Bohemian Biology

Bohemian Biology

Bohemian Biology features audio pieces dealing with various topics ranging from recent advances in the health sciences, social life and art scene in the Brooklyn and New York area. This podcast is a personal interface with my own little circle of social and professional encounters and is linked to my blog: http://florenceblanchard.wordpress.com/

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December 27, 2009 21 mins
On this episode of Bohemian Biology, you'll hear Jim Avignon aka Neoangin talking on ArtSci Fridays, a show I hosted on the Neighborhood Public Radio back in 2008 as part of the Whitney Biennial. Jim is a German painter and performer based in Brooklyn, who at the time, just had a new album out titled 'The Happy Hobo & The Return of The Freaks'. As I just attended his even more recent album release party a couple of d...
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For this 5th episode of Bohemian Biology I uploaded one of the podcasts I produced for BioTechniques. It was originally published on Biotechniques.com June 25 2009 Run Time: 32:48 Although the ban on funding embryonic stem cells was recently lifted by President Barack Obama, the controversy over this research still remains. New types of pluripotent stem cells have recently emerged as alternatives to embryonic stem cells....
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September 28, 2009 32 mins
On Saturday September 12, 2009, New Yorkers were invited to 'stop and listen' to the nocturnal chirping of crickets. The goal was to survey the presence of several species of crickets and katydids across the five boroughs and beyond. The collaboration between several hundreds of volunteers and scientists based at the American Museum of Natural History and U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center allowed th...
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As the second annual Governor’s Island art fair is kicking in this month, a couple of friends and I hopped on the ferry at the DUMBO station on Sunday early afternoon to check it out. The sun was hitting really hard that day. This made waiting for the ferry quite hard to endure, but made the boat trip and short distance get away even more enjoyable. Once on the island I came across an interesting sound installation by Jere...
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August 25, 2009 7 mins
A couple of weeks ago I followed my friend Jenevieve to work. Jenevieve works for Big City Walls, an institution, that coordinates murals with youth organizations in schools across New York City. She recently completed a mural at the corner of Knickerbocker and Myrtle avenues with teenagers and young adults aged 13-21 from the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. The mural took four weeks to complete, from conceptualization to re...
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For this first episode, I posted one of the episodes of BioTalk, a podcast I produced for BioTechniques, a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This is a pretty technical topic, and some parts require some knowledge of molecular biology. In this episode of BioTalk from BioTechniques, Gal Almogy, a post-doc at ETH Zürich explains how increasing the accuracy of the Tet system might lead to effective gene therapy. Gal Almo...
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