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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?


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The Inoculated Mind, Special Request for Comments
In 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....

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[ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 with co...

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[ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:00:00 -0600 ]


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. Spec...

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[ Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:00:00 -0600 ]


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 fish ac...

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[ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:00:00 -0600 ]


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 advisory p...

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[ Tue, 6 Feb 2008 22:00:00 -0600 ]


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 and mig...

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[ Thu, 10 May 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 scie...

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[ Thu, 3 May 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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, and Chi...

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[ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 has ...

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[ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 dead...

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[ Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 congressional g...

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[ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


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 reproductive ge...

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[ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0500 ]


The Inoculated Mind, March 15 2007. (Episode 67)
Karl restarts the uploading, now from Madison, Wisconsin! Interview with Chris Mooney, no news. Theme = Firefly....

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[ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:00:00 -0500 ]


The Inoculated Mind, March 1 2007. (Episode 66)
Karl is back from his tours of graduate schools, but before he left he dropped a public note to Davis anti-evolutionists. The color red makes people fail (or think they will), mint tea may help reduce facial hair, breakthrough in cell-printing technology, there is a hole in the Earth's crust, Stephen Hawking to experience zero gravity after a lifetime of studying the phenomenon, birds can plan ahead, Chimpanzees had their own stone age thousdands of years ago, female chimps hunt with tools, prim...

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[ Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, February 8 2007. (Episode 65)
Pre-Darwin Day show, quick comment on Astronaut kidnapping incident and Astronaut psychology, Nintendo Wii used to control sword-wielding robot, latest development on the way to the Javamochalattevanillachino bean: Genes responsible for sucrose accumulation in coffee beans characterized and its relationship to shading. Strength of concrete has to do with structure - not composition - can we fight global warming with less polluting concrete? What factors influence deforestation in the Amazon, 45 ...

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[ Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 25 2007. (Episode 63)
On the State of the Union speech, Bush finally acknowledges climate change, latest climate change report avoids "smoking gun" and introduces "battalion of intergalactic smoking missiles" label, glaciers in the Alps may be gone by 2050, and one scientist says that two snowflakes may be alike, spinal nerve cells have similar processes going on as in the cerebral cortex, bumblebees split tasks between hive cluster warmers and fanners, and low-birthweight correlates with adult salt intake. Two inter...

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[ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, February 1 2007. (Episode 64)
Anthropologist weighs in on Hobbit, brain configuration does not match microcephaly, Evidence of ancient galactic collision with Andromeda Galaxy, Bush Administration abusing climate science according to report by Henry Waxman and others, pleasant smell of ocean air due to bacteria, and Cornell plant scientist Li Li characterizes the gene that makes orange cauliflower and what it means for nutrition in developing countries. First dual-interview with Phillip Johnson, founder of the Intelligent De...

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[ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 18 2007. (Episode 62)
Climate Satellites desperately need upgrade or science could suffer by 2020, Chinese government creates hundreds of pieces of orbiting debris when they test satellite-destroying rocket, New Horizons is already approaching Jupiter - explanation of gravity assist, and higher education associated with faster post-education mental decline. Discussion of recent water poisoning death after a local Sacramento radio show contest, interactions between water and hydrophobic surfaces provide new evidence t...

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[ Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 4 2007. (Episode 61)
Happy New Years, Karl discusses the different kinds of ways to measure a year and they're all different in length, Merry Kitzmas: Intelligent Design continues its unintelligent legacy since the Kitzmiller v Dover case. Food-heavy episode: NYC bans trans fats, Karl explains what these are and coincidentally, there's news about a trans fat that may be healthy, conjugated linoleic acid. Tall soybeans bred for wood fibers? Gene silencing technology makes a better french fry potato, and OSU is evalua...

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[ Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, December 14 2006. (Episode 60)
Breakthrough in the origin of life - part of the TCA Cycle (or Krebs Cycle) can run in reverse, strange helical ice forms inside of carbon nanotubes, Nature publishes paper that exonerates the Tripoli six - six doctors and nurses held in Libya accused of infecting patients with HIV, NASA refuses to put a price tag on the Moon mission, global warming extends the life of space junk, strong rare-Earth magnets in childrens toys can be swallowed and cause injury, including one death. Interviews with ...

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[ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


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 McCarthy...

