PODCAST · science
The Ongoing
by JD
I’m Dr. Jagdeep Singh — JD for short — a PhD scientist with a love for science, ancient stories, philosophy, and the deeper puzzles of life. The Ongoing is a podcast about the hidden stories behind scientific discoveries—and what they reveal about how we search for understand and it ends with why these stories still matter today. For feedback, suggestion or collaboration, please email at [email protected]
Episodes
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mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 2)
How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.
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mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)
How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.
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X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body
How an accidental discovery became one of medicine's most important technologies.
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Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer
How a laboratory experiment became one of the world’s most important industrial processes.
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Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)
How we took an invisible wave and taught it to carry messages across the world.
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Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)
A wave no one could see, predicted on paper, then created and caught in a laboratory.
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Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap
How a principle found in every living cell became the technology that supplies drinking water to entire nations.
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Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)
How a promising idea became a battery that changed the world.
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Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 1)
How we learned to create and store electricity?
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Penicillin — From Mold to Medicine
How a biological discovery became a usable medicine through engineering and scale-up.
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Season 2-Introduction
Season 2: How scientific discoveries became real-world technologies through engineering and scale-up.
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Darwin's Pigeon Experiments
How careful observation explained how species change.
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The Cavendish Experiment
The experiment that led to weighing the earth.
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The Swan-Neck Flask Experiment
One experiment that reshaped food, medicine and disease.
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The Double Slit Experiment
The experiment that changed how we understand light.
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Mendel's Pea Experiments
Experiments that revealed how traits are passed on.
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The Puzzle of Benzene
A molecule whose structure refused to make sense.
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The Gold Foil Experiment
The Gold Foil Experiment
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Season 1- Introduction
Season 1: Scientific experiments and discoveries that changed our understanding of the world.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I’m Dr. Jagdeep Singh — JD for short — a PhD scientist with a love for science, ancient stories, philosophy, and the deeper puzzles of life.
The Ongoing is a podcast about the hidden stories behind scientific discoveries—and what they reveal about how we search for understand and it ends with why these stories still matter today.
For feedback, suggestion or collaboration, please email at [email protected]
HOSTED BY
JD
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I’m Dr. Jagdeep Singh — JD for short — a PhD scientist with a love for science, ancient stories, philosophy, and the deeper puzzles of life. The Ongoing is a podcast about the hidden stories behind scientific discoveries—and what they reveal about how we search for understand and it ends with why...
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The Ongoing is created and hosted by JD.
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