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 #233
Alan – Space Oddity (YouTube)
Rich - Walk through giant colon
Vincent – Transport proteins
Kathy – Vomiting Larry (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tom - US patent system is broken (DailyTech)
TWiV #230
Alan – World Science Festival
Rich – 3 years of the sun in 3 minutes
Vincent – The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin
Kathy – Wringing out a wet washcloth in space (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - Will it blend? (iPhone app)
Marianne – Enjoy your Cells
TWiV #229
Alan – Nature PastCast
Rich – How dengue does it
Vincent – Squeaky Squeegee Art by Deb Sklut
Dickson – Agritecture
Listener Pick of the Week
Mike - Chemistry in its element: Elements and Compounds
TWiV #227
Kathy – NIAID YouTube videos
Alan – Lego insects
Rich – How to see the world in a grain of sand
Vincent – Vaccines, viruses, and the anti-vax movement
Dickson – Edinburgh Science Festival
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - Nature iOS app
Mehul – Voices for vaccines
TWiV #225
Kathy – Case stories about CoV-EMC (one, two)
Rich – The Self-Illusion by Bruce Hood
Vincent – Moving Targets
Listener Pick of the Week
Liam - eLIFE and Rubriq
Steve – Plant virus ecology (mp3)
Neil – World Immunization Week
TWiV #224
Kathy – 2013 Intel Science Talent Search awards
Alan – Krebs Cycle Rap (CDC)
Vincent – Jetpens (favorite one and two)
D ickson – Rabies death in organ recipients (CDC)
Listener Pick of the Week
Justin - The DNA Store
Jim – Massive Open Online Classrooms
Chris – Feedly
TWiV #223
Kathy – Finkbeiner test and Women in Science
Alan – New flu vaccine efficacy study (CDC)
Vincent – Threading the NEIDL video
Listener Pick of the Week
Steve - Prof. Joan Steitz on viral RNA
Ed – Archiving history of molecular biology: Press release, video, CSHL archives and videos
TWiV #222
Kathy – Graphene batteries
Alan – How do we get cures? (YouTube)
Rich – Explosive breach of Condit Dam (Vimeo)
Vincent – 10 things you can do to support open access (Tree of Life)
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - The real story of Stuxnet
John – D-connector virus
TWiV #221
Kathy – Winners, 2012 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
Vincent – The Operator and Dr. Oz’s Problem
Listener Pick of the Week
TWiV #220
Kathy – Journal of Virology Image Gallery
Rich – Phage T7 Genetics and Physiology and slab gels
Alan – PeerJ (press release)
Vincent – Virologia en Español
Listener Pick of the Week
Dave – Thingiverse pathogens and proteins
TWiV #218
Welkin – Viruses: Essential Agents of Life (review at STC)
Alan – Infinity Imagined
Vincent – Spaceship built for son
Listener Pick of the Week
Amanda – Written? Kitten!
Kevin – Protein synthesis: An epic (YouTube)
Daria – The Baltimore Scheme
TWiV #217
Rich – Repoopulate (original article), Robogut (new clinical trial)
Alan – WTF, Evolution?
Dickson – The Beauty and Benefits of Science
Vincent – Supercomputing modeling of poliovirus
TWiV #216
Rich – Linus Pauling’s explanation of science (YouTube)
Alan – Underwater experiments
Kathy – I’m a virus (YouTube)
Vincent – Stem cells (Bizarro Comics)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tom - The President’s Analyst
Danielle – Overly honest methods (HuffPost and ASBMB Today)
TWiV #215
Alan – I’m a Scientist – The Film
Kathy – Humorous units of measurement (Wikipedia)
Vincent – Open access must enable open use (Nature)
Listener Pick of the Week
Tarwin - Plague Inc.
