Episodes
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Episode 43: Beneath an Iron Sky
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has observed an exoplanet over 600 light years from Earth where it rains iron.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read 'From Another Planet’ by Mark Jarman here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Mar 23, 2020
Episode 42: Ancient Rings of Time
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has used ancient clams to reveal how days were half an hour shorter 70 million years ago.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘An Autopsy of an Era’ by Mary Jo Bang here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Episode 41: Moulded Galaxies
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has harnessed the problem-solving capabilities of a simple slime mould to trace the large-scale structure of the universe.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’ by Tracy K. Smith here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Episode 40: Jellied Eggs
Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has used jellyfish to help understand how sexual reproduction in animals may have evolved.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘A Jelly-Fish’ by Marianne Moore here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Mar 02, 2020
Episode 39: Genetic Unmarking
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has combined genealogy and genetics to identify thousands of individuals in Québec whose remains lie in unmarked graves.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read 'Mapping the Genome’ by Michael Symmons Roberts here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth