Weekly podcast in which Kelly and Zach Weinersmith discuss current science and geek topics.
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Episode 64 – Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Dr. Judy Illes on Neuroethics
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In today's episode Kelly interviews Dr. Judy Illes to learn more about the latest work being done addressing the ethics of brain-computer interfaces. Dr. Illes is the Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada at the University of British Columbia.Oleh Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 63 Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Dr. Bryan Caplan on Automation and Jobs
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In this week's show Kelly talks to Dr. Bryan Caplan about the impact of automation on jobs, and talks to Zach about his collaboration with Bryan on a graphic novel called "Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration". Also - if you visit WeeklyWeinersmith.com you can download a chapter on Advanced Nuclear Reactors! This chapter was cut from…
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Episode 62 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Dr. Jordan Miller on Bioprinting
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Dr. Jordan Miller and his collaborators recently published a paper where they use a gel that hardens in response to light to create structures that are non-toxic, and so should be compatible with the human body. The paper made the front cover of Science! Check out this week's episode to learn more about the bioengineering work happening in the Phys…
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Episode 61 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series: Rosario Ballesteros-Casas on VRAmericas
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In this week's episode, Kelly interviews Rosario Ballesteros-Casas, the Chief Executive Officer of VRAmericas. VRAmericas is working on AR and VR (virtual reality) applications to help train our workforce.Oleh The Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 60 – Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series – Skylar Tibbits on Projects Happening at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab
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In today’s episode we’re going to chat about some of the cool projects happening at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, which is the lab for which our interviewee (Professor Skylar Tibbits) is the Founder and co-Director.Oleh Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 59 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Joy Dunn on Commonwealth Fusion Systems
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On today’s show Joy Dunn joins us to discuss Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Ms. Dunn spent about 10 years at SpaceX, where she worked on and led teams working on the Dragon spacecrafts, and became known as the “Mother of Dragons”. She is currently Head of Manufacturing at Commonwealth Fusion Systems.Oleh Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 58 - WW Soonish Series - Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton on Psyche
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Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton joins Kelly to talk about how we go about learning about asteroids, and about the Psyche mission in particular. We also spoke with Dr. Elkins-Tanton about the role of artists in communicating space research to the general public in ways that scientists can't.Oleh Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 57 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Peter Beck on Rocket Lab
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Welcome to the reboot of The Weekly Weinersmith, celebrating the paperback release of our book Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. In this podcast series, we’re going to revisit each of the 10 technologies discussed in Soonish, expanding on topics touched on in the book, exploring related matters, and checking…
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Episode 56 - Weekly Weinersmith Soonish Series - Dr. Elizabeth Frank on New Space
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Welcome to the reboot of The Weekly Weinersmith, celebrating the paperback release of our book Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. In this podcast series, we’re going to revisit each of the 10 technologies discussed in Soonish, expanding on topics touched on in the book, exploring related matters, and checking…
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Episode 55 - The making of Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness
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Kelly and Zach discuss Zach's new book "Science - Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness"Oleh Weekly Weinersmith
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Episode 54 Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything
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Zach and Kelly are BACK! Well, for now. Turns out we haven't just been sitting by the beach instead of recording podcasts - we've been writing a book! That book is called Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything, and it's coming out through Penguin Press in the US and Particular Books in the UK on October 17th. Thi…
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Episode 53: Melanie Martin on breastfeeding
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This week we interview Melanie Martin, a PhD student at the University of California Santa Barbara, about her research on breastfeeding.
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Episode 52: Deep sea ecology with Dr. Andrew David Thaler
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about deep sea ecology with Dr. Andrew David Thaler.
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Episode 51: Dr. Elizabeth Iorns on collaboration
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We're back! We've been super busy lately (moving across the country, having a baby, applying for jobs, finishing a dissertation, running a Kickstarter, etc), but we're striving for more regular updates. While hitting a weekly goal is unlikely, we're going to strive to update once or twice a month. Thanks for sticking with us! This week we interview…
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Weekly Weinersmith on hiatus until January 2014
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As you have probably noticed, Weekly Weinersmith updates have been few and far between in the past few months. I really love doing this podcast, but this is the last year of my PhD and I have had to prioritize my dissertation experiments, manuscript writing, and applying for postdoc positions. I was hoping I would still have time to podcast, but my…
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Episode 50: Dr. David Hughes on zombie ants
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. David Hughes about zombie ants.
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Episode 49: Episode 49: Dr. Joan Strassmann on Dictyostelium discoideum
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This week Zach and I talk with Dr. Joan Strassman about Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba.
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This week Zach and Kelly talk naked mole rats.
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Episode 47: Biofilms and bumblebees
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about cheating in bacterial biofilms, and how the microbiome influences susceptibility to disease in bumble bees.
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Episode 46: Ryan and Ben hijack the Weekly Weinersmith
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This week we let Ryan Haupt and Benjamin Tippett take over the show. Ryan and Ben are co-hosts on the Science...sort of podcast, and Ben is host of The Titanium Physicists podcast. Both of these podcasts are part of the Brachiolope Media Network, the podcast network to which the Weekly Weinersmith belongs. Ryan and Ben will talk about....well....yo…
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Episode 45: Dr. Christopher Lynn on glossolalia
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This week Zach and Kelly talk with Dr. Christopher Dana Lynn, an anthropologist at the University of Alabama who studies the relationship between glossolalia and stress in Apostolic Pentecostals.
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Episode 44: Caffeinated and telepathic rats
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about how the smell of coffee changes gene expression and protein production in rat brains, and discuss a study that hooked rat brains up to one another so the rats could share information and perform tasks together.
