Play With It Out Loud

Finally, after a long, long delay, I have escaped grave peril to create for you Episode 4 of Stir-Fried Stochasticity.  Today’s topic is my excuse for the year-long delay between Episode 3 and Episode 4, and (more importantly) the microbiological practice of “Heat-Fixing” and its purpose, and the ability (or inability) of “heat-fixing” to render microscope slides of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria sterile and safe to handle.

You can listen to the episode from the embedded player below directly from this web page, or download the file to freely listen to and redistribute (under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution,Share-Alike license) here:

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I have not yet uploaded the previous episodes from the old site.  For the moment, you can find the previous episodes at the following links:

• Episode 01: Babies Understand Dog-Language (Or Something Like That)
  (Regarding the ability of very young children to apparently recognize the facial expressions of dogs)
• Episode 02: Bio-Boogers
  (Regarding the survival of probiotic yogurt bacteria while passing through the harsh environment of the human digestive tract)
• Episode 03: Los Angeles Sucks (oil and water)
  (Regarding the remarkable extent to which human activity causes up-and-down movement of the land compared to that caused by actual earthquakes)

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