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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 #506

TWiV #494

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Happy 35th birthday, PCR
Kathy – Everything can be a speaker
Vincent – Ocean rise due to rocks (debunked); Gates advises Trump on viruses

Listener Pick

Noah – David Baltimore on iBiology

TWiV #493

Kathy – Origami sound barrier
Brianne – iBiology
Dickson – Switched-on bats
Alan – Hawaii’s communication breakdown
Vincent – Inside the Federal Bureau of way too many guns and What I Saw Treating Parkland Victims

Listener Pick

Johnye – Debunking Anti-Vaxxers

TWiV #481

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy – CD45.1 and CD45.2 mice may not be functionally equivalent
Rich – Relative humidity versus dewpoint (video)
Dickson – Underwater photography winners
Alan – Photo of a single atom
Vincent – Proposed Federal science budget cuts and The Blog is Dead

Listener Pick

Jess – Louis Tompkins Wright

TWiV #459

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy – Cassini photos
Dickson – Caliber Biotherapeutics
Alan – Grav
Rich – Google street view of the International Space Station. (article)
Vincent – the bioinformatics chat

TWiV #458

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy – Antibody validation Editorial Asilomar meeting report
Dickson – Despommierphotoart.com
Alan – NOAA Hurricane Hunters
Rich – Awakenings by Oliver Sacks (encephalitis lethargica)
Vincent – Goodnight Lab by Chris Ferrie

Listener Picks

Pete – Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
Paul – Pasteur’s Gambit by Stephen Dando-Collins
Maureen – Discovery Documentary First in Human

TWiV #457

Kathy – Cloud appreciation society
Rich – High Rise Urban Farming
Dickson – Planets orbiting a distant star
Vincent – TWiEVO 18: Raiders of the lost orco

Listener Pick

Kevin – Cherry blossoms at Brooklyn Botanical Garden

TWiV #435

TWiV #428

TWiV #416

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Cubes in Space
Dickson – The Architecture of Eden by H. Pearlman and A. Whalley
Rich – Studying the building blocks of life in stereo (original paper)
Kathy – Ancient bottom wipes yield evidence of diseases (original paper)
Vincent – Iguana vs snakes

TWiV #415

TWiV #380

TWiV #375

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Jetstream Online School for Weather
Vincent – New virus watercolors from Michele Banks (one, two)
Rich – The Mad Virologist (Facebook, blog)
Kathy – Orcas in Antarctica
Jeremy – Pardis Sabeti on TED
Helen – Science Valentines
Carolyn – Three letter word missing from Zika warnings

TWiV #374

Listener Pick of the Week

Peter – The Microscope and The Next Global Killer
Richard – Glass viruses

TWiV #268

Listener Pick of the Week

Luis – Spillover by David Quammen
Ken – Gravity

TWiV #256

Dickson – Wildlife Photographers of the Year 2013
Kathy – John Holland’s Emerging Infectious Disease lecture (YouTube)
Alan – The worst part is not
Rich – The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama (Mind and Life Institute)
Vincent – The Truth about T. Rex by Brian Switek

Listener Pick of the Week

Stephen – International Institute for Species Exploration (Top 10 species choice)

TWiV #255

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

Alan Data.gov
Vincent foldit

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

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

7 comments on “Weekly Picks”

ShiJingwei Feb 15, 2009

Please talk about Enterovirus in the future, thank you !

LabGrab Apr 1, 2009

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.

James Ferguson DVM May 4, 2009

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.

James Ferguson DVM May 4, 2009

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.

ish May 23, 2010

its been a week that i have started listening podocats.
i am loving it.

LikelyYou.com Sep 4, 2019

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.