Curiosity in Focus

Talia Lowi-Merri is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, based in the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Splitting her time between both palaeontology (the study of fossils) and ornithology (the study of birds), her current work surrounds the origin and evolution of flight in birds and their raptor dinosaur ancestors.

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Daniel was joined by environmental scientist, birdwatcher, and visual storyteller Haya Aldoori and nature interpreter Matthew Kinasz to discuss the importance of urban natural spaces in Toronto and the current state of traditional education.

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Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney is a Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University, and Curator of the international exhibition, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age. His latest book, The Chinese Typewriter, "examines China’s development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, word processing, and computing”.

Radical Machines is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).

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Learn more about Tom at his Stanford profile and follow him on Twitter @tsmullaney.

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Gil Wizen is an entomologist, macro photographer, and keeper of arthropods! For the past 8 months, Gil and Daniel have been collaborating on educational videos about arachnids and venomous insects. Watch some of their videos at curiosityinfocus.com/videography!

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Learn more about Gil at gilwizen.com, follow him on Twitter @wizentrop, and on Instagram @gilwizen.

Jason Pitre is a biologist for the Canadian government by day, and an independent game designer by night.

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Jason’s work of speculative zoology, After the War, is now on Kickstarter! Fund the project at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/after-the-war

Links from this episode:

The Curious Case of Radiotrophic Fungi

Canis soupus: The Eastern Coy-Wolf

Polar-Grizzly Hybrids

Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping in Prince Edward Island

Corn Domesticated From Mexican Wild Grass 8,700 Years Ago

What is Synthetic Biology?

What are Hox Genes?

The Last Dragon

Simu Liu is a Canadian Screen Award nominee best known for his role as Jung on the CBC TV sitcom Kim's Convenience. This re-uploaded episode is about whitewashing, problematic castings in mainstream media, the broader trend of Asian erasure in pop culture, and the world of online dating.

This was an episode about creating change, finding purpose, and transforming pop culture.  

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Conor McDonnell is a poet, doctor, and martial arts practitioner. In 2016, he published The Book of Retaliations with Anstruther Press. His second book, Safe Spaces, is now available for purchase at Frog Hollow Press. 

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Learn more about Conor at conomcdonnell.ca.

Kevin Rawlings is an environmental technician for Environment and Climate Change Canada and a photographer currently working in Alert, Nunavut, Canada. He is also the world's northern most permanent resident.

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Osama Dorias is a Senior Game Designer at Warner Brothers Montreal and the co-founder of the Indie Video Game studio Magic Pants and the Montreal Independent Games Festival.

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Follow Osama on social media @osamadorias and learn more about his work at osamadorias.com.

Games recommended during this episode include: Overwatch, The Last of Us: Part II, Rainbow Six Siege, Spec Ops: The Line, Tacoma, Good Pizza, Great Pizza, Sleeping Dogs, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Red Dead Redemption 2!

Jayd Matyas is an industrial designer at Secret City Games and a performer with the Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers (RAW).

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