TWiV 212: Apocalypse TWiV 122112 212

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVerers answer listener email about genetically modified chickens, a hendra vaccine for horses, online education, curing color blindness, Roosevelt and polio, Th cells, and much more.

Links for this episode:

• TWiV 116: Cocaine, colonies, and chickens
• Glofish
• Recombinant Hendra vaccine
• Gene therapy for color blindness (Nature)
• FDR, polio, and Guillain-Barré
• Transcript of TWiV 197: Philip Marcus (pdf)
• TWiV 10: Bats, elephants, and AIDS
• TWiM 6: Phage therapy
• TWiP 47: For whom the trich tolls
• Viruses of protozoan parasites (virology blog)
• Long in the tooth
• Transcript of 'How to read a science paper' (pdf)
• FEMA disaster preparedness courses
• Letters read on TWiV 212

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - OverviewAlan - Notes towards the complete works of ShakespeareKathy - Correlation vs. Causation (#1, #2, #3)Vincent - Periodically inspired

Listener Pick of the Week

Mark - Life of a Nature paperRicardo - Things don't go viral

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