Blue Streak Science Podcast

On This Week’s Show Because Science Blue Streak Science News A***ole of the Week Science News with Kellie Vinal and Sophie McManus Paleontologist announces discovery of dinosaur and proposes marriage in same paper New blood test reveals your lifetime viral exposure, and you thought what happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas Global warming hiatus goes up in a puff of CO2 Box jellyfish go fishing Tracing the path of South Korea’s MERS “Patient Zero” Mosquito sperm may sense smells A***ole of the Week Alice Huang, microbiologist and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science You’re a scientist. You’re female. Your adviser can’t seem to stop looking at your boobs. What do you do? There’s an advice column in the Science Careers section of the journal Science – It’s called “Ask Alice”. Their advice? You should probably “just put up with it”. That’s right, Alice Huang suggests you just put up with it. This is Dr. Alice Huang, a microbiologist and former president of the American As

On This Week’s Show The Poetry of Science Introducing new host Sophie McManus Blue Streak Science News Asshole of the Week Science News with Kellie Vinal and Sophie McManus Ebola gatekeeper protein identified How to rewire the eye Does urine relieve the pain of jellyfish stings? Evidence indicates that dogs and wolves diverged 40,000 years ago A gene for pain sensing discovered A new species of chameleon discovered in Madagascar turns out to be 11 species! A***ole of the Week Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and as-yet-to-announce Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States Jeb Bush: It’s ‘Arrogant’ To Say Science Is Decided On Climate Change. Who is Jeb Bush? He may not be too well-known outside of North America, but he is the former governor of Florida and likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate. Oh, and he’s the brother of former U.S. President George W. Bush, the one that got us into two wars, destabilized the Middle East, and precipitated the Great Recession. Remember? Ye

An Introduction of the Blue Streak Science Podcast Introduction of new host Kellie Vinal Blue Streak Science News Kellie’s news stories JD’s news stories Asshole of the Week Blue Streak Science News Earliest known stone tools discovered in Kenya Republican lawmakers introduce America COMPETES Act of 2015 ‘Home-brewed heroin’ could be the next big thing Kellie’s News Stories "Highly contagious, antibiotic-resistant food poisoning establishes U.S. presence" "Microbial DNA in human body can be used to identify individuals" "kittybiome" kickstarter campaign: citizen science project JD’s News Stories First warm-blooded fish discovered First quasar quartet discovered Asshole of the Week Michael LeCour Falsified data and got caught! Shout Out This week's shout out goes to BioDetectives, a great website run by two life science graduates from Oxford University, now working in England and Australia respectively. They've written for several other blogs and have appeared as guests on podcasts. It's a first