We Know Some Stuff

Planning to listen to this episode on a casual 160 km run? Alex Coates would encourage it, but warns about the dangers of over-training! You can’t run from reality, so you better listen up!

Keeping an eye on how body parts develop is difficult, especially when that body part is eyes. Tara McDonnell looks at the development of eyes.

Listen to what she sees and says about it below

Keeping an eye on how body parts develop is difficult, especially when that body part is eyes. Tara McDonnell looks at the development of eyes.

Listen to what she sees and says about it below

Teachers teaching teachers! What madness is this! Serena McDiarmid is learning how to best teach children with refugee experiences so we can have teachers who are armed with the knowledge to help all children succeed.

Listen to what she has to say about it below

Can oceans read and write? What does it mean to be ocean literate? And how can you become ocean literate? Lisa Chen knows how, and she working on making the world more ocean literate.

Listen to what she has to say about our oceans below

Peptides be doing shady stuff sometimes. And i’m not about to trash talk no peptides, mainly because Sorina Chiorean would get upset with me. She makes peptides that do cool things (not deceitful things)

Listen to what she is cooking up in the peptide kitchen

Picture a beautiful mountain, like the one on a bottle of water. Picture the snow on that mountain. Now picture that melted snow in the bottle. How much of that snow makes it into the places where they get that water?

Caroline Aubry-Wake climbs mountains to figure it out!

Exercise and eat right? Nah…. But what if you had extra motivation? What does it take to make a behavioral change, and what if that motivation is pregnancy?

Karishma Hosein is on the job to figure out exactly that!

You find a snake and might run away. Michael Allison runs towards finding snakes. You know snakes may be in a certain area, you stay away from that area. Michael knows snakes may be in an area and uses science to prove it!

Why is Michael looking for snakes under rocks using snake…. presents….. find out in this episode!

Who doesn’t love the part of the medicine commercial where the narrator talks really fast about all the side effects. Then they slip some absolutely terrifying side effect like “death”? Well wouldn’t it be even scarier if the people who made the medicine didn’t know why their medicine caused a specific side effect?

Good thing people like Toby are figuring out why a certain birth control treatment increases the susceptibility to HIV infection.