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Frakking Controversy, Remembering Memories, World Robot Domination, Whisky Power, Talking Sperm, Learning to Speak Whale, Decoding DNA, BPA Baby Dangers, Tech VS Nature, And Much More…
Frakking
A Musical Into To…
Who Do You Trust?
Explosive H2O
Shale Methane Leaks
In the age old battle between nature and technology, which one is winning?
Early Memories…
The ‘$1,000 genome’ decoding may be here soon… what good will it do?
World Robot Domination!!!
Robo-birds…
Schizophrenic Computers…
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Whales have accents!
Gamma Ray Mystery…
Human Lung Stem Cell Discovered!
The Power of Whisky…
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Justin, the flammable water faucet in Gasland was NOT caused by fracking!
This is a false myth, which you could help put to rest on next week’s show.
http://cogcc.state.co.us/cogis/ComplaintReport.asp?doc_num=200190138
Normally, methane found in water indicates the presence of Methanogens; part of a healthy ecology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogen
Here is a link to the PNAS study showing evidence of methane contamination.
You don’t need an expensive team of doctors to help you analyze your genome!
Heck, to know something about your DNA, you don’t need to decode the whole genome, even.
All a person really wants to know is if they have certain disease-causing alleles.
Here is the link to the kit Kiki mentioned: https://www.23andme.com/
On the other hand, the claim that genomic analysis HAS to be expensive and difficult is false.
Any computer programmer can write a software to look in the genome with this software:
http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsa/wiki/index.php/The_Genome_Analysis_Toolkit
Identifying specific alleles in a genome is easy.
Any programmer can do it!
Also, anyone can search the published database of genes on GenBank online for free:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
In my spare time, some day, I plan on playing with these software options, it would be a fun and inexpensive exercise!
$1,000 for my string of base pairs is far less than I’ve paid for software developer licensing fees in the past, sad to say.