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(I looked up Wikipedia but there's no entry right now, so perhaps I'll have to add one)
The concept itself is far from new but the delivery is. The core idea is that you pick a topic, invite a crowd to discuss or brainstorm on it, pick top ideas, let people vote on it. The way it's being applied in online communities is interesting. Take a look at a recent Businessweek story on this (and an earlier one from July).
The following is from our slide on this item that draws some from this:
- nInviting the audience to brainstorm, design, or build an idea, product, or service.
- qDefine the key problem or issue you are trying to solve. Be specific.
- qIdentify your metrics for success beforehand
- qDefine your interval for how long this project should run
- qIdentify an appropriate reward for the group
- qSet up a filtering process
- qTap the right audience
- qHave community managers to guide and build the community
- nThe implementation can vary significantly but the model is what is important.
- qIBM Global Innovation Forum (
www.globalinnovationforum.com) and ThinkPlace (internal) – 57,000 members using discussion forums
- qFluevog shoes (
www.fluevog.com) – submit a shoe design - 20,000 submissions through submission site, user ratings of submissions
- qInnocentive (
www.innocentive.com) – solve scientific challenges – 100,000 members, problem statements and rewards notices, submission forms
- qSecondLife (
secondlife.com) – design a 3D world – 650,000+ members use 3D tools to roam, design, develop objects, buying/selling objects (virtual dollars to real dollars exchange).
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|if its shipping the wait will kill you, trust me i was checking my porch every day for a box. there aren't really any shitty snowboards its just finding the one the is best for you, i hope you have a great season
|after much self-debate, I ended up picking the 2009 Burton Mayhem. Would've gone with the Burton Custom, but happy with all it's specs anyway, and from what I've read it's quite similar anyway. Can't wait to see it, it feels great buying a first board!!!
|i think if your a confident rider you will be fine, it might be more of a challenge handling it than your previous board but i don't think it should be an issue. there are of course alternatives to the custom x from other companies, not sure how your situation is as far as which brands your local stores will sell, but if you are taking trips around the world and are looking to get better i think you'll be happy with it. most people say its overwhelming for people who are looking to buy their first board like the name burton once and decide to buy an expensive board not knowing what they are getting into, but it sounds perfect for what you are looking to do.
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hey guys, I'm relatively new on the snowboarding scene, and am buying my first set up for a trip into the Alps early 2010.
Living in Perth Australia it's hard getting advise from people (other than the internet) because snowboarding is not huge at all. We only have 2 stores in a city of nearly 2 million that sells boards, and even then the store people don't know too much about the scene.
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Im having doubts about my ability after hearing great reviews on the Burton Custom X. I dont want to buy it and be completely overwhelmed by its ability. I've snowboarded in europe a bit, Austria, Poland and Slovakia, and recently came back from an amazing trip in Japan. Fell in love with powder, and started doing tree runs in the last 7 days of the trip. I consider myself an OK rider, I can ride switch at a decent speed, comfortable through thick pow, and confident all over the mountain.
If I buy the Custom X, is the board going to dominate me? Money is not an issue, I just want something that I can really progress into.
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Friday, April 5, 2013
Thank you Corporal Justin Rogers: Serving and Protecting Even While Off-duty
TSA would like to thank Corporal Justin Rogers for his selfless and speedy actions on behalf of one of our officers at Honolulu International Airport.
On March 30th, 2013, Cpl. Rogers was off-duty, traveling home to California from a family vacation in Honolulu, and as he prepared for screening at the checkpoint (no shoes!) he saw a TSA Officer being assaulted by a woman attempting to enter a secure area, which the officer was tasked to guard. Just like a scene from all-time favorite reality TV show, "Cops," he leapt into action immediately, breaking the TSA Officer free of the woman's headlock and restraining her until airport police arrived. You can see this off-duty officer in action by watching the video above. For full viewing effect, I suggest watching it with this theme song.
Thank you Cpl. Justin Rogers, for your heroic actions and your continued service.
TSA Blog Team
23 comments:
- Bob (and no, not Blogger Bob) said...
Wow...some people. I hope the TSA throws the book at this woman. And Cpl. Rogers...Thank you for stepping in or better said, leaping in and subduing the crazed woman.
- April 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
So it appears that there ARE plenty of cameras, of good quality, at TSA checkpoints.
So next time someone accuses an TSA agent of misdeeds, they won't be able to use the "there's no video of it" excuse, right?
- April 5, 2013 at 7:52 PM
- RB said...
What happened to the post put up on 3/4/13 that discussed the public comment period for the illegal TSA Strip Search Machines?
Why was it taken down? TSA afraid of the truth?
- April 5, 2013 at 8:03 PM
- Susan Richart said...
"When Rogers saw that no other security personnel were coming to help the female officer,....."
You forgot to add the above, Bob.
screen shot
- April 5, 2013 at 8:35 PM
- Wintermute said...
Bob, please quit spreading the myth that TSA employs officers. They do not. They employ agents.
- April 5, 2013 at 8:52 PM
- Laura Monteros said...
Wow! Good thing he was there.
- April 5, 2013 at 11:14 PM
- SSSS for some reason said...
Am I the only person who finds it odd that there is video available for this incident but never any available when the TSA is the accused?
- April 6, 2013 at 12:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow, what a hero this cop is NOT. What the video shows is how TSA fails to allow its own screeners to defend themselves [so this one is hesitating] then, wannabe hero cop over reacts with way too much force, considering he felt body slamming an old much smaller sized mentally ill homeless lady...is somehow OK and more appropriate use of his much larger more muscular self.
