The field of robotics is moving rapidly from science-fiction to everyday experience. Our guest, Pawel Kudzia, researches wearable robots to restore functions for people who need rehabilitation or assistance. His focus is on building exoskeletons to help people walk. Vinny and Katie talk about building new telescopes and odors caused by viruses.
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We’re coming at you with another media review! Kadi and Teffer watched Season 1 of the Vampire Diaries and we’re here to tell you all about low cut jeans, sexy vampire brothers, and racist small towns.
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This week, host Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) talks to haunted house expert & friend of the show Matt Cole (@mc_dj_mc) about the behind the scenes of the haunted house world, the best halloween candies, and the ways we set kids up to fail on Halloween! Plus, test your knowledge with a riveting game of 50 Shades of Brown!
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Angus and Sal finally arrive back to their home universe…but some time has passed. Now the two are unemployed and starting from square one again and they must literally dig for new jobs in this vaguely sinister future.
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Our favourite video game villain is back…and he’s on that vigilante shit again. Our old pals Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz are about to face the ultimate test of…
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Medicinal chemistry is the study of building synthetic medicine in the lab. Our guest, Vanessa Ruscetta, researches how to synthetically copy an already existing successful cancer treatment drug that will be effective, safe, and affordable. Katie and Vinny talk about the distance to the moon and butterfly wings.
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This week, hosts Tom Zalatnai (@tomzalatnai) and Teffer Adjemian (@tefferbear) talk about Phil Rosenthal’s Netflix Food Travel series, Somebody Feed Phil! We break down the things we love about this joy-filled culinary romp, the way it serves as an optimistic take on Anthony Bourdain’s work, and the beauty of seeing tender masculinity & “soft dorky dad” energy in a piece of food media.
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Today, Moth and Cicada meet an old woman.
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Creatures making their spooky podcast feature!
The spirit of Halloween is upon us once again and for this year’s bone-chilling episode we wanted to celebrate our favourite creatures in cinema! So join Tuong La and his Ghastly Ghouls Angus MacDonald, Sarah MacDonald, and Samantha Leggatt as they lock themselves in a haunted house and won’t emerge until they come up with a list of Top 5 Movie Monsters!
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Our bodies are made up of bazillions of cells, each one specialized to serve a function. Cells have an external structure to give it shape called a cytoskeleton. Researcher Claire Edrington is looking into the microtubules that make up cytoskeletons and how they can be grown in the lab. Katie and Vinny share facts about particle accelerators and giraffe necks.
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