr. Paul Benda and Dr. Christina Murata, Director and Deputy Director of the Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives Directorate at the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), will discuss a recent [...]
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This episode of scienceTASTIC was scheduled to be a blockbuster, but due to reasons we fully explain (and detail in photograph) we had to settle for it just being pretty fantastic. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing it’s also fairly space-centric, and Mark kicks things off with new images of [...]
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