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Join Dr Sam Illingworth as he provides insight into new scientific research via the medium of poetry.
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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
This episode explores new research, which has used millimetre-sized computers to reveal how one species of Pacific Island land snail has used the sun to escape extinction.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Snail’ by Langston Hughes here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
This episode explores new research, which has successfully revived tiny 24,000-year-old microorganisms buried under Siberian permafrost.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Librarian Decides on Cryonics’ by Judith Skillman here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
Monday Jun 07, 2021
Monday Jun 07, 2021
This episode explores new research, which has found that Californian wildfire smoke reached Europe in 2020, causing a strong cloudiness of the sun.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Smoke of Distant Fires’ by Eduardo Chirinos here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
This episode explores new research, which has nitrogen has turned sargassum (i.e. brown seaweed) into the world's largest harmful algal bloom.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Seaweeds’ by Sandra Mcpherson here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
This episode explores new research, which has found that Greenland is becoming darker and warmer.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland’ by Maggie Smith here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth