Science Night
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Displaying 2 items of Science Night with the tag "covid 19".
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The Simplicity of Complexity with Dr. Yasmeen Mezil
August 3rd, 2022 | Season 3 | 56 mins 25 secs
anatomy, animals, art, brain fog, covid 19, sciart, scicomm, science
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".
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It's High Time We Talked About Cannabis
November 5th, 2021 | Season 3 | 55 mins 55 secs
cannabis, coronavirus, covid 19, fear, horror, immunology, marijuana, pot, scicomm, science, science fiction, toxicology
Cannabis continues to spark conversations as popular opinion shifts and its future legal status is debated. However, a long history of stigmatization that led to current federal regulations makes it difficult to study. This week, we're talking to Dr. Barb Kaplan, an Associate Professor for Mississippi State University, whose research looks at how cannabis alters the immune response. In the news segment, we talk about the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) scheduling process that limits cannabis access to researchers, as well as the science of fear, and the FDA's recent approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in ages 5 and older.