 Get your weekly inoculation of science news, discussion and debate with The Inoculated Mind, which takes an in-depth look at the latest in science news and the greatest in scientific issues. Popular topics include Genetic Engineering, Evolution, Stem Cells and Cloning, Space Exploration, and the Future of Humanity, all wrapped up in music from the best of science fiction. Join host Karl J. Mogel as he talks about the ideas that have, and will continue to shape our world... and separates the science fact from fiction. Have you been inoculated?Primary Format :
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The Inoculated Mind, Special Request for CommentsIn what direction shall The Inoculated Mind Mindcast go? Splitting the website, keeping with the Scifi music theme or dumping it, adding regular topical segments with contributors? Have a listen and find out what changes are in order, or send a message to science@inoculatedmind.com and help decide what changes will be brought about.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, December 7 2006. (Episode 69)Take the God of the Gaps Mindcast Challenge - write this description and be rewarded! http://www.inoculatedmind.com/2008/05/god-of-the-gaps-challenge/ Theme = Star Trek TNG by Dennis McCarthyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 18 2008. (Episode 78)Death by Gamma Rays - a pair of stars is poised to fire in our general direction, misnamed "planetary" nebulae may actually require planets to form, NASA proposes to cut funding to ill-planned Mars mission, electrons move through rock, and are captured moving through molecules in the cell too. MicroRNA molecule helps make our skin and may help fight cancer, and also in the Battle for Humanity, biological control of Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter proves successful, a plant compound synergizes wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 4 2008. (Episode 77)We're sheep in human clothing, Darwin was wrong... about chickens, the Kilogram is on a diet, tooth reveals neanderthals traveled, left-handedness of the precursors to life dominated the contents of a pristine meteorite, human embryonic stem cells effective in treating diabetic mice, California cows pass gas to the power grid, recent advance in the javamochalattevanillachino bean - successful coffee taste-testing machine, and the world's doomsday seed vault is open for seed-saving business. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, Feb 12 2008. (Episode 76)First synthetic bacterial genome made from scratch, raises promise and bioethics issues, MicroRNAs evolved early in vertebrates, Horseshoe crabs now 100 million years older, nitrogen fertilizers may lower biodiversity of prairie grasses, yet also increase growth in tropical forests, and gene silencing breakthrough may help protect crops against pests. Native bees in Oregon and California can give ailing honeybees some help, a new component is added to the International Space Station, and fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, Feb 6 2008. (Episode 75)First show in Madison! Embryos created that have three parents, everyone with blue eyes are distant cousins, rail guns not just for fiction anymore - now the US Navy has tested one, orange flavored lollypops for fighting cavitities, and the asteroid 2007 WD5 barely misses Mars, in astronomical terms. Roundup of the best scientific breakthroughs of 2007, things to look out for in 2008, some yays and woes from President Bush's proposed science budget, and Canada eliminates a key science advis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, August 04 2005. (Episode 1)New Martian Lake, Saturn's moon Enceladus has Fresh Terrain, Grad Student Shakes up Plate Tectonics, Tenth Planet, Crabs are Pickest Daters, Bush on Intelligent Design, Question = What's going on with Homo Floresiensis aka The Hobbit, Theme = Hobbit Tunes, LOTRListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, October 20 2005. (Episode 12)Rat eludes scientists - swims 400m, hydrophobic water discovered, Spitzer finds Andromeda Galaxy has arms, Cichlid fish dominance shows in 2 minutes, cannabis grows neurons, Evolutionary theory finds new antibiotic in fungi, FDA meets to discuss antibacterial soaps, how many fungal spores in your pillow? AIDS Vaccine enters phase II, Exorcizing the Devil Out of Dover Part II - Antievolutionist says Astrology is a Theory, Karl rips on Local Dirt's (another KDRT program) Pseudoscience. Theme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, February 16 2006. (Episode 25)Waste at the olympic games (excrement-powered olympic torch?) Greenland glacial melt accelerating, farmed salmon genetically distinct? Bald Eagle may leave endangered species list this year, while polar bear might be added to it, Invasive toads evolve longer legs, Ohio votes down cryptic Intelligent Design education standards known as "critical analysis of evolution," Rhesus macaque genome sequenced, human ancestors were knock-kneed, oldest tyrannosaur skeleton found, scans of tyrannosaur b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 9 2006. (Episode 28)Incan maize cultivation and crop transfer in 3600 BCE, Organic gains ecological data from apple orchard, Styrafoam meets its maker, 2 billion degrees sets record for hottest temperature achieved in a lab, followup on mentalist Adrian Saint: Reason for Skepticism and The Mentalist Strikes Back, and Karl's 2006 prediction about miRNA research comes to light. NASA: survey confirms net loss in polar ice, next