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. Beginning with TWiV #129 we added a Listener POTW.
Below are listed all the TWiV weekly picks since episode #1 – most recent first.
TWiV #168
Welkin – Virtual PI (Nature)
Dickson – Drain the Ocean
Rich – Nova: To the Moon
Alan - Robert Falcon Scott on Twitter and the Terra Nova expedition
Vincent – Hello, Mr. Chips (I, Cringely)
Listener Pick of the Week
Charlotte – And the Band Played On
TWiV #167
Dickson – Guinea Pig Doctors by Jon Franklin
Rich – Learn to appreciate technology and Everythings amazing and nobodys happy (YouTube)
Alan – JD Hooker slide collection
Vincent – iTunes U app and iBooks Author
Listener Pick of the Week
Judi – Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan
TWiV #166
Dickson – What are you swimming with?
Rich – Twelve monkeys
Alan – Kindle Touch
Vincent – Microbe news (thanks to Dave Winer)
Listener Pick of the Week
Eric – The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Lance – Trials and Errors (Wired)
TWiV #165
Dickson – Creation
Rich – America’s Science Decline
Alan – Out of context science
Vincent – The Scientist Top 10 Innovations 2011
Listener Pick of the Week
Jim – Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine (TED)
Tim – Patient Zero (Radiolab)
Mary – Natural Obsessions by Natalie Angier
Jimmy – Science Exchange
TWiV #164
Rich - Fundamentals of Molecular Virology by Nicholas H. Acheson
Alan – Fetch, with Ruff Ruffman
Vincent – Year end reviews at Rule of 6ix and Contagions
Listener Pick of the Week
Garren – Trillion-frame-per-second video
Judi – iBioMagazine
Ricardo – Brain Picking’s 11 best science books of 2011
TWiV #163
Rich – The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
Alan – Comet rise
Vincent – TWiV iPhone case
Listener Pick of the Week
Ronnie – How fungi celebrate Christmas
Kevin – EcoCyc app
Gabriel – ImmGen app
TWiV #162
Rich – 3D vaccinia virion
Alan – Happy Holidays from NOAA (YouTube)
Vincent – 17 year old wins $100,000 science prize
Listener Pick of the Week
Sarah – Critical Thinking (pdf), diagnosing respiratory infections by gene signature (Cell Host Micro), and One Health Initiative (CDC page)
TWiV #161
Gabriel – Antibody-based protection against HIV (Nature)
Rich – Contact
Alan – Flu shot dystonia (YouTube)
Vincent – Sciflies and RocketHub
Listener Pick of the Week
Neva – Virus and retrovirus
Ayesha – The Life Scientific (BBC)
TWiV #160
Patrick – The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Dickson – Foodborne illness acquired in the US (Emerging Inf Dis)
Rich – GATTACA
Alan – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Vincent - Boxwave capacitative stylus
Listener Pick of the Week
Neva – 10+1 top science apps
Ricardo – Where’s the outrage?
TWiV #159
Rich – Livescribe Smartpen
Alan – Royal Society journal archive
Vincent - Chronic fatigue syndrome and the CDC by Dave Tuller
Listener Pick of the Week
Judi – Top 7 in Microbiology
TWiV #158
Alice – Banvard’s Folly by Paul S. Collins
Kathy – The world at seven billion
Rich – The Princess Bride
Vincent - Center for the history of microbiology
Listener Pick of the Week
Tim – Dead Ends to Somewhere by Richard L. Ward
Don – Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science (TED)
TWiV #157
Dickson – Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
Rich – Battlestar Galactica
Alan – Coleman LED quad lantern
Gabriel – A History of Immunology by Arthur M. Silverstein
Jeremy – Principles of Virology by Flint, Enquist, Racaniello, Skalka
Vincent - Principles of Molecular Virology by AJ Cann
Listener Pick of the Week
David – Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot (YouTube)
TWiV #156
Rich – Google’s self-driving car (story one and two)
Dickson – Wild Russia and Wild China TV series
Vincent – Baculovirus molecular biology by George Rohrmann (free)
Listener Pick of the Week
Jim – Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive (TED)
TWiV #155
Vincent – AAM Colloquium Program
Grant – The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Listener Pick of the Week
Antonio – 2011 Nobel Laureates Lectures at Lindau
TWiV #154
Alan - SciWriteLabs
Vincent - Take as directed
Listener Pick of the Week
Tony - Introduction to AI online course
TWiV #153
Alan – Amoebas microscope drive 2011
Vincent – WolframAlpha
Rich – Genesis by Ramos David (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Bill -Virolution by Frank Ryan
TWiV #152
