TWiV 253: I don't know anything about sorghum

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listeners about systemic antiviral responses, wild type poliovirus in Israel, Turkish scientists, viral symbiotes, and much more.

• One Nation in support of biomedical research?


• Bilim Kazani (The Cauldron of Science)


• Science for Gezi


• State of Turkish Science


• Pathogenesis of feline coronavirus (EID)


• Dinosaurs plagued by infection (PLoS One)


• Dinosaur renaissance (WikiPedia)


• Birds are dinosaurs (AMNH)


• Influenza vaccine enhances disease in pigs (Sci Transl Med)


• Gut microbes influence B-cell development (Nature)


• Circovirus in dogs (EID)


• We the microbiologist


• Letters read on TWiV 251

Dickson - HD slow motion montage (YouTube)Kathy - Damselflies and Eyewitness appAlan - Space weather forecast (YouTube)Rich - 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink)Vincent - PopSci comments off and Why so few women in science?

Meika - Flip action roll (YouTube)CN - Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm GladwellBernadeta - Higgs Boson wins Nobel Prize

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