Looks like some serious deep down unresolved anger management issues there bud!!!
- April 6, 2013 at 1:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
To Anonymous, Wow,What a Hero he is!!!!Its amazing how you knew this person that was attacking a officer was a old much smaller sized mentally ill homeless lady. Did you know her or something? This Officer is a hero to the public. Not the lady that tryed to attack a female officer. I dont care who she was, he did what needed to be done, and thats get her off the security officer and away from the checkpoint so she could not get through. SO good Job Officer.
- April 6, 2013 at 7:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
It is too bad the TSA workers co-workers stood by and watched this take place and an innocent by-stander had to jump in and "take charge" while the other TSO's stood around and watched - Sorry! And too much force, I do not think so, in law enforcement you use whatever force is necessary to neutralize the threat. She was quickly neutralized before she had time to react - OUTSTANDING job by the off duty cop! Really bad job by the other TSO's "w3atching"
- April 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
"he saw a TSA Officer being assaulted by a woman attempting to enter a secure area..." - I wonder how many times a day he saw a woman attempting to enter a secure area being assaulted by a TSA Officer and did nothing.
- April 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
Nice take-down...
- April 6, 2013 at 2:54 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
thankyou corporal for your .... intervention people like you are appreciated greatly.....brian
- April 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM
- Anonymous said...
What I saw was a off-duty policeman who had been uselessly removed of his shoes have to act because a whole bunch of TSO did not respond at all.
- April 6, 2013 at 6:02 PM
- Wintermute said...
Anonymous said...
"What I saw was a off-duty policeman who had been uselessly removed of his shoes have to act because a whole bunch of TSO did not respond at all."
I saw the exact same thing... Pretty sure he violated TSA procedures in the process, too. Did he get re-screened afterwards? If not, why not? The lady could have handed something to him while she was being held down ;)
- April 6, 2013 at 6:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
It's funny watching the guy on the far right. He checks out the situation, thinks about climbing over the short wall, finally gets one leg over, and then gives up and goes back into hiding.
- April 6, 2013 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you Corporal Justin Rogers for stepping in and helping! Bravo!
Sham on you with your nasty comments. What if the TSO was your mother, sister or daughter. No one should put hands on anyone in a abusive manner.
I am sorry if this woman was mentally ill but that is no reason for her to attack someone else for doing their job!
- April 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
This only shows the need for TSA personnel to be armed. No telling what would have happened were the policeman not there.
- April 6, 2013 at 9:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...This only shows the need for TSA personnel to be armed. No telling what would have happened were the policeman not there.April 6, 2013 at 9:51 PM
LOL, April Fools Day was last week.
- April 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
I really enjoy watching this. Often TSA officers are just undermined. People do not understand and appreciate the importance and the strain of their work. This TSA officer woman could have been hurt in a matter of seconds. Lots of crazy people outthere. I am glad to see she is okay. How about Krav maga classes for TSA employees.
- April 7, 2013 at 4:18 PM
- Wintermute said...
Anonymous said...
"What if the TSO was your mother, sister or daughter."
My family does not believe in betraying their country, so no member would be employed by an agency that has such a blatant disregard for our Constitutional rights.
"No one should put hands on anyone in a abusive manner"
You're right. Which is why the pat-downs, which would cross the boundry to sexual assault in any other context, need to stop.
Another Anonymous said...
"This only shows the need for TSA personnel to be armed. No telling what would have happened were the policeman not there"
Neither a high-school diploma nor a GED is a job requirement, and TSA has put their employees to work without their background checks being complete, and you're advocating arming them?!? You CAN'T be serious!!!
- April 7, 2013 at 5:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great Job By the CPl! Made every TSA agent look silly! Maybe they need to raise their standards? It appears they were lucky the CPL. was there. I would bet that the TSA agent would have been hurt pretty badly.
- April 8, 2013 at 8:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
Really? Have you even checked your facts or do you just spend all your time bashing other people for what you would like to believe?
- April 9, 2013 at 3:32 AM


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The Carnahan Carnival; Update: Gladney's attorney recounts details of beating; Update: Carnahan staffer among those arrested? Update: Post-Dispatch buries Gladney paragraphs
posted at 11:07 am on August 7, 2009 by Patrick Ishmael
As I noted yesterday in my pre-town hall primer, there were rumors that not everyone that could be let in, would be. And so it was: entire areas of the "town hall" were apparently cordoned off despite the massive attendance, with sections set aside for Carnahan's astroturfing operation.
This was the line to get in… an hour before the event:
"I like your flag." That'll come into play later.
The parking lot at the school was full when I arrived, and people were already crossing the field near the street on their way from their street spots. (Hence, the cars exiting in the line video; there were no spaces to be had.) I had to park three blocks away even as a relatively early arrival; others parked much farther away.
I got into the line immediately after taping it, but not everyone was abiding by the same rules. Carnahan staffers were wandering through the line with a list of "guests" that, as expected, got to jump the line and join the Astroturf of Purple inside. Not sure how many "town halls" operate like a gated community, but this one certainly did.
Speaking of purple, these guys didn't even bother with the line.
Recognize them?
I knew you would. At about the time I caught them walking around the line, word came out that the show, for the rest of us, was over. Hence, these guys (and several others) tried to sneak into the event through a side door, in contrast to Russ Carnahan, who would have snuck out the back.
