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E25: Extending food’s shelf life with Louis Colaruotolo

November 15, 2022 00:59:20 0 Comments

Turning the raw materials of food into all the products we find in our stores is a science unto itself. Learning how to make, store, and preserve food without generating waste is a tricky and important problem to solve. This week’s guest is Louis Colaruotolo, a food science researcher to tell us about the incredible work that goes into what we eat. Katie and Vinny talk about dinosaur-human hybrids, lactose intolerance, and the opposite of leap seconds.

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E15: Swaying to Prevent Fainting with Erin Williams

April 19, 2022 00:48:43 0 Comments

Fainting is an unpleasant and sometimes dangerous experience. We talk to Erin Williams about the cardiovascular system and research into new and simple tools, like swaying, to prevent fainting (aka: syncope). Vinny and Katie talk about wild animals getting drunk and nuclear missiles.

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E09: Repairing Nerves Using Spider Silk with Lizzie Baker

November 30, 2021 00:52:42 0 Comments

Bioengineering is the field of using and modifying natural processes to produce new materials. This week’s guest, Lizzie Baker, bioengineered a new kind of spider silk to promote the growth of nerves and treat spinal cord injuries. Vinny and Katie share facts about space clocks and hybrid animals.

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E05: Chasing Glaciers with Amanda Kotila

November 2, 2021 00:53:24 0 Comments

This week we meet researcher Amanda Kotila, who is studying glacier retreat, which is the process of how glaciers melt and get smaller. Katie and Vinny talk about fires in winter and decapitated worms.

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E04: Watching Bacteria Poop Nitrogen with Sujani Gomes

October 26, 2021 00:51:52 0 Comments

This week we meet Sujani Gomes who is solving “The Mysterious Case of Bacteria and Nitrogen”. Vinny and Katie talk about wolves saving lives and wiggling tubes.

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E03: Melting Batteries Using Lasers with Tessa Krause

October 19, 2021 00:52:34 0 Comments

Meet Tessa Krause who is investigating using lasers to control laser welding and preventing lithium fires. Katie and Vinny talk about protecting the bees from mites and getting rechargeable batteries from the ocean.

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E02: Treating Diabetes with Vitamin K with Kevin Guo

October 12, 2021 00:53:57 0 Comments

Meet Kevin Guo who is exploring new treatments of diabetes using everyone’s favourite organic molecule, Vitamin K. Katie and Vinny talk about bats wearing party hats and a mysterious object that could replace Pluto as the Sun’s ninth planet.

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Ep 74 – Mortal Kombat (2021) with Katie Pagnucco

May 2, 2021 01:22:29 0 Comments

“Get over here!”

A good movie adaptation of a video game is really hard to come by since…well ever. From stinkers like 1993’s Super Mario Bros. to Resident Evil to even the new Monster Hunter movie, Hollywood struggles to capture what makes these games so special in the first place. So join Tuong La and Earth Realm’s Champion Katie Pagnucco (Improv College) as they discuss if the new Mortal Kombat movie is a “Flawless Victory” or gets put in the ever growing pantheon of bad video game movies.

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Episode 14 – Experiment

January 22, 2021 00:55:15 0 Comments

Featuring Maddox Campbell (Break A Wish), Axandre Lemours (Beowulf In Afghanistan, Honey Dew Me), and Craig Scorgie (Just For Laughs, Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival). This week, the panel discusses forging your own path with the scientific method, an inter-dimensional ghost orgy, and Spongebob getting sucked off by a snail.

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