April 30, 2017
Paul Bieniasz joins the TWiV team to talk about the co-option, millions of years ago, of an endogenous retrovirus envelope protein by hominid ancestors for host defense against viral infection.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Paul Bieniasz
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Kathy - UM Science Communication TeachOut
Alan - LLNL nuclear test videos
Rich - The Great A.I. Awakening (Artificial neural network; DeepDream; DeepDream images)
Dickson - Cassini images
Paul - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Vincent - Google rewrites search rankings; Senator Whitehouse on politics of climate change
Anthony - Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Weather Monitor Kit
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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