Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines
Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine
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Show Notes
On this week’s show: Russia announces plans to monitor permafrost, and a conversation about the dangers of self-spreading engineered viruses and vaccines
Science journalist Olga Dobrovidova joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about plans to set up a national permafrost observatory in Russia.
Then Filippa Lentzos, senior lecturer in science and international security in the department of war studies and in the department of global health and social medicine, and co-director for the center for science and security at King’s College London, joins Sarah to discuss her Science commentary on the dangers of transmissible vaccines for controlling invasive species and viruses found in wildlife.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
[Image: Евгений Ерыгин/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
[alt: person walking on snow at night in city of Norilsk, Russia]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; Olga Dobrovidova
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