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Welcome to Double X Science for July 15, 2013. Today's host is Double X Science chemistry editor, Adrienne Roehrich, interviewing Bethany Brookshire, aka Scicurious, about her two articles in the past 6 months on Double X Science. Articles discussed during the interview include: Between neurohype and neuroskepticism. (http://www.doublexscience.org/between-neurohype-and-neuroskepticism/)   If You Try One Detox This Year, Make It This One (http://www.doublexscience.org/if-you-try-one-detox-this-year-make-it-this-one/) http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/07/15/is-sugar-really-toxic-sifting-through-the-evidence/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/apr/19/beer-dopamine-brain-scans http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2013/06/18/book-review-brainwashed/#.UeQV2EHvvzx Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts since the end of May: Early Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/ Calculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood http://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/ Arousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber http://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/ Five Reasons Mermaids are Impossible by Editor-in-Chief Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/five-reasons-mermaids-are-impossible/ On Pacifiers and Breastfeeding by Health Editor Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/of-pacifiers-and-breastfeeding/ Chasing Tornadoes is an Old Habit by Tech Editor Jeffrey Perkel http://www.doublexscience.org/storm-chasers-colonial-edition/ Sizing Up the Mother in Me by Contributor Joss Fong http://www.doublexscience.org/sizing-up-the-mother-in-me/ He found out he has ovaries by Editor-in-chief Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/he-found-out-he-has-ovaries/ SCOTUS ruling means cheaper genetic testing by science ed editor Chris Gunter http://www.doublexscience.org/myriad-genetics-ruling/ Shark Clones: A Story of Parthenogenesis http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/shark-clones-story-of-parthenogenesis.html Dr. Irene Helen Battle http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-helen-irene-battle.html ews of the week was about the Big Brain Project. http://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for June 22, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeff Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts since the end of May: Early Puberty Among Adoptees by Health Editor Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/adoptees-early-puberty-rates/ Calculating Vaccine Risk by Contributor Alison Hagood http://www.doublexscience.org/calculating-vaccine-risk/ Arousal during rape by Contributor Jenny Morber http://www.doublexscience.org/arousal-during-rape/ Five Reasons Mermaids are Impossible by Editor-in-Chief Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/five-reasons-mermaids-are-impossible/ On Pacifiers and Breastfeeding by Health Editor Tara Haelle http://www.doublexscience.org/of-pacifiers-and-breastfeeding/ Chasing Tornadoes is an Old Habit by Tech Editor Jeffrey Perkel http://www.doublexscience.org/storm-chasers-colonial-edition/ Sizing Up the Mother in Me by Contributor Joss Fong http://www.doublexscience.org/sizing-up-the-mother-in-me/ He found out he has ovaries by Editor-in-chief Emily Willingham http://www.doublexscience.org/he-found-out-he-has-ovaries/ SCOTUS ruling means cheaper genetic testing by science ed editor Chris Gunter http://www.doublexscience.org/myriad-genetics-ruling/ Shark Clones: A Story of Parthenogenesis http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/shark-clones-story-of-parthenogenesis.html Dr. Irene Helen Battle http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/06/dr-helen-irene-battle.html ews of the week was about the Big Brain Project. http://www.nature.com/news/whole-human-brain-mapped-in-3d-1.13245?WT.mc_id=PIN_NatureNews Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science. It’s in your genes. This is your host, chemistry editor Adrienne Roehrich. Double X Science podcast is on hiatus this week. However, we appreciate your listening. Please check out our posts of the week at our website doublexscience.org and our sister site, doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on twitter. Thank you for listening.

