All Around Science

On today’s episode: What is the true cost of all this wildfire smoke? Glass is a fascinating substance of contradicting properties! Let’s learn about it! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Wildfire smoke downwind affects health, wealth and mortality | Cornell Chronicle THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: Soon you might be able get your blood pressure by pinching your smartphone. Psilocybin and other psychedelics might be a major advancement in treating some mental illnesses. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Ultra low-cost smartphone attachment measures blood pressure at home Ethical principles of traditional Indigenous medicine to guide western psychedelic research and practice Neurotransmitter Receptors and Their Effects Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity: A Systematic Review Unraveling the Biological Underpinnings of Psychedelics The Impact of Studying Brain Plasticity Quality of Acute Psychedelic Experience Predicts Therapeutic Efficacy of Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression Psychedelic-inspired drugs could relieve depression without causing hallucinations Therapeutic use of psilocybin: Practical considerations for dosing and administration THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: No one is honest anymore! Or are they…? Blueberries aren’t blue, blue flowers aren’t blue, most things aren’t really blue… Why is blue so hard to find? All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES Morality is declining, right? Scientists say that idea is an illusion Why is blue so easy to make in a lab? THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: earwax, clogged pipes, boogers... There was just so much it went on to a 145th episode! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES https://atlasbiomed.com/blog/wet-earwax-dry-earwax-and-earwax-colours-of-earwax/  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326093#earwax-textures Salivary mucins protect surfaces from colonization by cariogenic bacteria Nose picking and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: To celebrate our 144th episdoe, we answered all your gross science questions: toejam, poop, pee... All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: SOURCES https://www.livescience.com/37664-human-urine-colors-rainbow.html https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313779#causes https://www.ucsfhealth.org/medical-tests/hemoglobinuria-test https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-brown-green-urine-colors-and-what-they-might-mean THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: Vaccines are in the news! And it’s not COVID this time. Whether or not you find them appealing, there’s hope in the research to save bananas. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Long-sought universal flu vaccine: mRNA-based candidate enters clinical trial BANANA SOURCES https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS.2004.88.6.580 https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I https://asm.org/Articles/2021/June/Clone-Wars-How-Fusarium-Fungi-Control-the-Banana-I https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5684404/ https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=173568 https://www.bonappetit.com/story/banana-fungus-monoculture-extinction THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: It’s happening… Scientists are starting to be able to read our minds! We might owe the existence of life to quasars. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Evidence of conscious-like activity in the dying brain | Michigan Medicine The potential for a plastic recycling facility to release microplastic pollution and possible filtration remediation effectiveness Recycling in the U.S. Is Broken. How Do We Fix It? How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: It’s happening… Scientists are starting to be able to read our minds! We might owe the existence of life to quasars. All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Reading The Mind with fMRI and AI | Neurologica Blog QUASAR SOURCES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazar https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/astronomers-solve-60-year-mystery-quasars-most-powerful-objects-universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9W5x3SMBH4&ab_channel=JoeScott https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230426210530.htm https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/2/1736/7035603?login=false https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/what-are-active-galactic-nuclei https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/a/Active+Galactic+Nuclei#:~:text=Carl%20Seyfert%20discovered%20the%20first,very%20close%20to%20the%20nucleus THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: If you fall off your bike, most people will help you. Just because it’s “natural” does not mean it’s “good”... let’s talk about logical fallacies! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Small acts of kindness are frequent and universal, study finds | UCLA Raw milk from farm with no electricity sparks outbreak that nearly killed baby THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s episode: Scientists think they figured out where all the water came from! How to make science fun for the kids in your life! All that and more today on All Around Science... LINKS: Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.