Two scientists talking about science while enjoying some fermented beverages every other week. One sober scientist nerding out about viruses the other other week.
Episode 35 - Science Fairs (Rob hates them) This episode sat on my hard drive for a year, I apologize. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Alcohol: Neshaminy Creek Brewing Cheap Box Wine - unidentified, but I’m sure you can find some on your own So…
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Virus Questions (5) - UK variant - more infectious, more severe
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Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience This Week in Virology (link) NERVTAG paper (link) English Robot Text-to-speech engine (link)
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(34) The state of journalism with Lou Harry
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Lou is a writer and journalist who works with the Society of Professional Journalists and gives some of the most insightful and interesting analysis of journalism today. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Links: Lou Harry’s website (here) Society …
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Virus Questions (4) Is the mutant coronavirus more dangerous?
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Probably not, but that shouldn't change what you are doing now. Nextstrain Twitter (here) This Week in Virology (here)
What's in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine and why is a third of the population fatigued? Ethanol: Dragon’s Milk, New Holland (here) Eye of the Storm Sitra, Jersey Cyclone Brewing (here) 1798 Brewery Okracoke (here) Science: Pfizer FDA EUA briefing document (here) Moderna FDA EUA briefing document (here) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (here) …
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Virus special - Does the vaccine prevent infection?
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The answer might surprise us. Pfizer FDA EUA briefing document: link Pfizer FDA EUA meeting: link Moderna FDA EUA briefing document: link Moderna FDA EUA meeting: link VAERS: link
Just a short little episode to let you know we are back. We think. An Exploration of the Structure of Effective Apologies (link) - Paywall.... sorry?
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Virus special - -Is COVID-19 more like 1918 flu or 1957 flu?
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(32) COVID-19 vaccine will be available at 12:32AM on Aug 17 2021
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Wherein Rob and Jeff do an experiment to see how quickly beer and red wine will degrade vaccine knowledge. Jeff uses disabled squirrels and broken-down cars as analogies for attenuated virus vaccines. Rob tries to pin Jeff down on SARSCoV2 vaccine predictions for 2020. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Trackside…
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Virus Questions (3) - Cheaper, less sensitive virus tests?
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Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: This Week in Virology episode #640 (here) Abbot ID Now (here) English robot generator (here)
Here’s to all the Dads out there. And their jokes Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Sounds (Freesound.org) Baddum Tish - Comedy Rimshot by rodincoil Cricket Chirp by Sojan musical saw ascending UFO bu JohnsonBrandEditing…
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Virus Questions (2) Antibody tests - difference between qualitative & quantitative?
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Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: US FDA approved SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests (7/22/2020) (link) Types of tests - Chemiluminescent Microbead Immunoassay (Youtube) Lateral flow Immunoassay (Youtube) ELISA (Youtube) Sounds: https://lingojam.com/RobotVoiceGenerator
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A new series! Virus Questions (1) - What is threshold cycle?
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Email your virus questions to virusquestions@gmail.com Links: This Week in Virology > https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-641/ COVID-19 PCR testing > https://youtu.be/Vd38iS_W7ww Note - I didn’t mention the “RT” part because… concision! The RT step just turns the viruses RNA into DNA and then the PCR starts on THAT. Sounds: https://lingojam.com/RobotV…
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(30) A Fresh Perspective on Science
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Sydni is working on an amoeba that *farms* a bacteria! Sydni’s amazing art: SciDotArt Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience The Menu: Mango White Claw Peter Vella Vineyards Cab Sav Terrapin Hopsecutioner…
Rob & Jeff again pick two very different movies Southern Tier Brewing Double IPA (here) Liberty Creek Cabernet Sauvignon (here) Osmosis Jones (IMDb) The Satan Bug (IMDb) sound effects Freesound.org: Night Traffic by Oneirophile Archive.org: KTLA 5 - Movie Theater - 1986 - Theme Song
Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience References: Muniesa et al Microb Biotechnol. 2011 Nov; 4(6): 725–734. Carlton et al (Loessner) 2005 Reg. Tox. & Pharm Loessner 1991 App & Env Micro Zink & Loessner 1992 App & Env Micro Sounds (all from Freesound.…
Episode 28 - Epidemic Movie Reviews Skeleton on Horse 1937 (link) Quarantine 2008 (link) Partners in Health (link) Alcohol: Naked Grape Cabernet Sauvignon Cloudwalker Hazy Juice IPA Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: Night Train, The Mad Ca…
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Virus (update) - Coronavirus 3 hours in the air? (no)
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Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience References Original coronavirus study: 2020 van Doremalen et al (MedRxiv link) Goldberg drum: Golberg et al. 1958 American Journal of Epidemiology (link) Ebolavirus and Goldberg drum: 2016 Fischer et al Journal o…
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Virus (7) - A short history of coronaviruses
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Changing jobs in science (24?)
