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  • A Sky Full of SARS

    A Sky Full of SARS
    2019/09/03
    How does coffee connect to the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup? Tag along as we talk about Mediteranean conquests, coffee houses, dancing goats, civets, bats, and the deadly Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak in China.
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    35 分
  • On the Right Taq

    On the Right Taq
    2019/09/10
    How does honky tonk and rockabilly singer Johnny Horton connect to the Human Genome Project? Join us as we navigate the sinking of the battleship Bismark, Nazi submarines, Alan Turing and the Enigma machine, LSD, the heat-loving bacteria Thermus aquaticus, and Nobel laureate Kary Mullis.
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    20 分
  • Confessions of a Cholera Girl

    Confessions of a Cholera Girl
    2019/09/17
    How does Steak and Eggs for breakfast help stave off cholera diarrhea cases during a disaster? Probably not how you think! In this episode, follow along as we connect the Waffle House Index, hurricanes, cholera, epidemiology, and the need for public infrastructure. Vibrio cholerae infects millions of people each year, and the cholera toxin can cause acute diarrheal disease that produces “rice water stool” and kills between 21,000 to 143,000 people worldwide annually.
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    44 分
  • One Flew Over The Kuru Nest

    One Flew Over The Kuru Nest
    2019/09/24
    How does Monticello span to Kuru and the cannabilistic Fore people of Papua New Guinea? Traverse from Thomas Jefferson and his plan for maple sugar, ending slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion along the Oregon Trail, the fate of the Donner Party, cannibalism, Fore people, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and the Kuru prion disease.
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    29 分
  • It’s On The Syphilis

    It’s On The Syphilis
    2019/10/01
    How do Hollywood summer blockbuster movies connect to sexually-transmitted syphilis? Take a journey from Jurassic Park and Contagion to Oscar Awards, Ignaz Semmelweis and handwashing, Treponema pallidum and syphilis, the No Nose Club, and the infamous Tuskegee Experiment.
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    23 分
  • There’s Something About Typhoid Mary

    There’s Something About Typhoid Mary
    2019/10/08
    How do hamburgers connect to typhoid fever? Follow as we discuss turn-of-the 20th century meat industry, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Theodore Roosevelt and creation of the FDA, Salmonella enterica typhii, typhoid fever, and Typhoid Mary.
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    25 分
  • A Boy Named Flu

    A Boy Named Flu
    2019/10/22
    What do kindergarten arts and crafts have to do with influenza and the flu? Take a trip down memory lane with grade school activities, remembering Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, the transfer of infectious disease with European colonization of the Americas, the dangers of influenza then and now, and the flu vaccine.
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    21 分
  • Rabies Day Out

    Rabies Day Out
    2019/10/31
    How does the Google no internet Dinosaur Game connect to Rabies? Haunt over the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, classic Universal monster movies, psychological thriller and horror by Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Stephen King – including Cujo, and rabies and post exposure vaccine treatment.
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    26 分