Weekly Picks

TWiV’s science picks of the week

Through episode 30 of TWiV, we highlighted a science blog, science podcast, and science book to help promote other excellent sources of science information. More recently, TWiV hosts and guests are asked to pick anything having to do with science.

Below are listed all the TWiV weekly picks since episode #1 – most recent first.

TWiV #72

Dickson Scientist as Chef by Dickson Despommier (pdf)
Alan Networked Organisms and Habitats (NOAH) iPhone app
Rich Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Vincent The Dish

TWiV #71

Dickson and Alan NSF/AAAS Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
Rich Foundation by Issac Asimov
Vincent Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier

TWiV #70

Dickson Chemical Ecology – edited by Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald
Alan Scripps Center for Mass Spectrometry
Vincent Folding@home (thanks Jesper!)

TWiV #69

Rich John Moran Florida Nature Photography
Alan Periodic Table of Videos
Vincent The Protein Databank Educational Resources

TWiV #68

Rich Foundations of Virology – PowerPoint by Frederick A. Murphy (bio/interview pdf)
Alan Spoonful of Medicine – Nature Medicine blog
Vincent The Feynman Lectures (thanks Ilya!)

TWiV #67

Marc Association of Science-Technology Centers Passport Program
Alan Zooniverse
Vincent Grand Rounds at the Mailman School of Public Health

TWiV #66

Vincent Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS

TWiV #65

Matt 100 Incredible lectures from the world’s top scientists
Alan The Amateur Scientist CD
Vincent The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

TWiV #64

Rich Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs
Alan Spaceweather.com
Vincent The Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus

TWiV #63

Rich Infectious Awearables
Alan Darwine
Vincent Microbial Art

TWiV #62

Dick Smallpox – The Death of a Disease by DA Henderson
Alan Olympus Bioscapes Digital Imaging Competition
Vincent Microbe Magazine

TWiV #61

Dick New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers by Robert S. Desowitz
Vincent Information is Beautiful – is swine flu vaccine safe?

TWiV #60

Dick The Double Helix by James D. Watson
Vincent Worms and Germs Blog

TWiV #59

Rich Longitude by Dava Sobel
Alan Heil Pro Set Media Headset (for a good price, order from a ham radio store)
Vincent MicrobeWorld app for iPhone and iTouch (iTunes or MicrobeWorld)

TWiV #58

Dick Science News article: Enter the Virosphere
Alan WHO H1N1 timeline interactive map
Vincent Cheap Google accounts storage and How CDC estimates flu cases

TWiV #56

Dick 27″ iMac and Powers of Ten by Philip Morrison and Phyllis Morrison
Alan ImageMagick
Cliff ePatient Connections 2009
Vincent Cell size and scale

TWiV #55

Dick Nikon photomicroscopy contest winners at SciAm (Dick’s article on vertical farming)
Alan Make:
Rich BBC’s Planet Earth (DVD at Amazon)
Jason The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Vincent An Epidemic of Fear and Misinformants at Wired Magazine

TWiV #54

Lynn Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets by Robert Olby
Vincent ViralZone

TWiV #53

Alan scienceline
Dick Younger by Judith Sulzberger MD
Vincent FluView

TWiV #51

Alan Bat Rabies and Other Lyssavirus Infections
Dick Boosting Vaccines: The Power of Adjuvants (Scientific American; subscription required)
Vincent The Ig Nobel Prizes by Marc Abrahams

TWiV #50

Jason Glass Microbiology
Vincent FluWeb Influenza Historical Resources Database

TWiV #49

Dick Discovery Channel: Planet Green
Vincent Influenza videos at BigThink: one, two, three, four, five, six

TWiV #48

Rich Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Dick Eliot Porter at the Carter Museum and bookstore at Amazon
Alan Dr. Clarke’s H1N1 rap at the HHS sponsored YouTube contest
Vincent Coast to Coast Bio Podcast

TWiV #47

Dick Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas by Sylvia A. Earle, Linda K. Glover
Vincent Bionumbers

TWiV #46

Dick West Nile virus website at CDC
Vincent PLoS Pearls

TWiV #45

Jennifer Art of Science 2009
Alan MediWiki (install tips)
Dick Diversity of Life by EO Wilson
Vincent Nobel Intent

TWiV #44

Jennifer Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics)
Vincent Giant Microbes (thanks Stephen!)
Dick Virology in the 21st Century
Alan Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

TWiV #43

Dick Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth by Lynn Margulis and Karlene V. Schwartz
Vincent A Genetic Switch by Mark Ptashne

TWiV #42

Delthia 100 questions and answers about influenza by Delthia Ricks
Alan Tinychat
Dick Mythbusters
Vincent Effect Measure

TWiV #41

Alan For Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
Rich Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Dick Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Vincent Gallileoscope (thanks Zach!)

