Science Night

Science Night

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Science Night episodes

  • Gen Con: The Science of SciFi

    This week we have another special episode from our recent trip to Gen Con in Indianapolis, IN. This time, its some of the audio from both nights of the Science of SciFi panel presented by Indiana Sciences. First up, the Science Night crew talks about the science of the Mass Effect and Fallout series. In Night two, Dr. Bill Sullivan, Matt Sauers, and Rufus Cochran talk about parasites, physics-based traps, and AI. For the full audio and video from both nights make sure you head over to indianasciences.org.

    This episode is made possible by our friends at Indiana Sciences. To learn more about their programming, and to show your support for science communication in Indiana, go to indianasciences.org

    Credits

    Editing-James Reed
    Mastering- James Reed

    Music:

    • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
    • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

      • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

      [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

      42 min
    • Fresh and Foraged with Carolyn Dugas

      This week we're talking to Carolyn Dugas, a forager and content creator who is teaching people to reconnect with the food in their backyards safely and sustainably. In the news, we're talking about underground infernos, space sausage, and poison control.

      Your Hosts]

      James Reed
      Steffi Diem
      Jason Organ

      Our Guest

      Carolyn has been foraging and preparing wild foods on an almost daily basis since 2017 when she spent a year apprenticing with botanist and forager Abby Artemisia in the mountains of North Carolina. From there, her voracious curiosity led her on a never-ending quest of wild foods discovery. Carolyn now educates folks on sustainable foraging in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, traditional lands of the Abenaki.

      Credits

      Editing-James Reed
      Mastering- James Reed

      Music:

      • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
      • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

        • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

        [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

        46 min
      • Gen Con: Games and the People That Make Them

        In the first of three Gen Con specials, we're sharing our thoughts on the Greatest Four Days in Gaming and sharing some of the sounds and conversations from the con floor. Be sure to check out our website for links to all the game makers featured in the episode.

        Your Hosts]

        James Reed
        Steffi Diem
        Jason Organ

        Credits

        Editing-James Reed
        Mastering- James Reed

        Music:

        • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
        • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

          • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

          [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

          41 min
        • The Simplicity of Complexity with Dr. Yasmeen Mezil

          This week Dr. Yasmeen Mezil fills us in on her work as an anatomist and illustrator. She talks about her path in finding a way to combine the many facets of her life, and how to bring creativity into science. In the news, we're talking about some animal antics that have been in the headlines, and charting the foggy shores of "Covid brain".

          Your Hosts]

          James Reed
          Steffi Diem
          Jason Organ

          Our Guest

          Yasmeen is a scientist, educator, and illustrator. She teaches anatomy and physiology to students at McMaster University focusing on finding ways to make learning interactive and collaborative. Her artwork focuses on making complex concepts simple, informative, and beautiful.

          Credits

          Editing-James Reed
          Mastering- James Reed

          Music:

          • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
          • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

            • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

            [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

            57 min
          • Defending Truth with David Goldstein

            This week we're talking about disinformation, misinformation, and effective communication with David Goldstein, chief strategist at We Defend Truth. In the news, we're revisiting our favorite protein-analyzing AI, learning about quarks in their many forms, and talking about the dos and don'ts of finding things in the brave wilderness.

            Your Hosts]

            James Reed
            Steffi Diem
            Jason Organ

            Our Guest

            David has worked on numerous local, state, and national campaigns as a pollster and strategist, for leaders ranging from President Obama and Senator Cory Booker in the US, to Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the UK and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Ukraine. Since 2016, he has collaborated with policymakers, academics and the media to establish how to protect democracy in the new digital era, and led efforts that drove record-breaking turnout for Greta Thunberg at the Global Climate Strike. Having delivered winning results/real results for Democratic candidates in deep-red states like Alabama and Tennessee, David is widely sought after by national media seeking to understand the impact of disinformation on elections. He worked closely with the New York Times in early 2020 to reveal how Democrats were still struggling with modernizing their digital/data efforts and has been featured on ABC News, Planet Money, and Bloomberg TV.

            Credits

            Editing-James Reed
            Mastering- James Reed

            Music:

            • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
            • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

              • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

              [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

              1 hr 12 min
            • Open Heart Listening with Dr. Jen Ma

              Tonight, we welcome back Dr. Jen Ma to talk about her recent event where she brought together people with different viewpoints and have them actually listen to each other. It’s a great conversation about communication, empathy, and re-building our listening skills. We even got Jen to join us in the news segment to talk about synthetic skin and a return to the land of time crystals.

              Your Hosts]

              James Reed
              Steffi Diem
              Jason Organ

              Our Guest

              Jen's background is in stem cell bioengineering, but her current focus is in combining her love for art and talent for communication to create informative and thought provocking provoking posts for her science communication platform Gentle Facts. She has also started a series of live events focused on bringing people together to bee seen and heard.