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Episode 43: The Valentine's Day Episode
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For Valentine’s Day, Zach and Kelly talk whether or not brazilian waxing is causing the extinction of pubic lice, and about how housework influences the frequency of sex.
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Episode 42: Fecal transplants and eye development
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This week Zach and Kelly discuss a study that used infusion of donor feces to treat a bacterial infection, and a second study that found that light is important for eye development in fetal mice.
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about how fear and/or awe of math differs between academic fields.
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Episode 40: The Reproducibility Initiative with Dr. Elizabeth Iorns
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This week Zach and Kelly bring back Dr. Elizabeth Iorns to talk about the Reproducibility Initiative through Science Exchange. Elizabeth was recently named one of Nature’s 10 People Who Mattered This Year!
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about National Institute of Health (NIH) funding practices, and the increasing administrative burdens placed on academic scientists.
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Episode 38: Jessica Richman and William Ludington on uBiome
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Jessica Richman, a PhD student at Oxford University, and Dr. William Ludington, the Bowes Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, about uBiome. uBiome is a project that connects citizens to scientists in an attempt to better understand the microbiome.
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Episode 37: Trevor Bekolay on Spaun, a large-scale simulated brain
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This week Kelly and Zach talk to Trevor Bekolay about his work on a large-scale brain simulator. Trevor is a PhD student in the Computational Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Waterloo.
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Episode 36: Stress and Alzheimer's Disease
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This week Zach and Kelly discuss how the way one responds to stressors can have long-lasting implications for health, and recent research on a link between a rare gene variant and Alzheimer's disease.
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Episode 35: Aging and antidepressants
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about how the blood of young mice makes old mice brains look young again, and whether or not genomics can help to predict the kinds of antidepressants to which a person will respond.
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This week Zach and Kelly discuss research on how to eliminate certain types of anxiety, and chat about Bisphenol A (BPA).
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Episode 33: Intravenous oxygen and exploding termites
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about oxygen injections and exploding termites.
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Episode 32: Dr. Scott Commins and tick-induced allergies
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. Scott Commins of the University of Virginia about his research on tick-induced meat allergies.
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Episode 31: Parasites and economics with Dr. Michael Munger
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This week Zach and Kelly bring back Dr. Michael Munger of Duke University to discuss how people parasitize economies and how parasites economize people.
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Episode 30: Dr. Jordan Miller on the use of 3D printing to make blood vessels
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Today Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. Jordan Miller, a postdoctoral student in Dr. Christopher Chen's Tissue Microfabrication Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, about his recent breakthrough using 3D printing to create blood vessels.
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dillon McDowell, Josh Marion, and Melissa Loving about nanomagnets. All guests are past or current members of the Lewis Lab at Northeastern University.
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Episode 28: Dr. Christian Eggers and "Are viruses alive"?
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This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Christian Eggers about whether or not viruses should qualify as being "alive", and the importance of viruses in evolution.
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Episode 27: Antimicrobial peptides and Truvada
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This week Zach and Kelly are on an immune system kick, and discuss the potential downsides of new drug treatments and a new use for a previously existing drug.
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Episode 26: Elise Novitski discusses CPT symmetry and the fine-structure constant
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Elise Novitski, a PhD student studying CPT symmetry and the fine-structure constant in Dr. Gerald Gabrielse’s lab at Harvard.
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Episode 25: Dr. Ryan Earley and "Why are there males"?
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On this week's episode Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Ryan Earley about why so many species reproduce sexually rather than asexually. We then talk to Elizabeth Lee and Robert Denton, whose #SciFund projects focus on animals with uncommon reproductive systems.
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Episode 24: Dr. Jennifer Sheridan and tropical conservation
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This week Zach and Kelly talk to Dr. Jennifer Sheridan about her research on the impacts of oil palm farming on amphibian populations in Borneo.
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Episode 23: Dr. Sanna Sokolow and biological control of schistosomiasis
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This week Zach and Kelly interview Dr. Sanna Sokolow, a post-doc in UCSB's Ecological Parasitology Lab and Projet Crevette scientist. Sanna talks about her research on the use of freshwater prawns to control schistosomiasis in West Africa.
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Episode 22: Zach's guest appearance on The Titanium Physicists
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This week Zach and Kelly take a break due to ROFLCon and field work, respectively. Instead of a new Weekly Weinersmith episode, we present to you Zach's appearance on our sister's podcast, The Titanium Physicists!
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Episode 21: GERD and Scientific Reproducibility and Retractions
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about the surprising lack of scientific evidence supporting the lifestyle changes suggested by doctors to people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (AKA acid reflux disease). Elizabeth Iorn's blog post on Science Exchange starts a discussion on the importance of reproducibility in scientific research, and factors exp…
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Episode 20: Dr. Bruce Lipschultz and Daniel Brunner on Fusion Research
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Kelly and Zach talk to MIT's Dr. Bruce Lipschultz and Daniel Brunner about fusion, Alcator C-Mod, and the future of fusion research in the United States.
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Episode 19: Munger on Economics
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This week Kelly and Zach talk to Dr. Michael Munger about Chilean politics, modeling in economics, and areas where economists and the general public tend to disagree.
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Episode 18: Nodding Disease and Traveling LIfe
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This week Zach and Kelly talk about nodding disease and a simulation looking at the potential for transfer of life between planets.
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Episode 17: Dr. R. Douglas Fields and "The Other Brain"
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This week Kelly and Zach speak with Dr. R. Douglas Fields about his book "The Other Brain".
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Episode 16: Science Exchange and Dr. Elizabeth Iorns
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Zach and Kelly interview Dr. Elizabeth Iorns about Science Exchange, an online marketplace connecting scientists and laypeople to research facilities.
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