Episode 24: Links
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Listener Question: Antibody Therapy for Cancer
Malea asked us about how antibody therapy for cancer works, specifically Rituxan.
Reviews/Other Podcasts
ADAM: Thanks to Barry from Barely Podcasting for his excellent review of Absolute Science. We're thrilled to be helping people understand CSI.
MIGNON: Thanks to Erika from the GROW podcast. She answered Mignon's question on her show about relating to kids who are far away, and it was really insightful. We also understand that Erika is going to play an excerpt from one of our shows on her next episode, and we're really looking forward to that.
ADAM: Thanks to Tim who wrote in that he liked our show and played our promo on his podcast, PageantCast.
ADAM: Thanks to Dr. Pete, the scientist/comedian we interviewed in Episode 22 for talking about Absolute Science on his radio show "Inside the Black Box."
MIGNON: Achilles from the ROFLcast (top 10 music lists, and the like) wins the award for Our Most Insane Listener :-) He emailed at about 4:00 a.m. after discovering our podcast and then listening to every single episode. Thanks for the enthusiasm dude.
ADAM: Thanks to Talie who put us up on her House fan site. (Love the colors on this site.)
Pickle Promo
We hadn't shared this promo with our listeners, but it is actually pretty funny and it just occurred to us that you might like it. It's kind of an inside joke. The story is that Gary who runs the PodcastPickle works in the sports industry and was at some trade show where you can buy mascot costumes, and ended up buying a big pickle suit. We thought that was hysterical and put together a fake science interview about the discovery of a new pickle-man beast.
Listener Question: Calorie Restriction
Tia wanted to know the difference between the calorie restriction diet we've been hearing about that slows down aging, and a regular diet you go on to lose weight.
We'll have more on this in a future episode.
MySpace Buzz
Thanks to Philip W. Wise, King of Pirates at the MySpace group Nerd Sanctuary for Closet Nerds for posting a HUGE banner for Absolute Science at the groups landing page! He even made the banner for us. Wow.
Mignon is just getting into MySpace, learning her way around, etc. And there is a lot of fun stuff. We talked about some really funny posts from the Nerd Sancuary and elsewhere. Here's our MySpace page.
Kids With Cancer
After our episode about the video game for cancer called Remission, another podcaster told us about a great book for kids with cancer called "Too Pooped to Pop" by Steve and Samantha Pinder. Samantha is teenage childhood leukemia survivor who wrote the book with her dad who is cartoonist. It's a self-published book available for $15, and they have some great reviews and the artwork looks really cute. (Hint: This is a really long page, so to find it faster click on the link and then search the page for "pooped".)
"Too Pooped to Pop" is also available as an audiobook, and they have a second book that they just finished and that is going to be recorded as an audiobook soon.
Listener Question: Uranium Enrichment
Patrick Fogarty (Mignon's husband and a UC Santa Cruz alum) joined us to explain to our listener Patricia from UCSC how uranium becomes enriched, and the difference between uranium that is used in nuclear power plants and uranium that is used in bombs. Patrick has just launched his own podcast/website about political topics called the Armchair President, and he had happened to be investigating the uranium question himself when Patricia's question came in.
The bottom line: Only a tiny fraction of the uranium that gets mined is radioactive, and enriching it means separating the radioactive part from the non-radioactive part. The traditional method uses a centrifuge to separate out the different isotopes. (Definition of an isotope) Uranium used to power nuclear power plants is only enriched a little bit, whereas uranium used for bombs is enriched to the point it is about 90% radioactive, or more. (For obvious reasons, exact details on bomb-making are hard to find.)
Mignon's Memory
Jack from Australia said he really liked the part in the osteoporosis episode where Mignon explained the silly way she remembers the difference between osteoblasts and osteoclasts (it involved video game imagery). So we're going to make this a regular part of the show.
This week, how to remember stalactites and stalagmites.
If you can think of a better title for this section, definitely let us know!
