This composite, double-recorded episode explores one of the richest nature photography editions of the Curious Natural Philosopher as it straddles the special announcements and recording of the first guest episode of Season 4 with Dr. Marios Kyriazis.

💐 Making a print of the tea rose in full bloom
🐝 Studying hoverflies hinting at Gucci wasps
🎂 Marking 4 years of The A Level Biologist Podcasts
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Celebrate with me 3 amazing pieces of news this edition and episode:

🥳 4 years of the podcast - Can you believe it? Leave a review if you were here in Season 1!
🏆 My first photography competition - And why I will not win...
🖼️ Planning a product store - Find out who got the very first greeting card.

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When I found out that neurons get to compete with sex cells for resources, I found a deep well of research artfully brought together by Dr. Marios Kyriazis under the indispensable soma hypothesis. As technology advances, the positive stress it elicits in our minds (hormesis), trains our neurons to improve. This leads to slower ageing in an increasingly post-reproductive world. Tune in to a special guest episode this season, packed with new ideas and new perspectives on old ideas:

⚖️ Natural principles invoked in tech-driven cell repair
🌐 Noeme: our tech-married selves
🏆 Status and health in the technocognitive web

Read more at indispensablesoma.info

Research Paper: The Impact of Hormesis, Neuronal Stress Response, and Reproduction, upon Clinical Aging: A Narrative Review

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The experience of life on Earth underpins our psyche in our smallest everyday encounters. This edition, with a blue moth, red-faced duck and the sky's crack of summer. Oh, and the heaven trees. Again. They're kind of a leitmotif now.

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The mysterious sticker on the small glass water bottle hinted at a place long gone. It read: San Pellegrino Terme - Italia - 1899. The place is still alive. Want to visit? 

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After 2 years of teacher training in '20-'22, I finally graduated in Kent with my PGDE. This time, nothing could stop me celebrating 🎉 Live from a sweaty rental car on the first unofficial day of summer in Cambridge.

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An inadvertent interval was bound to happen in Season 4, the first weekly season of the podcast. Weeklies will be back soon, just like the background birdsong 🐦

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I sat and looked through my window, and the image of the tree in the distance looked the same as the wallpaper on my Windows. It was a thread weaved through mental exploration. This has now advanced into artificial intelligence that is persuasive enough in text and picture forms. 

📝 Can it Write like Me?
❌ The Mistakes it Made
🤔 Our Deepest Logic

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Reflecting on the interview with special guest, Dr. Daria Chrobok, I explore the meaning of happiness at work, and the importance of combining talents with opportunities. More recently, I found out about Dr. Chrobok's personal story detailing an aspect of herself that I had not been aware of, and that others had considered a disability. Having thrived as an academic and as an artist, Daria embodies the power that joy can bring to define and transform our lives.

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An impromptu escapade to Nottingham revealed a cherished reserve stretching over vast ponds. Have you ever seen an unusually looking duck? Find out what her boyfriend thought as they approached me out of the river...

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👉 The Attenborough Nature Reserve
👉 The Odd Feathered Duck

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