July 2006

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Episode 46

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Star Date: 2006.07.27.2200
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Followup on previous coverage of the Day that Science Stood Still – Senator Rick Santorum says that scientists that want to work on ES cells have no morals, a representative of the Bush Administration agrees that killing embryos is murder – yet [...]

Episode 45

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Star Date: 2006.07.20.2200
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No News. Interview with Dr. Douglas Cook, director of the UC Davis CAES Genomics Facility, we talked about grapes, legume symbiosis, Pierce’s disease, and wine and honey flavor.

Theme = The Day the Earth Stood Still by Bernard Herrmann.

Episode 44

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Star Date: 2006.07.13.2200
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No News. Interviews with Drs. John Z. Kiss and Deborah Kimbrell, two scientists who sent up experiments on board the space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-121.

Theme = Contact by Alan Silvestri.

Episode 43

Episode 43

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Star Date: 2006.07.06.2200
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Booster shot: Navy announced that it will not use whale-injuring high-intensity active sonar during training, women are more web-savvy than they think, Darwin’s “impassible barrier” passible, wildfires fueled by warming climate, ozone fix longer than expected.
Reducing the need for fertilizers, UCSD [...]