Trackside Science

As you would expect from a 117 year old recording, the audio quality isn't the best, but here it is - their actual words. See for yourself (link)

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Are PhDs going to be of any use after the apocalypse?  Is Rob forever trapped as a human geneticist? Should everyone be trained to clean their kitchen using radioactive chicken juice? Jimmy the Stude…

Rob backpacks through Europe for his first conference and Jeff makes a random left hand turn into the best taco shop ever. Conferences - you either love ‘em, hate ‘em or feel somewhere in between abo…

Thracken and Turis are trying to figure out whats up with all the force choking in the Imperial Navy. And wondering about the limits of ethics on the Death Star.

Apollo 11, Space Shuttle launch and A…

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 unf…

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

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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.

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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…

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 des…

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 d…

From passive aggressive urination to unintentional oral sampling one's fecal microbiota and moon rocks - this episode's a roller coaster of emotions.  

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Rob's robots, where we get our information, finishing up with a bit of analysis of pornographic consumption patterns.  And beer.

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Tolkien move aside, now we have a trilogy too.  We talk about our science heros and the influential people in our science lives. And: a short bonus discussion of the potty talk in  Ready Player One!

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We each share science fields that, while we would look like boobs talking about in a roomful of people, fascinate us.  Plus - a commercial!

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Rob & Jeff talk about the paths they followed into science and to their Bachelor's degrees.  Scuba diving in the Florida Keys (he counted them) and commercial fishing in Alaska (I killed them). 

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