I have just discovered the Naked Scientist podcasts. I have learnt why coke froths more when ice is put in, what bird flu really is (flu originally started in birds and jumped species to us, to begin with), and also what happens when black holes merge.
That was just in ONE 20MB podcast.
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Those Crazy Natives...
Every culture has its biases around death and disease. In the United States, for instance, when AIDS first began to be tracked, studied and reported about, there was an immediate association of "AIDS = Gay Disease." This unfortunate social bias created an immediate villification of the disease and those sick with it which led to all sorts of horrible policies that ended up severly limiting the US response to HIV & AIDS both in research dollars and in education. For... Read Full Story
This information was recently submitted by Don Rondeau, who creates the "Rondeau Report." If you follow the link and go to the second episode (scroll down) you can watch a video clip of the report. I found this to be pretty interesting, as a senior representative from the Department of Homeland Security discusses ways that the government is working with businesses that offer critical goods and services to the US (such as transportation, energy, communications, etc) to ensure that during a... Read Full Story
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In case you haven’t seen it yet, Google released an amazing piece of software last year called “ Google Earth .” It had previously been known as “Keyhole,” as that was the company that initially developed the software before Google bought it. When I first heard the term “Google Earth,” I thought it was... Read Full Story
I met this woman the other day who lives in a slightly rural area outside of Minneapolis. She and I got into a conversation about this and that. She told me about her children and their menagerie of pets, including their two chickens. The chickens, it turns out, have free reign of the yard, which gives them lots of exposure to wild birds. I asked her, "What are you planning to do with the chickens if the bird flu spreads to the area." Her response?
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It's been awhile since I've posted here. In case you've been asleep at the wheel or are just now starting to learn about the Bird Flu, there's been a VERY interesting development in Indonesia. The "results" are still not in yet, but there's a possibility that there has been a clustered outbreak of deaths from a potential human-to-human spread of the flu.
There's a lot of vaccilating information coming out of that region right now, much of which is contradictory in large part because of... Read Full Story
So far, it’s been fairly easy for me to feel that the B2H (bird to human) contagion factor of the bird flu is part of the “other,” and not a real potential part of my life. By this I mean that the level of transmissions from bird to humans so far has largely been due to cultural norms that are different or “other” from my own. This has helped to keep me feeling fairly innured to the idea of the bird flu as it is now (not in a pandemic phase where it spreads easily between people) and... Read Full Story
