Lab Out Loud

In this episode, we chat with PZ Myers - lead author of the blog Pharyngula ( Pharyngula is hosted at Science Blogs - a project from Seed Magazine ). Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris . Contact Information at UM Morris Curriculum Vitae Personal Page Profile on Nature Network Pharyngula Galleries Articles written by PZ Myers at Seed Magazine 2006 We...

In this episode, Dale talks with physicist Don Lincoln of the DZero detector experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratories . Don talks about physics, Fermilab, his books, and some opportunities for teachers and students with QuarkNet. Preview from the Show: Basler: Can you give us an overview of what the [Fermilab] does, and what the facility’s goals are? Lincoln: My own lab, Fermilab,...

On this week's episode, we talk with Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov . Dr. Mitalipov is an Assistant Scientist and a Co-Director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory at the Oregon National Primate Research Center , Oregon Health & Science University . We talk with Dr. Mitalipov about his recent breakthrough in cloning monkey embryos and the scientific methods t...

Adam Rogers discusses the new PBS show titled WIRED Science. Links WIRED Science  WIRED Magazine  Twitter  Dale's account  Brian's account  Dale's Twitter project  Other educators on Twitter

Professor Sir Alec Jeffries talks to us about the discovery of DNA fingerprinting, its uses/abuses and its impact on society. Preview from the Show: I’ve been called the father of DNA fingerprinting - I think grandfather is more appropriate. So basically the baby has grown up and spawned its own offspring – so I’m now granddad – and they are thriving. …But obviously I keep a very, very great inter...

This week we talk with Vivek Wadhwa , columnist for Business Week, Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and executive in residence at Duke University. Wadhwa will be discussing his recent article ( The Science Education Myth ) regarding science education in the United States. Quotes from the show: “It’s commonly accepted that the U.S. is falling behind other countries because our children sco...

This week we talk with Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science payload on the Mars Exploration Rover Project, & Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Preview from the show: "We have been so incredibly lucky with this mission. I mean, to have that dead wheel, which we thought was a catastrophe at the time, turn up one of the most exciting discoveries of the...

Dr. Sean B. Carroll (Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wisconsin) talks to us about evolution, his new project, and science literacy. Preview from the show: " What I am very convinced of, from all sorts of experiences of trying to communicate science, is that storytelling is a really valuable ingredient of...

Meet the hosts of NSTA's Lab Out Loud podcast - Dale Basler and Brian Bartel.  Later, we chat with NSTA Executive Director Gerry Wheeler, as he reflects on Sputnik and its impact on science education,  the importance of science literacy and 21st century skills, and how NSTA is helping science teachers both young and old. WSST The Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers WSST's Periodicity Gerry Wheel...