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Trackside Science — 86 episodes

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An AI-generated virus? Not worried.

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Virus Update - Ebola, Yellow Fever, Crimean Congo Fever and Usutu Virus

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Virus Update Ebola and COVID and Avian Flu 07172026

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Ebolavirus Outbreak Democratic Republic of the Congo update 07102026

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Stop worrying about hantaviruses

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Virus - Hantaviruses on a cruise

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(54) Where do ideas come from?

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Philatelic Science (53)

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Science Firings part 2 (EXPLICIT)

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(52) Salute to Government Scientists

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(51) Science from Australia!

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(50) International Podcast Day

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Impromptu Science (49)

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(48) Science Video Game - PhD Simulator

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(47) What connects you to science?

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(46) ChatGPT: good for a fart joke?

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Not a secret Chinese bioweapons facility

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(45) Has Money Destroyed Science?

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Virus: Reading Promedmail - Polish Cats & Bird Flu

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(44) Is it a calling, or just a job?

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(43) We were burned out Spring 2021

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(42) Citizen Science Tools for Bioinformatics (that are free!)

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(41) Hereditary Periodic Fever Syndromes

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(40) Eight Science Books

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(39) Stiff Science 3

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(38) Free Fireworks - Science Research

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(37) Science Writing

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(36) Welcome Back

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Science Fairs (35)

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Virus Questions (5) - UK variant - more infectious, more severe

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(34) The state of journalism with Lou Harry

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Virus Questions (4) Is the mutant coronavirus more dangerous?

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(33) The COVID-19 Vaccines

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Virus special - Does the vaccine prevent infection?

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(32) Back in the Saddle?

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Virus special - -Is COVID-19 more like 1918 flu or 1957 flu?

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(32) COVID-19 vaccine will be available at 12:32AM on Aug 17 2021

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Virus Questions (3) - Cheaper, less sensitive virus tests?

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(31) Science Dads

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Virus Questions (2) Antibody tests - difference between qualitative & quantitative?

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A new series! Virus Questions (1) - What is threshold cycle?

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(30) A Fresh Perspective on Science

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(29) Viral Movie Reviews part 2

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Virus (8) Listeriaphage P100

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Epidemic Film Reviews (28)

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Can we mask coronavirus?

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Virus (update) - Coronavirus 3 hours in the air? (no)

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Coronavirus episode 2

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Virus (7) - A short history of coronaviruses

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Coronavirus outbreak

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Changing jobs in science (24?)

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Virus (6) Myxomavirus - Part 1

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Interview with John L Rudolph

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Stiff Science 2

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Apollo 11 50th Anniversary with special guest host Pete!

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Science Communication thru Radios

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Virus (5) - 11 New Viruses

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Stiff Science (20)

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Virus short (4) - Blatella germanica Densovirus

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Lab Techniques - Our Most & Least Favorites (19)

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Virus (3) - Pandoravirus salinus

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Origins part 2 (18) - with Special Guest!

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Virus (2) - Foot & Mouth Disease Virus

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Science Teaching

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Virus (1) - Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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Introducing Virus! - The Government didn't make HIV, Viruses 101 & Why I am doing this

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Bonus - Found Recording 1902 Int'l Conference on Plant Breeding & Hybridization

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Rethinking the Science Career (16)

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Conferences!

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Study Design in the Empire Environmental Health & Safety Division

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2018 End of the year

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Retractions, Negative Data & the Weirdness of Authorship (13)

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The Winner (bonus episode)

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What's for dinner? Lab Grown Meat?

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1902 International Conference on Plant Hybridization - Mendel Rediscovered

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Bonus - rare audio find - 1903 Massachusetts Board of Health recordings

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Re-enactment - 1903 Outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease Virus, New England

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Our Dissertations! (9)

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The News about Science

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Not Necessarily the News (7)

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Highs and Lows in Our Science Careers

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Science Communication

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What's Your Information Diet?

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Our Science Heros!

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Science Amateur Hour

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Origins of our science careers - part one