Lorne Conferences in Australia
Lorne Genome Conference
Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function
Lorne Cancer Conference
Listener Question: Antibody Therapy for Cancer
Malea asked us about how antibody therapy for cancer works, specifically Rituxan.
Reviews/Other Podcasts
ADAM: Thanks to Barry from Barely Podcasting for his excellent review of Absolute Science. We're thrilled to be helping people understand CSI.
MIGNON: Thanks to Erika from the GROW podcast. She answered Mignon's question on her show about relating to kids who are far away, and it was really insightful. We also understand that Erika is going to play an excerpt from one of our shows on her next episode, and we're really looking forward to that.
ADAM: Thanks to Tim who wrote in that he liked our show and played our promo on his podcast, PageantCast.
ADAM: Thanks to Dr. Pete, the scientist/comedian we interviewed in Episode 22 for talking about Absolute Science on his radio show "Inside the Black Box."
MIGNON: Achilles from the ROFLcast (top 10 music lists, and the like) wins the award for Our Most Insane Listener :-) He emailed at about 4:00 a.m. after discovering our podcast and then listening to every single episode. Thanks for the enthusiasm dude.
ADAM: Thanks to Talie who put us up on her House fan site. (Love the colors on this site.)
Pickle Promo
We hadn't shared this promo with our listeners, but it is actually pretty funny and it just occurred to us that you might like it. It's kind of an inside joke. The story is that Gary who runs the PodcastPickle works in the sports industry and was at some trade show where you can buy mascot costumes, and ended up buying a big pickle suit. We thought that was hysterical and put together a fake science interview about the discovery of a new pickle-man beast.
Listener Question: Calorie Restriction
Tia wanted to know the difference between the calorie restriction diet we've been hearing about that slows down aging, and a regular diet you go on to lose weight.
We'll have more on this in a future episode.
MySpace Buzz
Thanks to Philip W. Wise, King of Pirates at the MySpace group Nerd Sanctuary for Closet Nerds for posting a HUGE banner for Absolute Science at the groups landing page! He even made the banner for us. Wow.
Mignon is just getting into MySpace, learning her way around, etc. And there is a lot of fun stuff. We talked about some really funny posts from the Nerd Sancuary and elsewhere. Here's our MySpace page.
Kids With Cancer
After our episode about the video game for cancer called Remission, another podcaster told us about a great book for kids with cancer called "Too Pooped to Pop" by Steve and Samantha Pinder. Samantha is teenage childhood leukemia survivor who wrote the book with her dad who is cartoonist. It's a self-published book available for $15, and they have some great reviews and the artwork looks really cute. (Hint: This is a really long page, so to find it faster click on the link and then search the page for "pooped".)
"Too Pooped to Pop" is also available as an audiobook, and they have a second book that they just finished and that is going to be recorded as an audiobook soon.
Listener Question: Uranium Enrichment
Patrick Fogarty (Mignon's husband and a UC Santa Cruz alum) joined us to explain to our listener Patricia from UCSC how uranium becomes enriched, and the difference between uranium that is used in nuclear power plants and uranium that is used in bombs. Patrick has just launched his own podcast/website about political topics called the Armchair President, and he had happened to be investigating the uranium question himself when Patricia's question came in.
The bottom line: Only a tiny fraction of the uranium that gets mined is radioactive, and enriching it means separating the radioactive part from the non-radioactive part. The traditional method uses a centrifuge to separate out the different isotopes. (Definition of an isotope) Uranium used to power nuclear power plants is only enriched a little bit, whereas uranium used for bombs is enriched to the point it is about 90% radioactive, or more. (For obvious reasons, exact details on bomb-making are hard to find.)
Mignon's Memory
Jack from Australia said he really liked the part in the osteoporosis episode where Mignon explained the silly way she remembers the difference between osteoblasts and osteoclasts (it involved video game imagery). So we're going to make this a regular part of the show.
This week, how to remember stalactites and stalagmites.
If you can think of a better title for this section, definitely let us know!
Lorne Conferences in Australia
Lorne Genome Conference
Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function
Lorne Cancer Conference
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