Upulie Divisekera joins me once again for the third episode in the End of Spring Series 2020. She’s a molecular biologist, nanotechnologist, science communicator, and dinosaur evangelist.
We talk about many things including our first year with COVID-19, Christmas, The Crown, space toilets, chocolate, Elon Musk, gilded insects, gold nanorods and surface plasmon resonance, politics, religion, and Twitter.
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Upulie was previously on Public House Forum 4 four years ago, and another episode just nine weeks ago.
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Upulie Pabasarie Divisekera is an Australian molecular biologist and science communicator, and is the co-founder of Real Scientists, an outreach program that uses performance and writing to communicate science.
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Watch as we #LaunchAmerica! Join us for live coverage of SpaceX Crew-1, the first crew rotation flight to the International Space Station by a U.S. commercial spacecraft. The crew is set to arrive at the International Space Station on Monday, Nov. 16 at 11 p.m. EST (Nov. 17 at 4 a.m. UTC).
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Welcome to Skullpturas, 24k gold luxury taxidermy and curio pieces. Specialising in using hand gilt designs on taxidermy insects and engraving and gilding designs onto animal skulls. I donate a portion of proceeds monthly to Hallswood Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk and Little Wanderers cat rescue of NYC.
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24ct gold taxidermy art Responsibly sourced & cruelty free Creator of @nightfair_market No DMs, please email 10% to animal charities
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My goal is to constantly explore nature, combining science and art to ignite your curiosity. Which is why I’ve teamed up the STEMCell Science shop to design your personal curiosity companion! The perfect tool kit to explore your home and make discoveries!
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Stay curious.
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This simulator will familiarize you with the controls of the actual interface used by NASA Astronauts to manually pilot the SpaceX Dragon 2 vehicle to the International Space Station.
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Twitter is currently "exploring" adding a dislike button or some kind of downvoting system, presumably à la Reddit, announced the company's product lead on Tuesday. The potential change, confirmed Twitter, is part of a larger effort to make Twitter a place amenable to more nuanced conversations.
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A new way to arrange very small materials with perfect control could lead to more secure banknotes and passports, and quicker detection of harmful gas through a clever use of light.
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Here a method based on electrophoretic deposition (EPD) is reported to precisely assemble vertically oriented, single gold nanorods. It is demonstrated that the orientation of gold nanorods during deposition is controlled by the electric dipole moment induced along the rod by the electric field.
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is the resonant oscillation of conduction electrons at the interface between negative and positive permittivity material stimulated by incident light. SPR is the basis of many standard tools for measuring adsorption of material onto planar metal (typically gold or silver) surfaces or onto the surface of metal nanoparticles. It is the fundamental principle behind many color-based biosensor applications, different lab-on-a-chip sensors and diatom photosynthesis.
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According to records from the Chinese government, the first case of coronavirus was on 17 November 2019, weeks before authorities announced a new disease.
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Not to be outdone by a rival with a similar product, Pfizer and BioNTech today provided an update on the previously announced success of their COVID-19 vaccine. The U.S. pharma giant and its German biotech partner now report 95% efficacy for their vaccine candidate, drawing on the final analysis of a 43,000-person study. And don’t worry about the elderly not responding to the vaccine; the efficacy only drops to 94% in people older than 65.
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Coronacast is a podcast that answers your questions about coronavirus. We break down the latest news and research to help you understand how the world is living through a pandemic.
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John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the founders of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.
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"Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague "is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks.
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Denmark has already launched a nationwide cull of its farmed mink herd after concerns for vaccine efficacy.
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A CIA report on Operation INFEKTION.
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Despite being a trivial matter for patients in intensive care units (ICUs), erectile dysfunction (ED) is a likely consequence of COVID-19 for survivors, and considering the high transmissibility of the infection and the higher contagion rates among elderly men, a worrying phenomenon for a large part of affected patients.
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A cytokine storm, also called hypercytokinemia, is a physiological reaction in humans and other animals in which the innate immune system causes an uncontrolled and excessive release of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules called cytokines. Normally, cytokines are part of the body's immune response to infection, but their sudden release in large quantities can cause multisystem organ failure and death.
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DR. SCOTT ATLAS: This kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly who are now being told don't see your family at Thanksgiving. For many people this is their final Thanksgiving, believe it or not. What are we doing here? I think we have to have a policy, which I have been advocating, which is a whole person, whole health policy. It's not about just stopping cases of COVID. We have to talk about the damage of the policy itself.
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Nearly 33 percent of respondents said they would not require friends or family to wear masks at Thanksgiving gatherings, and 25 percent said they would not practice social distancing, according to the poll.
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23. Trump Says New York Won’t Get Vaccine Right Away Because He’s a Petty Little Bitch | Vanity FairAndrew Cuomo apparently hasn’t sufficiently kissed the ring.
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The word was chosen from a shortlist of five expressions, only one of which was unrelated to the virus. That term was "Black Summer", a reference to the catastrophic 2019-20 bushfire season. Amanda Laugesen, chief editor of The Australian National Dictionary, said the pandemic had inspired most of the new words used in the country this year.
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On Friday 13th November, Elon Musk took four rapid antigen tests for COVID-19. When the results came back two were negative and two were positive. Musk was alarmed. He took to Twitter complaining “Something extremely bogus is going on.”. What’s bogus is that Space Karen didn’t read up on the test before tweeting to his millions of followers. Here’s why his results make perfect sense.
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'What's bogus is that Space Karen didn't read up on the test before complaining to his millions of followers'
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Space Karen is trending. Keep it alive. #SpaceKaren
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He doesn't think that democracy back on Earth is having its finest moment. (2016)
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“For services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other colonisation spacecraft, the parties recognise Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” the governing law section states.
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These five treaties deal with issues such as the non-appropriation of outer space by any one country, arms control, the freedom of exploration, liability for damage caused by space objects, the safety and rescue of spacecraft and astronauts, the prevention of harmful interference with space activities and the environment, the notification and registration of space activities, scientific investigation and the exploitation of natural resources in outer space and the settlement of disputes.
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The north wind is tossing the leaves. The red dust is over the town; The sparrows are under the eaves, And the grass in the paddock is brown; As we lift up our voices and sing, To the Christ-child the heavenly King.
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If you're keen to whip one up, use solid crackers or breadsticks to make the walls, add a prosciutto or salami roof, and finish it off with cheese and crudites for the details. Then you can get extra creative - mozzarella makes a perfect snowman, and some nuts and seeds can be used for the window details. You can even grate a little parmesan on top to look like snow, or cut up a capsicum to make a winter sled. The possibilities are endless.
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The Crown is a historical drama streaming television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan, and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.
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As a Gillian Andersonsexual, let me assure you that you will not be horny for Thatcher but you might feel a bit sorry for her which is just as bad.
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We talk with Christopher Hitchens about his memoir Hitch-22 and some of his more contrarian ideas including why Margaret Thatcher is sexier than Sarah Palin.
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The North Wind (Christmas Day) · Colin Buchanan · Greg Champion
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- Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project.
- Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.