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Published: Sept. 29, 2013, 1:48 p.m.

Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\xa0Dickson Despommier,\xa0Alan Dove,\xa0Rich Condit,\xa0and\xa0Kathy Spindler

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The complete TWiV team reads email from listeners about anti-vaccine activists, a career in microbiology, placentas, a virology textbook, the HeLa cell genome, norovirus, and much more.

\nLinks for this episode:\n

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• Anthropic principle
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• 1999\xa0vaccine article\xa0by Alan Dove (Nature)
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• Image credit:\xa0Jason Roberts
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 251
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\nWeekly Science Picks\n

Dickson -\xa0A Sand County Almanac\xa0by Aldo Leopold
Kathy\xa0-\xa0Noctilucent clouds and aurora over Scotland
Alan\xa0-\xa0Flu vaccination map
Rich\xa0-\xa0There's a fly in my urinal
Vincent\xa0-\xa0Picornaviridae.com

\nListener Pick of the Week\n

Peter\xa0-\xa0PDB-101
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