- 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, 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 plan …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 coincid …
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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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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 …
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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. …
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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 goi …
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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 backw …
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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 pe …
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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 …
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The Inoculated Mind, May 25 2006. (Episode 37)
Being polite on the road helps everyone - we should 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 Hydrog …
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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 implica …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 hole …
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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. …
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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 Inoculated Mind - Mindcast
