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Welcome to Double X Science for December 7, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeffrey Perkel, tech editor.

Our topics cover posts since out last podcast:

2013 Holiday Shopping for the XX Science in Your Life http://www.doublexscience.org/2013-holiday-shopping-xx-science-life/

8 years ago I aborted twins, maybe http://www.doublexscience.org/8-years-ago-aborted-twins/

Manicure Monday features hands-on science http://www.doublexscience.org/manicure-monday/

Ladies? It gets better http://www.doublexscience.org/ladies-gets-better/  

Double X Science, Jr. posts: Please contact Adrienne at [email protected] to submit posts for the DXS Jr site.

News of the week was Researchers Characterize Microbiomes of Fecal Microbiota Transplant Patients Over Time. The article discussed in the podcast is:http://www.genomeweb.com//node/1316351

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Welcome to Double X Science for November 1, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor.

This podcast is split into two episodes due to the length of discussion on our topics.

Our introductory discussion is about Tara Haelle's post 25 myths about the flu vaccine debunked

http://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2013/10/28/setting-the-record-straight-dubunking-all-the-flu-vaccine-myths/

http://www.doublexscience.org/setting-record-straight-debunking-25-myths-flu-vaccine/

Double X Science posts since our last podcast:

Why I Am the Perfect Mother by Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/why-i-am-the-perfect-mother/

Parallel Earth and the Evil Matthew Hypothesis by Matthew Frances http://www.doublexscience.org/parallel_earth_evil_matthew/

The Girls of Atomic City by Chris Gunter http://www.doublexscience.org/girls-atomic-city/

Cosmic Coincidence and a Potato Eclipse by Matthew Frances http://www.doublexscience.org/cosmic-coincidence-and-a-potato-eclipse/

How close is a malaria vaccine? by Alexa Kurzius http://www.doublexscience.org/will-ever-effective-malaria-vaccine/

Of CRISPR/Cas and the power of basic research by Jeffrey Perkel http://www.doublexscience.org/crisprcas-basic-research/

The Secret Ingredient of Breast Milk by Beth Skwarekci http://www.doublexscience.org/secret-ingredient-breast-milk/

Two Moms Talk About Pertussis As Told to Maryn McKenna http://www.doublexscience.org/two-moms-talk-pertussis/

Girls Who Grew Up to be scientists by Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/girls-grew-scientists/

Leave no vagina behind by Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/leave-vagina-behind/

Scientists Highlighted on Double X Science Jr by Adrienne Roehrich http://www.doublexscience.org/scientists-highlighted-double-x-science-jr/

Double X Science, Jr. posts:

The Lunarpolitan Museum of Art by magdissimo http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-lunarpolitan-museum-of-modern-art.html

The key to survival: turles by KathyZ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-key-to-survival-turtles.html

A Pretty Metal Story - Parts 1 & 2 by akshiv http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-pretty-metal-story-part-one.html

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/09/part-two-of-pretty-metal-story.html

Please visit http://doublexscience.podomatic.com/ for more information.

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Welcome to Double X Science for November 1, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor.

This podcast is split into two episodes due to the length of discussion on our topics.

Our introductory discussion is about Tara Haelle's post 25 myths about the flu vaccine debunked

http://www.redwineandapplesauce.com/2013/10/28/setting-the-record-straight-dubunking-all-the-flu-vaccine-myths/

http://www.doublexscience.org/setting-record-straight-debunking-25-myths-flu-vaccine/

Double X Science posts since our last podcast:

Why I Am the Perfect Mother by Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/why-i-am-the-perfect-mother/

Parallel Earth and the Evil Matthew Hypothesis by Matthew Frances http://www.doublexscience.org/parallel_earth_evil_matthew/

The Girls of Atomic City by Chris Gunter http://www.doublexscience.org/girls-atomic-city/

Cosmic Coincidence and a Potato Eclipse by Matthew Frances http://www.doublexscience.org/cosmic-coincidence-and-a-potato-eclipse/

How close is a malaria vaccine? by Alexa Kurzius http://www.doublexscience.org/will-ever-effective-malaria-vaccine/

Of CRISPR/Cas and the power of basic research by Jeffrey Perkel http://www.doublexscience.org/crisprcas-basic-research/

The Secret Ingredient of Breast Milk by Beth Skwarekci http://www.doublexscience.org/secret-ingredient-breast-milk/

Two Moms Talk About Pertussis As Told to Maryn McKenna http://www.doublexscience.org/two-moms-talk-pertussis/

Girls Who Grew Up to be scientists by Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/girls-grew-scientists/

Leave no vagina behind by Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/leave-vagina-behind/

Scientists Highlighted on Double X Science Jr by Adrienne Roehrich http://www.doublexscience.org/scientists-highlighted-double-x-science-jr/

Double X Science, Jr. posts:

The Lunarpolitan Museum of Art by magdissimo http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-lunarpolitan-museum-of-modern-art.html

The key to survival: turles by KathyZ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-key-to-survival-turtles.html

A Pretty Metal Story - Parts 1 & 2 by akshiv http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-pretty-metal-story-part-one.html

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/09/part-two-of-pretty-metal-story.html

Please visit http://doublexscience.podomatic.com/ for more information.

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Title: Beyond the Post: Book Reviews with Matthew Francis

Welcome to Double X Science for September 10, 2013. Today's host is Double X Science chemistry editor, Adrienne Roehrich, speaking with physics editor Matthew Francis about the four book reviews he has shared at Double X Science in 2013.

