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Go vote at http://www.podcastawards.com/ — we’re in both the “Education” and “Best Produced” podcasts. You can vote once/day until the awards are finished!

Caustic Soda is a labor of larva! Get to know the bot, tsetse, tumbu, bat and coffin fly, not to mention screw worm, sheep ked and ant decapitator. Also – what is myiasis? All this plus [...]

Thanks to your nominations, Caustic Soda is one of the nominees of the annual Podcast Awards. Why not take the plunge and vote for us in both the Best Produced and Education categories. You can [...]

Special guests science fiction legend Larry Niven and Buffy/Angel/Firefly editor Lisa Lassek join Kevin, Joe, and Toren at Vancouver’s VCON! We cover the dysfunctional tech society of Terry [...]

E-Coli, Salmonella, gut bacteria social networks (no, really!) and lots more infectious awesomeness! Jenna Capyk joins Kevin, Joe, and Toren for a podcast so chock full of prokaryotes it’s [...]

It’s Fünf for the whole Familie! More shark, crocodile AND bear attacks, self surgery, decapitations, Chinese internet addiction boot camps, art made of pee and poo, armadillo leprosy. All [...]

Wow! Larry Niven to guest on Caustic Soda! Wow! Please nominate us for the Podcast Awards. For strategy’s sake, nominate Caustic Soda in the “Education” and “Best [...]

Are you a Soda Jerk? Do you like science fiction? A film buff perhaps? Are you attending VCON, Vancouver’s annual sci fi convention? If the answer to any of these is “okay” then [...]

Caution, cyprianophobes! Katie Scoular doles out the facts on three of the most common STIs: the slang, the history, and the science. Plus news, pop culture and “The Lesser of Two [...]

What you don’t know about scorpions can kill you! The biggest, the oldest, the deadliest, plus scorpions in biological warfare! Music: Raymond Scott “Twilight in Turkey” Images [...]