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[ Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, August 10 2006. (Episode 47)
KDRT has a new studio with a window! Bumble Bees prefer warm flowers, second infectious cancer found, goats genetically engineered with human lysozyme produce milk that fights bacteria, planetary mass objects or planemos orbiting around each other in the depths of space, United States has a lot of catching up to do in understanding of genetics and acceptance of evolution. The Mosquito Menagerie: Vicki Kramer, Sharon Lawler, Jim Northup, and Rick Roush. We discussed the issue of spraying mosquito...

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[ Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, July 27 2006. (Episode 46)
Followup on previous coverage of the Day that Science Stood Still - Senator Rick Santorum says that scientists that want to work on ES cells have no morals, a representative of the Bush Administration agrees that killing embryos is murder - yet gets put in a logical headlock by a question about why they don't want to close in vitro fertilization clinics, and "M is for Mistake" as White House spokesperson Tony Snow retracts the "Murder" label. Commentary on the indefensible and inconsistent logic...

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[ Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, July 20 2006. (Episode 45)
Interview with Dr. Douglas Cook, director of the UC Davis CAES Genomics Facility, we talked about grapes, legume symbiosis, Pierce's disease, and wine and honey flavor. No News. Theme = The Day the Earth Stood Still by Bernard Herrmann....

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[ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, July 13 2006. (Episode 44)
Interview with John Z. Kiss and Deborah Kimbrell, two scientists who sent up experiments on board the space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-121. No News. Theme = Contact by Alan Silvestri....

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[ Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, July 06 2006. (Episode 43)
Booster shot: Navy announced that it will not use whale-injuring high-intensity active sonar during training, women are more web-savvy than they think, Darwin's "impassible barrier" passible, wildfires fueled by warming climate, ozone fix longer than expected, reducing the need for fertilizers, UCSD biologists solve plant growth enigma, chemicals in american beautyberry plant repels mosquitoes, why taking medicine works even if the medicine doesn't. Hwang Woo-suk admits to faking data, but tries...

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[ Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, June 29 2006. (Episode 42)
Ants count steps while walking, symbiotic fungus does not need ants to reproduce, Speed limit proposed to save Right Whales, carotenoids act as a plant sunscreen, Mushrooms have powerful antioxidants, too. Interview with Dr. Richard Sayre on giant genetically engineered cassava and phytoremediation. Space Shuttle set to launch, Hubble breaks a camera, Oval BA or "Red Jr" set to pass Jupiter's Great Red Spot on July 4, An Inconvenient Truth is coming to Davis, Gore invites himself to the White ho...

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[ Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, June 22 2006. (Episode 41)
Tips on surviving the pressure-cooker known as the Central Valley: how to squeeze more efficiency out of your air conditioner, note on passive heating and cooling - new excuse to get a fish tank, and cool off your drinks faster with solutes! Booster shot: how hard is it to get an ethanol program going? Greasing the wheels of biodiesel with a recyclable catalyst, and dating old books with evolutionary algorithm. Pluto's two newly discovered satellites named, faux interview with Stephen Hawking on...

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[ Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, June 15 2006. (Episode 40)
Polar Bears resorting to cannibalism, "Bosnian Pyramid" rejected by scientists as fiction, Another evolutionary prediction holds true with hybrid butterflies, Sound of Science - new ringtone only audible for youngsters, Genesis spacecraft crashed in 2004 because gravity switches were installed backwards. Interview with Dr. Chris Turney, author of Bones, Rocks and Stars, the science of when things happened. Brought to you by Argon, Theme = Hobbit music from the Lord of the Rings, by Howard Shore....

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[ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, June 8 2006. (Episode 39)
General Motors takes an environmental jump backwards with new incentive plan, more ethanol from your corn, new millipede with a record number of legs discovered, Red Jr nearing the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, figs are the earliest domesticated crop. Genetically engineered cassava is gigantic - 150 percent bigger, chocolate threatened by disease, electric fish species diverging, new class of mutations discovered in sheep, strange reddish cells without DNA hypothesized as extra-terrestrials, and an...

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[ Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, June 1 2006. (Episode 38)
Dolphins recognize each other "by name", Sperm Whale hunting dives tracked by sound, New species discovered: Paedocypris fish akin to former "smallest fish" in Malaysia and 8 different species in a Jerusalem cave, no sign of Ivory Billed Woodpecker? Chicken-Egg controversy gets a little too nitpicky, "Rhythm Method" may kill more embryos than other contraceptive methods, argues London professor. HIV virus origins traced to wild chimpanzees, Voyager spacecraft may reveal solar system trajectory, ...