Alan – xkcd tribute to Steve Jobs
Vincent – Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address (YouTube)
Rich – 1984 Apple Macintosh commercial (YouTube)
Listener POTW
David - Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
TWiV #151
Alan – Aurora Australis from space
Vincent – Science360 Radio
Rich - Ghost Productions (demo and website)
Listener POTW
Sophie – Bacteria by Jonathan Coulton
TWiV #150
Dickson – The Tree of Life
Vincent – When do you fact-check article content with sources? (take as directed)
Rich – io9
Listener POTW
Luis – NIH videocasting and podcasting
TWiV #149
Rich – Parachute use to prevent death (Brit Med J)
Vincent – Ian Lipkin’s Op-Ed on Contagion and a review of the movie (both NY Times)
Listener POTW
Michael – Bacteria billboard for Contagion (YouTube)
TWiV #148
Philip - AntWeb
David - Herpes-like viruses in corals (PNAS and LiveScience)
Priscilla - Science museums (Boston, Durham)
Vincent - Contagion
Listener POTW
Jenny - Emerman’s review of Planet of Viruses (PLoS Biology)
TWiV #147
Alan – Sid the science kid
Dickson – Through the alimentary canal with gun and camera by George S. Chappell
Vincent – Rule of 6ix
Rich – Reality check
Listener POTW
Liam – Scitable
TWiV #146
Vincent - Hypothetical Risk: Cambridge City Council’s Hearings on Recombinant DNA Research
Rich – Z Corporation 3-D printer (YouTube)
Listener POTW
Jim – Do-it-yourself DNA extraction (Citizen Scientist Quarterly)
TWiV #145
Alan – AT&T Tech Channel
Rich – Smallpox and its eradication (pdf)
Listener POTW
Asif - Science Photo Library
TWiV #144
Alan – Bugscope
Rich – Vaccine adverse events: Causal or coincidental? (Lancet)
Vincent – West Nile Story by Dickson Despommier (Kindle edition)
TWiV #143
Rich – Iter – building a fusion reactor
Vincent – American girls sweep at Google science fair (NY Times)
Listener POTW
Jing – Bees by Rudolph Steiner
TWiV #142
Alan – Germlines podcast
Rich – science360
Vincent – Google+
Listener POTW
Angus – Science Weekly with Alok Jha
TWiV #141
Matt – Benezra letter to NIH (pdf); (NIH response and Nature commentary)
Dickson – The Big Thirst by Charles Fishman
Alan – Earth’s First Steps by Jerry MacDonald
Rich – Final space shuttle launch and NIAID paylines
Vincent – Hertog Global Strategy Initiative
TWiV #140
Alan – Inside insides
Rich – Rock stars of science
Vincent – A new open-access journal, and Francis Collins on NIH budget
Listener POTW
Kathy – Scientists and musicians compare notes (NPR)
TWiV #139
Alan – Life Before the Dinosaurs by ABC
Dickson – Inside Jokes by Matthew M. Hurley
Vincent – The Tree of Life by Jonathan Eisen
Listener POTW
Lance – A History of the World since 9/11 by Dominic Streatfeild
TWiV #137
Alan – What do marine mammals eat? (YouTube)
Rich – NIH rocket boys
Dickson – Cytomegalovirus needs an antiviral protein (Science)
Vincent – All pdfs free at National Academy of Science Press
Listener POTW
Adriana and Ye Jung - The man who was cured of AIDS (article one and two)
TWiV #136
Alan – The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Rich – Trends in annual rates of death (pdf)
Stephen – Unexpected inheritance (PLoS Pathogens)
Vincent – Beyond the human eye
Listener POTW
Raihan - Bruce Aylward: How we’ll stop polio for good (YouTube)
TWiV #135
Roger – Atomic structure of adenovirus by cry0-EM (Science)
Harmit – Syncytin knockout mice show role for endogenous retroviral gene (PNAS)
Vincent – Free science, one paper at a time by David Dobbs
Listener POTW
Mark - Shot by Shot
TWiV #134
Stephanie – Effectors of the type I interferon response (Nature)
Dickson – Receptor for Ebola virus (PNAS)
Rich – A History of Vaccines
Alan – The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Vincent – ASM Live 2011 webcast
Listener POTW
Sophie - TED talk app for iPad and iPhone
TWiV #132
Al – The Physics of Superheroes and NKT Watch
Dickson - Fibonacci Fun by Trudi Hammel Garland and Rachel Gage
Alan – Neil deGrasse’s comments on UFOs, argument from ignorance, and scientific method (YouTube)
Rich - Retraction Watch
Destanie – Microcosm by Carl Zimmer
Vincent – The intestinal microbiota and viral susceptibility
Listener POTW
Jim - Extraordinary Measures
TWiV #131
Dickson – Angels and Insects
Alan – Science Buddies
Vincent – Emerging Diseases: The Importance of Early Warning and Surveillance (YouTube)
Listener POTW
Josh - Prof. Racaniello’s Virology course on iTunes
TWiV #130
Rich – Rock-paper-scissors vs computer (thanks, Megan!)
