Flu Shots, Namaqua Rain Frogs, and Cancer

05/05/2013 16 min

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Episode Synopsis

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


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