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[ Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, May 25 2006. (Episode 37)
Being polite on the road helps everyone - let's have a greenbeard effect for fuel-efficient vehicles, Chimpanzees found to plan ahead, New five-dimensional theory of gravity set to be tested against Einstein's theory of general relativity. Interview with graduate student Kevin Eslinger on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Hybrid vehicles. Special Crackpot segment - ex-air traffic controlled says the end of the world is tonight, and food supplement wackos want BAD evidence included from reports! Theme = Deep Im...

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[ Thu, 25 May 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


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 confirm ch...

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[ Thu, 18 May 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


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 2006 h...

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[ Thu, 11 May 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, May 4 2006. (Episode 34)
Kamchatka Peninsula not on North American Tectonic plate but part of Russia still is, 405 million year old fossil connects bony fishes and land vertebrates, fMRI study finds that you can neurologically "lose yourself" when concentrating on tasks, Europe tests e-newspapers, Polar Bears & Hippos among 530 species added to Red List, Plants will store 9 percent more carbon in the soil when Earth warms - lower than previous estimate, nagging difference in temperature readings has been resolved - fina...

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[ Thu, 4 May 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, April 27 2006. (Episode 33)
Karl is about to get his packaged bees, honeybees make decisions democratically - often better than humans, metamorphosis gene discovered and studied in insects that have complete and incomplete metapmorphosis, Bad news for bioterrorists: Inhibitor of anthrax toxin invented, Lysins used to bore holes in Anthrax, first scarecrow with a brain, Gas-free beans achieved through microbial treatment, review of President Bush's visit to the California Fuel Cell Partnership, and his bait-and-switch when ...

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[ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, April 20 2006. (Episode 32)
Pollen is in the air - plants are having sex. Springtime honeybee swarming, why don't honeybees lift their legs when they fly, honeybee genetics explained, and honeybee experiment focuses in on how centrosomes are generated, cellular division reversed in a breakthrough experiment in cancer research. New patent may force viewers to watch commercial advertisements, Jelly Beans among exercise supplements to be tested in future study, 4.2 million year old fossil of Australopithecus anamensis found i...

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[ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, April 13 2006. (Episode 31)
Creationist Museum buys one-eyed cat thinking that it is a mutant - when it is not - who know's how much they wasted on their fake example of "bad" mutations, nanocar gets an engine, Batteries made from viruses, moist soils help the spread of invasive argentine ants Linepithema humile, worms prefer the hottest water in the world, honey heals wounds, catastrophic species loss in 2050 due to global warming, UC Davis researchers find patterns on Mars that suggest wet conditions, Venus Express enter...

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[ Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, April 04 2006. (Episode 30)
Guess the animal sound, Moderate drinking health benefits in error? Alcohol grows dwarf plants, Rice domestication boiled down to one mutation, insect resistance egen in corn found, insects contribute billions to economy. The Darwin Fish was found - Tiktaalik, makes a splash and walks on land, "antifreeze" gene in fish evolved from "junk" DNA, Theme = Star Trek III. Brought to you by Colloidal Silver....

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[ Thu, 4 Apr 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, March 16 2006. (Episode 29)
Karl's ATM card unexpectedly declined - turns out many cards are being reissued to guard against fraud. Botulin toxin just got more toxic, booster shot on forest management - more evidence that tree removal causes problems, native bees may be more effective than honeybees but harder to raise and not as sweet. Magdalenian Girl is really Magdalenian woman - impacted molars give clues about human diet, Kansas church teaches evolutionary science, Booster shot on convergent evolution: electric fish o...

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[ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:00:00 -0800 ]


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 liqu...

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[ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, March 2 2006. (Episode 27)
City planning making you fatter? Polarized light detects ideal olympic ice, first artificial star created with a laser, rare phenomenon known as ball lightning may have just been explained, predators make the world greener, support for agricultural biotechnology declines but the most supportive are those that follow the most news, science studying the past - hundreds of amber-fossilized spiders reveal clues about ancient ecology. Interview with Dr. Geerat (Gary) Vermeij on evolution and the uniq...

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[ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 03:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, February 23 2006. (Episode 26)
Pluto may have moons, huge cave and new frog species discovered, scientists grow hens teeth, seafood may have made us so smart, American Association for the Advancement of Science convenes: denounces anti-evolution laws, highlights issues in evolution education, gives top ten list of habitable stellar systems, discusses spearheads in Americas suggest early european travelers 19,000 years ago, dragonfly flight next to be studied, and they also announce that Sacramento may be the next New Orleans....

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[ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0800 ]


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 bones ...

