Trackside Science

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Sounds:

Evening Birds2 - Robins 03-30-2016.mp3 by kb7clx

train03_long_composition_screeching.wav by aesqe

CSX locomotive on crossing Montreal Rd by JM

freight_train_2.flac by Zabuhailo

Music:

Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952), Archive.org

Free science swag - details at the beginning. Remember, there are two words in every species.

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Map of rabbits in Australia (here)

Sounds:

Kookaburra.wav by pocket

Laughing Kookaburra.wav by ERH

DIDGERIDOO 05.wav by sandyrb

Spinifex Wind #1 by kangaroovindaloo

Desert at Night by kangaroovindaloo

Bullroarer by Sonic-ranger

Pirate Ship at Bay.wav by CGEffex

Land_Ho by AnnB

Vintage Ambience 1 (Red Lib) » R09-21-Western Town General Movement.wav by craigsmith

2 Horse Carriage by Leo153

clearing throat.mp3 by fless005

G52-07-Horse Drawn Carriage.wav by craigsmith

The Wild Wild West ( No music) by craigsmith

Happy.wav by TheOmegaPixel

Popcorn_revisited_munching.wav by digifishmusic

Far Away City Traffic Ambience by Dpoggioli

00695 men crowd 1.wav by Robinhood76

horse's whinny by Kubuzz

aboiements.mp3 by Pierre Grandjean

SHOTGUN_SHOT_03.wav by MATTIX

typewriter22.ogg by tams_kp

Loop-Copy-Mutate » 1 strijken-p1-p1.aif by heumo

car horn 20.3.11.wav by toiletrolltube

horn stolen from the best movie ever (here)

End music: The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra (Archive.org)

Selected References:

Description of the release of myxomavirus:

Ratcliffe et al 1952 Nature

Myxomavirus general and evolution:

Fenner's Veterinary Virology 4th ed

Rivers TM 1930 J. Exp Med 1 June » 51 (6): 965 INFECTIOUS MYXOMATOSIS OF RABBITS

Kerr et al Myxoma Virus and the Leporipoxviruses: An Evolutionary Paradigm. Viruses 2015, 7, 1020-1061

Wang et al Nature Imm 2004 Disruption of Erk-dependent type I interferon induction breaks the myxoma virus species barrier

Wolfe et al 2018 J Virol Myxoma Virus M083 Is a Virulence Factor Which Mediates Systemic Dissemination

Condit, RC on The Red Queen meets the White Rabbit. (#457, 2017, September 3) This Week in Virology

Rabbits in Australia:

Coman, B (1999). Tooth & Nail – the story of the rabbit in Australia. Text Publishing Company: Melbourne.

Shepherd and Edmonds. The Victorian Naturalist v113 1996 page 98

Tomlinson, A. R. and Gooding, C. D., "THE ORGANISATION OF RABBIT CONTROL (Oryctolagus cuniculus) IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA" (1970). Proceedings of the 4th Vertebrate Pest Conference (1970). 39. 1970

Stead DG. The Rabbit Menace in New South Wales, Dept of Agriculture, NSW 1925

Lange & Graham 1983 Australian Journal of Ecology

Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz., 2010, 29 (1), 103-111 Deliberate introduction of the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, into Australia

Art and Architecture, mainly. (2011, January 21) [Blog post] Retrieved from: http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2011/01/louis-pasteur-rabbits-and-sex-in.html

Annual report of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria : with the addresses delivered at the annual meeting of the Society... 1st-7th (1862-1871). (link to Biodiversity Heritage Library)

I interview science teacher and author of "How We Teach Science, What's Changed, and why it matters".

