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Let's see if PiPs and the gang make it this time...

Hellooo, dear listener! Now that my gang and I are finally done with the utterly urgent aaaand totally useless things (i.e. finishing a one billion one hundred and eighteen million thirty-five thousand five hundred ninety-two pixels heck of a digital puzzle PiPs you won last summer at a quite shady raffle), weeeell, we can go back and tell intriguing and gripping science stories!

The coming (semi)soon episode is about chimps, self-medication via smashed and spread insects, & empathy!

Ciao!

SM

Hello dear listener!

I read a lot of science stuff in the past months, and now I’m gonna tell you 9 science stories that I’ve already translated into mini-posts and related cartoons for the blog side of my silly self (you can find the links below).

Sooo, dear listener, here we go!

1(of woodpeckers’ super skull)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/02/the-true-reason-why-woodpeckers-dont.html

2(of rats’ genome & New York)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-brown-rats-genome.html

3(of mammoths’ bones’ circles)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-ice-age-mammoth.html

4(of cats music)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-nature-of-cats-specific-music.html

5(of flamingos' social life)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-truth-about-flamingos-social-life.html

6(of American robins' earlier migrations)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-reason-why-american-robins.html

7(of dingoes & the Tube Man)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/10/the-true-reason-why-dingoes-flee-from.html

8(of the fluffy exoplanet)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/the-true-reason-why-wasp-107b-newly.html

9(of the orange bats)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/the-true-reason-why-new-bat-species-is.html

Hellooo, dear listener!

In this fourth and last part of the episode, I finish telling you the story of a group of Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, find plastics in human placentas of healthy women.

Listening to this episode, you'll find out how bad is global plastic pollution, and how dangerous plastics are to living things in general, and to humans and human fetuses in particular.

And there's also a brief interview to Dr. Ragusa, the leading investigator of this research!

Aaand there's a also funny+unsettling fake commercial too...

Ciao!

Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/05/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

Hellooo, dear listener!

In the third (of four) part of this episode, I keep telling you the story of a bunch of Italian researchers who are the first to find pieces of plastics smaller than 0.5 cm in human placentas of healthy women.

Here you'll discover how the darn microplastics manage to sneak into the human body.

Aaand there's also a GPS for bugs and antigens story...

Ciao!

Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/04/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

Hellooo, dear listener!

In this episode I'll tell you a story about urban horticulture, more precisely the story of how a bunch or researchers proved that a city (specifically Sheffield, England, UK) could potentially feed a big chunk of its own people with veggies and fruits grown in the city itself (on green spaces and even roofs)!

And there's a very funny fake commercial about the green thumb too.

Ciao!

Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/03/of-food-production-in-urban-areas-meet.html

Hellooo, dear listener!

In this second part of this multi-part episode, I go on telling you the story of a group of smarty smart Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, finds man-made stuff, specifically microplastics, in human placentas.

In this episode you'll find how the scientists understand that what they found is actually plastics, what kind of plastics this things are precisely, and, above other things, how much plastic has been made - I mean ever - and how much plastic garbage ended up in the environment so far.

Aaand there's also a conspiracy theory about 1I/2017 U1 aka ʻOumuamua and some nanoprobes... 

Ciao!

Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

Hellooo, dear listener. In this multi-part episode I tell you the story of a bunch of Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, find pieces of plastic in human placentas (those of four healthy women who had smooth pregnancies and deliveries).

In this very part 1 you'll hear how the resourceful scientists from the boot-shaped country collect the samples they need for their study, and what technique they use to analyze them.

Aaand there's also a joke about a horse, a gamma ray burst and a banana split...

Ciaz!

Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here:  https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

Ho-ho-hoooo... Hello, dear listener, welcome to this Xmas episode! I'll tell you two stories this time.

The other story, given the year is 2020, is about what would be the consequences of Santa Claus doing his worldwide tour on Christmas Eve while infected by a highly contagious virus.

Enjoy&Merry Xmas&peaceful holidays!

@sciencemug

Ooooooh, caro auscultatore e cara auscultatrice, sono lieto di dirti che è arrivato @sciencemug ITALIA, il podcast dove potrai ascoltare tuuuti i nuovi episodi (e un po’ alla volta anche quelli vecchi) in italiano!

@sciencemug ITALIA è già su iTunes, Spotify, Anchor, Castbox, e presto sarà disponibile anche su altre piattaforme.

Benone, oh voi del quelli che il podcast sì ma solo in italiano, la notizia ve l’ho data, adesso vi saluto, che devo tornare a inseguire il bianconiglio...

Ciaz!

SM