TWiV #40

Alan Coming to Life by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Dick Monsters Inside Me from Discovery Channel
Vincent Microbeworld

TWiV #39

Dick Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
Vincent The Youngest Science by Lewis Thomas

TWiV #38

Glenn Riddled with Life by Marlene Zuk
Vincent All the Virology on the WWW

TWiV #37

Alan Forrest Mims (website)
Vincent The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell

TWiV #36

Dick The World’s Water by Peter H. Gleick
Hamish Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; Complications by Atul Gawande
Alan Eurekalert
Vincent Respectful Insolence

TWiV #35

Dick Three papers on origins of infectious diseases (one, two, three)
Rich An Imperfect Lens by Anne Roiphe
Alan Zotero, a FireFox plugin
Vincent e! Science News

TWiV #34

Alan Org-Mode
Vincent Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution
Stephen The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

TWiV #33

Alan Beginning Mac OS X Programming by Michael Trent
Dick National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, Leiden
Vincent Vaccinated by Paul Offit
Raul HubbleSite

TWiV #32

Alan The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia
Vincent Pi Cubed for iPhone/iPod Touch (Sunset Lake Software, $9.99)
Raul Science and New England Journal articles on H1N1 influenza

TWiV #31

Marc Celestia, an application
Dick US Geological Survey website
Alan Society for Amateur Scientists website
Vincent Sneeze, an online game

Science blog	Science podcast	Science book
GermBlog	Science and the City	The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-making on a Slippery Disease by by Richard E. Neustadt, Harvey V. Fineberg
Science-based Medicine	WNYC’s Radio Lab	Flu by Gina Kolata
The Great Beyond	Sorting Out Science	A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube by S.E. Luria
Biocurious	NPR’s Science Friday	A Consipiracy of Cells by Michael Gold
Coevolvers	QuackCast	Listen to the Music: The Life of Hilary Koprowski by Roger Vaughan
Small Things Considered	The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe	Viruses and the Evolution of Life by Luis Villarreal
The Weekly Virus	NIH Research Radio Podcast	Ahead of the Curve by Shane Crotty
H5N1	MicrobeWorld Video	Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit, MD
VBRC blog	Nova ScienceNow	The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
BioJobBlog	Distillations	The Life of a Virus by Angela Creager
Not Exactly Rocket Science	Neuropod	Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology edited by John Cairns, Gunther S. Stent, and James D. Watson
Mystery Rays from Outer Space	Emerging Infectious Diseases Podcast	The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Rubor Dolor Calor Tumor	Originz	Biohazard by Ken Alibek
Research Blogging	Boston Museum of Science podcast	The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas
Eye on DNA	Persiflager’s Infectious Disease Podcast	Microbe Hunters by by Paul de Kruif
Molecule of the Day	Meet the Scientist	The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
ViroBlogy	Astronomy Cast	The Cutter Incident by Paul A. Offit, MD
Aetiology	biobytes	Principles of Virology, 3rd Edition by SJ Flint et al.
	Skepticality	Science Fictions by John Crewdson
	The Mr. Science Show	Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
	Futures in Biotech	Principles of Molecular Virology, by AJ Cann
	The Naked Scientists	Fever! by John Fuller
	NY Times Science Times
	MicrobiologyBytes
	Brain Science Podcast

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James Ferguson DVM

I enjoy your podcast a great deal and have listened to it since Dec 2008. I recetnly heard you discuss West Nile vaccines for horses. The first Vaccine that came out was and is made by a cvaccine company called Fort Doges. It is a simple killed vaccine. Its cam out within a year or so of the out break of West Nile virus in the US. It isnt an elegant vaccine. Aobut 3 or 4 years ago another company called Merial came out with a version made by the use of a canarypox virus. Now how often should a horse be vaccinesed. Some veterinarians suggested at one point every 6 months. The scince really has not bben there. SO the practice is to just do it wvery year
James Ferguson DVM

Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2008 Jun 15;123(3-4):230-9. Epub 2008 Feb 16. Links
A West Nile virus (WNV) recombinant canarypox virus vaccine elicits WNV-specific neutralizing antibodies and cell-mediated immune responses in the horse.El Garch H, Minke JM, Rehder J, Richard S, Edlund Toulemonde C, Dinic S, Andreoni C, Audonnet JC, Nordgren R, Juillard V.
Merial SAS, R&D, 254 rue Marcel Mérieux, 69342 Cedex 07 Lyon, France.

Successful vaccination against West Nile virus (WNV) requires induction of both neutralizing antibodies and cell-mediated immune responses. In this study, we have assessed the ability of a recombinant ALVAC-WNV vaccine (RECOMBITEK WNV) to elicit neutralizing antibodies and virus-specific cell-mediated immune responses in horses. In addition, we examined whether prior exposure to ALVAC-WNV vaccine would inhibit B and cell-mediated immune responses against the transgene product upon subsequent booster immunizations with the same vaccine. The results demonstrated that the recombinant ALVAC-WNV vaccine induced neutralizing antibodies and prM/E insert-specific IFN-gamma(+) producing cells against WNV in vaccinated horses. Prior exposure to ALVAC-WNV vaccine did not impair the ability of horses to respond to two subsequent booster injections with the same vaccine, although anti-vector-specific antibody and cell-mediated immune responses were induced in vaccinated horses. This report describes, for the first time, the induction of antigen-specific cell-mediated responses following vaccination with an ALVAC virus recombinant vaccine encoding WNV antigens. Moreover, we showed that both WNV-specific IFN-gamma producing cells and anti-WNV neutralizing antibody responses, are not inhibited by subsequent vaccinations with the same vector vaccine.

labgrab

I like the review comment ""As the saying goes, human beings are born as originals and die as copies. Not Hilary Koprowski."

Thanks so much for this list, I am discovering more and more podcasts.

ShiJingwei

Please talk about Enterovirus in the future, thank you !

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