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Origins: Birth of a Pandemic is a multi-part series exploring the likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology by talking to independent scientists from around the world who have been working to get to the bottom of just how the COVID-19 pandemic began. Origins also critiques the media and academic institutions that tried to denigrate the "lab leak" hypothesis as a conspiracy theory, and looks into how institutions were used by those with many conflicts of interest ...
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Think 'out loud' with us. Whether you're typing hello-world for the first time, or a billion-download app developer, join us for casual discussions about learning and problem solving in the Python programming language.
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Origins: Birth of a Pandemic creator John Duffy hosts a new show that deep dives popularly misunderstood issues of history, culture, politics, and more.
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Support the show by making a one time donation: https://www.patreon.com/DoubleAsteriskMedia Or donate via Cash App: $DAmedia2021 In Part 6 of Origins, Paul Thacker joins us again to talk about the revelations contained within the NIH grant award documents to the Eco Health Alliance, as well as what was contained in the Eco Health Alliance's DEFUSE …
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Support the show by making a one time donation: https://www.patreon.com/DoubleAsteriskMedia Or donate via Cash App: $DAmedia2021 In Part 5 of Origins, we hear from Dr. Filippa Lentzos and Dr. Alina Chan who both spoke at an online conference about the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus about pandemic investigations and the likelihood of a spillover in…
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Support the show by making a one time donation: https://www.patreon.com/DoubleAsteriskMedia Or donate via Cash App: $DAmedia2021 In Part Four of Origins: Birth of a Pandemic, we meet Paul Thacker, an independent journalist who has written for the British Medical Journal, and discuss just how various scientific publications were used to steer public…
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Support the show with a one time donation at: http://www.patreon.com/doubleasteriskmedia In part three of Origins: Birth of a Pandemic, we learn about Peter Daszak, the head of the Eco Health Alliance, a conservation group that has funneled NIH and other government funding to Dr. Shi Zhengli and her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Daszak w…
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Support the show with a one time donation at: http://www.patreon.com/doubleasteriskmedia In Part Two of Origins: Birth of a Pandemic, we explore the concept of gain of function research by hearing scientists like Ralph Baric and Marc Lipsitch discuss its promise as well as its pitfalls. We are also rejoined by Dr. Latham, who outlines his hypothesi…
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Support the show with a one time donation at: http://www.patreon.com/doubleasteriskmedia In part one of Origins: Birth of a Pandemic, we meet Dr. Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource Project and Independentsciencenews.org. Dr. Latham talks about how he came to believe that it was likely that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID19, escaped …
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Origins: Birth of a Pandemic is a new, three part podcast series exploring just where the COVID-19 causing virus, SARS-CoV-2, came from. For the better part of 2020, most media and academic institutions in the US refused to consider the possibility that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In the absence of more official investig…
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Episode 2: python_powered (the tale of the caret and the double-asterisk)
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Episode 2 Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/episode2 In this episode, Kevin’s mental math skills are put to the test as we explore options for calculating exponentials in Python. The discussion begins with two popular sites for practicing programming, projecteuler.net and pythonchallenge.com, the latter being the inspiration for this episode. Both site…
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Episode 2 Teaser: Previewing the tale of the caret and the double-asterisk
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Episode 2 Teaser Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/episode2teaser Episode 2 Teaser Companion Blog Post: pythonoutloud.com/articles/the-magic-behind-integer-arithmetic-in-python If you enjoyed this less polished, monologue format, tweeting at us as @PythonOutLoud, and let us know! If we get enough positive feedback, we’ll consider releasing similar epis…
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Episode 1 Postscript: more_questions_answered
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Episode 1 Postscript Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/episode1postscript Thanks for the questions and feedback, and please keep them coming by tweeting at @PythonOutLoud! While Episode 2 is incubating, this special postscript to Episode 1 answers more listener questions, discusses our Twitter giveaways, and boldly endures Isaiah's Star Trek references…
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Episode 1: fizz_buzz (and find out why 1,485,294 is divisible by 3)
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Episode 1 Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/1 These show note were written on the Shinano Train, on Kevin's smartphone, steaming toward the Snow Monkey Park in Nagano, Japan. In Episode 1, we discuss the infamous programming challenge known as FizzBuzz (no space), Fizz Buzz (with a space), or fizz_buzz (in PEP8-friendly syntax). We start off with its o…
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Episode 0 Postscript: your_questions_answered
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Episode 0 Postscript Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/episode0postscript While we create Episode 1, this Episode 0 Postscript answers some of your questions, discusses our plans for the show, and announces our first giveaway! In addition, Isaiah shared some stories from PyCascades (https://www.pycascades.com/), a regional Python conference held in Can…
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Episode 0: mic_test (not just another hello-world episode)
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Episode 0 Show Notes: pythonoutloud.com/0 It's important to set realistic goals, right? So why wait to publish the acceptance speech we'd give for our Lifetime Achievement Award? [pause for audience applause] KC: Thank you! Thank you! Wow... {{years_podcasting}} year{{years_podcasting|pluralize}} and {{episodes_podcasted}} episode{{episodes_podcast…
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