TWiV #214
Alan – Parasite of the Day
Kathy – Tour of International Space Station
Vincent – Earth as Art
Listener Pick of the Week
Robin - Angell on Big Pharma
Michael – Flu jokes
Jim – Database of Ted talks; Downloadable Ted Talks
TWiV #213
Rich – Our Mr. Sun (IMDB entry) (wiki)
Alan – PubReader from NCBI announcement and instructions
Kathy – Popular Mechanics 110 picks for the next 110 years
Vincent – 366 days: Nature’s 10
Listener Pick of the Week
Matt - The flu vaccine controversy
TWiV #212
Rich – Overview
Alan – Notes towards the complete works of Shakespeare
Kathy – Correlation vs. Causation (#1, #2, #3)
Vincent – Periodically inspired
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark - Life of a Nature paper
Ricardo – Things don’t go viral
TWiV #211
Rich – Ocean Global Shark Tracker
Alan – The Field Book Project
Kathy – How to manipulate an army of zombies
Vincent – Science sculpture
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - WEHI.TV
TWiV #210
Weekly Science Picks
Rich - Vendée Globe
Dickson - Earth at night
Alan - Trophée Jules Verne
Kathy - Science cookies
Vincent - Trilobite Glassworks
Listener Pick of the Week
Ken - Spanish flu pandemic model (teacher’s guide)
Jim - Santa Cruz Science Communication Program (also see SHERP)
TWiV #209
Dickson – Cassini web site and Mars reconnaissance orbiter
Alan – OneZoom Tree of Life
Kathy – Viral tumor suppressor structure (Cell)
Vincent – Spot the Station
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo - Once upon a time: The possible story of viruses
Jim – Encode, myIDP, Experiment Reproduction podcasts
Mark – MoMath
TWiV #207
Matt – Virus-associated pyramids (slide #11)
Alan – Similarities of wave behavior (YouTube)
Kathy – The glass transition
Vincent – US cattle country in uproar at virus lab plans (BBC)
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo - Blackawton bees and Science is for everyone (TED)
Tony – Biophilia by Bjork
TWiV #206
Alan – Locust by Jeffery A. Lockwood
Dickson – Nikon Small World Contest 2012
Kathy – Influenza Encyclopedia
Vincent – Dengue fever sweeps India (NY Times)
Listener Pick of the Week
Allison - Fred Guterl on The Daily Show
TWiV #205
Vincent – Candidates’ answers to science questions
Listener Pick of the Week
Steve - Mural of Henrietta Lacks story (Microsoft Silverlight required)
TWiV #204
Alan – Map of the Wind
Matt – Dark Side of the Earth; Insensitive guide to thriving in your Ph.D.; Gary Vanerchuck (YouTube)
Kathy – How much does a shadow weigh? and Slinky drop answer
Vincent – A Parasite’s Parasites; All the cool kids are on arXiv
Listener Pick of the Week
Nissin - Jungle Jim (1948)
TWiV #203
Rich – Mattel Hot Wheels Curiosity Rover
Vincent – Should H5N1 Moratorium End?
Listener Pick of the Week
Claudio - DIY lab equipment (Ars Technica) and DIY Bio
TWiV #202
Charles – Rhabdovirus associated with hemorrhagic fever (PLoS Path)
Vincent – Bacteriophage graffiti (jpg)
Listener Pick of the Week
Bob - Remembering Penny Pinneo
Janet – Penn and Teller on vaccinations (YouTube)
TWiV #201
Alan – Wallace Online
Rich – World Rabies Day
Kathy – Yo-yos in space
Dickson – The Art in Science
Vincent – The Podcasters Studio
Listener Pick of the Week
Wink - DuckDuckGo
Josh – Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
TWiV #200
Alan – Dance your Ph.D.
Rich – Angel of Death by Gareth Williams
Vincent – Why herpesvirus is good for you (Virgin lab)
Listener Pick of the Week
Luis - VBORNET maps
TWiV #199
Alan – Insane in the Chromatophores (Vimeo)
Rich – Golden Goose Awards
Kathy – Euler’s Disk (YouTube)
Vincent – Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein
Listener Pick of the Week
Adam - Leigh Van Valen
TWiV #198
Alan – Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine
Rich – Khan Academy
Kathy – Vi Hart
Vincent – Tweet Keeper
Listener Pick of the Week
Diane - The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Stephen - Amateur Micrography
TWiV #196
Mark – The Slow Mo Guys (Fly eats fly)
Dickson – I’m being eaten by a boa constrictor by Shel Silverstein
Alan – MMWR: First 30 years online
Rich – Giant python in Everglades and California Academy of Sciences
Kathy – Darwin finch genome sequence
Vincent – Microbiology at Mt. Sinai
Listener Pick of the Week
Renato - Security Now podcast
Robin - The Weather
Chad – Rare protozoan from sludge (ScienceDaily)
TWiV #195
Ken – The Edge of Life trailer and Facebook page
Dickson – The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint by Edward Tufte
Alan – SEMs of insects and spiders via Steve Gschmeissner
Rich – Curiosity Has Landed (Wiki mission summary)
Vincent – Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Lance - The Vaccine Confidence Project and Immune response video (YouTube)
Anat - Beautiful Science
TWiV #193
Rich – Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Vincent – Biochemistry Revealed
Listener Pick of the Week
Matlock - The BioDigital Human
Matt - Scientists create jellyfish from rat cells
TWiV #192
Alan – The Microbial Olympics (supplementary information)
Rich – PharmaJet needle free injection system
Vincent – Microbes and Evolution by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy (paperback and Kindle)
Listener Pick of the Week
Varun - Agile Gene by Matt Ridley
Sizun - Plague Inc
Ricardo – TED-ED
Kristopher – Ed Yong on Econtalk
TWiV #191
Alan – H5N1 genetic changes inventory
Rich – Mythbusters: Diet Coke and Mentos (YouTube channel)
Nissin – The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams, and Tired of War by Tereza Batista
Vincent – FAQ: The ‘snake bite’ portion of your thesis defense
Listener Pick of the Week
Gopal - All’s not fair in science and publishing
Luis – The Origin of AIDS by Jacques Pepin (Nature review)
Sven – Visualizing information flow in science
TWiV #190
Kathy – Wind map
Vincent – The A-Z of Epidemiology (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Kristoffer - How to read a paper
Neva – Electricity from viruses
TWiV #188
Vincent – Microbe art
Listener Pick of the Week
Judi - Cell Imaging (Mac App Store)
TWiV #187
Rich – The Checklist by Atul Gawande
Vincent – Artologica
Listener Pick of the Week
David - Cracking your genetic code (Nova)
Josh – The nuclearization of biology is a threat to health and security (pdf)
TWiV #186
Alan – World Wide Lightning Location Network
Rich – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Vincent – The Ocelloid
Listener Pick of the Week
lafrenchfille - whatshouldwecallgradschool
Neva – Antiviral drugs by Carl Zimmer
Sergio – APSnet
TWiV #185
Sarah – Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams
Andrew – The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
Vincent – Gates Grand Challenges in Global Health awards
Listener Pick of the Week
Ed - Pursuit of Light (YouTube); MRC Biomedical Picture of the Day; It’s okay to be smart
TWiV #184
Alan – PubMed PubReMiner
Rich – Intentional Blindness (YouTube)
Vincent – Vaccine infographic
Listener Pick of the Week
Ken - Wattpad
TWiV #183
Connor – Microbiology Twitter journal club
Alan – Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube)
Rich – May 14th: Smallpox vaccination day
Dickson – Searching for pore-fection (Science)
Vincent – RRResearch
Listener Pick of the Week
Stephen - Every Major’s Terrible (xkcd)
TWiV #182
Alan – 18th century shipping mapped
Rich - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Vincent – Air France 447 (Telegraph)
Listener Pick of the Week
Josh - Vaccines course by Dr. Paul Offit
TWiV #181
Kathy – Astronomy Picture of the Day (especially this and this)
Rich - Tom Lehrer Element Song (YouTube)
Vincent – Albert B. Sabin Archives
Listener Pick of the Week
Spencer – Netter’s Infectious Diseases by Elaine C. Jong and Dennis L. Stevens
Richard – Germs, Genes & Civilization by David P. Clark
TWiV #180
Alan – Micro Empire (Vimeo)
Rich - Census of marine life
Vincent – Pinterest
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark – The Secret Life of Plankton (YouTube)
TWiV #179
Gertrud – Bat on a plane! (MMWR)
Alan – The Rings of Earth (YouTube)
Rich - Giant Magellan telescope
Vincent – Hepatitis C new drug pipeline
Listener Pick of the Week
Ricardo – Evolution: The Natural History of Animal Skeletons
Peter – Self-assembly line (YouTube)
TWiV #178
Tyler – Co-infection with dengue and Leptospira (Emerging Inf Dis)
Alan – The Winged Scourge (YouTube)
Rich - Deepsea Challenge
Vincent – Why did a US advisory board reverse its stance? (Ed Yong)
Listener Pick of the Week
Sasha – Microfluidic Future
Adam – The Conversation
Jim – ENIAC Programmers Project
TWiV #177
Connor – Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2012
Vincent – Thoughts on academic scientists giving media interviews
TWiV #176
Rich – Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge (NY Times article, Science editorial)
Alan – ChronoZoom
Vincent – Academic Publishing is Broken by Michael P. Taylor
Listener Pick of the Week
Joel – Fighting a dengue outbreak by Tyler M. Sharp (parts one and two)
Sven-Urban – Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
TWiV #175
Matt – Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology
Alan – Digital Imagine Institute
Vincent – iPad apps Goodreader and Notability
Listener Pick of the Week
Jane -Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
TWiV #174
Rich – NOAA Buoy Data
Alan – Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit
Vincent – Media Mining
Listener Pick of the Week
Mark – How the West fueled the AIDS epidemic
Henry – Regenesis
Rick – Biopunk: DIY scientists hack the software of life by Marcus Wohlsen
TWiV #173
Ashlee – AskScience (Reddit)
Michael - HealthMap (iPhone and Android app)
Rich – H5N1 research discussion at ASMBiodefense
Alan – El Yunque National Forest
Vincent – The Journal of Global Health
Listener Pick of the Week
Judi – NSF visualization challenge
TWiV #172
Kathy - Science prize for inquiry-based instruction (Alberts editorial, second winner)
Vincent – The long and winding road to a Ph.D.
Listener Pick of the Week
Greg – Correlation
TWiV #171
Matt – H5N1 research discussion
Dickson – The Golden Wand of Medicine by Walter J. Friedlander
Alan – Imagine Science Films
Vincent – E. coli: Good, Bad, and Deadly
Listener Pick of the Week
Daniel – The scale of the Universe
Stefan – A Legacy of Achievement
TWiV #170
Dickson – High-speed photography of falling drop
Rich – Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism (NAP)
Alan - Lab Report videos (YouTube)
Listener Pick of the Week
Jim – The Blind Spot
TWiV #169
Michael – Love my epi
Dickson – Bacteria array detects arsenic
Rich – Dunning-Kruger effect
Alan – Environmental Economics
Vincent – Don’t censor influenza research
Listener Pick of the Week
Simon – The Great Mortality by John Kelly
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 Geneby 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 (link removed at request of website)
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
VincentGallileoscope (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
VincentThe 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)
VincentThe Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell
TWiV #36
Dick The World’s Waterby Peter H. Gleick
Hamish Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; Complications by Atul Gawande
Alan Eurekalert
VincentRespectful 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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