Lab Out Loud®

We’ve talked about laboratory safety in the past here at Lab Out loud, but we’ve never put our thoughts to song.

Fortunately, the folks at The Sounds of Science hit the right notes for us.

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The Quantum Frontier

With the Large Hadron Collider scheduled to come back online in November, we were able to talk with writer and physicist Don Lincoln again (see Episode 8).  Dr. Lincoln talks about the LHC and his new book: The Quantum Frontier.

Links:

• The Quantum Frontier
• The Large Hadron Collider – CERN
• Lab Out Loud Episode 8: The Future of Particle Physics
• Fermilab (Illinois) education office
• Fermilab Today (Don writes every other article)
• Argonne National Laboratories (Illinois)
• Become a Fan of Don on Facebook

Education Links

• CERN Education
• Quarknet
• I2U2
• Fermilab Education Office
• Physics Master classes
• LIGO Louisiana
• Soudan Minnesota
• DUSEL South Dakota
• Brookhaven New York
• TJNAF Virginia
• CROP Nebraska
• NALTA North America

Experiments:

• CMS
• ATLAS
• LHCb
• ALICE
• CDF
• Dzero

Don’s Books:

The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider.  The book “describes in layman terms the exciting new research program about to start at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.”  Find it at Amazon.com.

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos.  “The target audience for this book is a lay audience of science enthusiasts. I had high school teachers in mind as I wrote it.” Find it at Amazon.com.

Update:

Don will be speaking…

• Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on November 6 & 7
• Adler Planetarium on November 19th in their new “Adler After Dark” series

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Dalton

Our guest this week is Dr. Jay Neitz from the department of Ophthalmology at the University of Washington, Seattle.  Dr. Neitz and his research team successfully used gene therapy to replace a faulty gene responsible for red-green colorblindness in adult male squirrel monkeys.  We talk with Dr. Neitz about his experiment, its implications for gene therapy in humans and the process of science that led him to this breakthrough.

Links

• Neitz Color Vision Website
• Neitz Vision: Gene Therapy to Cure Color Blindness
• WIRED: Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys
• Scientific American: Gene Therapy Cures Colorblindness for Adult Monkeys
• NPR: Thanks to Gene Therapy, Monkeys See in Full Color
• Science: Gene Therapy Gives Monkeys Color Vision
• Discover: Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys
• National Geographic: Color Blindess Cured by Gene Injection in Monkeys

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