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'Larrikin' is an Australian-English word for someone who goes against the grain and sees the world differently. These fresh eyes allow you to approach a problem with ingenuity. And that ingenuity breeds people we call 'trailblazers.' This is a podcast about such people and ideas.
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In today's podcast, I quiz my sister 'Daniel Danielson' aka Eileen Yakscoe about things I learned from Phillip Dettmer's book. I recently read the best science book I've ever read: 'Immune' by Phillip Dettmer. Its explanations are based on first principles that open the door to thinking about the immune system in a new way. His passion for the subj…
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you don't have to watch movies anymore, we'll definitely watch them and then tell you how they went. this episode was inspired by sarah black and ben flores https://twitter.com/pleasesavemepod?lang=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGCTSSWT4lg https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainability-Organisms/dp/1594205582…
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The intersection between botany and medicine ft. Dr. Aidan Kaye Bark of the willow tree is turned into Aspirin. Bark of the Cinchona Tree is turned into Quinine- the anti-malarial drug you enjoy in your average gin and tonic. Tonic water is sugar mixed with cinchona bark. But British colonizers liked to get drunk while they medicated themselves fro…
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One reason we go into REM sleep, the time at night when we dream the most, is because it keeps the brain warm. When we are cold, we shiver. When we dream, our brain "shivers." But is there any meaning to our nightly shivers? I don't know. But I had fun exploring the idea with my friends. Music by: Nick Hussey, Hannah Schuerman, Jorge Schuster Featu…
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A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of larrikins googling bird facts is a called a podcast. We talk about bird name origins and etymologies, followed by bird behavior and over sharing about my penis. Please consider donating to teamtrees.org. One dollar equals one native tree. Plant the tree->to bring the insect->to bring the bird that …
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I sit down in the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove with program director, Carrie Barron, to briefly discuss bird conservation. One solution was counterintuitive to me. Carrie explains that to save the native birds, we should plant native plants. Plant the tree->to bring the insect->to bring the bird that likes the insects.…
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My two centses on our five senses. Source saying we don't regenerate neurons in the olfactory bulb: http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(12)00341-8 A few video sources: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWGnWkUjYqae9oPgkXp_EmxUL4y_qq3C6 A few books: Universal Sense by Seth Horowitz Evolution by Carl Zimmer The Brain by David Eagleman…
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