Interview: Girls STEM Up 2025
My guests today are Deeniti Saha and Samu Shawesh, two organizers of the Girls STEM Up group and the upcoming supporting conference in February.
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CHSR News – October 15th, 2024 – STU Psychology Professor The First To Receive NSERC Research Grant In School History
Last week, Dr. Doris Chow became the first professor from St. Thomas University to receive the NSERC Discovery Grant to fund her research on multi-sensory perception. The psychology professor has spent the last ten years studying how our senses play off one another and how that can be used to enhance practices in areas like
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Interview: Dr. Trevor Hanson (UNB Mobility Day)
My guest today is Dr. Trevor Hanson, a Professor of Civil Engineering, Coordinator of the UNB Transportation Group, and a founder of the Community Transportation Research Lab (CTRL) at UNB.
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TWS370: Changeable Universe
On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
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TWS370: Changeable Universe
On the show this week: Breaking The Rules; Broken; Lost and Found; Halloween & Costumes; CQ: With costumes and cosplay becoming more common and accessible, will costumes become part of more people’s casual wardrobe?
Full list of 10 articles after the jump!
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TWS368: Backslash Flashback
On the show this week: Unusual Science; Usual Science; Animal Science; Unanimal Science; CQ: Is there any moral difference between creating an artificial intelligence on a computer or a new biological entity capable of thinking?
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TWS359: Indirect Experience
On the show this week: Places Lost And Found; True Tales of Medical Fiction; Mechanical Animal; Some Call It The Dance; Triumph of Belief; Food For Naught; There Are No Small Inventions; CQ: Has humanity already transformed sufficiently to make current standard age ranges covering “child”, “adult” and “old adult” meaningless — and are they too ingrained to change? Why?
Full list of 27 articles after the jump!
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(Epic) Episode 79: Science
We discuss some exciting things in Science! Â … and some rediculous things in “science” Hosts Marc Cabot (@MarcCabot) Richard Gray(@EpicRich1) Andy McMullen (@AndyLastName) Nutty (@Nuchtchas) Tek (@The_Clock_Doc) Adam Williams (@Dr4Physics) Show Notes Dr. Oz http://factually.gizmodo.com/study-dr-oz-is-full-of-shit-1673235629 David Avacado Wolfe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4wRtURwZw http://ascienceenthusiast.com/the-david-avocado-wolfe-effect/ http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/05/28/how-is-it-that-ive-never-heard-of-david-avocado-wolfe-before/ Science of Science Denial http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/71873/lots-people-think-complete-nonsense-profound-study-finds http://mentalfloss.com/article/68705/20-cognitive-biases-affect-your-decisions Food Babe http://foodbabe.com/ Lygos http://www.space.com/31922-gravitational-waves-detection-what-it-means.html
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TWS350: The Crap Up With Which We Put
On the show this week: Sensical; Cycle of Life; What the Hack?; A Bad Idea At The Time; Extras; CQ: Should the half-life of an original movie be about 20 years before a remake is not only accepted but expected? Shorter? Longer? Why? Full list of 25 articles after the jump!
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TWS338: The Speed of Aught
On the show this week: $pace; Out Think It Through; Behave Like Animals; Play time; Extras; CQ: Do we need semantic units like inches and feet or rational units like meters — or both? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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TWS337: Air And Back Again
On the show this week: Space Transit Pass * Bio Mass Illucidation * Things That May Not Be There * CQ: Has the Internet fundamentally changed the way that humans communicate, or merely allowed us to communicate more fully in the ways we already have?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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TWS331: Cheering Until The Invisible Is Gone
In the show this week: Perceptive Problems; Knowledge Lost & Found; To Nobel or To Ig Nobel; Extras; CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?
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TWS328: Up In The Hair
On the show this week: Rent For Space; We’re All In Your Mind; Self-Doubting Cars; Insightation Needed; Noisy Space; Extras; CQ: Will the current wave of political and cultural awareness about privilege, power and equity make it less likely that we will create robots as subservient entities, or more likely to avoid attempting to give them free will? Full list of 18 articles after the jump!
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TWS327: Incoming Data, Outgoing Individuals
On the show this week:
The Eye More Than Meats
A Little More Than Flesh, A Little Less Than Metal
You Think It’s An Illusion
Extras
CQ: Which is better: to intensely get to know the area you are in, or to travel widely but never stay in one place very long?
Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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TWS322: Subscripts To Back Issues
On the show this week: Front Page; Big Issues; Small Issues; Extra Issues; CQ: Will an artificially-intelligent product of humanity ever be granted the rights of a human, and will that happen before or after extraterrestrial aliens are granted similar rights? Full list of 19 articles after the jump!
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TWS317: Inescapable Subsequences
On the show this week: Front Page; Virtual Virtues; Prosthetic Fallacy; Universal Attraction; CQ: What’s one thing from today — a technology, an idiom, a cultural feature — that will survive to be recognizeable 5000 years from now — and what’s one thing that will almost make it, but not quite?
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The Lunchbox Interview: Frank Collins (CWSF Judge)
Frank Collins, Assistant Dean of Engineering at UNB Fredericton, joins me to talk about his experience at being a judge at the Canada-Wide Science Fair, and how impressive the science done by these students really is. Music today by BB King and The Young Novelists.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Lauren & Daniel (CWSF Ambassadors)
Lauren Gamble and Daniel O’Neil are both Ambassadors with the Canada-Wide Science Fair currently being hosted by UNB. Music today by Instruments and Tallest to Shortest.
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The Lunchbox Interview: Brad McCabe, Executive Director of Youth Science Canada
Rob McCabe, Executive Director of Youth Science Canada joins me to talk about the Canada-Wide Science Fair currently being hosted at UNB Fredericton in the Currie Centre. Music by Tomato/Tomato, Milk + Bone and Psychostick.
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TWS314: 360 Degree Smile
On the show this week:
Front Page
Ghosts In The Machine
Bleeding Hedge Technology
CQ: Given that so many great things come out mistakes, coincidences and serendipity, should we be so immediately dismissive of errors?
Full list of 21 articles after the jump!
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TWS312: Game Brains
On the show this week: Front Page; Involution; In Your Head; Extras; CQ: Should convicted criminals with life sentences or death sentences be allowed to serve instead as space explorers — and is that a more or less humane option? Full list of 20 articles after the jump!
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TWS309: Retroactive Deja Vu
On the show this week:
Front Page
Inside Perspective
War on Terra
Extras
CQ: If we could create an AI and give it the seeming personality of a character from a novel, movie or other story, which AI personality would you want to give you advice?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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TWS306: Head Full Of Space
On the show this week: Front Page All Space No Mind Extras CQ: Has crowdfunding reached a plateau, or is it just getting started? Promo: CAFFEEN! — I’ve done this music show for years now, but in the last few years it has become a story-telling odyssey through post-rock, soundtrack, minimalist, ambient and awesome wordless […]
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TWS305: Shoveling the Cold, Hard Calculations
On the show this week: Front Page Things of Internet Winter is Coming CQ: Science fiction often projects this, but: should humanity have one, unified, consistent world government, and what could that look like? Promo: The Flash Pulp Podcast (http://flashpulp.com) – An incredible series of pulp-style stories told over a multiverse of styles and often […]
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TWS304: Digging Deeper Than Snow
On the show this week: Front Page Life is Full of Crap Pre-Justice Re-History Science Tests Re-Taken CQ: Do you think that humanity will ever need to make a hundred-year plan for the future — or even be able of it? Full list of 23 articles after the jump! Front Page: Yup, sounds like Canadian […]
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