Science Night

Mouse Munchies, Featuring: Jamie Moffa

February 7th, 2024  |  Season 3  |  56 mins 45 secs

cannabis, engineering, munchies, neuroscience, scicomm, science, virtual reality, vr

This week, we're joined by the host of the In Plain English podcast, Jamie Moffa! Together we talk about how cannabis affects hunger...in mice, and whether or not a new, tiny VR rig...designed for mice, is worth the hype. We also talk at length about the horrors of St. Louis pizza.

A Flexible Mind

May 3rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  40 mins 33 secs

astronomy, astrophysics, blackhole, engineering, nanotech, nanowire, neuroanatomy, neurology, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, scary barbie, scicomm, science, spaghettification

This week, we're building a flexible scicomm mind. First, we gather strands of a long shredded star pulled into not so dreamy house, it's a super-massive blackhole called Scary Barbie. Next, we'll weave a network of nanowires that seem to work a lot like living neurons Finally, we'll look at a project that is attempting to explain how our brains adapt to a changing world.

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Brain Games with Drs. Mikaela Stiver & Zach London

September 14th, 2022  |  Season 3  |  52 mins 23 secs

arachnophobia, board games, brain, cns, dna, games, nervous system, neurology, neuroscience, pns, scicomm, science, spiders, table top games

This week we're talking to the team behind the creation of a new card game about cranial nerves and the boney openings that love them, Foramina! Mikaela Stiver and Zach London stop by to tell us what inspired the game and how they went about creating it. In the news, we're talking about doppelganger DNA & a spiderweb of misinformation.

A Piece of Our Mind

April 1st, 2022  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 5 mins

biochemistry, climate change, cone snails, dance, dementia, fusion energy, green science, mcgill university, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, opiates, pain medicine, parkinsons disease, pollen, sciart, scicomm, science

This week we’re highlighting another scientist that is blending art with science.  Dr. Naila Kuhlmann is a Parkinson’s researcher from McGill University that has found an interesting way to include dance in her work, which led to the creation of the Piece of Mind Collective.  She’s also a host of the AMiNDR (A Month in Neurodegenerative Disease Research) Podcast and co-founder of the Green Labs Initiative at McGill.  In the news, we’re talking about Dr. Diem’s trip to the White House, medicinal mollusks, and pollen proliferation.  It’s another instant classic just waiting for you to listen.

Emily Cooper

July 31st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 10 secs

ar, augmented reality, neuroscience, scicomm, science, virtual reality, vision, vr

My conversation with Emily Cooper