Karl HvM

Karl HvM

Karl Haro von Mogel is the host of The Inoculated Mind Mindcast. He is a graduate student at UW-Madison, studying both plant genetics and science communication.

Episode 76

Episode 76

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Star Date: 2008.02.06.2200
Show Topics:
First synthetic bacterial genome made from scratch, raises promise and bioethics issues, MicroRNAs evolved early in vertebrates, Horseshoe crabs now 100 million years older, nitrogen fertilizers may lower biodiversity of prairie grasses, yet also increase growth in tropical forests, and gene silencing breakthrough may help [...]

Episode 75

Episode 75

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Star Date: 2008.02.06.2200
Show Topics:
First show in Madison!
Embryos created that have three parents, everyone with blue eyes are distant cousins, rail guns not just for fiction anymore – now the US Navy has tested one, orange flavored lollypops for fighting cavitities, and the asteroid 2007 WD5 barely misses Mars, [...]

Episode 74

Episode 74

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Star Date: 2007.05.10.2200
Show Topics:
Last Davis Show! Battle of the Science Communication Heroes: Ken Miller and PZ Myers discuss and debate the issue of religion and the acceptance of evolution.
Then, an unsolicited call from Evil J. Klone reveals a plot behind the takeover attempt of KDRT by KMJE, and [...]

Episode 73

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Star Date: 2007.05.03.2200
Show Topic:
Mercury has a molten core, The Kama Sutra of flowering plants – why have more male flowers? Because it saves energy for seeds. Climate Change mediation experiment to begin ’seeding’ the ocean with iron to see if carbon dioxide can be pulled out of the [...]

Episode 72

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Star Date: 2007.04.26.2200
Show Topics:
Booster Shot on CCD – Karl gets in an Aggie article about the disappearing bees, and the Rapture must be taking away the bees! Irradiated hive boxes demonstrate recovery of bees, Varroa mite now in Hawaii, and a new bee virus discovered.
Most Earth-like extra-solar planet [...]

Episode 71

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Star Date: 2007.04.19.2200
Show Topics:
SOS KDRT continues – Davis City Council supports KDRT and Karl gets quoted in the paper. The first marathon ran in space, Charles Simonyi buys 13 days in space for 25 million and gets the 14th day free, meanwhile a man spends 13 days sealed [...]

Episode 70

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Star Date: 2007.04.12.2200.
Show Topics:
46th anniversary of the first human in space, scifi author Kurt Vonnegut dies and is “up in heaven”, skin cream products contain compound that causes pathological reactions, Rhesus Monkey genome sequenced.
The pope pontificates on evolution and doesn’t seem to understand a few fundamentals of science [...]

Episode 69

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Star Date: 2007.03.29.2200
Show Topics:
KDRT threatened by another station, the good and the bad of San Francisco banning plastic grocery bags, new biodegradable plastics sink in seawater, batteries that run on sugar, new type of twin called semi-identical, the more perfect you look – the less [...]

Episode 68

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Star Date: 2007.03.22.2200
Show Topics:
Warmest Winter Ever. Cleaning up the air has helped the warming of the Earth, and for our second climate irony of the show, a cooler climate may have made our brains bigger, and we’re warming it back up! Also, there are new [...]

Episode 67

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Star Date: 2007.03.15.2200
Show Topics:
No News. Interview with Chris Mooney on The Republican War on Science.

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