Speaking of Russ Carnahan, I'd like to point out the statement he made in the Post-Dispatch article about the event, and which really shows the lengths to which the Congressman, incapable of formulating a compelling narrative on his own that accords with the facts, has to rely on his talking points.
"Sadly we've seen stories about disrupters around the country, and we have a handful of them here in Missouri. Instead of participating in a civil debate, they have mobilized with special interests in Washington who have lined their pockets by overcharging Americans for a broken health care system."
So… which "special interest" is aligned with the SEIU?
You say, Russ Carnahan's re-election hopes? In all seriousness, Roy Blunt needs to send Russ a bouquet of flowers or something, because the damage Russ is doing to the Carnahan brand right now is more than Roy could have dreamed to do on his own.
By the way, Kenneth Gladney, the man attacked here, is a conservative who was giving out… "Don't Tread on Me" flags. Sounds like some of the union members weren't as enthused about Gladney's work later that evening as I was earlier in the day. A powerful little flag, indeed.
Also, a suggestion to Kim Bell and Leah Thorsen, Post-Dispatch writers: You need to do a better job of concealing the spin. (The inverted pyramid also does wonders for that, and for organization generally.) After talking at length about the arrests surrounding the Gladney incident, the reporters behind the P-D's monstrosity finally gets around to the victim… with this lead in from one of the people arrested:
Spitz said she won't be returning to any such meetings anytime soon.
"These tea baggers are dangerous," she said. "I'm not going to any more town hall meetings until these people calm down."
Really, really classy, Post-Dispatch. I'm actually surprised you let that get printed on your digital paper.
Let me show you a few of these dangerous, dangerous people.
Look, a mob cap!
If you had trouble identifying them for the mob that they were, here's a primer for future reference.
All in all, a successful day. Did I mention Russ Carnahan should be run out of office on a rail? You can help.
Update: A friend of Gladney's who was apparently there described the incident in the comment section of the Examiner St Louis Buzz blog. According to his report, at least three of the batterers were SEIU reps.
I was at the event. My name is David Brown. I am an atty in St. Louis. My friend, Kenneth Gladney, who is black, was passing out Don't Tread on Me Flags and Tea Party buttons at the end of the event to Tea Party supporters and conservatives. He was then called a racial slur by two SEIU members. He was then attacked by two black males (SEIU reps) and white male, another SEIU rep., and a white woman. The punched him in the face and he fell to the ground. He was then kicked and punched by all four. One fled on foot, and three were arrested. Kenneth was taken to St. John's Mercy Hospital to the emergency room. He has suffered numerous injuries. For more information, please contact me at PHONE NUMBER EDITED OUT. Thank you.
That fits with this letter, written to the St. Louis Tea Party.
August 7, 2009
Dear Mr. Hennessy:
I am Kenneth Gladney's attorney. Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan's town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out "Don't Tread on Me" flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.
Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John's Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.
We hope that Kenneth fully recovers from his injuries; however, he is in great pain at this time. We will be pursuing legal action at our discretion. This was a truly senseless hate crime carried out by racist union thugs. Regretfully, Representative Carnahan's statements blaming Kenneth for being a disruptive force are wholly untrue and slanderous. We would like to think that an elected official in Representative Carnahan's position would gather accurate information before carelessly rushing to judgment.
Kenneth supports conservative ideals, although he subscribes to no particular political party. We are calling on the SEIU, Representative Carnahan, and President Obama to condemn the racist actions of these union thugs. In the days to come, we will be investigating whether these thugs are working at the behest of Representative Carnahan and how strong their alliances to various organizations–such as ACORN–may be.
We hope the St. Louis Tea Party and tea party organizations around the country will protest Representative Carnahan's offices and also protest SEIU offices in every major city across the U.S. These Democratic strong-arm tactics must end now.
Attorney David B. Brown
Update: Uh oh.
Update: Inverted pyramid, indeed. It was the most important update to the Post-Dispatch article late last night, became middling news this morning, and is now apparently the least important part of the story. For the P-D's next trick, watch this story, disappear!
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Dennis writes:
Dear Vincent,
I am glad you had a chance to get a glimpse of the BSL4 world. You might remember that I have been trying for 1 1/2 years to get you to see the Galveston National Laboratory, a facility with an actual ACTIVE program and a number of very experienced PIs that currently work in the BSL4.
I wish we would have had the chance first especially for TWIV 200.
A very disappointed,
Jim writes:
A recent BBC Health Check program included a segment about rabies which notes that vaccines derived from dog rabies may only be effective for people bitten by a rabid dog, but not a bat! I've attached the program and it's the first segment which is only about four minutes long. A Dr Behrens (link to some of his advice) from the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is the speaker and source of the comment. Are there multiple vaccines for rabies? This complicates things....
Smithfield, VA
Mattias Schnell responds:
All USA bat rabies is covered by the current rabies vaccine but its different for bat derived rabies in other regions.
Two thing are important to know:
1) When people talk about rabies they normally mean classical rabies virus (RABV) and this is still the most important member of the genus Lyssavirus. Almost all death of humans is caused by RABV transmitted by dogs.
Big problem in developing countries (South America, India, Africa, China, Asia in general). In Europe and USA we do have rarely rabies transmitted by domestic animals because we do vaccinate that problem is gone.
