This week, Rhea and Thelonious discuss their own experiences with online schooling and how teachers have been adapting, as well as how students doing hands-on research have had to pivot for the pandemic.

Thelonious and Rhea discuss the politics and optics of President Trump’s positive coronavirus test and examine steps huskies can take in their own backyard to stay safe.

Black lives matter. Scientists to follow on twitter: @kareem_carr, @hood_naturalist, #BlackBirdersWeek, @astronaia, @tressiemcphd, @bye_ology, @Sternarchella, @wildearthnotes.

Thelonious and Rhea give an overview and wrap up of the research symposium and discuss the impact of student research.

Thelonious and Rhea discuss current research examining COVID-19’s effect on pregnant women and look at some of the upcoming warm weather in Washington.

The novelty song “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” famously said that “It was nobody’s business, but the Turks,” but when it comes to tech, it’s everybody’s.  Rhea and Thelonious discuss exploitive Mechanical Turk labor at Amazon and Uber, a new iPhone app that can detect critical and non-critical COVID-19 cases based on skin conditions, and discuss the […]

Thelonious and Rhea discuss two articles: one about Amy Ko’s research developing a better computer science curriculum and a conversation with a UW atmospheric sciences professor on climate change.

Thelonious and Rhea (virtually) discuss the state of the environment on Earth Day amidst COVID.

Rhea and Thelonious discuss how science intersects with medicine in a variety of ways: through blood donations to help fight coronavirus, scientists sending tissues to space, and an undergraduate researcher using machine learning to help with psychiatric behavior prediction.

Thelonious and Rhea discuss a myriad of topics: The online quarter, the coronavirus, animal crossing, and Bernie Sanders’s election campaign ending among other things.