Welcome to 'Slice of Science' with Michelle Sims! Join us as Shelly interviews local researchers, explores new biotechnological innovations, and shares captivating science history. Each episode is accompanied by detailed citations in the show notes, ensuring you can dive deeper into the topics we uncover. 'Slice of Science' – would you like source with that?
How can looking at tiny proteins through an xray can help us understand self-fertilisation in almond trees? And have you ever wanted to go foraging for fungi? Don't be put off by the news headlines! Shelly sits down with PhD student Isis Pinner to get down in the dirt and up trees with fungi and almonds! (***audio quality was reduced beyond repair in the second half, apologies!) Sources https://set.adelaide.edu.au/news/list/2020/02/19/self-fertile-almond-varieties-create-buzz-ahead-of-harvest https://theurbannanna.com/2022/04/01/wild-mushroom-foraging-in-australia/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/isis-pinner-0b6129151/?originalSubdomain=au
What is lightning actually? How are storms formed? And do you know you can make lightning in your mouth?:0 Sources Byers, H.R, 1951, Thunderstorms. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_56 Dwyer, J., Uman, M., 2014, The physics of lightning, Physics Reports, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037015731300375X https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-overview https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/Faculties/Science/Docs/Lightning-facts.pdf https://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/ua/media/522/uap-coast-sa-ebook.pdf Lightning experiments https://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-lightning-mouth.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGUZSnbSLLE
What does playing an instrument do to our brain? What is flow state and how can you reach it? Could singing help soothe the post-covid scaries? Shelly sits down with music educator and researcher Dr Emily Dollman to find out! Sources E. Dollman, 2023. The Value of Music Education for Child Development and Wellbeing in the Post COVID-19 Landscape. New Research and Possibilities in Wellbeing Education, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5609-8_7 https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-dollman-5b812562/
SoS Christmas eddition, we're talking worts from Jesus's right hand man St John the Baptist! Tune in to hear all the good AND bad sides of a powerful herb called St John's wort. Sources Davidson, J. R., et al, 2002. Effect of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) in major depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial, Jama, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/194814 Di Carlo, G., et al, 2001. St John's wort: Prozac from the plant kingdom, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/St-John's-wort%3A-Prozac-from-the-plant-kingdom.-Carlo-Borrelli/fe55e78497080d8ec313467db46cec54960b0605 Linde, K., et al, 2005. St John's Wort for depression, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000448.pub2/full Mills, E., et al, 2004. Interaction of St John's wort with conventional drugs: systematic review of clinical trials, BMJ, https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/329/7456/27.full.pdf Nicolussi, S., et al, 2020. Clinical relevance of St. John's wort drug interactions revisited, British Journal of Pharmacology, https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bph.14936 Vorbach, E. U., et al, 1997. Efficacy and tolerability of St. John's wort extract LI 160 versus imipramine in patients with severe depressive episodes according to ICD-10, Pharmacopsychiatry, https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-2007-979524 https://weeds.org.au/profiles/st-johns-wort/
Jacob and Shelly get down to the nitty gritty of weeds. What's being sold on the dark web? Is your local nursery better than Bunnings? And what's mistletoe got to do with poo? Sources Maher, J., et el, 2023. Weed wide web: characterising illegal online trade of invasive plants in Australia. NeoBiota, https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/104472/ Stringham, O.C., et al, 2023. The dark web trades wildlife, but mostly for use as drugs. People and Nature, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10469 https://theconversation.com/the-buffel-kerfuffle-how-one-species-quietly-destroys-native-wildlife-and-cultural-sites-in-arid-australia-149456 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-maher-ec0l0gy/?originalSubdomain=au