We still have a large rabies problems in wild animals (skunks, raccoons, foxes) but if somebody get bitten by a rabid animals we do postexposure treatment, which is 100% efficient if applied correctly. About 30,000 people do receive postexposure treatment in the USA every year (that is not cheap). We do have about 3 cases of rabies in the US every year but they were imported (people who traveled an got infected) or they got infected by bats. This brings us to the bat topic. All bat derived rabies virus in the USA is classical RABV so postexposure will work. However, people might not realize that the have been bitten by bats (small teeth). So the problem in the US is more that people do not realize they were exposed or do not know that bats are transmitting rabies virus.
2) Bats are very likely the natural host of lyssaviruses. Bats seem not to be as sensitive to rabies virus and a lot have actually antibodies. That doesn't mean they dont get rabies it but it is probably not 100% lethal. Make sense if you think how close they live together. Also important, there are bat derived lyssaviruses, which are antigenetically different from RABV so the vaccine doesn't protect. This is the case for the to African lyssaviruses mokola and Lagos bat. So for these viruses there is no vaccine even it would be easy to make one.
Hope that help - a bit more info is in the powerpoint file. As usual things are simplified and not everybody probably would agree with me....
All the best
Matthias J. Schnell, Ph.D.
Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Director Jefferson Vaccine Center
Jefferson Medical College
Peter writes:
Hi Twiv crew,
The Texas Wild Child was mentioned on 192 (listening now). Did you see the August Wired?
The article describes a therapy for rabies victims and its controversy. How did I miss this? 6 survivors (of 41 attempts) since 2004? Not including the Wild Child.
I would love to hear your thoughts, especially since this was an article I could easily follow, not a research paper.
Thanks for all you do!
Micki writes:
Hi guys,
Interesting short article on Fox News about Vampire bat bites conferring resistance to Rabies. What are your thoughts on the subject?
Great show - thanks for all your hard work. - Micki / Simon Lab / UMD
PS - have you thought about doing a show about Rhabdovirus that would include a plant rhabdovirus scientist? Maybe Andy Jackson or Michael Goodin. Just a thought . . . . . . .
John writes:
Rabies seems to be in the news these days. There is also a new cultural history of Rabies, entitled "Rabid" by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. I'm listening to it on audible and it's fascinating. Regards, John
Cristiano writes:
Dear TWIV hosts,
I caved in when my 4 y.o. daughter asked me for an iTouch last year. I resisted for as long as father could. But, in the end, I gave up and bought her one.
Few months later, she cracked the screen, lost interest in it and asked me for an ipad, instead. Initially I laughed at her request, but, since I caught her mother looking for an iPad ad in the weeks preceding mother's day...guess what? Yes, you're right, I caved in again and bought them both the latest generation iPad.
I noticed there was nothing wrong with the iTouch, except for the cracked screen. So, I decided to fix it myself. A few attempts later and the broken iPod was good as new. "What am I going to do with this?" I thought, realizing that the whole world was ahead of me with regards to popular electronic gadgetry.
"Play games", said my daughter.
"Listen to podcasts", suggested my creative wife.
"How do you do that?", I asked.
That question has thrown me to an entire new world. From then on, it was just a matter of hours until I found your program. [ks: don't read next line?! ad: Definitely read the next line, then act regretful when you get to the parenthetical part.] And I truly fell in love with it (please, please, please, don't say that out loud on the program! I've got a reputation to maintain!)
I'm a virologist as well. I started studying baculoviruses when I was an undergrad back in Brazil and eventually got a BSc degree from the University of Brasilia. Soon after, I went to Japan to study more about "baculos" and pursue my postgrad degrees (MSc and PhD) at Nagoya University. In 2003, once I could safely display the "mission accomplished" banner, I sailed away to the uncharted waters of New Zealand for a short postdoc position at the University of Otago in Dunedin. A place I now call home.
After my post-doc experience, I became interested in the field of Science Communication and documentary filmmaking and was fortunate enough to have stumbled across a a postgrad course at the University of Otago, which combined these two topics. For my final project, I decided to combine my virus research expertise and tell the story of the Auckland Island Pigs. Here's a link to the movie:
The movie, posted by co-director Adam Thompson, talks about the pigs being commercially exploited as promising xenotransplantation tools for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. Long story short, a couple of hundred years of complete isolation " made" the pigs germ-free. At least, that's what the charismatic mayor of the city where the pigs are now kept and the biotech company tells us all. But the truth is far from it. The pigs have very low copies of PERVs (porcine endogenous retroviruses) integrated in the pigs genetic make-up
I would like to invite you, dear TWIV hosts, to watch the short movie (for some feedback) and perhaps discuss about PERVs in the future. In addition, I would love to know your thoughts regarding xenotransplantion and viruses, in general. That would mean the world to me, as, even after having finished this movie, I still can't reach a verdict. Do we abandon this live-saving technology due to its potential risks of pandemic proportions or embrace it and utilise it in large-scale xenotransplantations world-wide?
Please keep up with the outstanding work you guys are doing with the program. Your ideas and comments are truly inspirational!
PS: Really sorry about the animations in the pig movie. We received no money for this project and had to be creative with explanatory animations.
PPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChIeTB-XHsM is another movie I made. It only touches the issue of varroa-mites as carriers of honeybee viruses.
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University of Otago
Matt Evans writes:
Hi Vince and gang,
Last week you had a letter from an Olympic athlete who wanted to know how he could stay in touch with science while training. I was amused when Rich said there is no way you could work for your phd and train for the Olympics at the same time because that is exactly what my student, Maria Michta, just did. She was the only female race walker from the US to compete in London. Now she is back in lab as a full time student. Training was balanced carefully with lab work over the last few years, but being right next to Central Park made it a lot easier. She even had a first author paper while training.
Not bad huh!
KH writes:
Dear TWIV,
I'm doing an EPQ (independent research qualification taken at end of high school) on the eradication of polio, and whether the current attempt is worthwhile or not. I have a vague memory of it being mentioned in TWIV that it is advantageous for attenuated poliovirus to regain virulence, but haven't been able to find anything on this anywhere. Could you give me any further information, or direct me to where I can find it?
P.S. TWIV is fantastic; it was what inspired me to choose a virology based topic for my EPQ and to apply for university courses which include virology - prior to listening I had very little interest in it.
Sydney writes:
Good afternoon! I know you're busy, but I hope this email finds its way to you. I've been listening to your podcasts for quite some time now. I really admire your innovation and ingenuity in regards to educating the general public about viruses.
I've been interested in virology and host-pathogen interactions for quite some time, especially those of newly emerging viruses. This led me to pursue my MS in Entomology last fall. I have one year to go, and I'm beginning to look at PhD programs in virology in order to combine the two skill sets. Viruses like Ebola, Hendra, and Nipah are especially intriguing to me, and I'd really love to work with newly emerging pathogens. However, as I search for PhD programs, I'm finding that the number of researchers working in this area is low. It seems that the majority of this work goes on in level 4 laboratories (of course) by researchers, rather than professors. I was curious to know if you could recommend any programs to me that might be a good fit, or, if you could tell me whether working with another virus for my PhD would affect my ability to land a job with level 4 agents later in my career.
Any advice would be great! Although I've almost completed my Master's degree, I still feel like a nascent scientist with a lot to learn. You, Rich, and Alan help tremendously though!
Have a great day, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Dallas writes:
Still going through old podcasts and still don't understand virus, but I do know a little physics.
On using the supercritical CO2 to create a dry virus may allow viable virus particles to survive. The killing of enveloped virus on drying may have to do with the surface tension of water changing the physical structure of the virus particle and drying under supercritical conditions the surface tension of the gas/liquid interface goes to zero.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
To see how an open gel type structure can be dried without destruction -- just a common example that shows the principles. If the virus didn't change upon drying, it is small enough that the time it would take to rehydrate from the gas phase at 100% RH at lung temperatures and lightly hydrophilic surfaces could be so fast that no structural collapse would occur on rehydration.
Someone else probably already answered this physics type question.
Scientific Hatcheries
Nathan writes:
It was mentioned in TWiV 178 that Puerto Rico doesn't currently have other mosquito-borne viruses like yellow fever or malaria. Can this be attributed to anything other than luck? Do any countries undertake efforts to curtail the spread of viral vectors (by controlling used tire trade or otherwise)?
Nathaniel writes:
This question is in response to episode #182.
You three discussed the benefits of immunizing in the skin rather than the muscle. This may be a naïve question, but wouldn't injecting vaccine directly into the blood stream be better than both skin and muscle? Is this an issue of medical "difficulty" and patient compliance?
Bronwyn writes:
Dearest TWiV hosts (reservoir?) I'll try to be as brief as possible, though typing that rather than simply doing it is probably not helping there… ANYWAY my name is Bronwyn, I'm a 2nd yr biomed undergrad studying on Australia's Sunshine Coast and though only newly infected, i'm immensely fond of your show! I love the break down/discussion of papers and new research which saves me drowning in the great sea of articles that is; scholar/pubmed/scidirect/etc/etc/etc. And as an undergrad wanting to get into research; #184 on the broken science system (and more importantly how to work towards fixing it + just survive in the meantime) was BRILLIANT, i clicked download on the Casadevall and Fang papers as soon as i had played it out, which meant that they had just finished by the time i finished playing it through the second time over. I'd been getting despondent over the dog-eat/poison/cripple/render-otherwise-harmless world that science research seemed to have manifest itself as, a model one would have expected from a somewhat business-like paradigm, not the province of a collaborative pursuit of understanding so that we, as a biologically social species, might go about interacting with the world in a more intelligent way. But enough ranting; essentially i love your work guys, and incidentally its about 20'C and a bit overcast here and there, which is really quite cold for us -winter just started.
But now to get to the reason why I'm spamming your already inundated inbox: earlier this term in a micro class my lecturer was talking about plant viruses and i couldn't help noticing they, for the most part, have RNA genomes rather than DNA… i was curious and asked but she was unaware of any reason why and couldn't find any explanation when she researched it a bit later, either could i… any ideas??? Is this possibly a quirk of nature arising from a/an RNA-containing evolutionary forbearer/s or does anyone know of there being some sort of selection preference for RNA genomes in plant viruses?
