Posted on January 31st, 2010 by VRacaniello
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
On episode 4 of the podcast “This Week in Parasitism”, Vincent and Dick trace the life cycle of Trichinella spiralis in an infected host.
Download TWiP #4 (59 MB .mp3, 82 minutes)
TWiP is brought to you by the American Society for Microbiology at Microbeworld.org.
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Trichinella life cycle (jpg)
Newborn larva entering [...]
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Posted on January 31st, 2010 by bmhost
A question that everyone asks at some point is – are we alone? We’ve all heard about the Drake Equation, and have had chats about our place in the universe with friends.
In this episode, Dr Allie Ford hosts a debate between Professor John Lattanzio and Ms Marion Anderson from Monash University on the topic “Intelligent [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by AmSocMicrobiology
Y ahora disponible Mundo de los Microbios Podcast Ep. 38. Escucha http://bit.ly/bwUFhp o subscríbete con iTunes http://bit.ly/nDFjTA.
A continuación: Semillas de uva antibacterianas, Microorganismos buenos y microorganismos malos, Microorganismos con música de rock, y El ABC de lo invisible.
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by naturepodcasts
On this month’s NeuroPod, transforming skin cells into neurons, a light-activated rapid off-switch for neurons, a robotic cockroach powered by a chaotic neural network, and a combo of methods reveal an intriguing type of cell in the human brain.
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Ginger Campbell
Episode 34 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Bruce M Hood, author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable.Dr. Hood is a developmental psychologist with a long-standing interest in why people believe weird things. In SuperSense he argues that innate cognitive structures (how we think without being taught) give people a natural [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by EUSci
What better way to start a brand new year than with a brand new episode of the EUSci podcast! This week, our host Alex Sinclair takes you through stories about bees, prehistoric DNA, computers identifying false paintings, and much more. So sit back and enjoy our take on the freshly-minted bounty of science stories that [...]
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Posted on January 27th, 2010 by naturepodcasts
This week, we learn how engineered bacteria are helping to produce better biofuels, how functional brain cells have been created directly from skin cells, and discover what fossils found in Northern China tell us about the colour of feathered dinosaurs. Plus, a round-up of what’s hot elsewhere in Nature.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by SETI
From the birth of galaxies to the earliest human to awarding patents – what it means to be “first” in scientific research, invention, and discovery.
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Posted on January 26th, 2010 by bmhost
In this episode I speak to Dr Yin Paradies, who is a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. Yin’s research focuses on the health, social and economic effects of racism as well as anti-racism theory, policy and practice.
In this interview, some of the topics we talk about include:
- What are some of the [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2010 by OmegaTau
[This is a posting of a previously released episode of omega tau. It had been released on September 20, 2009]
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Carl Pilcher, the director of the NASA Astrobiology Insititute at NASA Ames Research Center. The conversation comes in two parts. Part one covers the conceptual basics of astrobiology and [...]
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