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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 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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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
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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Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast:
Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com
Twitter: @samillingworth
Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador has shown signs of possible flank instability.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’ by Wallace Stevens 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 Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has found that a Himalayan glacier shows evidence of the start of the Industrial Revolution.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Snowmen’ by Agha Shadid Ali 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 Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
This episode explores new research, which has investigated the sounds made by marine mammals in a changing Arctic environment.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘Seals at High Island’ by Richard Murphy 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