Also; I was watching a video: 'MIT World' talk on Global Pandemics (Nov 17 2009) given by Hidde Ploegh (Prof. Biol MIT) available from itunesU (or http://video.mit.edu/watch/global-pandemics-9508/), it's a soap-box-talk-night-sort-of-thingy… ANYWAY Hidde briefly discusses the FDA-approved method of flu vaccines production, pointing out the fact that not all flu strains grow equally well in eggs, which limits the strains covered by an American-made vaccine to those that perform sufficiently in chicken eggs. Is this a serious limiting factor in the vaccine quality or merely something that needs to be kept in mind when making a vaccine? In Europe flu strains are grown in cell cultures, this would eradicate the problem of allergic reaction is caused by chicken proteins, is there any other reason why an allergic reaction would occur in response to a vaccine? and it's 1hr 5 minutes long...; maybe HP part is 15 minutes long then there's Q&A, according to the introduction][I listened to about 20 minutes of it, didn't get to any juicy parts]
If you've time i recommend watching the talk, there's a great dismissal of an 'evil drug company flu vaccine hiding' conspiracy theory and a criticism of the economic priorities of funds allocations in research and of the concern (paranoia?) the US seems to have over biodefense (despite the lack of reasonable threat assessments) @38:56 - 42:07. Just think; this was 3 years before the NSABB censored the Kawaoka and Fouchier research! But my favourite part (if it's not the fact that he's wearing bright red pants) is the final word he gives on the moral obligation of vaccination and the dangerous selfishness of people who rely on herd immunity; it's a serious problem i think; -here in oz there is a massive anti-vaccination sentiment, rooted in a distrust of science/medicine/drug companies and fear of vaccination side-effects like autism from a measles vaccine (jeez looks like a symptom of the winner-takes-all-system with its pressure to publish giving rise to bad science and fraud - A retraction does not and cannot undo the damage done by bad science). This attitude seems to be concentrated in more alternative towns like Byron. Paul Corben (director of NSW North Coast Public Health) said there had been TWICE the level of disease in Byron Bay as had occurred in Ballina, a town pretty well adjacent to it (this info is taken from the ABC TV show Catalyst Episode 9 of 2012). Is regional social psychology also a big factor in American vaccination rates? Do public health systems attempt to address this? I mean wouldn't unvaccinated people, when concentrated into small geographic areas be so much more dangerous than if they were dispersed as the statistics for the unvaccinated: vaccinated ratio make it appear??
I don't expect this to be read on air or anything, I'd just really appreciate any answers/info/links/TWiV episode suggestions. i'm still working my way through the back catalogue (just finished 2008) in addition to listening to current episodes as they're released so i do not doubt that some of this would be addressed therein. I'm especially curious in regards to the apparent plant preference for RNA…
oh dear… Short-message-fail: that was so much longer than the paragraph i had originally intended, well my apologies and many magnitudes of thanks from down under!
T. Jack Morris responds:
I can think of no fundamental reason for this to be the case other than an accident of evolution. Here is the rationale. It turns out there are no true dsDNA viruses. There are pararetros like Cauliflower mosaic and ssDNA viruses like geminiviruses, so it is not because plant cells could not support true DNA virus replication. It is not likely a cell to cell movement restriction because there are plenty of viruses of papilloma size that infect plants. It could have something to do with the nature of plant meristems where cell division is primarily restricted. It is a question worth considering, perhaps at the TWIV. I am copying a colleague with whom I have had this discussion.
Dallas writes:
Just a quick comment on the podcast covering journal retractions and other "scientific" errors. A comment was made that the problems seems to be in the first rate journals which have the most retractions -- at least the ones we hear about. However, if you want to find a lot of papers that should be retracted, the second, and third tier journals have even more junk, advocacy science and false information, but most of it isn't worth anyones time to bother proving false or pointing out the errors.
To complicate the problem in the second and third tier journals, you have advocacy groups of various types (ranging from environmental groups to anti-global warming groups) playing a bootstrapping game to create scientific "facts" with great "truthiness" that can be cited in first tier journals. For an example of this bootstrapping, a friend of mine in academia was charged with the task of tracing the source of a scientific "fact" about damage from the aquaculture industry on the environment that found it way in proposed regulations and into law suits. It turns out that an activist group created a damage estimate out of a "consensus" feel among other activists and got it past the reviewers in a third rate journal, after adding a lot of caveats about this estimate just being a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) with no data. The activist group then got another publication in a similar area in a second rate journal referencing the first article, without the caveats, which was then referenced in a first rate journal by a related activist group with a common funding source. Being in a first rate journal, it was now a proven scientific "fact" and used by regulators being lobbied by the activists groups. The industry was then facing a scientific "fact" with great truthiness, which didn't match with their unpublished observations.
With the high frequency of manure in the second and third rate journals, it may be a good training exercise for starting graduate students to plow through some of these journals and pick a paper to reproduce the most suspicious parts or demonstrate error in their methods or analysis. They would end up learning a lot about everything from good lab work to ways of analyzing the data. It may be a good way to sharpen the thinking of grad students and reinforce the message that all you read is not true. It would also force the students to go through a lot of articles looking for particularly bad one for their class project and read them all very critically. A year later, when they are writing a paper, have them visualize how their class mates would cut it apart and you may get better first drafts.
If you want, I could provide several examples from the environmental literature, especially aquaculture, where truthiness rather than true "facts" dominate the literature.
I am a semi-retired retreaded physic/thermodynamics/engineering type who spent 3 decades solving environments and aquaculture problems (heavy into using microbiology to destroy hazardous materials or convert waste products -- it is all about the bugs and bug habitat), who is slowly working my way through old twig podcasts with great delight. Keep up the excellent work educating senior citizens about the fascinating world of virology. I have a great interest and little knowledge about phages in the real world, where they seem to often be the "keystone" species -- not the lions and sharks discussed in ecology classes.
Thank you,
Dallas, Ph.D.
Scientific Hatcheries
Huntington Beach, CA
Neva writes:
Howdy TWIVs,
This article in Ars Technica on disrupting the publishing model of papers in biological science might interest you and your fans.
Keep up your valuable and entertainlng podcasts!