Alan – WebCite
Vincent – Edward Jenner Museum (EID)
Listener POTW
Derek Tolly - A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America (IMDb)
TWiV #129
Rich – Polyxeni Potter and EID covers
Dickson – American Museum of Natural History
Alan – Moon Trees (EurekAlert! article)
Vincent – Infection Landscapes
Listener POTW
Didier - The Vaccines (MySpace)
/Sven-Urban – The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Garren - Omega Tau podcast
TWiV #128
Welkin – Walter Reed Collection, University of Virginia
Dickson – Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution in soil (Science)
Alan – The Artful Amoeba
Vincent – Potential bacteriophage applications (Microbe)
TWiV #127
Rich – Should smallpox be destroyed? (Emerging Infectious Diseases)
Alan – Zoology of the Beagle images
Vincent – Vaccines and Your Child by Paul Offit and Charlotte Moser
TWiV #126
Michelle – HIV-1 utilizes chemokine receptor CXCR4 to enter stem cells (PubMed)
Dickson – Bengladesh bans sale of palm sap (NY Times)
Rich – The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas (“On Warts” – pdf)
Alan – Planting Science – students, teachers, and scientists collaborate on botany experiments
Vincent – CIDRAP – Center for Disease Research and Policy
TWiV #125
Marc – JotNot
Dickson – New bunyavirus in China (NEJM)
Rich – Listening to the Deep Ocean Environment (LIDO) recording of the Hatsushima earthquake (ScienceDaily article) – thanks Bridget!
Alan -Walter and Ina: A Story of Love, War, and Science
Vincent – Icosahedral light fixture (thanks, Eric!)
TWiV #124
Grant – A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Dickson – An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae by Edward Jenner
Rich – Selinah (Topsy Foundation) thanks Meghan!
Alan – Draft report (pdf) on WHO’s H1N1 response and NY Times summary
Vincent – 10 stunning science visualizations
TWiV #123
Rich – Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute)
Alan – Hi-definition microscopy movies in 3D
Vincent – Stan Maloy interview with Beatrice Hahn on the origins of HIV and malaria
TWiV #122
Welkin – Supramap
Dickson – Science issue on visualizing data
Rich – Doonesbury weighs in on vaccines and autism
Alan – US National Vaccine Plan
Vincent – US Supreme Court decision on vaccine litigation (NY Times)
TWiV #121
Michael K – Pasteur Museum
Deborah – Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambros
Michael G – The Eighth Day of Creation by Horace Freeland Judson
Vincent – The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
TWiV #120
Rich – Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Ed – Tenth anniversary of the human genome at Science Magazine
Vincent – Poliovirus fights back
TWiV #118
Alan – What you need to know about infectious disease
Rich – Bad Project (YouTube)
Vincent – Federal research center will help develop medicines
TWiV #117
Rich and Vincent – The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin
TWiV #116
Dickson – Brian Deer’s investigation of the Wakefield and MMR vaccine
Rich – Photographic periodic table of the elements
Alan – Year of the bat (site one and site two)
Vincent – EteRNA (NY Times article)
TWiV #115
Marc – Homebrew bioreactor (photo, movie) – culture bottle and drive, oil-free vacuum pumps
Rich – Logitech Harmony Universal Remote
Alan – H.M.S. Challenger Reports
Vincent – Sequence of the strawberry genome and blog post by lead author
TWiV #114
Rich – Elementary schoolchildren publish a science paper (original article and editorial with video) – thanks Kathy!
Alan – White-nose syndrome blog
Vincent – Headway, headlines and healthy skepticism
TWiV #113
Rich – Word Lens
Alan – Tetenal Press Kit
Vincent – In the pipeline and Things I won’t work with by Derek Lowe
TWiV #112
Rich – The Scientist’s Top 10 Innovations 2010
Alan – Avian Vocalizations Center
Vincent – Microbial soap from Cleaner Science (thanks, Nadia!)
TWiV #111
Rich – At the Bench, A Laboratory Navigator by Kathy Barker
Alan – DEEP Indonesia Underwater Photo Contest 2010 Winners
Vincent – HHMI resources for early-career scientists
TWiV #110
Dickson – CDC’s West Nile virus case count for 2010
Rich – The red bees of Red Hook
Alan – Arsenic-based life at XKCD
Vincent – PLoS iPad app
TWiV #109
Lorena – Caliciviruses by Hansman, Jiang, and Green
Vincent – Insights into dengue virus genome replication by Alcaraz-Estrada, Yocupicio, and del Angel
TWiV #108
Rich – Where cinema and biology meet
Alan – Qiagen iApp
Vincent – Ask a biologist
TWiV #107
Rich – Protein Synthesis: An epic on the cellular level
Dickson – The Patchwork Mouse by Joseph R. Hixson
Alan – Bill Hammack’s engineering videos
Vincent – Visual Science (thanks, Svetlana)
TWiV #106
Rich – Google Health
Dickson – The Neandertal genome
Vincent – Lab techniques videos (thanks, Erik!)