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[ Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, February 09 2006. (Episode 24)
Valentines Day Special, "Mentalist" predicts super bowl? I think not. Dozens of new species discovered in New Guinea, rats smell in stereo, studying fossils in 3D, Transplanted fish spermatogonia can become eggs, CatSper1 protein involved in sperm hyperactivity, prevent stage fright with sex, Two placebos differ in effect, Inoccuous virus for gene therapy, GE plants metabolize pollutants, Toxin gene transferred between bacteria and spider, engineering plants to take up CO2 better? Interview with...

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[ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, February 02 2006. (Episode 23)
No signs of life in Mars erosion, Male Monkeys fatten up while partner is pregnant, Mourning baboons, Hawaii's state fish Humuhumunukunukuapua'a challenged, Smallest Fish discovered is really not, Reactome maps influenza-human interaction, First transmittable cancer discovered in Tasmanian Devils, Biofuels and human-animal hybrids in the State of the Union Address, healthy neurons involved in ongoing inexplicable pain, Nuclear Fusion without external neuron source, Pregnant mother's bodies activ...

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[ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 26 2006. (Episode 22)
Vatican City rejects Intelligent Design, Rabbit-human hybrid embryos for disease research? Honeybee reproductive protein mentioned in episode 21 acts as antioxidant, Stardust spacecraft returns, We don't use metals sustainably, Human ears evolved from fish gills, Most Earth-like planet discovered, Ethanol gets credit for efficiency, Wine drinkers just have healthier diets than beer drinkers, Global warming not caused by methane emitted by plants - scientists respond to media misinformation, Scie...

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[ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 19 2006. (Episode 21)
Awesome intro (must listen) on the launch of New Horizons, moons in Kuiper belt typical, ESA launches 'galileo', Fruit fly evolution on toxic fruit, scent-detecting protein found in malaria mosquito, CCR5 mutation helps against HIV but hurts against West Nile, genetic engineering makes plant-based vaccine in less than a month, mitochondrial DNA studies find no evidence that a skull belonged to Mozart but do find out that most Ashkenazi Jews descend from four women. Theme = The Last Starfighter...

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[ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 12 2006. (Episode 20)
Intelligent Design clubs now allow non-christians, change words to avoid detection, Karl goes to church to hear about ID, "design" class in California challenged and canceled, One-eyed kitten, Taking the pain out of magnet therapy, Ants wielding antibiotics, ants teach bi-directionally, listener Chris calls to discuss visit to church, Bee flight understood, Ancestral form of honeybee ancestors discovered, Launch of the mindlog, Theme = Deep Impact...

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[ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, January 5 2006. (Episode 19)
Leap Second, KDRT remodeled, Tracking Teaspoons, Malaria's cloak of invisibility revealed, Hubble finds new rings and moons around Uranus, Dark Chocolate good for smokers, Animal-cell-free Embryonic Stem Cells, Hwang Woo-suk's research faked, Evil J. Klone calls to dispute, Best science of the year including Evolution in Action, Theme = Extra Terrestrial...

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[ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, July 28 2005. (Episode 0)
Space Shuttle Launch, Master Blaster Mushrooms, Saturn Auroras, Meadows in Decline, Long Living Worms, Cats Can't Taste Sugar, Guests: Debate on Genetic Engineering, Theme = Star Trek TOS....

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The Inoculated Mind, December 08 2005. (Episode 17)
Protein kills anthrax, Photographs taken on bacteria, Saturn's moon Enceladus has active geology, Map of mouse brain (Party Mouse), new species found in Borneo, dog genome sequenced, microRNA involved in hindlimb development, sexual maturity the same as in paleolithic but psychosocial maturity happens later, global warming could halt ocean circulation, Super EBIT measures Quantum Electro-Dynamics more closely, FFN - Beer and the Belly, Fox News has a new Science section, Intelligent Design criti...

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[ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, December 01 2005. (Episode 16)
Buying property on the moon, Mars Flag, Subterranean martian water found by MARSIS radar, smallest solar system discovered, quantum tunneling of electrons between proteins, Ice cores: Carbon Dioxide levels highest in 650,000 years, Global Warming Conference begins in Montreal, Canada. Science Sound - Singing Icebergs, Ariela's Birthday, Micro RNAs in human evolution, Evolution of two types of laughter, Karl's thoughts on genetically modifying humans Theme = GATTACA...

