Genetics, Scientists, and Julia Parrish

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Welcome to Double X Science for July 19, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeanne Garbarino, biology editor. Our topics cover posts since the end of June: Armchair genetics from Jamestown to Scott Brown http://www.doublexscience.org/armchair-genetics-from-jamestown-to-scott-brown/ Between neurohype and neuroskepticism http://www.doublexscience.org/between-neurohype-and-neuroskepticism/ (Covered in an interview with Bethany in a Beyond the Post July 15, 2013) On call http://www.doublexscience.org/on-call/ Maternal abortion history no longer a risk for preterm birth http://www.doublexscience.org/maternal-abortion-history-no-longer-a-risk-for-preterm-birth/ Double X Science, Jr. posts: Biography of Rosalind Franklin http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/biology-of-rosalind-franklin.html Henrietta Leavitt http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/henrietta-leavitt.html Reading Words on a Screen vs. on Paper http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/reading-words-on-screen-vs-on-paper.html A Bee-g Issue ( ha.ha. ) http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-bee-g-issue-haha.html Quantum Computing Has Arrived http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-computing-has-arrived.html Richard Feynman and Feynman Diagram Basics http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/richard-feynman-and-feynman-diagram.html Barbara McClintock : A Biography http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/barbara-mcclintock-biography.html News of the week was about Julia Parrish presenting her science and citizen science organization at the White House. http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/10/julia-parrish-speaks-at-white-house-about-citizen-science/ Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.