@sciencemug

Oooh hallo dear listener, in this sort-of episode I tell you three science news (about climate change & biology, wildlife & ethology, and astronomy) and related infos that I've told in these weeks in my blog-self side via mini-micro post and cartoons. Next regular episode is on its way, it'll be 'bout food and cities... Enjoy! SM Links to the news: 1) Climate change & bumblebees extinction: https://tinyurl.com/yalgtyvh 2) Wolves & blueberries: https://tinyurl.com/y9woy6ot 3) Dimming super stars: https://tinyurl.com/y7ytj9gc

Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the 3d and final part of the story about three scientists who put at sleep the legend according to which there are 10 bugs in/on humans for each human cell. You'll get to know how the story ends (no spoiler here) and why those three researchers decided to investigate this particular topic instead something else, like, well, the physics behind a certain president haircut... The script (plus the micro-interview to one of the researchers, Dr. Fuchs) is here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2016/07/bacteria-vs-human-cells-1-to-1-final.html Ciao!

Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the 2nd part (total 3) of the story about the debunking of the myth that there are 10 bugs in/on humans for each human cell. In this part you'll find out how many human cells actually form the human body, and which cells are the most numerous (spoiler: they are the favorites of vampires...). Read the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y4jhzef2 Ciaz&Enjoy!

The gang celebrated the reason of this short audio visiting the homepage of every pub's website of Ireland and ending up arrested for disorderly conduct by Chief Wiggum after attempting to have a fight with a banner of the WSFUPBNG (the Wrestler and Sumo Fighters Union of Papua Brand New Guinea). Luckily for them, the banner's wife (a lovely .gif of a cat doing a cat thing) was moved by the ridiculously scared expression of PiPs, and convinced her husband not to press chargess... Based on a true story! Ciaz!

Ooh hello dear listener, in this episode I'll tell you the first part (total 3) of the story about the death of the urban legend/scientific myth according to which in/on human beings there are 10 times more bacteria than actual human cells. It's a tale of perseverance, poop (kinda) and, of course, solid science. Find the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y46awupu Enjoy!

Ooooh eventually the scientists of the roads who did the map of the parts of the world that have no roads (and, in the process, by-discovered how to live in peace with the mischievous GPS with a taste for ruining your trips) explain why they decided to stalk the world's roads and why it is important to preserve roadless areas around the globe. Find the post here: https://tinyurl.com/y8bqt98o Enjoy&Ciaz!

Oooooh, well, the road scientists are still at work to find out who's eating all the asphalt of the world causing a dramatic global shortage of bends and center lines... Naa, but they check out data-sets and stuff to see how many roadless areas are inside protected zones, and more... Enjoy. The post is here: http://www.sciencemug.com/2018/04/the-roads-researchers-map-pt-34.html Ciaz!

Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll keep on telling you the story of those scientists that create a map of the roadless areas still existing in the world, stalk 'em to find their whereabouts and score 'em according to how good they look when wearing wet shirts... Naa, but the science dudes actually check where the roadless areas are and get all judgmental about their (the roadless areas) ecological value. Read the post here: https://goo.gl/Tvz4sR Enjoy&Ciaz! @sciencemug

Haaaaallooo dear English thinking-reading-speaking-hearing listener, in this new episode I'll tell you the story of how ten scientists create a map of the roadless areas still existing in the world, then use it to find all the suspicious & big "X"es existing on land, ask around for "research" funds to get to those promising signs and start using highly technologically advanced tools (i.e. shovels) in the hope to dig up the Holy Grail of all researchers: tenure. Naaa, they do the map, though... Read the post here: https://goo.gl/Up4Wzk Enjoy&Ciaz! @sciencemug

Ten seconds to tell you, dear English thinking, speaking, reading, hearing worshipper of podcasts, that I'm coming back! Soon! With brand-new episodes (aaand unfortunately the same lack of a brain...). Ciaz @sciencemug

Episode number 8 of @sciencemug's podcast tells you that on Valentine's Day there's an increase in births: women are influenced by the cultural value of this day as they associate positivity and propitiousness to this festivity and appear to have a certain control on the timing of births. The Valentine's Day birth story is told in 2011 by three scientist from Yale on a paper appeared on the journal "Social Science & Medicine" [a journal cofunded by the industry of chocolate and roses but highly opposed by the lobby of Halloween and the GAPP (the Global Association of Pumpkins Producers). Listen to the podcast to understand why...]. The text and comics are here: http://goo.gl/hdzTe8 Ciaz! SM

Oh-oh-oh! Dear listener, here for you the second and final part of the Xmas tale about a solitary space-probe named Kepler, and its stubborn, heroic quest for the ultimate decoration to put on the Cosmic Xmas Tree: the "Ridiculously Low Albedo ball"! A tale told by an alien Santa. To alien jellies. On an alien world. In an alien language [meaning that the language spoken by the narrator -and used in this summary- is not exactly one of this planet, although similar enough to be (hopefully) understandable...] Here you can find the corresponding text: http://goo.gl/x739LK