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[ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:30:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, November 17 2005. (Episode 15)
Honeybee disco, Exorcizing the Devil Out of Dover Part IV - Teachers reduce evolution curriculum, School Board voted out, Pat Robertson says God may not be there, trial outcome prediction, Anti-GMO Measure M defeated in Sonoma County, Lemur named after John Cleese, Brain cells killed by thinking in Alzheimers, California Condors to be released, Dallasaurus fossil is an aquatic lizard, Godzilla fossil VS King Kong fossil, FFN - Tryptophan, "FAT" receptor tastes fats, Maine Coon cats possess heart...

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[ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, November 03 2005. (Episode 14)
New Alloy - Liquid Metal, NASA sends probe to Venus, Pluto has three moons, New Horizons rocket damaged by hurricanes, Canada to build world's largest telescope, Spitzer telescope peers into 13.5 billion years ago and sees early stars, Battle for Humanity - antibiotics may be killing beneficial bacteria, Sharks and Tuna increase energy output with warm red muscle, First protein discovered that inserts itself into plant cells, Dire climate model prediction if we use all fossil fuels, climate chan...

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[ Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:00:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, October 27 2005. (Episode 13)
Russia makes new space commitment, China accelerating program, Hubble pointed at the moon, NASA will hold beam and tether challenge, Engineering plants for space travel and life on Mars, first rolling nanocar, quantum dot/LED hybrid light, color perception is in the brain, pheromone tested to control locusts, malaria-resistance gene in mosquitos found, Exorcizing the Devil Out of Dover Part III - Dembski/Meyer briefs thrown out of court, affirmative action for intelligent design, rapidly evolvin...

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[ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:30:00 -0800 ]


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 = Sta...

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[ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:00:00 -0700 ]


The Inoculated Mind, October 06 2005. (Episode 10)
First Giant Squid video, Ruminations on Lassen and Mud Baths, Sonoma County Weighs Measure M, P-Body: Cellular Dump is actually a Storage Depot, antibiotic resistance without an energetic cost, but now we can predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance, alcohol and tobacco combined damage the brain. Interview with Rick Grosberg, professor of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis: Caste systems in sea anemones, in-utero cannibalism in snails, and concepts in evolution. Theme = Dr Who...

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[ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:20:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, September 29 2005. (Episode 9)
First Giant Squid video, Ruminations on Lassen and Mud Baths, Sonoma County Weighs Measure M, P-Body: Cellular Dump is actually a Storage Depot, antibiotic resistance without an energetic cost, but now we can predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance, alcohol and tobacco combined damage the brain. Interview with Rick Grosberg, professor of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis: Caste systems in sea anemones, in-utero cannibalism in snails, and concepts in evolution. Theme = Dr Who...

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[ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:20:00 -0800 ]


The Inoculated Mind, August 25 2005. (Episode 4)
West Nile Virus in Davis, Dust Devils on Mars, Saturn's Rings have an atmosphere, Supernova 1987A web image, Light slowed down and sped up - SciFi tie-in with Davis Brin Uplift Trilogy, What to make of Bill Frist's comments on Intelligent Design, Voices from the grave - the call of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, The Battle for Humanity in our mouths - Odor-eating bacteria, Straws reduce tooth decay, Genetically Engineered cavity-fighting bacteria, New method of deriving Embryonic Stem Cells sidest...

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[ Sat, 27 Aug 2005 03:00:00 -0700 ]


The Inoculated Mind, August 18 2005. (Episode 3)
Karl is Blind, First Internet Surgery, Chocolate good as Red Wine, Solar System Weather Unknown, Saturn and Earth Auroral "sounds" compared, Peahens select Peacock mates by their "eyes", Plants know which roots are theirs, Urine-powered battery, Long-term Violence and Video Games, Harvard begins Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative, Origin of Genetic Code Explained, Theme = Cowboy Bebop...

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[ Tue, 19 Aug 2005 02:00:00 -0700 ]


The Inoculated Mind, August 11 2005. (Episode 2)
Discovery lands, catnip sensitivity, Review: Apes to Man (Cable is worthless), Troposphere not cooling, "Sasquatch" hair DNA belongs to Bison, Kansas Devolves, Religious Scientists, Meteors and the origin of life, Spitzer space telescope and ancient space dross, 2005 Perseids, C. Elegans embryological development mapped, Evil J. Klone calls in, GM Corn not in Oaxaca Mexico: followup on Ignacio Chapela interview. Theme = Star Trek 2...

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[ Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:00:00 -0700 ]


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, LOTR...

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[ Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:00:00 -0700 ]





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