Synopsis
A science podcast: join two research scientists - Steve and Nick - for an irreverent ramble through the undergrowth of academiafollow us on Twitter @SteveTheChemist and @theevanslab. Find us on iTunes (goo.gl/hwMEFG), and YouTube (goo.gl/GR6Vws)
Episodes
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Episode 4 - Dead Cats, Coffee And Humectants
09/04/2021 Duration: 28minSteve's gone coffee mad this week, kicking off an occasional feature on the science of coffee. Those barista hipsters know how to analyse their brews... Plus we find out about a gruesome accidental delivery to a lab, Brian has been vaccinated, and Nick's teenage metal band makes a debut audio appearance. James Hoffman coffee https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ Black Country New Road https://blackcountrynewroad.bandcamp.com/ Dead cat delivery https://twitter.com/jueberhard/status/1375549720848965633
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S4 EP 3 - In search of a Fluffy Backed Tit Warbler
01/04/2021 Duration: 30minNick and Steve (and Brian) are in back in their (vitual) shed for 4th Season. This week Nick is in search of silly names. Steve gets excited by stable earth orbits... we know its weird Please RT is you love us! Go away bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsO7XL2W7K0 Hate Beak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwXKR9EWhXo Dread Zeppelin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CO7FPU7a2g If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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S4 EP 2 - The Secret To Eternal Life
18/03/2021 Duration: 35minNick and Steve (and Brian) are in back in their (vitual) shed. This week we start a new series of disuccsions about space and Nick finds the secret to eternal life is definetely hidden in the guts of mice. Please RT is you love us! If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 51 - Just A Little Prick
18/01/2021 Duration: 08minNick and Steve ramble about injections, aliquots and frugality in the latest cup of covid If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed CupOfCovid 44 - Substantial Meals by TheScienceShed is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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S4 - The MiseryCast - Lockdown Special.
15/01/2021 Duration: 42minNick and Steve are back in the old format in lockdown miserycast. Steve's moaning about CVs and Nick has some interesting ideas.... If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 50 - Nick's Gone To Iceland
16/12/2020 Duration: 09minIceland. Birthplace of Bjork and residence of John Grant. A place where you can eat whale and puffin freely and gaze at fractured landscapes of volcanoes and waterfalls. They also dealt pretty well with Covid, so Nick digs a bit deeper into it today....
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CupOfCovid 49 - Girls And Boys
15/12/2020 Duration: 06minToday Steve discusses whether boys and girls are different in their responses to vaccines, and strategies doctors might use to make them more.... attractive.
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CupOfCovid 48 - The aussie vaccine has got AIDs
13/12/2020 Duration: 10minSteve and Nick are discussing the Australian vaccine for COVID19, but what has it got to do with the aids virus? Bruce and his technicolour vaccine are here in TheScienceShed to help. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 47 - Vitamin D for COVID - the new Pauling megadose
09/12/2020 Duration: 14minLinus Pauling, famous Nobel-winning chemist and peace activist, famously went round the bend late in life and thought Vitamin C mega-doses could cure EVERYTHING. Are we doing the same with Vitamin D and COVID now? Steve and Nick investigate....
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CupOfCovid 46 - Mince pies and mandatory vaccines
08/12/2020 Duration: 13minTo celebrate V-day and Matt Hancock's tears of joy, today Steve enlightens Nick on mandatory vaccination. Life in Rio suddenly seems less appealing....
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CupOfCovid 45 - 'V'-Day - People Are Morons
07/12/2020 Duration: 10minNick and Steve are back for another cup of covid. HUrrah! Vaccine (V) day and were saved! Steve talks about the logisitical challenges about saving the world. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 44 - Substantial Meals
03/12/2020 Duration: 11minNick may have had a few ales, also did you know he's running for charity? We're back for a cup of covid, trying to understand why pubs spead covid but shoe shops dont. Don't worry some modellers have been hard at it, and we're skeptical. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 43 - REACT-1 update
01/12/2020 Duration: 08minHurrah for REACT-1, probably the most reliable source of information on what the spread of COVID is like in the UK. Why? Today we try and work it out.
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CupOfCovid 42 - Moderna vaccine RNA code
30/11/2020 Duration: 12minToday we investigate the data underpinning the Moderna trial results. Er, actually most of the data isn't yet released, so instead we discuss why this vaccine may not be quite as good as has been reported, with a little help from the BMJ
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CupOfCovid 39 - Steves Monkey Gravity Theory
26/11/2020 Duration: 11minWash your mouth out! Today Steve has a look at the wild west of preprint archives, and finds an interesting study that investigates the effectiveness of mouthwash for getting rid of COVID. Is this more Trump? Or is it legit? Listen in and find out.
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CupOfCovid 41 - Chimp colds and vaccine wars
26/11/2020 Duration: 14minWhat has chimpanzee poo got to do with the Oxford vaccine? And how does it measured up to the other vaccines? Today Nick and Steve dig down into the crazy new tech underpinning the biology of the new COVID vaccines.
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CupOfCovid 40 - ChAdOx - we're all saved...?
26/11/2020 Duration: 09minToday Nick and Steve delve into the scientific detail underpinning the release of the Oxford vaccine trial results. Is it 60% effective? Is it 90% effective? Will it be effective at all? We don't know, but it's looking good...
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CupOfCovid 38 - Lockdown Don't Work... do they?
25/11/2020 Duration: 12minFollow the data I hear you cry, this Week Nick and Steve are back for another cup of COVID. We're talking about lost notebooks of Darwin, shelf kilometers and Nick's lockdown sceptic friends.... If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 36 - The End of Peer Review?
20/11/2020 Duration: 11minNick's being antiestablishment and Steve is complaining, that's right it's another CUP OF COVID! This weeks discuss a paper from the university of Oxford that can now detect COVID via a new way. If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed
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CupOfCovid 35 - How much is a human life worth?
19/11/2020 Duration: 10minSteve and Nick are staring into the blankness, discussing Flash Gordon and chaff-age, plus also A CUP OF COVID where we have a look at NICE's guidelines in relation to the cost of the virus per person, is it worth it? If you like TheScienceShed, the best thing you can do is share it on social media, and to follow us all on twitter, and please leave us a rating or review on iTunes! twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab, & @TheScienceShed