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I interview science teacher and author of "How We Teach Science, What's Changed, and why it matters". John's book --> link here (It's at Harvard University Press if the link isn't working) A Private Universe --> here
Jerry Merryman (killer of the slide rule) June 1932 – February 27, 2019 (obituary) Sidney Brenner (cell biology & genetics) January 1927 – April 5, 2019 (obituary) Owen Garriot (engineer, scientist, astronaut) November 1930 – April 15, 2019 (obituary) Gerald Berenson (cardiologist) September 1922 – November 22, 2018 (obituary) Lamia Al-Gailani Werr…
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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary with special guest host Pete!
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Coming out on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, we talk about what we know about the mission, how it affected culture in the United States and how conflicted we would feel if Trump's desire for flashiness actually got us back to the moon. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon:…
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Science Communication thru Radios
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Rob & Jeff interview Dan Mushalko, General Manager, host and alpha-Geek at WCBE in Columbus Ohio. Listen to how his science education show The Amazing Science Emporium was born from Hurricane Gloria and about his efforts while at NASA to convince America that Skylab wasn’t going to fall on their head. Drinks: Rex Goliath Cabernet Sauvignon Fernson …
Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: Freaky Dance Virus 02.wav by Sepal (Freesound.org) Elevator Music 1 Hour (Archive.org) The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra (Archive.org) References: Peach yellow spot disease, Tymovirus h…
Founders Breakfast Stout Remedy Nonsense IPA Margaret Bright (Public Health) Nov 19, 1918 - Dec 28, 2018 (obituary) Martin Gore (Cancer Research) Feb 1951 – 10 Jan 2019 (obituary) Arthur Art Rosenfeld (Physics) June 22, 1926 - Jan 27, 2017 (obituary) Seung-Yull Cho (Parasitology) Nov 16, 1943 - Jan 27, 2019 (obituary) Email: tracksidescience@gmail.…
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Virus short (4) - Blatella germanica Densovirus
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Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: La Cucaracha, The Castilian Troubadours. 1934. Archive.org References: Suto et al. 1979. Microbiology & Immunology. A new virus isolated from the cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa Mukha et al. 2006. Journa…
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Lab Techniques - Our Most & Least Favorites (19)
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Our favorite lab techniques. Jeff, molecular, Rob, cellular? Rob HATES bio banks and Jeff just can’t wrap his mind around them. Special guest Devon makes her second appearance. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Favorites: Jeff: Expression screeni…
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Virus (3) - Pandoravirus salinus
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Promedmail: http://www.promedmail.org/ Front music - Freaky Dance Virus 02.wav by Sepal freesound.org End music – The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra. 1948 Sounds (all from Freesound.org): tappingMic.wav by susychristiansen Mic feedback fx short Mid 2.wav by chimerical Cocktail Sounds.wav by KenRT Cocktail Shaker.wav by KenRT shak…
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Origins part 2 (18) - with Special Guest!
