MicrobeWorld

TWiV 176: Ave magi, virorum!

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich answer listener email about MS, CFS, EBV, B cells, virii, influenza B, scientific papers, and more.

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Links for this episode:

• More than one way to skin a virus (comments)
• Aerobie aeropress
• Papers software
• Vaccinia movies (one and two)
• Lloyd Kozloff dies
• BSL4 facilities
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 176

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Alan Alda's Flame Challenge (NY Times article, Science editorial)
Alan - ChronoZoom
Vincent - Academic Publishing is Broken by Michael P. Taylor

Listener Pick of the Week

Joel - Fighting a dengue outbreak by Tyler M. Sharp (parts one and two)
Sven-Urban - Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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