Science Friday for 3-7 October
Listen to the Friday, 30 September segment titled The Real Virologist behind “Contagion.” It is not unheard of for a director to hire a scientist as a consultant to make sure a movie has its science right. Listen to the program and follow the links below (one of the links will take you to a podcast) and investigate whether or not this is one of those instances. Check out the movie details as well.
By Thursday or Friday of this week, be prepared to take an oral or written quiz on the information is this story and in the provided links.
Consider some outside reading on this topic. What sort of a project could you do in the areas of virology or epidemiology?
The Real Virologist behind “Contagion”
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/30/140954029/the-real-virologist-behind-contagion
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/opinion/the-real-threat-of-contagion.html
http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2011/05/03/traffic_carl_zimmer_and_w_ian.html
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