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Bringing Chemistry to Life

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Conversations with the brightest chemical minds — Join us in educational chats with some of the most fascinating and influential scientists in the world. Learn about their personal stories, notable contributions, and an enthusiasm for discovery that unites them all. Covering various fields and industries, this is a podcast for anyone who wants to learn more about science and the brilliant minds advancing it.
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The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons originating in Manchester in 1989. Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture. In the UK, they have had five number one albums and 13 top 20 singles, including two number ones. The duo have won a number of awards throughout their career, including four Grammy Awards—twice for Best Elect ...
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From diamonds to dynamite everything involves a chemical reaction. This unit introduces you to the concepts and principles that underpin chemistry at the molecular level. Everyday experiences are used to help you to understand the more complex issues. This study unit is just one of many that can be found on LearningSpace, part of OpenLearn, a collection of open educational resources from The Open University. Published in ePub 2.0.1 format, some feature such as audio, video and linked PDF are ...
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Community Service Radio

The Crystal Method

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Electronic music trailblazers THE CRYSTAL METHOD. New album the trip out is out now! https://linktr.ee/thecrystalmethod Throughout the past two decades, the musical landscape has continually merged, morphed, and matrixed, fractured in countless directions while intersecting at the most unexpected points. Electronic music underwent a renaissance in the aughts, rising out of the warehouses and blank spaces and overtaking the biggest festival fields in the world. THE CRYSTAL METHOD followed a s ...
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Welcome to REVISE, the ultimate podcast for those ready to ace their Chemistry GCSE exams! Are you feeling the exam pressure building up like a stack of unread textbooks? Fear not! Join us as we transform daunting topics into digestible, engaging, and easy-to-follow episodes. To see all of Seneca Learning's available content, visit our website https://app.senecalearning.com/
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The Kenyon Profcast is a long-form interview podcast with members of the faculty or staff of Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio, USA) about their research. It is produced at Kenyon's recording facilities and hosted by Professor Dan Hartnett.
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School districts across Georgia are scrambling to meet a July deadline to train thousands of teachers in a new set of curricula intended to help improve literacy rates. The mandate is connected to a new law passed by the state legislature in 2023 intended to overhaul how children learn to read to address a state-wide education crisis: By fourth gra…
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A Georgia lawmaker is trying to pump the brakes on a long-time police practice that generates millions for small cities off the backs of drivers. The proposed legislation follows a series of Atlanta News First investigations published over the past year entitled Taxation through Citation that uncovered at least 17 municipalities relying on 25 perce…
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North Georgia residents are one step closer to getting answers about how chemical contamination in their drinking water may have impacted their health. Emory University's pilot study is in direct response to a 2023 Atlanta News First investigation which tested 11 Rome residents for PFAS and other 'forever chemicals.'…
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Families who’ve had their food benefits stolen this month are now finding out there’s no money left to replace them after federal funds to reimburse stolen benefits ended in December, but the fraud is increasing at an alarming rate. An Atlanta News First investigation found thieves are swiping millions in federal taxpayer dollars, while families ac…
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In this episode, we delve into the history of the periodic table, exploring the contributions of John Newlands and Dmitri Mendeleev. Discover how the table evolved from organising elements by mass to its modern form based on atomic numbers. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Perfec…
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In this episode, Jamie delves into the history of the periodic table, exploring the contributions of John Newlands and Dmitri Mendeleev. Discover how the table evolved from organising elements by mass to its modern form based on atomic numbers. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Pe…
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According to the Georgia Department of Education , 19,888 of Atlanta Public School students missed more than 15 days of class in 2023. A child is considered chronically absent when they’ve missed 10 percent of their school year. An analysis by Atlanta News First Investigates revealed this school system saw metro Atlanta’s highest rate of absenteeis…
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In this episode, Jamie discusses the concept of electron structure, focusing on how electrons are organised within atomic shells and energy levels. Learn about the order in which electrons fill these shells and what determines their configuration. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams.…
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In this episode, we discuss the concept of electron structure, focusing on how electrons are organised within atomic shells and energy levels. Learn about the order in which electrons fill these shells and what determines their configuration. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Perf…
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In this episode, Jamie delves into the world of atoms and sub-atomic particles, exploring their size, structure, and relative mass. Discover how these tiny components are the building blocks of everything around us. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Perfect for AQA, OCR, Edexcel, …
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In this episode, we delve into the world of atoms and sub-atomic particles, exploring their size, structure, and relative mass. Discover how these tiny components are the building blocks of everything around us. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Perfect for AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE …
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In this episode, Jamie explains the techniques of simple and fractional distillation, focusing on how their ability to utilise the different boiling points of liquids allows for the effective separation of mixtures. Listeners will gain insights into both methods, understanding how each uniquely unpacks a mixture into its separate components. Don't …
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The state’s highest court will soon decide whether a man convicted of killing his infant son more than 20 years ago will get a new trial. The case involves the controversial medical diagnosis, shaken baby syndrome. In 2003, a Gwinnett County jury convicted Danyel Smith of murdering his two-month-old son, Chandler. The state’s medical examiner ruled…
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Loris Sinanian is a deacon at St. Francis of Assisi’s in north Georgia’s town of Blairsville. At age 93, he still leads mass, but these days, he needs his faith more than ever. A few months ago, Sinanian lost his wife, Peggy. Just before that, he lost his life savings to an internet scam. “Somehow, they got into my computer,” Sinanian said. “When t…
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When Patricia Miele’s family moved her into Greenwood Place Assisted Living and Memory Care in Marietta this past October, they trusted the 89-year-old was in good hands, adding the facility came highly recommended. Miele moved from Connecticut to Georgia years ago to be closer to her family and two grandchildren. The former schoolteacher and devou…
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In this episode, Jamie explains the charges of sub-atomic particles — protons, neutrons, and electrons — and their role in making atoms neutral. Discover how these charges balance in atoms, with protons and electrons contributing positive and negative charges, respectively, and neutrons remaining charge-neutral. Don't miss out on subscribing for mo…
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In this episode, Jamie covers separation techniques, explaining methods like filtration, crystallisation, and chromatography for separating mixtures and compounds. These physical processes effectively separate substances without creating new chemical substances. Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed…
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In this episode, Jamie discusses how atoms of different elements combine to form compounds, represented by formulae from their chemical symbols. Compounds, much like Lego creations, vary based on atomic combinations, exemplified by sodium oxide (Na2O). Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your e…
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In this episode, Jamie explores the basics of elements and atoms, discussing the 118 different elements discovered and their unique chemical symbols. Examples include oxygen (O), iron (Fe), and cobalt (Co). Don't miss out on subscribing for more educational content tailored to help you succeed in your exams. Perfect for AQA, OCR, Edexcel, CIE and W…
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A rural county south of Atlanta has become a target for scammers trying to make tens of thousands of dollars off people’s vacant property through local real estate agents. Atlanta News First Investigates discovered a growing issue of sham sellers near Barnesville, where a significant amount of growth is taking place. Real estate agents say the scam…
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While metro Atlanta didn’t see widespread damage from Hurricane Helene, some Woodstock, homeowners filed insurance claims for significant wind damage. But not everyone’s insurance is paying for new roofs. More than a dozen homeowners in the Oakhurst neighborhood filed claims for roof damage with a very specific type of construction shingle that roo…
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A Clayton County hospital is accused in a lawsuit of putting vulnerable patients at risk. Darryl Lynn Fussell II was having a mental health crisis and escaped the Southern Regional Medical Center, even though he was on an involuntary 1013 hold. Our Atlanta News First investigation found 44 patients have been reported missing from the location in th…
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Jamming and spoofing of navigation and timing signals threaten the American economy, according to experts. Developed half a century ago for the military, GPS is now used daily by more than seven billion devices worldwide. It’s inside your phone; inside your car; and in the cockpit of every airliner.
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Drug agents are no longer allowed to seize cash from innocent passengers at US airports as a direct result of this two-year investigation by Atlanta News First Investigates. The Department of Justice ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to suspend its ‘cold consent encounters’ at departure gates nationwide because of a single video that woul…
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Eminent domain, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is defined as the right of a government or its agent to appropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. In Georgia, the process starts by first condemning the site. Read the full story here: https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/04/railr…
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For the past 30 years, Georgia State University has run a program for experienced teachers to learn a curriculum called Reading Recovery, which is intended to help children learn how to read. Reading Recovery is one-on-one instruction in the classroom for the lowest performing students in first grade struggling to read. School districts in Georgia …
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One of the world’s largest carpet manufacturers claims it was tricked into using a group of chemicals it did not know was harmful to people and the environment. The allegations are part of a pending lawsuit filed by Mohawk Industries, based in Dalton, Georgia, against 3M and other chemical manufacturers. The lawsuit claims the chemical companies “c…
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With a single sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended a nationwide program that had seized untold millions in cash from airline passengers without arrests. “I am directing that the DEA suspend conducting consensual encounters,” wrote Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in a Nov. 12, 2024, directive to the Drug Enforcement Administr…
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A metro Atlanta daycare was behind on her bills due to delays in payments from Georgia agencies; insulin deserts are plaguing Georgia communities; and an Atlanta Falcons superfan was arrested after an Atlanta News First investigation. These are some of our award-winning team of journalists' most popular reports from 2024.…
