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Daily Discoveries

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Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast about recent science news from around the world, hosted by University of Washington undergraduate students Sanjana Chava, Oskar Haeberlein, and Hayden Henry.
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Episodes

Classes and Research Online

This week, Rhea and Thelonious discuss their own experiences with online schooling and how teachers have been adapting, as well as how students doing hands-on research have had to pivot for the pandemic.

Oct 24, 202031 min

Intersections of Race and Science

Black lives matter. Scientists to follow on twitter: @kareem_carr, @hood_naturalist, #BlackBirdersWeek, @astronaia, @tressiemcphd, @bye_ology, @Sternarchella, @wildearthnotes.

Jun 05, 202038 min

“In fact these Turk’s business are everyone’s”

The novelty song “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” famously said that “It was nobody’s business, but the Turks,” but when it comes to tech, it’s everybody’s. Rhea and Thelonious discuss exploitive Mechanical Turk labor at Amazon and Uber, a new iPhone app that can detect critical and non-critical COVID-19 cases based on skin conditions, and discuss the … Continue reading "“In fact these Turk’s business are everyone’s”"

May 08, 202021 min

Week 4: Earth Day

Thelonious and Rhea (virtually) discuss the state of the environment on Earth Day amidst COVID.

Apr 25, 202029 min

Using novel methods for medical intervention

Rhea and Thelonious discuss how science intersects with medicine in a variety of ways: through blood donations to help fight coronavirus, scientists sending tissues to space, and an undergraduate researcher using machine learning to help with psychiatric behavior prediction.

Apr 17, 202027 min

Daily "Virtual" Discoveries

Thelonious and Rhea discuss a myriad of topics: The online quarter, the coronavirus, animal crossing, and Bernie Sanders’s election campaign ending among other things.

Apr 10, 202031 min

Election Science

SoCiaL d A t A sCiEnTiSt Thelonious Goerz and Natural Scientist Rhea John discuss election science. Today, they talk about disinformation, staying informed about consuming political information like statistics, policy, and being skeptical of research; they also talk about environmental issues on the political stage.

Mar 07, 202049 min

MATH!

Rhea and Thelonious talk about the mysterious algorithm behind a college campus love-matching service and other nerdy topics like applied math and computational finance.

Feb 29, 202020 min

Film and Science

Thelonious and Rhea have on special guest, Armon Mahdavi, editor of the arts and leisure section of The Daily, for a special episode where arts and science come together in a discussion about SCI-FI MOVIES!

Feb 21, 20201 hr 13 min

Birth Control

This week, Rhea and Thelonious take a deep look at the birth control options available to students, and the science behind them. They also dive into who has more, less, and virtually zero access to birth control from a global health perspective.

Feb 07, 202038 min

Biased technology and expanding the scope of GAMERs

Thelonious and Rhea dive into two articles for this final episode of the fall quarter! They’re talking about the biases that technology forms, such as in the case with Amazon’s automated recruitment program as well as the efforts by the GAMER group to expand the accessibility of interactive games to wider audiences.

Dec 06, 201922 min

The ethics of gene editing in deafness

Thelonious and Rhea discuss an article that grapples with the controversy behind genetic editing to remove genes that cause deafness.

Nov 29, 201915 min

Improper use of pronouns and research on deafness

Thelonious and Rhea discuss an article on a lecture about the social implications behind improper use of “they/them” pronouns, as well as research regarding the sight strengths of deaf infants.

Nov 09, 201919 min
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