sunspot cycle will be stronger and longer, Saturn's Moon Enceladus now known to harbor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, May 11 2006. (Episode 35)Air purifiers violate standards by making air LESS healthy, ethanol derived from switchgrass gains promise and could not only be carbon-neutral but actually pull carbon dioxide OUT of the air, grapefruit juice can now be prescription-safe, Mount Saint Helens gives birth to huge slab of rock and has been in labor since last November, Green Beard Effect now observed in the blue throats of Side-Blotched Lizard, UC Davis scientist Arthur Shapiro (the butterflies-for-beer professor) finds that 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, May 18 2006. (Episode 36)Karl's purple GE carnation stunt at the Whole Earth Festival met was foiled by the florist, Ventria's GE rice to grow in North Carolina, Swarm Season Stories and Sounds, Karl gets a new Terabyte storage toy and cautions ebay sellers, Dragonflies migrate like birds, with profound evolutionary implications, visual responses of blind mice were recovered using a protein from green algae, human and chimpanzee ancestors may have bred after splitting, sound clips of crazy preachers on campus confi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, May 10 2007. (Episode 74)Last Davis Show! Battle of the Science Communication Heroes: Ken Miller and PZ Myers discuss and debate the issue of religion and the acceptance of evolution. Then, an unsolicited call from Evil J. Klone reveals a plot behind the takeover attempt of KDRT by KMJE, and then Karl explains what he is going to be doing in Graduate School. Ariela joins the show, and unbeknownst to her, their parents were on the phone. Technical issues were abound throughout the show, but it was nicely salvaged an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, May 3 2007. (Episode 73)Mercury has a molten core, The Kama Sutra of flowering plants - why have more male flowers? Because it saves energy for seeds. Climate Change mediation experiment to begin 'seeding' the ocean with iron to see if carbon dioxide can be pulled out of the atmosphere, sea snails broke Dollo's Law - and re-evolved a lost structure. Interview with Dr. Kirsten Sanford and Justin Jackson from This Week in Science, we talked about doing science on the radio and the great and funny things about making ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, April 26 2007. (Episode 72)Booster Shot on CCD - Karl gets in an Aggie article about the disappearing bees, and the Rapture must be taking away the bees! Irradiated hive boxes demonstrate recovery of bees, Varroa mite now in Hawaii, and a new bee virus discovered. Most Earth-like extra-solar planet discovered, may support liquid water, sounds a lot like Krypton from the Superman comics, and coincidentally "Kryptonite" is discovered... sort of. Now named Jaderite. "The Great Global Warming Swindle" film criticized, an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, April 19 2007. (Episode 71)SOS KDRT continues - Davis City Council supports KDRT and Karl gets quoted in the paper. The first marathon ran in space, Charles Simonyi buys 13 days in space for 25 million and gets the 14th day free, meanwhile a man spends 13 days sealed in a sub powered by his urine. Scientists assemble a "planetary danger zone" around hot stars in the Rosette Nebula, and experimental magnetic shields compared to shields on the Enterprise. Most comprehensive study of abstinence-only "education" finds it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, April 12 2007. (Episode 70)46th anniversary of the first human in space, scifi author Kurt Vonnegut dies and is "up in heaven", skin cream products contain compound that causes pathological reactions, Rhesus Monkey genome sequenced, and the pope pontificates on evolution and doesn't seem to understand a few fundamentals of science - commentary on the trouble with religion wading into science, Myers-Miller show announced, and 7000 year old corn pollen found, pushing back the date of corn cultivation, and the sometimes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 15 2007. (Episode 67)Karl restarts the uploading, now from Madison, Wisconsin! Interview with Chris Mooney, no news. Theme = Firefly.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 29 2007. (Episode 69)KDRT threatened by another station, the good and the bad of San Francisco banning plastic grocery bags, new biodegradable plastics sink in seawater, batteries that run on sugar, new type of twin called semi-identical, the more perfect you look - the less evolvable your immune system. Interview with Dr. Carl Winter, director of the Foodsafe program at UC Davis, on whether organic food can be called healthier than conventional food, and his food safety music. Special Feature on the congressio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Inoculated Mind, March 22 2007. (Episode 68)Warmest Winter Ever. Cleaning up the air has helped the warming of the Earth, and for our second climate irony of the show, a cooler climate may have made our brains bigger, and we're warming it back up! Also, there are new global maps of biodiversity and carbon dioxide emissions, and this year will be particularly bad for pollen allergies, too. Plenty of bee-autiful science, a new bee-powered poison alert system, and a new study on Vitellogenin shows how evolution has co-opted a reproducti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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