Podcast, Science and Society

TOSP Episode 7: October 25th 2011

[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site]

Featuring (very) bright sparks, biomimicry and flight, Dance Your PhD, NASA inventions, carbon nano-onions, Iceland’s renewable internet, spider silk, zoned-out rats, forecasting with Twitter, autistic facial characteristics, a new superconductivity, the geek book list, Tell Us A Story 2011 winners, and the economics of milk.

Also featuring some Interesting Things, including a comment on a paper showing how cats lap water…

Elf and aimee had fun this week.  _Extra_ fun, give that Elf is away for the next two podcasts (*sniff*). However, we have Chelfyn Baxter of the g33k show to fill in for him!

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Brightsparks competition - voting open!

Bio-Inspired Bug Evolves

Check out the winners of this year’s Dance Your PhD Competition

Curiosity “10 NASA Inventions You Might Use Every Day”

Carbon Nano-onions for Imaging the Life Cycle of Drosophila Melanogaster

Can Iceland’s Renewables Power the Web?

Nanoconfinement of Spider Silk Fibrils Begets Superior Strength, Extensibility, and Toughness

Zoned-out rats may give clue to consciousness

Spies to use Twitter as crystal ball

Autistic facial characteristics identified

Physicists Unveil New Kind of Superconductivity

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Sciblogs

What books do you think geeks should read?

Just So Storytelling – Tell Us a Story 2011 Winners

Milk milk everywhere but not a drop to drink

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Events

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Other interesting things

Evolution of a new enzyme for carbon disulphide conversion by an acidothermophilic archaeon

Comment on “How Cats Lap: Water Uptake by Felis catus”

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