TWiV #105
Dickson – Winged Migration
Alan – Web-accessible shortwave receivers
Rich – Personal Genome Project
Vincent – XVIVO scientific animation
TWiV #104
Dickson – Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
Alan – Nikon Small World contest, 2010 winners
Rich – Encyclopedia of Life
Vincent – First all-digital science textbook will be free (thanks, @windsurfer)
TWiV #103
Alan – BioGene, an iApp
Vincent – The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier
TWiV #102
Katharina – Deutsches Museum
Vincent – HHMI holiday lectures on science (thanks Judi!)
TWiV #101
Alan – National Geographic’s Best Environmental Photographs of 2010
Rich – Richard Feynman lecture: The pleasure of finding things out
Vincent – Summary of the First International XMRV Workshop (pdf)
TWiV #100
Alan – TimeTree
Rich – The neurons that shaped civilization
Vincent – Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science by Shane Crotty
TWiV #98
Alan – NCBI ROFL
Rich – The Great Bridge by David McCullough
Vincent – Dr. Rous’ Prize-Winning Chicken
TWiV #96
Rich – Breast milk sugars give infants a protective coat (NY Times and PNAS article)
Vincent – The Great American University by Jonathan R. Cole
TWiV #95
Alan – Families Fighting Flu
Rich – Food, Inc.
Dickson – Fuel
Vincent – MIT Open Courseware
Michael – Waiting for Superman and Can Science Feed the World? (Nature)
TWiV #94
Alan – The new Federal Register site (see also regulations.gov)
Rich – The Florida Museum of Nautural History Butterfly Rainforest
Vincent – JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments
TWiV #93
Alan – Southern Fried Science
Rich – Tree of Life web project
Vincent – Dickson Despommier at Big Think
TWiV #92
Marilyn – Viruses in the faecal microbiota of monozygotic twins and their mothers (Nature)
Rich – The Known Universe by the American Museum of Natural History
Vincent – The Red Queen by Matt Ridley (thanks, Jesper!)
TWiV #91
Welkin – Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Rich – How microbes define and defend us
Dickson – H1N1 virus lacks 1918 virus killer protein
Alan – The Xtal Set Society
Vincent – Antibodies and the quest for an AIDS vaccine
TWiV #90
Eric – Year of Darwin by Sean Carroll
Rich – March of the Penguins
Alan – Standing-height desks
Vincent – DengueWatch (thanks Richard!)
TWiV #89
Alan – Tree of Life graphic
Vincent - TEDx Oil Spill
TWiV #88
Marc - Apple iPad as a tool for writing, with Papers, Pages, and GoodReader
Alan – The Bacterium and the Bacteriophage
Vincent - Naturally Obsessed (thanks, Sharon!)
TWiV #87
Rich - CDC Public Health Image Library
Alan – Great Microbiologists – A Lego Movie
Vincent - March of the Microbes by John L. Ingraham
Graham – Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas by Forest Rohwer
TWiV #86
Rich - Google Crisis Response – Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Vincent - HHMI resources for teachers and students (thanks, Jim!)
Eric – Vaccine by Arthur Allen
TWiV #84
Rich - Charles F. Littlewood photographs
Vincent - Not so humble pie (thanks, Sophie!)
Grant – The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
David – Is Parkinson’s Disease a prion disorder?
TWiV #83
Alan – Evernote
Rich - The Knife Man by Wendy Moore
Vincent - The Pump Handle
TWiV #82
Rich The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle by Eric Lax
Vincent Proteopedia (thanks, Erik!)
TWiV #81
Rich Google Chrome browser ‘speed test‘ (and how it was made)
Vincent Inside the Outbreaks by Mark Pendergrast
TWiV #80
Rich PBS Frontline: The Vaccine War
Alan Readability
Vincent Starswarm by Jerry Pournelle
TWiV #79
TWiV #78
Dickson Medical News Today: Infectious Diseases and Eaarth by Bill McKibben
Rich U can with Beakman and Jax by Jok Church
Alan UnderwaterTimes
Vincent The Reef Tank
TWiV #77
Rich The Way We Work by David Macaulay
Alan DimDim
Vincent Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
TWiV #75
Matt Bitesize Bio
Alan Free printable graph paper (see also doane paper)
Vincent Avian Flu Diary
TWiV #73
Dickson Whole-Genome Sequencing in a Patient with Charcot–Marie–Tooth Neuropathy (NEJM and NY Times)
Rich Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene by Stephen Hall
Vincent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections – videocasts
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
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