babies

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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E19: Scaring Lamprey Using Sound with Victoria Heath

Sea Lamprey are an invasive species in the Great Lakes. Our guest Victoria Heath works in marine labs doing research into chasing them out of sensitive areas using sounds that don’t harm the environment. Vinny and Katie share the latest research about babies and moon dirt.

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Ep 55 – Jingle All the Way (1996) with Chelsea Fahey

“It’s Turbo Time!”

The week of Christmas has finally arrived so what better way to get into the holiday spirit then to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most iconic movie role of all time (we said what we said!). So join Turbo Man’s trusty side kicks Tuong La and Chelsea Fahey as they frantically try to get their Christmas shopping done while watching 1996’s Jingle All The Way.

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