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E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

Yeast is everywhere. We use it to make bread and beer but it’s a fungus with its own biology. Science is turning to yeast once again to make wonderful things for us. We can bioengineer it to turn its natural processes into building compounds that humans can use, like medicine. That’s the research being done by this episode’s guest, Asia Vighi, a PhD student in Bioengineering at McGill University. Katie and Vinny talk about heat sensing and how babies feel pain.

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E50 – The Last Punch Up ??? (Armageddon, Geostorm, Walking with Dinosaurs)

On this episode of The Improv Punch Up Tuong La is back! Alas, when the boys are about to record their no doubt hilarious episode, the podcast feed is interrupted and hijacked by the Punch Up of the FUTURE! Instead of Leslie, Angus and Tuong listen as Skywalker Cserepy, Bloodflap and Tuong La Punch Up disastrous movies while they wait for the Sun to explode!

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E36 – This One’s for the Kids (Kill Bill, Magic School Bus, Ontario Today)

This week on The Improv Punch up we are joined by the Kinetic Krystal Merrells! On this episode, the kids on the magic school bus learn a grave lesson on Pluto, we tune in to a live special edition of Ontario Today to solve people’s problems, and we find the ultimate match for a one inch punch: a bouncy castle!

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E24 – Steamboat Willie & Gustavo Take Over (Steamboat Willie, Heat, Dracula)

This week on the Improv Punch Up there’s NO GUEST!?! It’s just Leslie and Angus. The boys take a look at an animated classic, a star studded blockbuster, and even read words off paper. They’ll also have to deal with some unwanted guests in the PodCavern.

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