Goggles Optional
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editor: Podcast
- Duración: 182:32:11
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Sinopsis
On Goggles Optional, scientists from Stanford University provide their professional yet humorous takes from the world of science. Join us as our hosts explore the significant news and discoveries of the week using a combination of wit, analogies, and words with less than four syllables. Dont worry, you dont need to be a scientist to listen. The Goggles are Optional!
Episodios
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Episode 281: Frogs, Spiders, and Mice, OH MY!
12/08/2019 Duración: 34minEmily, Abhijit, and Rebecca discuss how Strawberry poison frogs might react to global warming, the eyes of baby jumping spiders, and the use of lab mice as model organisms in immunology.
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Episode 280: Robotics, RNA, and Re-identification
06/08/2019 Duración: 31minNora, Kristen, and Carmen discuss touch in prosthetic limbs, single-cell sequencing to investigate cancer, and how individuals can be re-identifed from supposedly anonymous data.
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Episode 279: Iron Islands and Cosmic Fruit
30/07/2019 Duración: 32minGreg, Emily and Amanda are joined by guest Mathieu Ardyna, a Stanford scientists studying how deep sea hydrothermal vents affect plankton populations. Plus, hear about the long term effects of nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands and a brand new type of apple.
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Episode 278: Dancing in our sleep
21/07/2019 Duración: 32minAdam, Nora, and Nicole discuss the long history of sleep, dancing birds, and how a small change in medication policy could save millions of dollars.
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Episode 277: Cancer and Carbon
17/07/2019 Duración: 26minKristen, Rebecca and Carmen discuss programming bacteria to fight cancer, taking pictures of carbon capture in action, and the potential of reforestation to help fight the climate crisis.
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Episode 276: Strikingly Clean Sea Slugs
08/07/2019 Duración: 31minGreg, Abhijit, and Emily talk about a hidden component of lightning, a special relationship between bacteria, algae, and super cute sea slugs, and how some might be taking the hygiene hypothesis a little too far.
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Episode 275: CRISPR through the years
01/07/2019 Duración: 35minKristen takes us through three past segments all about CRISPR genome editing. Several past hosts discuss editing genes in sperm cells, how CRISPR could be used to treat HIV, and why we aren't quite ready to try this out yet in humans.
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Episode 274: Itching, Seeing, and Confessing
24/06/2019 Duración: 33minAlice, Nora, and Nicole discuss the itching response, how deep sea fish have developed a strange type of vision to match their strange environments, and why false confessions occur with surprising frequency.
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Episode 273: Lettuce AI, Moonquakes, and Blood Type Conversions
17/06/2019 Duración: 29minOn this week's episode Adam, Amanda, and Emily talk about how machine learning is being used to grow lettuce, tectonic activity on the moon, and a new method to alter blood types.
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Episode 272: Rare diseases, killing mosquitoes, and sex in research
10/06/2019 Duración: 43minRebecca, Nicole, and Nora talk about rare disease diagnosis with Dr. Laure Fresard and graduate student Nikki Teran, discuss a new method to kill mosquitos and the impact of leaving out female subjects in research studies.
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Ancient Gum, Homelessness and Aging, and our MASSive Earth
03/06/2019 Duración: 29minEmily, Adam, and Greg discuss what we can learn from ancient pieces of gum, how homelessness may be connected to faster rates of aging, and the changing mass of the Earth.
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Episode 270: Bonobos, Spiders, and Vaccines
30/05/2019 Duración: 29minCarmen, Alice, and Jonathan talk about bonobos and their mothers, the structures giving color to peacock spiders, and the challenges of creating vaccines.
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(Rebroadcast) Episode 199: Stiff jaws, flexible robots
20/05/2019 Duración: 30minThis week we rebroadcast episode 199, where Natalie explains why we should fear an ancient otter, Derrick shares first steps towards liquid metal robots, and Chelsea answers some listener mail about quantum computing in the workplace.
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Episode 269: Denisovans, limoncello, and the color blue
13/05/2019 Duración: 25minKristen, Abhijit, and Carmen tell us about a new method to learn about our ancient Denisovan ancestors, a unique chemical property of limoncello, and rare blue pigments.
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Episode 268: Carbon, plastic, and women in physics
06/05/2019 Duración: 33minEmily, Rebecca, and Alice talk about carbon going into the Earth, plastics that are easier to recycle, and challenges facing women in physics.
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Episode 267: Plastics and Zombie Pigs, IN MICE!
29/04/2019 Duración: 29minThis week, Kristen, Amanda, and Adam discuss plastic in the oceans, partially revived pig brains, and the importance of communicating when research has been done IN MICE!
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Episode 266: Black holes, working memory, and sad apples
22/04/2019 Duración: 33minNicole D, Nicole F, and Abhijit talk about the creation of the first ever photo of a black hole, how brain stimulation can improve memory, and an apple-related mystery.
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Episode 265: Critters and Contamination
15/04/2019 Duración: 32minNora, Carmen, and Greg talk about contamination in the lab, creatures living in bird feathers, and the wonders of C. elegans!
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Episode 264: Phages and Painful Ideas
09/04/2019 Duración: 27minAmanda, Rebecca, and Dave talk about how phages contribute to viral infections, how people react to opposing viewpoints, and the genes of a woman who feels no pain.
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Episode 263: Recombination, evolution, and dark matter
02/04/2019 Duración: 38minAbhijit, Kristen, and Rebecca talk about how recombination creates genetic variation, virus resistance in rabbits, and do a deep dive into dark matter.