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The tale continues as the drinks are drained. Rob turns down Guam and Jeff leaves Bristol Bay for good. Devon just rolls her eyes. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile! Bob Cros…
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Virus (2) - Foot & Mouth Disease Virus
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Ghosts & genetic testing for infidelity? What IS the point of teaching? Why are students forgetting most of what Jeff teaches? Rob describes what sounds like the best class ever taught. Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Instagram: Tracksidescience Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Music: Night Train, Ernie …
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Virus (1) - Tobacco Mosaic Virus
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email: tracksidescience@gmail.com References: https://viralzone.expasy.org/ Meyer's original paper: https://www.apsnet.org/publications/apsnetfeatures/Documents/2008/Mayer1886.pdf Beijerinck's translated paper http://www.apsnet.org/publications/apsnetfeatures/Documents/1998/BeijerckSpotDiseaseTobaccoLeaves.PDF 1921 Federal Reserve Bulletin - https:…
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Introducing Virus! - The Government didn't make HIV, Viruses 101 & Why I am doing this
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Bonus - Found Recording 1902 Int'l Conference on Plant Breeding & Hybridization
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As you would expect from a 117 year old recording, the audio quality isn't the best, but here it is - their actual words. See for yourself (link) tracksidescience@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Sound credits (all from freesound.org) polite_applause_01.wav by joedeshon chair scrape.aif by mredig gavel-double.flac by zerolagtime I…
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Rethinking the Science Career (16)
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Are PhDs going to be of any use after the apocalypse? Is Rob forever trapped as a human geneticist? Should everyone be trained to clean their kitchen using radioactive chicken juice? Jimmy the Student joins the podcast! tracksidescience@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience
Rob backpacks through Europe for his first conference and Jeff makes a random left hand turn into the best taco shop ever. Conferences - you either love ‘em, hate ‘em or feel somewhere in between about ‘em. Front bumper: “Lonesome Railroad Blues” 1953 Firehouse Five, plus Two Sound effect: Freesound.org - Mr. Tea email: tracksidescience@gmail.com P…
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Study Design in the Empire Environmental Health & Safety Division
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Thracken and Turis are trying to figure out whats up with all the force choking in the Imperial Navy. And wondering about the limits of ethics on the Death Star. Apollo 11, Space Shuttle launch and Apollo 14 sounds from archive.org Music - Blue Rain (Lluvai Helancolica) by Terry Snyder Trio; Mercer; Van Hensen…
A science pub bloomed in Sioux Falls and Edisto Beach was discovered. Cubic wombat poop was solved and Voyager 2 finally escaped. Twitter: @TracksideScien1 Email: tracksidescience@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience Sound effects from Freesound.org: kangaroovindaloo, BWSmithATL, Ornery, cognito perceptu, Jwill259, nicStage…
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Retractions, Negative Data & the Weirdness of Authorship (13)
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Rob’s trying to refute a published finding and Jeff is still hanging on to an authorship shuffle from over 15 years ago. Arsenate can naturally build up to 3mM and some authors are publishing an unfair number of papers. Felisa Wolfe Simon’s 2010 Science paper (here) 2018 Astrobiology paper that cites the Wolfe paper without qualification (here) 201…
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What's for dinner? Lab Grown Meat?
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Rob thinks about serving up celebrities while Jeff contemplates cannibalism. Regulatory, ethical and gustatory roadblocks galore! Take our 2 question survey: https://goo.gl/forms/fc4T2xP3Nnf44bKx2 Its happening already...Memphis Meats I Like Cows by Johnny Socko, live in Atlanta 1996
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1902 International Conference on Plant Hybridization - Mendel Rediscovered
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In a random turn of events, we resurrect the 116 year-old voices from the International Congress of Genetics which was happening at the very same time that we recorded them. Plus, bad accents. The 1902 Conference Proceedings The American Florist, Aug 1919 First person to email or tweet at us gets a Science Care Package! tracksidescience@gmail.com T…
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Bonus - rare audio find - 1903 Massachusetts Board of Health recordings
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Who knew? Golly, they sounded so dignified and smart back then huh? Sound credits (all from freesound.org) polite_applause_01.wav by joedeshon chair scrape.aif by mredig gavel-double.flac by zerolagtime Heavy Door Pounding.wav by mrh4hn Floor_trading2.wav by touchassembly Shhhh_ses2.wav by freesound door - open 01.wav by Anthousai…
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Re-enactment - 1903 Outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease Virus, New England
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Intrigue at the post Board of Health Meeting discussion: a dangerous virus is a-foot and Dr Salmon wants to kill 'em all. Rob channels Rich Little and Jeff just tries to keep up. 1903 Journal of the Mass. Board of Health from Google Books here Great history of the history of the outbreak I found after we recorded (here) Twitter: TracksideScien1 ema…
The Coming Plague catalyzes both of our decisions to go to graduate school. We pull out our dissertations and compare sizes. Rob describes unstable sequences associated with colon cancers. Jeff describes an adenovirus promoter. We were experts. #glorydays https://www.patreon.com/tracksidescience