John's book --> link here (It's at Harvard University Press if the link isn't working)

A Private Universe --> here

Jerry Merryman (killer of the slide rule) June 1932 – February 27, 2019 (obituary)

Sidney Brenner (cell biology & genetics) January 1927 – April 5, 2019 (obituary)

Owen Garriot (engineer, scientist, astronaut) November 1930 – April 15, 2019 (obituary)

Gerald Berenson (cardiologist) September 1922 – November 22, 2018 (obituary)

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (archeologist) March 1938 – January 18, 2019 (obituary)

Links:

book: Eighth Day of Creation

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Music:

We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City (Dirge & March) 1980, Classic Sounds of New Orleans by Smithsonian Folkways (Archive.org)

Sound:

Train_Ext_Horn_1.wav by Cell31_Sound_Productions (Freesound.org)

car crash by Squareal (Freesound.org)

Coming out on the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, we talk about what we know about the mission, how it affected culture in the United States and how conflicted we would feel if Trump's desire for flashiness actually got us back to the moon.

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Sound credits:

Apollo 11 landing radio chatter (NASA, archive.org)

Windsdown by Jmayoff

Rob & Jeff interview Dan Mushalko, General Manager, host and alpha-Geek at WCBE in Columbus Ohio. Listen to how his science education show The Amazing Science Emporium was born from Hurricane Gloria and about his efforts while at NASA to convince America that Skylab wasn't going to fall on their head.

Drinks:

Rex Goliath Cabernet Sauvignon

Fernson Shy Giant IPA

Ginger Tea

Music:

"Get Up and Give" (1952) Grady Martin and His Slew Foot Five, Archive.org

"Night Train" The Mad Caps (1952), Archive.org

Links:

Romulan Ale

The Amazing Science Emporium

Mercury in coal (in the ground)

Mercury in vaccines (FDA)

UCLA Galactic Center Group

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Music:

Freaky Dance Virus 02.wav by Sepal (Freesound.org)

Elevator Music 1 Hour (Archive.org)

The Happy Monster by Chubby Jackson and his Orchestra (Archive.org)

References:

Peach yellow spot disease, Tymovirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30923968

Lynx canadensis gammaherpes virus-1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31010021

Ntepes Virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6433041/

Aspergillus flavus Partitivirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984147

Mud crab tombus-like virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30651355

Tetrastichus brontispae RNA virus 1https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/257/htm

Yongsan bunyavirus 1, Yongsan picorna-like virus 3 and Yongsan sobemo-like virus 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30841520

Horse Plasma Orthobunyavirus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30833612

Burpengary Virus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466430/

Founders Breakfast Stout

Remedy Nonsense IPA

Margaret Bright (Public Health) Nov 19, 1918 - Dec 28, 2018 (obituary)

Martin Gore (Cancer Research) Feb 1951 – 10 Jan 2019 (obituary)

Arthur Art Rosenfeld (Physics) June 22, 1926 - Jan 27, 2017 (obituary)

Seung-Yull Cho (Parasitology) Nov 16, 1943 - Jan 27, 2019 (obituary)

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Music:

We Shall Walk Through the Streets of the City (Dirge & March) 1980, Classic Sounds of New Orleans by Smithsonian Folkways (Archive.org)

Sound:

Train_Ext_Horn_1.wav by Cell31_Sound_Productions (Freesound.org)

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Music: La Cucaracha, The Castilian Troubadours. 1934. Archive.org

References:

Suto et al. 1979. Microbiology & Immunology. A new virus isolated from the cockroach, Periplaneta fuliginosa

Mukha et al. 2006. Journal of General Virology. Characterization of a new densovirus infecting the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Our favorite lab techniques. Jeff, molecular, Rob, cellular? Rob HATES bio banks and Jeff just can't wrap his mind around them. Special guest Devon makes her second appearance.

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Favorites:

Jeff: Expression screening phage libraries & 5' Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends (5'RACE)

Rob: Plasmid Pigs & Microarrays for comparative genomic hybridization

Least favorites:

Jeff: Suiting up in the BSL3 lab

Rob: Biobanks

Music:

Front bumper: "Lonesome Railroad Blues" (1953) Firehouse Five, plus Two, Archive.org

Rear bumper: "Night Train" The Mad Caps (1952), Archive.org

Commercial: Jazz Break • The Best Contemporary Smooth Jazz by Kuban, Archive.org

Sounds (Freesound.org)

train_horn.aif by tim.kahn

Train Yard Night Ambiance by ultradust

tarp flapping.wav by Huggy13ear

tarp flapping.wav by stormpetrel