Trackside Science
A science podcast marinated in just the right amount of alcohol, or caffeine (depending on the time zones involved). Your MCs are a former virologist-turned community college teacher and an active human geneticist and informal science educator. If you want to support the show, visit our Patreon page. Send us an email at [email protected], we'd love to hear from you! Thanks for listening!
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
(37) Science Writing
Rob hates it, Jeff loves it, and no one should publish their research in Hustler.
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(36) Welcome Back
Science Fairs (35)
Episode 35 - Science Fairs (Rob hates them)
This episode sat on my hard drive for a year, I apologize.
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Virus Questions (5) - UK variant - more infectious, more severe
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This Week in Virology (link)
NERVTAG paper (link)
English Rob…
(34) The state of journalism with Lou Harry
Lou is a writer and journalist who works with the Society of Professional Journalists and gives some of the most insightful and interesting analysis of journalism today.
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(32) Back in the Saddle?
Just a short little episode to let you know we are back. We think.
An Exploration of the Structure of Effective Apologies (link) - Paywall.... sorry?
Virus special - -Is COVID-19 more like 1918 flu or 1957 flu?
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(32) COVID-19 vaccine will be available at 12:32AM on Aug 17 2021
Wherein Rob and Jeff do an experiment to see how quickly beer and red wine will degrade vaccine knowledge. Jeff uses disabled squirrels and broken-down cars as analogies for attenuated virus vaccines…
Virus Questions (3) - Cheaper, less sensitive virus tests?
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Links:
This Week in Virology episode #640 (here)
Abbot ID Now (here)
English robot generator (here)
(31) Science Dads
Here’s to all the Dads out there. And their jokes
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Virus Questions (2) Antibody tests - difference between qualitative & quantitative?
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Links:
US FDA approved SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests (7/22/2020) (link)
Types of tests -
Chemiluminescent Microbead Immunoassay (Youtube)
Lateral f…
A new series! Virus Questions (1) - What is threshold cycle?
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Links:
This Week in Virology > https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-641/
COVID-19 PCR testing > https://youtu.be/Vd38iS_W7ww
Note - I didn’t mention…
(30) A Fresh Perspective on Science
Sydni is working on an amoeba that *farms* a bacteria!
Sydni’s amazing art: SciDotArt
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Virus (8) Listeriaphage P100
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References:
Muniesa et al Microb Biotechnol. 2011 Nov; 4(6): …
Can we mask coronavirus?
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Music & Sounds:
Night Train, The Mad Caps (1952), Archive.o…