Neva in Buda
Josh writes:
Dear TWiV Doctors,
You will probably get a thousand emails about this, but there was an article in Nature about curing Ebola virus in monkeys. Here's the link:
Sarah writes:
Hello Twiv-ologists,
The June issue of ASM's Microbe magazine had a feature article on virus-induced obesity that had so many holes I had to break out my pen and write all over it. I followed the references to the 2005 paper that the article seemed to be based on, and as much as I believe in the possibility of an infectious factor in obesity, my BS meter just kept going off here. Looking past the incredible number of variables that weren't even considered in data collection, questionable sample handling, missing context, and leaps in logic, I couldn't get past two fundamental issues. One is the author's apparent belief in a causal connection between the initial detection of this virus in 1978 and an epidemic of obesity that seemed to begin around the same time (detection and emergence of a virus are two quite different things). The other is the glaring conflict of interest evident in his founding of a company that makes assays to detect this virus for consumers. The company's website skips scientific caution and flat out states that Ad-36 causes obesity. (The author is also the editor of the journal in which the 2005 paper was published... how awkward is that for peer reviewers?)
I'm coming off of three recent influences on the importance of keeping a skeptical mindset and using critical thinking as a verb -- the dogged insistence of Mike Osterholm's statements during the NSABB brouhaha, reading The Panic Virus, and then reading A Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. It seems like freight trains of misinformed, truthy opinion can leave the station before anyone figures out what's happening, and by then all any rational person can do is stick to their evidence-based guns and let the situation run its course. (I'm not saying Osterholm is being truthy like Jenny McCarthy, but I've wondered whether he thinks that someone in the biowarfare labs in Iraq are just waiting to get their hands on Fouchier's paper.)
My husband teases me because I don't mind writing a letter about something on which I have an informed opinion, whether it's about a product, customer service, a news article, etc. He has a point; sometimes it's better to just let it go. There are limitations to all experiments. But when you all come across papers like this that make you just cringe, what do you do? Is it better to let it slide, write a critique, or just talk about it on TWiV? :-) As I move into a healthcare career I'm concerned about these issues not only for the sake of science but for the sake of public health policy, grant funding, and what new damage could be done with the combination of the media and outspoken narcissists or misanthropes. I now not only see microbes everywhere I go but also the subtext of human behavior. Gray hairs may be soon to follow (just kidding).
Thanks and keep having fun!
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Wink writes:
I noticed that you sometimes do on-air internet searches and end up with commercial results. Switch to DuckDuckGo.com to regain your integrity. It is also more efficient. The URL "ddg.gg" gets you right there. Once you are ready to "Quack" for something, try "bang searching." Examples of bang searching would be "!amazon Racaniello" or "!cdc dengue".
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Josh writes:
Hello TWiV Doctors,
My listener Pick of the Week suggestion is 3.091x: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry from MITx(edx). This is the online version of the MIT freshman class 3.091: Intro to Solid State Chemistry. It begins October 15th, 2012. It's free, there are no prerequisites, and if you successfully complete the course, you get a certificate of completion from MITx.
I realize this is not biochem, but I think it is still relevant for TWiV listeners. I took(and completed!) the first MITx online class, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, and I will tell you that they do not water down their classes just because they put them online. It was MIT hard, and it was a brutal process getting through it.
Some of us were saddened to learn that the excellent lecturer Dr. Donald Sadoway would not be the instructor. However, in a bonus for TWiV listeners, Dr. Michael Cima will be the instructor. It's a bonus for TWiV listeners because his speciality is more medical than Dr. Sadoway. Specifically in nano-technologies for medical monitoring and drug delivery. Here's a video where he runs down what his is working on:
In addition, edx is offering PH207x: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research, through the Harvard School of Public Health. 5 other courses are offered through a combination of MIT, Harvard and UC Berkeley. You can see all of them at edx.org.


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Posted by dummy4fb on (January 11, 2013, 22:39 GMT)
lol cant stop laughin gr8 piece of work man!! keep it up!!
Posted by vaidyar on (January 10, 2013, 13:51 GMT)
Love the attention to detail. I did an image search to see MJ's photo and the eyebrows are almost knitted together. Good one. But the face can be a bit more mousy.
Posted by Cricinfouser on (January 9, 2013, 23:05 GMT)
Great Cartoon Satish ! Note : Make the same face for Ashwin next time.
Posted by India_Rules_Everybody on (January 9, 2013, 20:20 GMT)
Sorry but not funny. And why is there a 25 character minimum requirement?
Posted by dummy4fb on (January 9, 2013, 19:01 GMT)
With Samaraweera & Dilshan out, replaced with youngsters the results may have been different.
Posted by davidatlas999 on (January 9, 2013, 18:06 GMT)
look alot more like kohli.
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Who is the Sri Lankan guy? Not like MJ.
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Sorry...I too think that it looks more like Kohli then Jaya.
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Theme of the cartoon is so superb but it does not look like Jayawardane.
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The eyebrows of jayawardhene were so funny, I almost fell off my chair lol..
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In his May 5 column, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller noted that the "Fox News Primary probably did more to nominate Mitt Romney than New Hampshire or Michigan" and that despite the "acid rain of criminal charges" against News Corp. for its recent scandals, "at least for Americans -- Fox News is Murdoch's most toxic legacy":
In this beleaguered family of news enterprises, Fox is the good son. It is the most reliable profit center, expected to net a billion dollars this fiscal year. It is untainted so far by the metastasizing scandals. It is a source of political influence more durable than Murdoch's serial romances with British prime ministers. This year the Fox News Primary probably did more to nominate Mitt Romney than New Hampshire or Michigan.
