Podcast Episodes
Episodes produced for the GLP list the source as Genetic Literacy Project.
The GLP features numerous podcasts from around the web, providing a wealth of biotechnology information. We also host three podcasts:
• Science Facts & Fallacies with Cameron English and Kevin Folta
• Genetics Unzipped – the Genetics Society podcast with Kat Arney
• Talking Biotech with Kevin Folta
Podcast: Glyphosate, cancer and clickbait: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat on how to spot junk science in the news
A Google search for "glyphosate" returns 10,300,000 results—conflicting news stories, opinion articles and videos of varying accuracy. Some of these ...
Podcast: Could a benign virus save Florida’s devastated orange industry from citrus greening disease?
Huanglongbing, or HLB, is the Chinese term for the Yellow Dragon Disease–usually referred to as citrus greening. The disease first ...
Podcast: How science brought us ‘synthetic’ fertilizer, and why it was a game changer for farmers
Bet you never thought fertilizer was magical but that changes today! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant ...
Podcast: Are you ready for the Zero Dollar Genome?
We've broken through the thousand dollar genome barrier and are heading towards $100. Leading geneticist George Church want to take ...
Podcast: Why do we like sweet foods? How taste and smell color our sense of the world
University of Florida researcher Linda Bartoshuk has been recognized as an expert on interactions between smell, taste and psychology for ...
Podcast: From anti-GMO journalist to crop biotech advocate—Alliance for Science managing editor Joan Conrow
For many years, the developing world has been at the center of a heated debate between mainstream scientists and anti-GMO ...
Podcast: ‘Are we all going to die?’ Entomologist breaks down the ‘bee-pocalypse’ that ‘threatens the global food supply’
Bees are important crop pollinators and reduced bee numbers have been described by farmers overseas as a bee crisis. Global ...
Podcast: Former FDA scientist Henry Miller says misguided regulation keeps safe biotech products off the market
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first "GMO" pharmaceutical drug in the world, a new ...
Podcast: Geneticist Kevin Folta responds after anti-biotech social media attacks led to his exclusion from Florida gardening event
Recently, University of Florida plant scientist Kevin Folta was invited to present a series of lectures at a seed saving ...