Episode 69 of the Mindcast is up!
Download it here.
Show topics:
KDRT threatened by another station, the good and the bad of San Francisco banning plastic grocery bags, new biodegradable plastics sink in seawater, batteries that run on sugar, new type of twin called semi-identical, and the more perfect you look - the less evolvable your immune system. Maybe ugly will be the new beautiful?
Interview with Dr. Carl Winter, director of the Foodsafe program at UC Davis, on whether organic food can be called healthier than conventional food, and his rocking food safety music.
Special Feature on the congressional global warming hearings: Boxer Gores Inhofe.
Theme = Still Stayin Alive by Carl Winter.
Spread this Inoculation:
I’m sure you are a busy guy, but are there any new mindcast episodes in the works? I didn’t know about your show until you did the TWIS guest spot at KDVS. I’ve spent the last few months catching up on the old shows. I’ve become accustomed to a large dose of inoculation. I’m afraid I might suffer withdrawls.
Thanks for your comment.
I miss doing my show, and I’m getting my own little studio setup put together (need some soundproofing) so I can produce mindcast episodes now that I’m cut loose from KDRT. I’m working on changing the format up a bit, less rambling, more pre-planned stuff and contributions from others. I’ll be done uploading the last episodes before I left Davis sometime mid-august, then I should be ready to try a few new things out.
Comments like these are a big help - knowing that there are people behind the downloads makes me want to get my butt moving, despite all my new daytime adventures in grad school.
[...] I’m not complaining, oh no. Last week while checking the stats for the latest mindcast episodes that I uploaded, I noticed an odd spike of downloads for Episode 69. In the span of two days, 359 and 400 downloads on each day just came out of nowhere. They were direct downloads, so its not like a bunch of people subscribed on iTunes. On the same days, about 80-90 downloads of the previous episode occurred. After searching the net to see if anyone linked to it, I haven’t found anything. [...]