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Published: Oct. 6, 2013, 3:34 p.m.

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

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In this second consecutive all-email episode, the complete TWiV team reads questions and comments from listeners about systemic antiviral responses, wild type poliovirus in Israel, Turkish scientists, viral symbiotes, and much more.

\nLinks for this episode:\n

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• One Nation in support of biomedical research?
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• Bilim Kazani\xa0(The Cauldron of Science)
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• Science for Gezi
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• State of\xa0Turkish Science
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• Pathogenesis of\xa0feline coronavirus\xa0(EID)
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• Dinosaurs\xa0plagued by infection\xa0(PLoS One)
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• Dinosaur\xa0renaissance\xa0(WikiPedia)
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• Birds are dinosaurs\xa0(AMNH)
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• Influenza vaccine\xa0enhances disease\xa0in pigs (Sci Transl Med)
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• Gut microbes influence\xa0B-cell development\xa0(Nature)
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• Circovirus\xa0in dogs (EID)
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• We the microbiologist
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• Letters read\xa0on TWiV 251
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\nWeekly Science Picks\n

Dickson -\xa0HD slow motion montage\xa0(YouTube)
Kathy\xa0-\xa0Damselflies\xa0and\xa0Eyewitness app
Alan\xa0-\xa0Space weather forecast\xa0(YouTube)
Rich\xa0-\xa01984\xa0by George Orwell (Doublethink)
Vincent\xa0-\xa0PopSci comments off\xa0and\xa0Why so few women in science?

\nListener Pick of the Week\n

Meika\xa0-\xa0Flip action roll\xa0(YouTube)
CN\xa0-\xa0Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking\xa0by Malcolm Gladwell
Bernadeta\xa0-\xa0Higgs Boson wins Nobel Prize

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