The Speakezee Podcast

• A Genetically Encrypted Riemann Hypothesis

  You may have heard about Fermat last theorem, but have you heard of the Riemann hypothesis? If you can solve it there’s a £1m prize up for grabs. In today’s podcast we are going to hear about how genetic statistical analysis can play a role in sports from Ciaran McInerney of Sheffield Hallam University, a musical interlude with the Riemann hypothesis from the singing maths teacher Kyle Evans followed by how maths can help with online encryption from Stanley Xiao who is currently at Oxford University.

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• 4D Materials, the Genetics of Sexual Orientation and Extracting Gold from Waste

  Usually Bruce has no difficulty sourcing sound effects to gussy up the presentations but in this episode, he admits defeat and explains why he nearly resorted to sampling copyrighted songs. The topics this week include 4D materials explained by the engineer Anna Baker from Bristol University, discordant sexual orientation in identical twins from Tuesday Watts of Essex University and the 2017 people’s choice winner of the 3MT finals, Euan Doidge from the University of Edinburgh who explains how he extracts gold from electronic waste.

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• Cortisol Awakening, Exercising During Pregnancy and Finding Flow Through Dance

  In this episode, Bruce presents talks from Dr. Robin Law, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Westminster who tell us about the cortical awakening response, Amanda De Salvatore from Lancaster University who explains why more pregnant women need information about the benefits of exercise and Aska Sukuata of the University of Chichester who studies the experience of flow during dance.

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• Three Minute Supervision

  In a change to our usual format and in preparation for the new crop of graduate students about to embark on there research careers, Prof Bruce Hood is joined by Prof Dumbledore who will present his hilarious three minute student supervision on the anus project. Comments and complaints to [email protected]

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• Broken Hearts, Shocking Kidneys and Gene Therapies to Turn Stem Cells On

  Once again, Bruce is joined by consultant medical microbiologist, Dr Kim Jacobson to discuss three medically-related presentations in the 3-minute format. In the first talk Pouya Pour from Bristol University explains his research on using skin cells to generate new heart cells to repair heart disease. Also from Bristol is Amy Burchill who is looking at ways to treat blood pressure via electrical shocks to nerves in the kidney. Finally, Tomasz Dobrzycki from Oxford University is conducting research on the Zebra fish looking to develop stem cell therapies for human conditions. Dr Jacobson provides valuable insights to these areas from a clinical perspective.

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