Songs Played This Show are:
Bare Feet on Wet Griptape - Chad van Gaalen
Fences Around Field - Death Vessel
Tammy Who You Gonna Marry - Paul Westerberg

Papers discussed are:

Multimodal warning signals for a multiple predator world
Ratcliffe, J.M., Nydam, M.L. Nature 2008 455, 96-100.

Moths produce extremely quiet ultrasonic courtship songs by rubbing specialized scales
Nakano, R. et al. PNAS 2008 105 (33), 11812-11817.

Combinatorial Synthesis of Peptide Arrays with a Laser Printer
Stadler, V. et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2008 27, 7132-7135.

Our guest is giving a seminar tomorrow evening:
Gregory Gym at 7:00 pm

September 16, 2008

Why Males Die Without Mating, and What You Can Do About It

Michael Ryan, Integrative Biology

Because of fundamental differences in their reproductive biology, females are usually able to obtain mates while most males of a species die without having sex. In many species males evolve elaborate and expensive traits to convince females to mate with them. Why? What are the consequences? And what about human mate choice?

http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/ryan/multi_media.htm

Interview with Todd Dittmire, a physics professor who recently unveiled the highest powered laser in the world. He's a self-proclaimed laser jock!

Medical Discovery News - Blast Brain Injury, A Fungus Among Us, Viral Cause of Obesity

Interview with Ron Lin, graduate student in biophysics at UCLA.

Medical Discovery news about body shapes.

Lunar Module by Big Dipper, off the album Supercluster.

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Dr. Steven Baird - I Am Saatisfied with Science - Hallelujah ! Evolution! - PSB Records

Music for today:Me First and the Gimme gimmes - The Harder they Come

The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines - Land of the Freak

They Might Be Giants - For Science
Stop Giving Your Children Standardized Tests - Laura Barrett (Earth Sciences on Paper Bag Records)

We talked to Brian Katz about math teaching and other awesome things related to teaching well.

Medical Discovery News - Personalized Medicine

Animals turn to glass to stop time

Bipolar disorder and its connection to the brain's cclock.

Disconnecting bacterial tails from their motor

Diarrhea vaccine, how birds drink and eat, and where to get tomatoes...