And yet I would argue that -- at least for Americans -- Fox News is Murdoch's most toxic legacy.
My complaint is that Fox pretends very hard to be something it is not, and in the process contributes to the corrosive cynicism that has polarized our public discourse.
I doubt that people at Fox News really believe their programming is "fair and balanced" -- that's just a slogan for the suckers -- but they probably are convinced that what they have created is the conservative counterweight to a media elite long marinated in liberal bias. They believe that they are doing exactly what other serious news organizations do; they just do it for an audience that had been left out before Fox came along.
But we try to live by a code, a discipline, that tells us to set aside our personal biases, to test not only facts but the way they add up, to seek out the dissenters and let them make their best case, to show our work. We write unsparing articles about public figures of every stripe -- even, sometimes, about ourselves. When we screw up -- and we do -- we are obliged to own up to our mistakes and correct them.
Fox does not live by that code. (Especially the last part. In a speech at the University of North Carolina last month, [Fox News chairman Roger] Ailes boasted, "In 15 years, we have never taken a story down because we got it wrong." Gosh, even the pope only claims to be infallible on special occasions.) For a salient point of reference, compare Fox's soft-pedaling of the Murdoch troubles with the far more prominent coverage in The Wall Street Journal, which has managed under Murdoch's ownership to retain its serious-journalism DNA.
Keller went on to ask if "anyone [could] imagine Fox airing an unloaded profile of anyone left of center."
Fox has regularly violated journalistic ethics under Murdoch and Ailes' claim that Fox News has never had to issue a retraction is simply not true.
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Hi lucy
I was so happy to receive your reply because i wait for your reply everyday.
To be clear about the tasks:
In the pupil's book i have these tasks:
1- Listen and point: In this task the teacher asks the ss to listen to to these words on the tape (desk- notebook- computer- workbook - chair...) and point to these things in the classroom while listening.
2- Listen and do
In this task the teacher asks ss to listen to specific action on the tape like (open your notebook- closs the door) and the ss must do what they listen.
3- listen and number:
in this this task there is a picture which contains pictures of learning aid like teacher- notebook- computer...). the ss must listen to sentences in that each sentence has one type of these aids. then they number the pictures according to the sentences.
4- listen and check.
there is a picture of teacher . students and map. The t asks ss to try to elicit what ss are asking the teacher. then they must listen to the conversation and chech if their ideas are similar with what they listen.
5- Read and match
There are two lists of oppposite words and the ss must read them and match the opposites.
6- Look and read.
in this task there is a picture of a desk and a sentence written above it which is (it is a desk). the ss must look at the picture and read the sentence and say if the sentence is similar to picture.
thanks alot
waiting your reply and relly i need your help and really i have much to ask you about.


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i got my vest yesterday, and i have snaps, so post pics on how you did it please
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i got my vest yesterday, and i have snaps, so post pics on how you did it please
Easy, I used heavy duty industrial strength velcro. Sewed one side to my vest and the other was stuck to the armour plates and... Bob(a)'s your uncle.
i have the snaps for the things that are more likely to pop off like the leg armor pieces, and industrial strength velcro for the chest armor, and a snap or two for the chest as well
now i cut out the kama a few days ago or last week or something, but i have that figured out.
BUT I need help on my cape now, i cut it out, now i just need an idea on how to wear it, i honestly dont wanna do the boba fett method, so any other ideas?
Well here are my snaps. My armor is not going anywhere! Thanks again to Crazy4bobafett for all her help. LOL remember Christi HOW fun that was?:lol
Hmm...so you don't want to hang your cape from your shoulder stud (ala boba?) How about using it as a dust skirt?
i already wear a kama, i just need some ideas for the cape
thanks gonzo, those pics help alot!
hey orthar could you show pics of your armor placement with the velcro please?
Between epoxying in my visor and trying to make sure I place all the snaps in place on my first try are the things I'll be procrastinating on for a long time to come-especially my visor! I'd almost ship it off to someone trustworthy and pay them to do that than stress over trying it myself. I think the snaps will be easier for me, I still want to do it right, rather than doing it twice...The pics above will certainly help out. I think I'm going to go with a combination of industrial velcro and snaps just so I don't have to keep slapping on armor plates that keep falling off of me in my wake-how embarrassing is that?
In 30-odd troops (including one memorable week long event in London's WestEnd) I've never had any velcro'd armour fall off. I must stress though that that's the industrial strength stuff not the rubbish that you find in your local supermarket.
i do have the industrial strength stuff, with the stickly back, soon i will sew some onto the vest, and maybe add a snap or two
I've not used the industrial velcro yet although I have bought a couple packs of it recently to test it out on my helmet liner. I'd seen someone velcro in their helmet liner (hard hat liner) so they could take it out easily if need be. So when they say industrial quality velcro, they actually mean it then Orthar? Usually, you hear how rough and tough a companies products may be, but when you try it out, it's not worth two dead flies...Hopefully it'll work on my bucket liner-I'll keep you posted if it does when I get to it...
brought this thread back, i am still confused between snaps and velcro
snaps you have to be exact, with velcro, its kinda like a rough idea
i just dontk now
Cylrul Pbz, I'm in the same boat as you. Once I get my vest I'll sit down, figure it out, and let you know. I don't know how effective velcro will be with my metal armor so I'm going to just use snaps.
well nevermind, i got a friend to do it for me, he is experienced in using the snap method, i am paying him, but it is worth it