Articles discussed during the interview include:

Gulp

http://www.doublexscience.org/a-tour-of-digestion-from-nose-to-um-tail/

My Beloved Brontosaurus

http://www.doublexscience.org/a-brontosaurus-for-you/

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Title: Beyond the Post: Book Reviews with Matthew Francis

Welcome to Double X Science for August 30, 2013. Today's host is Double X Science chemistry editor, Adrienne Roehrich, speaking with physics editor Matthew Francis about the four book reviews he has shared at Double X Science in 2013.

Articles discussed during the interview include:

A Tour of Physics: Angry Bird Style

http://www.doublexscience.org/a-tour-of-physics-angry-birds-style/

Paloefantasies

http://www.doublexscience.org/paleofantasies-are-trumped-by-scientific-realities/

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Title: Dietary Supplements, Head Lice, and HeLa Cell Genome

Welcome to Double X Science for August 9, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor.

Our topics cover posts since out last podcast:

The gummy deficiency http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gummy-deficiency/

Scientific Realities Trump Paleofantasy http://www.doublexscience.org/paleofantasies-are-trumped-by-scientific-realities/

The gift of depression and mood disorder http://www.doublexscience.org/the-gift-of-depression-and-mood-disorder/

Back to School Fact-check: Head Lice http://www.doublexscience.org/back-to-school-fact-check-head-lice/

Smoke signals cancer’s edges in surgery http://www.doublexscience.org/iknife-excises-uncertainty-in-tumor-resection/

Double X Science, Jr. posts:

Professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/professor-elizabeth-h-blackburn.html

Laser Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/laser-light-amplification-by-stimulated.html

Use of Cesium for Wildlife Tracking http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/08/use-of-cesium-for-wildlife-tracking.html

News of the week was about the mapping of the HeLa cell line genome. The two articles discussed in the podcast are:

http://www.nature.com/news/deal-done-over-hela-cell-line-1.13511

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2013/03/24/the-henrietta-lacks-genome-consent-trust-and-common-decency/

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Welcome to Double X Science for July 19, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeanne Garbarino, biology editor.

Our topics cover posts since the end of June:

Armchair genetics from Jamestown to Scott Brown

http://www.doublexscience.org/armchair-genetics-from-jamestown-to-scott-brown/

Between neurohype and neuroskepticism

http://www.doublexscience.org/between-neurohype-and-neuroskepticism/

(Covered in an interview with Bethany in a Beyond the Post July 15, 2013)

On call

http://www.doublexscience.org/on-call/

Maternal abortion history no longer a risk for preterm birth

http://www.doublexscience.org/maternal-abortion-history-no-longer-a-risk-for-preterm-birth/

Double X Science, Jr. posts:

Biography of Rosalind Franklin

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/biology-of-rosalind-franklin.html

Henrietta Leavitt

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/henrietta-leavitt.html

Reading Words on a Screen vs. on Paper

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/reading-words-on-screen-vs-on-paper.html

A Bee-g Issue ( ha.ha. )

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-bee-g-issue-haha.html

Quantum Computing Has Arrived

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/07/quantum-computing-has-arrived.html

Richard Feynman and Feynman Diagram Basics

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/richard-feynman-and-feynman-diagram.html

Barbara McClintock : A Biography

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/barbara-mcclintock-biography.html

News of the week was about Julia Parrish presenting her science and citizen science organization at the White House.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/07/10/julia-parrish-speaks-at-white-house-about-citizen-science/

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Welcome to Double X Science for July 15, 2013. Today's host is Double X Science chemistry editor, Adrienne Roehrich, interviewing Bethany Brookshire, aka Scicurious, about her two articles in the past 6 months on Double X Science.

Articles discussed during the interview include:

Between neurohype and neuroskepticism. (http://www.doublexscience.org/between-neurohype-and-neuroskepticism/)  

If You Try One Detox This Year, Make It This One (http://www.doublexscience.org/if-you-try-one-detox-this-year-make-it-this-one/)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/07/15/is-sugar-really-toxic-sifting-through-the-evidence/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/apr/19/beer-dopamine-brain-scans

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/06/18/book-review-brainwashed/#.UeQV2EHvvzx

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Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor.

Our topics cover posts since the end of May:

Early Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle

http://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/

Calculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood

http://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/

Arousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber

http://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/

Five Reasons Mermaids are Impossible by Editor-in-Chief Emily Willingham

http://www.doublexscience.org/five-reasons-mermaids-are-impossible/

On Pacifiers and Breastfeeding by Health Editor Tara Haelle

http://www.doublexscience.org/of-pacifiers-and-breastfeeding/

Chasing Tornadoes is an Old Habit by Tech Editor Jeffrey Perkel

http://www.doublexscience.org/storm-chasers-colonial-edition/

Sizing Up the Mother in Me by Contributor Joss Fong

http://www.doublexscience.org/sizing-up-the-mother-in-me/

He found out he has ovaries by Editor-in-chief Emily Willingham

http://www.doublexscience.org/he-found-out-he-has-ovaries/

SCOTUS ruling means cheaper genetic testing by science ed editor Chris Gunter

http://www.doublexscience.org/myriad-genetics-ruling/

Shark Clones: A Story of Parthenogenesis

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/shark-clones-story-of-parthenogenesis.html

Dr. Irene Helen Battle

http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-helen-irene-battle.html

ews of the week was about the Big Brain Project.

http://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews

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Welcome to Double X Science. It’s in your genes. This is your host, chemistry editor Adrienne Roehrich. Double X Science podcast is on hiatus this week. However, we appreciate your listening. Please check out our posts of the week at our website doublexscience.org and our sister site, doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com.

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