Tag Archive
New Hopes for Malaria Vaccine, The Dying Trees of Canal du Midi
Podcast 136: Field trials of a new malaria vaccine yields promising results. Trees lining France's Canal du Midi are dying. Efforts to prevent water wars in the Australian Outback. more »
The End of Rinderpest, Eradicating Smallpox
Podcast 125: Rinderpest, a deadly cattle plague has been eradicated. A new book tells the story of the eradication of smallpox. more »
How to Kill a Killer Disease
Forum 38: A global vaccination campaign eradicated smallpox more than thirty years ago. Now epidemiologist William Foege -- one of the leaders of that campaign -- has written a book about it. He's taking your questions in this Forum. more »
Science Week in Review: May 20, 2011
Blog 14: Mummies with heart disease, a questionable skin disease, and a pesticide some say is worse than the disease it's meant to combat. David Baron reviews the week's global science news. more »
The 100th episode! Cacao & Strawberry Genomes, Click Languages
Podcast 100: Join us in our celebration of our 100th episode. We bring updates on old stories, and give you a preview of stories we'll cover this year. Also, news about strawberry and cacao genomes. more »
Rationing Health Care, Socks for Malaria Control, Cholera in Haiti
Podcast 97: A South African committee that rations life-saving medical treatments. Smelly socks may aid malaria control. The controversial cause of Haiti's cholera outbreak. more »
Lead Recycling in Senegal, Parting the Red Sea, Origins of Malaria
Podcast 86: Lead recycling causes health problems in Senegal. Could the Red Sea have really parted as in the biblical story of the Exodus? Humans may have originally contracted malaria from gorillas. more »
Solar Flares & Northern Lights, Life in Space, Malaria Misdiagnoses
Podcast 78: Solar flares are sending hot plasma towards the Earth. Life in space is boring and full of interpersonal-squabbles. Cases of ordinary fever are sometimes misdiagnosed as malaria. more »
Preventing Blindness, Clues to Bilingualism, Science in Singapore
Podcast 29: Fighting blindness in Ethiopia. Creating a science workforce for Singapore. Walking in circles in the woods. Plus: malaria, bilingualism, and a strange giant planet. more »
A DDT Controversy, Reforesting Ghana, Senegalese Healers
Podcast 26: Controversy over DDT and malaria in Uganda. Traditional healers upstage Western doctors in Senegal. Planting trees, to forestall climate change, in Ghana. more »
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Life and Work at the South Pole
Harrison January 16, 2012 at 1:33Hello my name is Harrison and I just have a couple question. What would I have to go to school for to go on one of those arctic expeditions? And my other question is do you guys get free time there to...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 14, 2011 at 19:04Thanks to everyone for the great comments. There is some very serious international momentum building around the idea of happiness-based frameworks of progress. We can thank Bhutan for throwing the fi...
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Does Corruption Make Earthquakes Deadlier?
Roger Bilham October 14, 2011 at 9:43Check out this article for a fuller discussion http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/MalletMilneXIIBilham.pdf
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Does Corruption Make Earthquakes Deadlier?
Sarah Cox October 13, 2011 at 7:09Very interesting theory indeed. But there are other factors that are much more relevant to earthquakes. You have to admit that some of the most developed countries at present are situated in areas wit...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
Hillary October 12, 2011 at 7:58What a great study, post, and discussion. It seems to me it's long overdue that happiness is one of the things that we as a race focus on. I'm not a college graduate, I'm not wealthy, and I live in OH...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 11, 2011 at 15:24There has been an exponential growth in publications and books on happiness during the past decade so it is hard to recommend specific books or articles. Anything recent by Ed Diener, Martin Seligman ...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
MPennock October 11, 2011 at 14:50Not aware of any locations. The Victoria survey was just completed for a second time, almost three years after the original version. They plan on doing it every two years so the effects of one adminst...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
John Magana October 9, 2011 at 15:21Dear Mr. Pennock, Perhaps I'm too late to participate in this discussion... Could you please recommend some good source material for what makes people happy? ...Or perhaps share some of your own...
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Promoting Happiness as Public Policy
Al October 9, 2011 at 14:07Hi Mr. Pennock, Have there been locations where the same happiness survey has been repeated? I'm wondering if the publication of the results itself has an influence on future surveys of the same p...
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Seth Mnookin's 'The Panic Virus'
Sue Mahany October 6, 2011 at 11:37The vaccination decision has been the most stressful decision I have made as a parent. A naturopath told me to do tetanus and make sure to ask for a single dose vial. I do personally know a mother of ...
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