Trackside Science

A science pub bloomed in Sioux Falls and Edisto Beach was discovered. Cubic wombat poop was solved and Voyager 2 finally escaped.

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Rob's trying to refute a published finding and Jeff is still hanging on to an authorship shuffle from over 15 years ago. Arsenate can naturally build up to 3mM and some authors are publishing an unfair number of papers.

Felisa Wolfe Simon's 2010 Science paper (here)

2018 Astrobiology paper that cites the Wolfe paper without qualification (here)

2018 Chemistry (European Journal) paper that cites Wolf paper without qualification (here)

Felisa Wolfe-Simon's web page (here)

Natural arsenate levels in the deserts of eastern California and Nevada can be ~3mM (here)

Rosemary Redfield's blog (here)

http://retractionwatch.com/

Sep 12, 2018 Nature Comment - "Thousands of scientists publish a paper every 5 days" (here)

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors policy on authorship (here)

Galadriel Mirkwood, the dog who helped write a paper (here)

Note - Galadriel lived in Lothlorien, which is across the Anduin and separate from Mirkwood

Lack of sleep erodes your blood-brain-barrier (here)

Dr. Arnold J. Berk, still going strong (here)

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Rob thinks about serving up celebrities while Jeff contemplates cannibalism. Regulatory, ethical and gustatory roadblocks galore!

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Its happening already...Memphis Meats

I Like Cows by Johnny Socko, live in Atlanta 1996

In a random turn of events, we resurrect the 116 year-old voices from the International Congress of Genetics which was happening at the very same time that we recorded them. Plus, bad accents.

The 1902 Conference Proceedings

The American Florist, Aug 1919

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Who knew? Golly, they sounded so dignified and smart back then huh?

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Intrigue at the post Board of Health Meeting discussion: a dangerous virus is a-foot and Dr Salmon wants to kill 'em all. Rob channels Rich Little and Jeff just tries to keep up.

1903 Journal of the Mass. Board of Health from Google Books here

Great history of the history of the outbreak I found after we recorded (here)

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The Coming Plague catalyzes both of our decisions to go to graduate school. We pull out our dissertations and compare sizes. Rob describes unstable sequences associated with colon cancers. Jeff describes an adenovirus promoter. We were experts. #glorydays

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English & Canadian pop songs are getting more depressing and the Herp is (not) waking up in the Siberian permafrost. Also, Carly Rae Jepson is fettered by her happy songs. And for some reason, we didn't curse the entire time.

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Jeff's BBC article

Rob's Royal Society of Open Science article and the Jezebel hit piece

Toilet flush from Polytest at Freesound.org

Viral slushies, catching the Golden State Killer and ancient hepatitis viruses.