Daily Discoveries

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.

SoCiaL d A t A sCiEnTiSt Thelonious Goerz and Natural Scientist Rhea John discuss election science. Today, they talk about disinformation, staying informed about consuming political information like statistics, policy, and being skeptical of research; they also talk about environmental issues on the political stage.

Rhea and Thelonious talk about the mysterious algorithm behind a college campus love-matching service and other nerdy topics like applied math and computational finance.

Thelonious and Rhea have on special guest, Armon Mahdavi, editor of the arts and leisure section of The Daily, for a special episode where arts and science come together in a discussion about SCI-FI MOVIES!

This week, Rhea and Thelonious take a deep look at the birth control options available to students, and the science behind them. They also dive into who has more, less, and virtually zero access to birth control from a global health perspective.

Rhea and Thelonious discuss the latest science articles from this quarter and provide sleep-deprived commentary on the coronavirus.

Thelonious and Rhea dive into two articles for this final episode of the fall quarter! They’re talking about the biases that technology forms, such as in the case with Amazon’s automated recruitment program as well as the efforts by the GAMER group to expand the accessibility of interactive games to wider audiences.

Thelonious and Rhea discuss an article that grapples with the controversy behind genetic editing to remove genes that cause deafness.