Ya, it's been far too long since I've written anything. For now, I wanted to share one of my new favourite podcasts, and share episodes from two other podcasts because the topics and discussions are deeply fascinating and important.

This Week in EvolutionAdmittedly the topics and discussions are very science-heavy and can get rather technical - ( Read more... )

A cinematic approach to drug resistance:
Scientists film bacteria’s maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs

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It is downright ethically wrong what the anti-science fear-mongerers do. Which means, those who are able, have an ethical duty to try to do right by the public and set things straight. I urge anyone who happens to actually come across this post to please listen to this podcast episode (link below goes straight to .mp3 file), and to please pass it ( Read more... )

Athletics doping: Kenya misses Wada deadlineWell, so much for that theory that there's something special about Kenyan genetics that makes them such good runners. (Not that it was so scientifically viable a theory anymore anyway ( Read more... )

Podcast episodes well worth listening to, to further or start to educate yourself on gravely important global issues such as agriculture. Especially in our time when climate change is increasingly affecting our capabilities for growing food. And notice I said "increasingly affecting": this is not new; this has been happening for longer than you ( Read more... )

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Part IIIPicking up where I left off ( Read more... )

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[Let me make this very clear: I am being very pessimistic here in some of the things I say, especially regarding some hypotheticals. There might be some people who would disagree with me about how those hypotheticals might play out. While what I say about them does reflect my actual sentiments about these issues, I really ( Read more... )

If you're nerdy and geeky enough, then I recommend the following two podcast episodes, both of which are hilarious as much as they are science nerdy.

Mendel's Finches, "Augmented Humanity": https://mendelsfinches.wordpress.com/2015/08/08/podcast-augmented-humanity/Talkin' Immunology with BioLegend, "Science Ignorance and the Inner Workings of the ( Read more... )

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Picking up from where I left off:

What would it take to edit or alter the human genome?
This is related to getting at what exactly the human genome is, what it means to say that the human genome exists in every one of us, and yet we each have our own unique genome. What is the underlying relationship that links all of ( Read more... )

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Part IVIf you've been paying attention to recent news - 'recent' as in, the past six months or so - about genetic research, you might get the impression that genetic engineering as we typically (science-fictionally) think of it is coming ever closer to being a reality in the not-too-distant future. Making all of those associated ( Read more... )