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A fake landlord tries to evict an Atlanta family from their home; an Atlanta couple is furious with Amazon over a rushed delivery that caused thousands of dollars in damages to their home; scammers are using AI-generated images of military personnel to them into their romance scams; and a Georgia town is accused of using their police department to …
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Atlanta's top consumer reporter Harry Samler has been helping our community's residents solve their problems for more than 20 years. In this year-end special, he recaps some of his top reports from 2024, including a metro Atlanta daycare owner almost having to close because of past due payments from the government; an unlicensed contractor in over …
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Misdeeds, an investigative series produced by Atlanta News First from September 2023 through June 2024, exposed a loophole in Georgia law that left local families robbed of their most valued asset: their home. Our reporting uncovered a pattern of deed thefts at the center of real estate fraud. It’s a crime that often goes unpunished. Misdeeds got i…
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Zenobia Willis was on the verge of bankruptcy. Willis is a small business owner who runs a transport service for disabled adults, seniors and dialysis patients. She said the state agency she works with, the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission (NEGRC), owed her $61,000. Willis said the state-funded agency had not paid her since July. “There is no …
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Daydrianna Hefner is a Cherokee County, Georgia, mother of two who had a history of substance abuse, evident by a string of mugshots from years ago. Hefner’s addiction led to prison and intervention from the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS), which placed her two kids in foster care in October 2021…
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Since state lawmakers approved a measure allowing cities to install school zone speed protection cameras about five years ago, the number of cameras have exploded, from 39 permits for cameras approved in 2019 to 290 last year. Public records uncovered by Atlanta News First Investigates reveal the cameras have generated more than $112 million in rev…
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Thieves are targeting airport parking lots, stealing mostly high-end sports cars and pick-up trucks, some of which are later used in other crimes. Car thefts from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport have more than tripled since last year, according to statistics released by the Atlanta Police Department. Through October 2024, 301 cars …
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One of the most recognizable Atlanta Falcons superfans was arrested during the Falcons’ game Sunday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium only hours after interviewing with Atlanta News First Investigates denying allegations she misused any money NFL fans gave to her for tailgates and events. Carolyn Freeman, who calls herself the “Atlanta Falcons BirdLady,” wa…
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When Bill Haynes studied music in college, he told his mother he didn’t see himself as a teacher. After volunteering just one day at a Kentucky elementary school, he changed his mind. Haynes taught music in public schools for more than 30 years, the majority of that time in Georgia and at Atlanta’s E. Rivers Elementary. Haynes’ life full of music c…
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Environmental activist Erin Brockovich held two north Georgia townhalls recently discuss the impact of PFAS - also known as “forever chemicals” - in the state’s drinking water supplies. A continuing series of Atlanta News First investigations has reported on the levels of the chemicals in several north Georgia drinking water supplies, including Rom…
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Two former South Georgia police officers claim they were pressured to write traffic citations to generate revenue to bolster their city’s budgets. John Masters and Zack Watson, who worked for the Poulan, Georgia, police department about two years ago, said they felt compelled to speak out after Atlanta News First Investigates published a series of …
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A South Georgia city has lost its ability to write speeding tickets for nearly six months after a state investigation uncovered it altered tickets to hide how much the city collected from citations. According to a letter by the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS), the agency suspended the speed detection device permits for…
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When Brittany Tucker’s brother died in 2015, “I just took it the wrong way,” she said. “I turned to drugs.” Tucker’s addiction resulted in state intervention from the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in 2016. Within two years, DFCS had removed all four of her kids - including an infant daughter - …
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According to the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of a system will always increase. For a layperson, this means that all things must come to pass and nothing lasts forever. Since no person or thing can evade the laws of physics, this also applies to Bringing Chemistry to Life. In this final message from Paolo, the series’ creator and host,…
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Season 2, Episode 46 of Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First The Facebook pages have names like Proudly American. Its cover photo shows troops marching behind US flags. But the listed contact address in Dallas, Texas, doesn’t exist. But digging three levels down into the Facebook’s page transparency feature uncovered the Proudly America…
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Season 2, Episode 45 of Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First An Atlanta News First investigation reveals sometimes in DeKalb County there are no ambulances available, but leaders are not tracking how often it happens. Read our full coverage below: ‘Call Uber’ | Why ambulances in DeKalb County might be unavailable Brookhaven parents pray…
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Season 2, Episode 44 of Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First After more than 20 years of litigation, Ed Heller hoped a jury would finally hold the people he believed was responsible for his wife’s death this past March. Patricia Heller died in January 2003 shortly after leaving Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in a taxi …
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Season 2, Episode 43 of Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First. Najwa Rucker is a used car customer who took her salesman’s recommendation for auto insurance. But state investigators said the insurance company did not exist, and following an Atlanta News First investigation, the owner of Atlanta Best Used Cars in Norcross reimbursed Rucke…
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