EpiSTEM

Does perception change how someone feels about their prosthetic limb?  Can someone heal their injuries through changing their mindset?  Does human perception come from nurture or nature?  These are all questions Hunter and Luke address in this week's episode. 

This is the curiosities episode for “Your Attention, Please”. 

Why do humans perceive changes in motion? Is our perception nurture or nature based? Human perception and attention are given and taken away as fast as the snap of a finger. This episode goes in depth into the way humans perceive motion. Hunter and Luke were able to interview an author of the paper and get answers to some great perception questions. They plan to meet with researchers and others in the future to continue this trend.

Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008220300526?via%3Dihub

This is the curiosities episode for the CRISPR series as a whole.  This episode jabs at questions and curiosities spawned by the CRISPR series. These ideas are split into two main groups: those relating to the biomimicry of CRISPR and those relating to the ethics of CRISPR.  Can CRISPR be utilized in other fields as seen by those working with FPGAs? If so, is CRISPR really ethical or is it the impending doom of society to eugenics? 

This episode is the third and final in the CRISPR series. EPISTEM has talked about CRISPR in a biological sense, but did you know that it could be utilized in other ways? The paper discussed explores mimicking CRISPR processes to help protect against hardware trojans. Hardware trojans can compromise almost any system today from digital cameras to airplanes. This episode also marks the end of the show’s hiatus and the start of a new episode format.

Article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07332

Unfortunately E.P.I.STEM will be taking a short hiatus due to a few personal reasons.  However, there is good news with the bad. We will be continuing to find research papers and working on ways to improve the podcast! This episode also marks the creation of the show's Instagram account.  Follow the account to keep up to date with all of the podcast news and to send input into the future of the podcast.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/epi.stem/

This episode Hunter and Luke continue with the CRISPR series by diving into a scientific letter that involves using CRISPR to detect COVID-19.  If this is researched further the implications could be tremendous. It could aid in the fight against COVID and hopefully other diseases in the future.

Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0513-4

This is the first curiosity episode of EPISTEM.  Curiosities will be shorter episodes that will involve Luke and Hunter doing their own research into some of the ideas that they had when reading the research papers. There will be a curiosity for each episode and/or series.  This curiosity dives more into how easy it would be for anyone to start making an immortal machine along with other ideas that were hatched about the paper in "The Immortal Machine" episode. 

This episode is the first in a series about CRISPR. CRISPR is a gene editing method that mimics a process done by bacteria to essentially alter genes. Each episode in this series will go over different ways that CRISPR can be utilized; some may surprise you. This episode specifically goes over a paper that utilizes CRISPR in trial methods for treating cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and other diseases.

As EPISTEM we value the input of the listeners so in this episode our Nerd Notes section is a bit more laid back. We will continue to update the show based on user feedback.

Link to obtain access to the paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0669-6 

This episode discusses a paper with far reaching implications.  This paper's authors came to the conclusion that by utilizing renewable energy and microcontrollers they could essentially make an "Immortal Machine",  This episode dives deep into how an "Immortal Machine" can be made possible and what this could mean for machines in the future.  

Link to obtain access to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211285520302561?via%3Dihub