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Sleep deprivation is associated with poor heart health including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and even mortality. While exercise has been shown to have positive effects on cardiovascular health, less is known how and if it can counteract some of the negative effects of sleep deprivation. Josh Cherubini, a 1st year Master's student in the Department of Kinesiology, is aiming to better understand how irregular sleeping behaviours and exercise levels interact to impact cardiovascular function. Tune in to learn more about the techniques that Josh uses in his lab, what impact he anticipates his research having, and his favourite go-to exercise!

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Art and cultural heritage materials are exposed to a number of pollutants including UV light, mold growth, temperature/humidity changes, or gas pollutants that can potentially ruin the pieces over time. Fortunately, these materials remain conserved through the expertise of art conservation scientists. Kay McCallum, a 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, is researching how art materials (i.e., acrylic paints) interact with the environment (i.e., light) to ultimately understand how to better protect and conserve cultural heritage materials. Tune in to learn about how Kay blurs the lines between art and science through the techniques they use in the lab, their passion for wanting people to interact with cultural heritage materials in a sustainable and equitable way, and their bookbinding hobby!

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Sawayra talks to the cast and crew of The Caffeine Rabbit Hole which is debuting at Hamilton's Fringe Fest 2021!  

THE CAFFEINE RABBIT HOLE  Written, Produced & Directed by JOHN BANDLER  

Streaming July 15-25, 2021 www.hamiltonfringe.ca   

Box Office: https://www.tinyurl.com/CaffeineRabbit   

Fringe Program: http://bit.ly/HFF2021-Programs

Web page: http://www.bandler.com/rabbit

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecaffeiner...  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecaffeine...  

STEPH CHRISTIAENS as Dara  

JACLYN SCOBIE as Lenik  

Music by EMILY WOOD  

Assistant to the Director MEGAN VIERHOUT  

Editor & Technical Consultant JEREMY MAJOR THE SHOOTING EYE www.shootingeye.com  

Co-Producer BETH BANDLER  

Coffee Shop Logo Design & Promo Image Design and Processing RACHELLE HO & JOHN BANDLER

How do you relate exercise intensity from one person to another? Heart rate, perceived effort, lactic acid build up are some of the best methods because these signals increase for everyone the harder they work... right?

This week Sawayra talks to Sydney Valentino who tells us how these bodily responses don't happen the same way for everyone. Especially with people who have suffered a spinal injury. How then, can intensity-based exercise be prescribed when these standard systems don't work the way we think they do?

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This week Sawayra talks to Jennifer Williams about her research on Contraception and Cardiovascular Health.   

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Welcome back to The AlmaMAC! This week, Sawayra talks to PhD student and musician Konrad Swierczek about his research into music universality. Why do certain things sound good to us? Do they sound good to other cultures? Let's find out. 

Find Konrad on Twitter @KonradSwierczek !  

Find Sawayra too: @seeingaway !  

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Adam talks to Sawayra about "comps". Thoughts and feelings, tips and tricks, and different styles of exams are the focus of discussion this week. For more, head to scientificanada.ca 

CW: Dr. Chungah Kim is an expert on socio-economic indicators connected with suicide, so some of the discussion may not be for everyone.

This week I am excited to tell you about a new podcast series about university grads who took the long way around, so to speak. I'm sure many listeners are in this boat, but what the heck do you do once you graduate? Post-grad is a big unknown and if you don't have something lined up right out of school (who does, right?) what are you supposed to do? Well, this is more common than you think, and this new podcast talks to McMaster university alumni about their unconventional paths after graduating. The show is called MacCast: Unconventional, which is an apt title, since the career paths of the guests featured on the show are not what one might expect after graduation, but I think the real twist is that.. well, an unconventional career path might actually be the norm. I won't go too much deeper right now, since my guests today are two members of the production team of the podcast. In our interview we talk about some of the stories being featured on MAC cast, but also touch on how their career paths were ALSO unconventional. So, without further adieu, let me introduce to you Lindsay D'Souza and Ian Sharpe!

Listen to MAC cast: Unconventional anywhere good podcasts are found! But if you aren't sure, start here: https://medium.com/mcmaster-alumni/ne...

The Large Hadron Collider is made up of a bunch of different experiments run by different international collaborations, but it’s all happening on the 27-km loop. All of these experiments are attached to the loop, but at different locations around the loop. This requires a ton of oversight and collaboration between experiments, and to facilitate this, the collider basically needs a governing body to keep everything working smoothly. It’s almost like its own country or something, built within this 27-km loop (about 8.5 km diameter). Actually, it kind of reminds me of Vatican City in a lot of ways. Except about 8 times wider. But the point here, is that being able to run experiments that study the things that make up atoms requires this enormously connected world of collaboration. The science blows me away, and so does the politics.

So why am I telling you all this? Well, today our guest on the AlmaMAC is a Carlton grad student via McMaster who works on this big loop. Ben Davis Purcell is an ex-McMaster student, graduating with a MSC in physics from the same lab I am currently in. Now he works with a group out of Carlton with ties to the Large Hadron Collider. This week I talk to him about looking at the smallest things in the universe and being a part of perhaps the biggest scientific collaboration in the universe. Stay tuned.