S2E12: Level Up Human is a podcast on a mission to redesign the human body.
This week, Simon and Rach chat to biologist and full time science YouTuber Sally Le Page and science communicator James Piercy.
We discuss periods, expanding skulls, a rebooted ear and immunity to snakebites.
In the news
Female female aggression in fruit flies: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0229633
The new kilogram: physicsworld.com/a/new-definition-of-the-kilogram-comes-into-force/
Robots powered by the spines of rats: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2241889-robots-with-3d-printed-muscles-are-powered-by-the-spines-of-rats/
The pitches
Sally wants selective ovulation, James wants a skull flap. There’s a suggestion from the audience for One Massive Ear and Simon is borrowing from the opossums which could hold the key to saving snakebite victims.
Mentioned this episode
Dragons’ Den: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006vq92
Lesbian lizard colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail
Parthenogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis
Decompressive craniectomy: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319755
Fontanelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontanelle
Barn owl hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SI73-Ka51E
Opossum’s natural immunity to snake venom: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150323-opossums-snakes-snakebites-venom-health-world-science/
Stay In for Towel Day: https://www.savetherhino.org/get-involved/events/stay-in-for-towel-day-2020/
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