Tagged: Infectious Thoughts

TOSP Episode 23: March 5th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Aimee Whitcroft • Mar 06, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• Alison Campbell,
• bacteria,
• BioBlog,
• bioluminescence,
• biomaterial,
• brain,
• cellphone,
• Christchurch,
• conversation,
• Data,
• disaster,
• Elf Eldridge,
• fish,
• frequency,
• Griffin's Gadgets,
• Haiti,
• Infectious Thoughts,
• IQ,
• just so science,
• livestock,
• marine science,
• Mars,
• meetings,
• misc.ience,
• mobile photo,
• NASA,
• neurons,
• oxygen generation,
• Peter Griffin,
• podcast,
• radiowaves,
• Schmallenberg virus,
• Science,
• signal,
• Siouxsie Wiles,
• speechjammer,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• twist,
• virus,
• zooplankton

Episode 23 of TOSP is _out_, yo! This week, aimee and Elf talk Mars, twisted radiowaves, a new livestock virus, the new number of neurons in a human brain (clue: it’s less than you might think), oxygen-generating biomaterial, SpeechJamming, meetings and IQ, using cellphone data following disasters, and the survival of the brightest. Read More

Fireflies, luuurve and NASA - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 15, 2012 •

• ATP,
• bacteria,
• bioluminescence,
• chemistry,
• contamination,
• fireflies,
• food,
• Infectious Thoughts,
• lampyridae,
• microbiology,
• NASA,
• Siouxsie Wiles,
• space,
• sterile

In this newest animated video from fellow Sciblogger Siouxsie Wiles (Infectious Thoughts) explains how fireflies* use bioluminescence to find love (or the firefly equivalent), and, well, food. And it then goes on to explain how the chemical reaction used to produce that light, can be exploited to help us test for bacterial presence.  In your [...] … Read More