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#529 Do You Really Want to Find Out Who’s Your Daddy?

Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia
At least some of you by now have probably spit into a tube and mailed it off to find out who your closest relatives are, where you might be from, and what terrible diseases might await you. But what exactly did you find out? And what did you give away? In this live panel at Awesome Con we bring in science writer Tina Saey to talk about all her DNA testing, and bioethicist Debra Mathews,…

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#528 A Shock Machine and The Lost Boys

Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia
This week, we take a look at 2 notable post world war 2 social psychology experiments and their creators: Stanley Milgram and his "shock machine", and Muzafer Sherif's boys camp study on group conflict. How did these scientists approach their work? How did the experiments run? How do the experiments hold up? How did people feel then about the ethics of them, and how do we feel now? We are joined by registered psychologist and…

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Special – Talking Science in the Age of Fake News

The Body of Evidence Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science, Multimedia
  To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the McGill Office for Science and Society, a university-backed office dedicated to separating sense from nonsense, Jonathan moderated a panel discussion entitled "Talking Science in the Age of Fake News". The panelists were Prof. Joe Schwarcz, the director of the Office; Timothy Caulfield, host of a User's Guide to Cheating Death on Netflix; Carly Weeks, health reporter for The Globe & Mail newspaper; and Ryan Armstrong, director of…

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Cheapskate Tuesday 31: Cheapskate Diffuser Mark III

Sean McCann Biology and Life Sciences, Multimedia
Look how battered and sad these diffusers are. This is why I made new ones, and they are definitely more durable Ok, just a short post on mods to make basically the same diffuser as the Cheapskate Diffuser MK II, but a bit easier, and ending up with a stiffer and more durable product. These are sized for YongNuo 560 flashes, might be differently sized for a different light. If so, you wanna follow the…

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Dilophosaurus Ink at 45

Glendon Mellow General Science, Multimedia
I turned 45 recently, and it was the right time to finally get a tattoo I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Here it is, and a few thoughts about what it means to me. My new tattoo. Not fully healed yet in this pic, but pretty close. Dilophosaurus Cyclist Fossil. Where it startedPaleontology-author, science communicator and friend Riley Black asked me to design a series of tattoos a few years ago, based on…

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#527 Honey I CRISPR’d the Kids

Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia
This week we're coming to you from Awesome Con in Washington, D.C. There, host Bethany Brookshire led a panel of three amazing guests to talk about the promise and perils of CRISPR, and what happens now that CRISPR babies have (maybe?) been born. Featuring science writer Tina Saey, molecular biologist Anne Simon, and bioethicist Alan Regenberg. A Nobel Prize winner argues banning CRISPR babies won’t work Geneticists push for a 5-year global ban on gene-edited…

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050 – The Anniversary Edition

The Body of Evidence Biology and Life Sciences, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science, Multimedia
  An unexplained bout of amnesia leads Jonathan to completely change his mind about Chris' interior decoration choices. For the 50th episode of their podcast, the boys have friends over who will help them explain what's been in the news lately. A dentist and a paediatrician talk about human touch; a chemistry and gender studies double major comments on the line between male and female in competitive sport; and an Apple fanboy and his sui…

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