              Credits

              Editing-James Reed
              Mastering- James Reed

              Music:

              • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
              • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

                • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

                [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

                52 min
              • Biology Beyond the Binary with Camryn Martin

                This week we're talking to the host of the Nature is Gay podcast Camryn Martin. We talk about mating behaviors in nature, and how species after species don't fit in the "binary". In the news, we're covering terrific turbines, wonderful worms, and ancient asteroids.

                Your Hosts]

                James Reed
                Steffi Diem
                Jason Organ

                Our Guest

                Camryn is the host of the Nature is Gay podcast, which talks about sexuality and gender spectrums in nature, highlighting how an existence outside of the binary is a natural state across species, including humanity.

                Credits

                Editing-James Reed
                Mastering- James Reed

                Music:

                • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

                  • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

                  [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

                  50 min
                • Open Science with Prof. Lee Berger

                  This week we're extremely excited to bring you our conversation with the incredible Prof. Lee Berger. He shares stories from his work, and we talk about his efforts to include new people in his discipline and make his science more accessible to everyone. In the news, we talk about a sharcano, and dynamic dinos.

                  Your Hosts]

                  James Reed
                  Steffi Diem
                  Jason Organ

                  Our Guest

                  Lee Berger is an award-winning researcher and paleoanthropologist. His explorations into human origins in Africa over the past 25 years have resulted in the discovery of more individual fossil hominin remains than any other exploration program in the history of the search for human origins in Africa. Among Berger’s many notable finds, the discoveries of two new species of ancient human relatives are especially noteworthy. In 2008 he found Australopithecus sediba, fossil remains of remarkable completeness that showed an intriguing mix of apelike and humanlike characteristics. In 2013 his team found another new species of ancient human relative, Homo naledi, amid the richest early hominin site yet found in Africa. Berger has served in a number of advisory roles, including the Global Young Academy, the Jane Goodall Institute South Africa, and has chaired the Fulbright Commission. Berger is the Phillip Tobias Chair in Palaeoanthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. A current National Geographic Explorer at Large, Berger won the first National Geographic Society Research and Exploration Prize in 1997. In 2016, he was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year and included in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. [From National Geographic]

                  Credits

                  Editing-James Reed
                  Mastering- James Reed

                  Music:

                  • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                  • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                  • Welcome To Jurassic Park by John Williams | ℗ 1993 Geffen Records | Property of Universal Music Group

                    • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

                    [scinight.com ](www.scinight.com)

                    1 hr 2 min
                  • The Ballad of the Nine Inch Snails with Bea Ramiro

                    This week, we have the triumphant return of those marvelous mollusks, the cone snails! We're talking to Bea Ramiro from the Safavi Lab at the University of Copenhagen, who is looking at a potential medical use for cone snail venom. In the news, we hop aboard the de-hype train, talk about fusion fuel, sing a black hole song, and explore a secret garden. Plus a new line of cone snail merch at our website, scinight.com/merch!

                    Your Hosts]

                    James Reed
                    Steffi Diem
                    Jason Organ

                    Our Guest

                    Bea is a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen and member of the Safavi Lab. Her work on the biomolecular properties of cone snail venom has taken her around the world to learn and work on potential hidden uses in its chemical makeup. She's also a great science communicator and teacher, especially when she gets to teach children about her work with these marvelous mollusks.

                    Credits

                    Editing-James Reed
                    Mastering- James Reed

                    Music:

                    • Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                    • Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                    • 5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery (NASA Data Sonification) by NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Russo, A. Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds)
                    • Data Sonification: Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster (X-ray) by NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

                      • The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

                      57 min
                    • Tik Talking About Teaching with Dr. Andre Isaacs

                      This week we’re talking to chemist and tik tok star Dr. Andre Isaacs. We talked about mentorship, creating the proper learning environment, the importance of creating a more diverse and inclusive STEM landscape, and much much more. Plus we have a news segment covering oceans of open data, malleable metal, and creepy crawlers. Check out links to these stories and everything Dr. Isaacs talks about at scinight.com.

                      Your Hosts]

                      James Reed
                      Steffi Diem
                      Jason Organ

                      Our Guest

                      Dr. Andre Isaacs is an associate professor of organic chemistry at the College of the Holy Cross. He is also a pretty incredible creator on Tik Tok, where he shows that scientists can have fun, and that educators can do some serious educating without being so serious. By creating a strong sense of community in his classroom and lab, Andre is training the next generation of students to be confident in their work, and comfortable with being their authentic selves.

                      Credits

                      Editing-James Reed
                      Mastering- James Reed

                      Music:

                      Intro and Outro- Wolf Moon by Unicorn Heads | https://unicornheads.com/ | Standard YouTube License
                      Additional Sounds- Inside a Computer Chip by Doug Maxwell |https://www.mediarightproductions.com/ | Standard YouTube License

                      The Science Night Podcast is a member of the Riverpower Podcast Mill family

                      1 hr 13 min

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                    Science! What is it? Who does it? Why does it matter? At the Science Night Podcast, we highlight the people doing the work, and give them a place to tell their stories. We also cover science news and…