Welcome to Double X Science. It’s in your genes. This is your host, chemistry editor Adrienne Roehrich. Double X Science podcast is on hiatus this week. However, we appreciate your listening. Please check out our posts of the week at our website doublexscience.org and our sister site, doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on twitter. Thank you for listening.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 24, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Matthew Francis, physics editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, We have a special focus on Did Einstein write his most famous equation? Does it matter? and Dr. Oz is worried about your fillings. We also cover Parenting Paranoia Comes in different forms, Creating Viruses to Create the Vaccines?, What causes recurrent UTIs?, and Not Knowing, our I Am Mental Illness series post. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Cubes, Pyramids, and More!; StemCellTalks; and Science of Napping (Infographic). News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/parenting-paranoia-comes-in-different-forms/ http://www.doublexscience.org/creating-viruses-to-create-the-vaccines-against-them/ http://www.doublexscience.org/did-einstein-write-his-most-famous-equation-does-it-matter/ http://www.doublexscience.org/of-utis-and-bacterial-fitness/ http://www.doublexscience.org/dr-oz-is-worried-about-your-teeth-should-you-worry-too/ http://www.doublexscience.org/not-knowing/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/cubes-pyramids-and-more.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/stemcelltalks.html http://futurescienceleaders.org/engineers2012/2013/03/20/the-science-of-napping/ Our news story concerned the vote in Portland on the fluoridation of municipal water. We have no specific article we referred to for this topic. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 24, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Matthew Francis, physics editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, We have a special focus on Did Einstein write his most famous equation? Does it matter? and Dr. Oz is worried about your fillings. We also cover Parenting Paranoia Comes in different forms, Creating Viruses to Create the Vaccines?, What causes recurrent UTIs?, and Not Knowing, our I Am Mental Illness series post. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Cubes, Pyramids, and More!; StemCellTalks; and Science of Napping (Infographic). News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/parenting-paranoia-comes-in-different-forms/ http://www.doublexscience.org/creating-viruses-to-create-the-vaccines-against-them/ http://www.doublexscience.org/did-einstein-write-his-most-famous-equation-does-it-matter/ http://www.doublexscience.org/of-utis-and-bacterial-fitness/ http://www.doublexscience.org/dr-oz-is-worried-about-your-teeth-should-you-worry-too/ http://www.doublexscience.org/not-knowing/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/cubes-pyramids-and-more.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/stemcelltalks.html http://futurescienceleaders.org/engineers2012/2013/03/20/the-science-of-napping/ Our news story concerned the vote in Portland on the fluoridation of municipal water. We have no specific article we referred to for this topic. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 18, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeffrey Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, Dominants, alphas, and queens: Happy Mother’s Day!; Thanks, Mom, for not eating me; The Fatherhood Adjustment; Old Ovaries? New eggs? Hatching a Debate; Disabled; Mammograms; and Depressing Genes, I Am Mental Illness series post. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Development of Critical Thinking Outside of School; Blood Plasma Resembles Ketchup!; and Scrapyard Adventures. News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/dominants-alphas-and-queens-or-happy-mothers-day/ http://www.doublexscience.org/thanks-mom-for-not-eating-me/ http://www.doublexscience.org/fatherhood-the-new-adventure/ http://www.doublexscience.org/old-ovaries-new-eggs-hatching-a-debate/ http://www.doublexscience.org/10-ways-healthcare-reform-might-help-people-with-disabilities/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-labrynthine-task-of-scheduling-a-mammogram/ http://www.doublexscience.org/depressing-genes/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/development-of-critical-thinking.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/blood-plasma-resembles-ketchup.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/scrapyard-adventures.html Our news stories can be found at: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/05/13/using-earthquake-sensors-to-track-endangered-whales/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/15/184223277/how-scientists-cloned-human-embryos Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 18, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeffrey Perkel, tech editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, Dominants, alphas, and queens: Happy Mother’s Day!; Thanks, Mom, for not eating me; The Fatherhood Adjustment; Old Ovaries? New eggs? Hatching a Debate; Disabled; Mammograms; and Depressing Genes, I Am Mental Illness series post. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Development of Critical Thinking Outside of School; Blood Plasma Resembles Ketchup!; and Scrapyard Adventures. News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/dominants-alphas-and-queens-or-happy-mothers-day/ http://www.doublexscience.org/thanks-mom-for-not-eating-me/ http://www.doublexscience.org/fatherhood-the-new-adventure/ http://www.doublexscience.org/old-ovaries-new-eggs-hatching-a-debate/ http://www.doublexscience.org/10-ways-healthcare-reform-might-help-people-with-disabilities/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-labrynthine-task-of-scheduling-a-mammogram/ http://www.doublexscience.org/depressing-genes/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/development-of-critical-thinking.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/blood-plasma-resembles-ketchup.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/scrapyard-adventures.html Our news stories can be found at: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/05/13/using-earthquake-sensors-to-track-endangered-whales/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/15/184223277/how-scientists-cloned-human-embryos Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 10, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Emily Willingham, editor-in-chief. Our topics cover posts of the week, Unicorns and Brainbows, A Tour of Digestion from Nose to Um... Tail, About that Pacifier Study, That deadly, imported, meningitis-toting snail? Isn’t., and the I Am Mental Illness post of the week. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Bon Voyage, NEOSSat! and The mystery of salmon migration and magnetism. News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/unicorns-and-brainbows/ http://www.doublexscience.org/a-tour-of-digestion-from-nose-to-um-tail/ http://www.doublexscience.org/about-that-pacifier-study/ http://www.doublexscience.org/daily-mail-snail-fail/ http://www.doublexscience.org/this-is-good-and-i-am-happy/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/bon-voyage-neossat.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-mystery-of-salmon-migration-and.html You can google information for our news story. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 10, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Emily Willingham, editor-in-chief. Our topics cover posts of the week, Unicorns and Brainbows, A Tour of Digestion from Nose to Um... Tail, About that Pacifier Study, That deadly, imported, meningitis-toting snail? Isn’t., and the I Am Mental Illness post of the week. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Bon Voyage, NEOSSat! and The mystery of salmon migration and magnetism. News of the week was about the 14-year old girl presenting her science fair project on iPads and defibrillators/pace makers at a cardiology conference. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/unicorns-and-brainbows/ http://www.doublexscience.org/a-tour-of-digestion-from-nose-to-um-tail/ http://www.doublexscience.org/about-that-pacifier-study/ http://www.doublexscience.org/daily-mail-snail-fail/ http://www.doublexscience.org/this-is-good-and-i-am-happy/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/bon-voyage-neossat.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-mystery-of-salmon-migration-and.html You can google information for our news story. Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 3, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, About That 1 in 50 Autism Number, Selling the Flu Shot, and an Infographic on Urinary Tract Infections. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about How the T. Rex got its Roar, Math, and the Namaqua Rain Frog. News of the week was about a recent paper in Nature concerning endomitrial cancer and solving the problem of women in science. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/selling-the-flu-shot/ http://www.doublexscience.org/infographic-urinary-tract-infection/ http://www.doublexscience.org/about-that-1-in-50-autism-number/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-animals-hiding-in-t-rexs-roar.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/math-week-one.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/namaqua-rain-frog.html Our news stories can be found at: http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=712  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12113.html Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for May 3, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, science ed editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, About That 1 in 50 Autism Number, Selling the Flu Shot, and an Infographic on Urinary Tract Infections. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about How the T. Rex got its Roar, Math, and the Namaqua Rain Frog. News of the week was about a recent paper in Nature concerning endomitrial cancer and solving the problem of women in science. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/selling-the-flu-shot/ http://www.doublexscience.org/infographic-urinary-tract-infection/ http://www.doublexscience.org/about-that-1-in-50-autism-number/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-animals-hiding-in-t-rexs-roar.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/math-week-one.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/05/namaqua-rain-frog.html Our news stories can be found at: http://www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=712  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7447/full/nature12113.html Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for April 27, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeanne Garbarino, biology editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, including a two-part series on vaccination decisions, the cinnamon challenge, the DSM-V and autism, murder mysteries and chemistry, and seeking counseling as a part of our I Am Mental Illness series. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Eurazhdarcho langendorfensis and some scientists. News of the week was about the President Obama's pledge of $3 billion for STEM education and Mathy Ladies on Twitter. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/vaccination-attitudes-are-contagious/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-fear-factor-in-vaccination-decisions/ http://www.doublexscience.org/dont-take-the-cinnamon-challenge/ http://www.doublexscience.org/autism-and-the-dsm-5/ http://www.doublexscience.org/of-walnuts-and-world-book-night/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-things-we-never-leave-behind/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/eurazhdarcho-langendorfensis.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-favourite-scientists.html Our news stories can be found at: http://ivn.us/2013/04/22/obama-administration-commits-3-1-billion-to-stem-education/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2013/04/24/mathy-ladieson-twitter/ Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.

Welcome to Double X Science for April 27, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeanne Garbarino, biology editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, including a two-part series on vaccination decisions, the cinnamon challenge, the DSM-V and autism, murder mysteries and chemistry, and seeking counseling as a part of our I Am Mental Illness series. We also covered Double X Science Jr posts about Eurazhdarcho langendorfensis and some scientists. News of the week was about the President Obama's pledge of $3 billion for STEM education and Mathy Ladies on Twitter. You can find this week's posts at: http://www.doublexscience.org/vaccination-attitudes-are-contagious/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-fear-factor-in-vaccination-decisions/ http://www.doublexscience.org/dont-take-the-cinnamon-challenge/ http://www.doublexscience.org/autism-and-the-dsm-5/ http://www.doublexscience.org/of-walnuts-and-world-book-night/ http://www.doublexscience.org/the-things-we-never-leave-behind/ http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/eurazhdarcho-langendorfensis.html http://doublexsciencejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/my-favourite-scientists.html Our news stories can be found at: http://ivn.us/2013/04/22/obama-administration-commits-3-1-billion-to-stem-education/ http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/2013/04/24/mathy-ladieson-twitter/ Thank you for listening. Please subscribe via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/double-x-science/id604770613) or your favorite pod catcher (http://feeds.feedburner.com/doublexscience). Please leave us positive ratings and reviews to bring science to more people.