- The Inoculated Mind - Mindcast
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 w …
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The Inoculated Mind, December 7 2006. (Episode 59)
Take the God of the Gaps Mindcast Challenge - write this description and be rewarded! Theme = Star Trek TNG by Dennis McCarthy
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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. Micro …
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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 …
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The Inoculated Mind, February 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 silenci …
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The Inoculated Mind, February 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 …
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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 silenci …
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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 …
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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 go …
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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 r …
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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 liq …
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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 "plane …
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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 sc …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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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, Stephe …
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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 c …
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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 …
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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 rela …
- The Inoculated Mind - Mindcast
