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Daily Discoveries – Sound Bite
by UW's Sound Bite Network
Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from the science section. Each week Science Editor Thelonious Goerz and Writer Rhea John re-cap the material in the science section in one distilled episode.
Episodes
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Vaccines: UW, King County, & Breakthrough Cases
Rhea and Thelonious discuss UW popup vaccine clinics, King County’s COVID rates, boosters, and breakthrough cases (vaccinated people who still contract COVID).
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UW Spinal Cord Injury Research
Rhea and Thelonious discuss UW researchers who are using electric spinal cord stimulation to help people with spinal cord injuries regain upper limb function.
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COVID Update: UK Variant, Greek Partying, and More
Rhea and Thelonious give listeners an update on COVID, discussing the the contagious UK variant, and UW’s response. They also talk about vaccine rollout, and how we can stay safe as we wait.
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The Sociology of Fact Checking
Rhea and Thelonious interview UW Sociology Major Roshan Selden about her research on how politicians frame Twitter and Facebook’s new fact-check labels. Should you listen to the Republicans who tell you to switch from Twitter to Parlor in order to maintain your free speech? Tune into this episode...
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Should Schools Reopen?
Rhea and Thelonious discuss the current debate around elementary school reopening in the midst of COVID. They talk about the obvious dangers of reopening, but also the many undiscussed welfare benefits that in person schools provide to disadvantaged children.
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Alzheimers Research
Rhea and Thelonious discuss an article in The Daily featuring the discovery of abnormal protein structures found in the brains of Alzheimers patients. They also talk about a possible new diagnostic test that could help doctors understand the disease better.
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Sex Robots, Old Age, and Isolation
Rhea and Thelonious discuss the health effects of old age, and specifically, how sex robots are being used to alleviate loneliness in senior citizens.
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Thelonious’s philosophy of research
Thelonious updates Rhea on his thesis research on gentrification in Seattle. They focus on broader implications of scientific research as well as fundamental philosophical problems in research.
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End of Season Recap
This quarter we talked about COVID— a lot. Rhea and Thelonious look back on the quarter’s episodes and discuss future episodes and topics.
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COVID Vaccines and Social Distancing
Rhea and Thelonious discuss new breakthroughs in COVID vaccine research and what comes next in living through the pandemic.
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Election 2020
Thelonious and Rhea discuss 2020 election implications and the nature of data and statistics in the estimates involved.
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Daily Discoveries – Sound Bite currently has 11 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Daily Discoveries – Sound Bite about?
Daily Discoveries is a weekly podcast from the science section. Each week Science Editor Thelonious Goerz and Writer Rhea John re-cap the material in the science section in one distilled episode.
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Daily Discoveries – Sound Bite has 11 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Daily Discoveries – Sound Bite is created and hosted by UW's Sound Bite Network.
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