Oh-oh-oh! Dear listener, here for you the Xmas tale about a solitary space-probe named Kepler, and its stubborn, heroic quest for the ultimate decoration to put on the Cosmic Xmas Tree: the "Ridiculously Low Albedo ball"! (Part 1). A tale told by an alien Santa. To alien jellies. On an alien world. In an alien language [meaning that the language spoken by the narrator -and used in this summary- is not exactly one of this planet, although similar enough to be (hopefully) understandable...] You can find the corresponding text here: http://goo.gl/KkFDUj

Episode number 5 of @sciencemug podcast tells you that Beijing's urban extent quadrupled in the first decade of 2000, and that this created a "ring of impact" around China's capital. The ring causes meteorological changes which, in turn, lead to an increase of urban temperature and pollution. The discovery has been published on the "Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres" by a team of scientists from 'Stanford', 'Cal Tech' and the 'University of Southampton' (indeed there would have been also other two authors, one from the 'University of Kaleidoscopic Town' and the other from the 'Institute for Rolling Dices and Eating a Marshmallow in The Middle of a Tropical Storm', but they were too shy to put their names on the paper...) Read the text and see the comics here: http://goo.gl/8r0lFG Ciaz SM

An (audio) promo - for @sciencemug's next podcast episode - that is as sensible as a pizza topped with pineapples and würstels (yeah yeah, I know it exists and yet, J'ACCUSE!)

The episode n°4 of @sciencemug's podcast tells you, in Engh?ish, that a pig’s pheromone, the androstenone, can calm excessively anxious super barking and jumping dogs when sprayed on them. The discovery, made by a group of researchers of the Texas Tech University, has been published in the journal "The Professional Animal Scientist". (the twin journal of "The Amateur Plant Theologian", cousin of the magazine "The semi-pro quasi-experiment planner"). Read the text here: http://goo.gl/5vyLA3 Ciaz! SM

The third episode of @sciencemug's podcast tells you, in Engh?ish, that size does matters, as usual. At least when it comes to brains and the ability of surviving predators' attacks and when you are a female, hence not a male, of Poecilia reticulata, a species of small tropical fishes called guppies. The discovery, made by a group of scientists from the universities of Stockholm and Vienna, is reported in the journal Ecology letters, right after the one of a Malaysian cayman that reads the tarot cards (naaa, just joking, it can only play black jack...) Read the text here: http://goo.gl/JAHV54 ciaz SM

Il terzo episodio del podcast di @sciencemug ti racconta che avere un cervello grande aumenta la capacità di sopravvivere ai predatori nelle femmine, ma non nei maschi (sic!), di Poecilia reticulata, una specie di piccoli pesci tropicali detti guppy. La scoperta, fatta da un gruppo di scienziati delle università di Stoccolma e Vienna, è riportata sulla rivista scientifica Ecology letters, subito dopo quella di un caimano malese che fa i tarocchi (naa, scherzo, si limita a fare solitari...) Leggi il post in inglese qui: http://goo.gl/JAHV54 ciaz SM

The second episode of the podcast by @sciencemug tells you that a direct link can exist among catastrophic geologic events, comet impacts, mass extinctions and the Earth crossing, every 30-40 million years, the Milky Way’s mid-plane and its clumps of dark matter. And then buy you donuts to cheer you up... Read the text here: http://goo.gl/wqItu8 ciaz SM

Il secondo episodio del podcast di @sciencemug ti racconta che è possibile che esista una relazione diretta tra le estinzioni di massa, la caduta di comete e gli sconvolgimenti geologici che si sono verificati sulla Terra nel corso del tempo e il passaggio ciclico, ogni 30-40 milioni di anni, del Sistema Solare attraverso il piano della Via Lattea e lo strato di materia oscura che esso contiene. E poi ti offre una ciambella per consolarti... Leggi il post in inglese qui: http://goo.gl/wqItu8 ciaz SM

Ooooooh well well, dear PodcastMachinin' happily ever after (whatever this means), please, dive yourself for a few minutes into this first odoriferous episode of @sciencemug podcast and listen to how three friendly scientists of a German university discover that ants of the species Lasius niger create, within their nests, actual toilets where our fella insects go number two [in technicolor (you'll understand if you listen to the episode) and without necessarily bringing their smartphones with 'em!] Read the text here: http://goo.gl/PnMOlu ciaz SM

Ooooh, alura alura, caro/a PodcastMachinante di uno qualsiasi dei giorni della settimana, indulgi per qualche minuto in questo primo odoroso episodio del podcast di @sciencemug e ascolta come tre allegri scienziati (vivi) di un'università della Tedeschia (aka Germanilandia) scoprono che le formiche della specie Lasius niger creano, dentro i loro nidi, delle vere e prorpie toilette dove gli insetti vanno a fare la cacca [in technicolor (capirai se ascolterai) e senza mai portarsi dietro lo smartphone!] Leggi il post in inglese qui: http://goo.gl/PnMOlu ciaz SM