Episodes
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Episode 47: Brain Smog
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that rising carbon dioxide levels may directly harm our ability to think.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Thought’ by Thomas Pfau here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 46: See-through Skin
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has restored sight in blind mice by turning skin cells into light-sensing eye cells.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Mouse’ by Ted Kooser here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Apr 13, 2020
Episode 45: Testing the Age of Sharks
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has used the fallout from the Cold War nuclear bomb tests to reveal the true age of whale sharks.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Plague of Dead Sharks’ by Alan Dugan here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Monday Apr 06, 2020
Episode 44: The Weight of Martian Water
Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has used meteorites to determine that Mars did not form in a similar way to Earth and may have obtained its hydrogen from outside forces.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Mars’ by Patrick White here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth