Mothers, Blood, and Whales

Welcome to Double X Science for May 18, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeffrey Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, Dominants, alphas, and queens: Happy Mother’s Day!; Thanks, Mom, for not eating me; The Fatherhood Adjustment; Old Ovaries? New eggs? Hatching a Debate; Disabled; Mammograms; and Depressing Genes, I Am Mental Illness series post. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Development of Critical Thinking Outside of School; Blood Plasma Resembles Ketchup!; and Scrapyard Adventures. News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/dominants-alphas-and-queens-or-happy-mothers-day/ http://www.doublexscience.org/thanks-mom-for-not-eating-me/ http://www.doublexscience.org/fatherhood-the-new-adventure/ http://www.doublexscience.org/old-ovaries-new-eggs-hatching-a-debate/ http://www.doublexscience.org/10-ways-healthcare-reform-might-help-people-with-disabilities/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-labrynthine-task-of-scheduling-a-mammogram/ http://www.doublexscience.org/depressing-genes/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/development-of-critical-thinking.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/blood-plasma-resembles-ketchup.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/scrapyard-adventures.html Our news stories can be found at: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/05/13/using-earthquake-sensors-to-track-endangered-whales/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/15/184223277/how-scientists-cloned-human-embryos 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.