Thescienceshed

It's week 2 of our second series and Steve STILL wants to go to space. Plus we discuss typos in grant application titles, Eleanor gives us more postdoc angst and Aussie Bruce turns up for a XXXX. Enjoy!

It's 2020, and we're back in the Shed for series/season 3! And we have a new member.... Eleanor!!! This week we get introduced to postdoc angst, learn about the science fraud websites https://retractionwatch.com/, https://pubpeer.com/ and https://forbetterscience.com/, and Steve tells us the quite incredible way in which yer quartz watch works. Plus there's a bit of politics from Boris.... 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, @Elamanor & @TheScienceShed

What have the board game 'Operation!' and your wrist watch got in common? Simples! A tuning fork. In this short nugget, Steve explains why!

ITS THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! Nick and Steve download their glad tidings directly into your earhole... Enjoy

We made it!!! It's the last in the series of Science Vinyl, with Nick finally getting his wish to play some Rush. Steve and Nick explore the Canadian Power Trio's 1981 masterpiece by delving into the mirky world of gender science, going on a 17th century witch hunt and by looking down the world's deepest hole.

ScienceVinyl Episode 7: Hot Fuss by The Killers This week were going back to the very beginning of skinny jeans, converse and not-smart smartphones with Hot Fuss by the Killers. University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. Please share, RT, and subscribe. Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl @SteveTheChemist and @TheEvansLab ------ Show Notes 1. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" Jennifer Anne Doudna (born February 19, 1964)[2] is an American biochemist. She is a Li Ka Shing Chancellor Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] 2. "Mr. Brightside" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon#Differences 3. "Smile Like You Mean It" 4. Harker, L., & Keltner, D. (2001). Expressions of positive emotion in women's college yearbook pictures and their relationship to personality and life ou

In this episode, Steve and Nick explore the undergrowth of science through the medium of Miles Davis' 1959 modal jazz masterpiece, Kind of Blue. They find out about blue-green algae and photosynthesising slugs, delve into the world of nanotech, and work out how being a bad drawer reflects your underlying stupidity.

Steve and Nick are back wondering through the wilderness of science. This week were talking lightsabers, anti depressants and nonsense papers in ScienceVinyl Episode 5, Innervisions by Stevie Wonder! University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. If you like ScienceVinyl, Please share, RT, and subscribe. Show Notes. 1. Too High https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit 2. Visions https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084490 3. Living for the City https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2813%2900590-4/fulltext https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=2ahUKEwimsOnLkKnfAhVS26QKHXq0DNUQFjAIegQICBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fons%2Frel%2Fregional-trends%2Fregional-trends%2Fno--43--2011-edition%2Frural-and-urban-areas--comparing-lives-using-rural-urban-classifications.pdf&usg=AOvVaw3RHv9zvlyJ7cfPZlAkaQ9V 4. Golden Lady http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180716-goldfinger

We bravely continue the futile march onward from the trenches of ignorance into the no man's land of musical and scientific enlightenment. Its Science Vinyl Episode 4!- Wolf Alice Visions of a life University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. Please share, RT, and subscribe. Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl @SteveTheChemist and @TheEvansLab

In this science short, Steve and Nick delve into nature's own night goggles.... Can we see into the infrared?

In the second our Science Nuggets, TheScienceShed duo Nick and Steve discuss the chemistry of CaH2 and why it's important to both jet planes, submarines, and Rock gods

In the first of our Science Nuggets, TheScienceShed duo Nick and Steve digest recent attempts to prove the existence of out-of-body experiences....

ScienceVinyl Episode 3: IV by Led Zepplin, LETS ROCK! This week we discover the meaning of pogonology, learn about cute little foxes and how to build a sky hook. University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. Please share, RT, and subscribe. Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl @SteveTheChemist and @TheEvansLab Show Notes 1. Black Dog. Genomic responses to selection for tame/aggressive behaviors in the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) Xu Wang, Lenore Pipes, Lyudmila N. Trut, Yury Herbeck, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova, Rimma G. Gulevich, Anastasiya V. Kharlamova, Jennifer L. Johnson, Gregory M. Acland, Anna V. Kukekova, and Andrew G. Clark. 2. Rock and Roll. 3. The Battle of Evermore. "These people in set theory strike us, even in math, as sort of strange," Strogatz 4. Stairway to Heaven. he concept was first described in 1895 by Russian author K. E. Tsiolkovsky in his 'Speculations about Earth

HO, HO, HO! Glad Tidings to you and your king. It's TheScienceShed Christmas podcast! This year Nick and Steve talk mix Science Vinyl with TheScienceShed, Nick buys Steve presents and Steve forgets. Happy 2019! Please like, share and subscribe to TheScienceShed! If you enjoy what we do please leave us a rating or review on iTunes, follow us here... twitter @SteveTheChemist, @theevanslab & @TheScienceShed www.youtube.com/channel/UCWv6XjH8pzmWMVuE_pwz1mg

ScienceVinyl Episode 2: 25 by Adele. This week we hear about Nick's love letters, Steve finds a giant ape, and uses physics to become a better sniper. University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. Please share, RT, and subscribe. Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl Show Notes 1. "Hello" 2. "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" 3. "I Miss You" 4. "When We Were Young" 5. "Remedy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_glycol_poisoning 6. "Water Under the Bridge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC8KDYcdiUI 7. "River Lea" https://expertphotography.com/the-worlds-most-expensive-photo-what-makes-it-so-great/ 8. "Love in the Dark" 9. "Million Years Ago" 10. "All I Ask""Sweetest Devotion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_substitute

The Boys are back with a new format! University Academics, Steve & Nick present Science Vinyl, using track listing of famous albums to focus sciencey discussion, hope you enjoy. Please follow us on Twitter @TheScienceShed or @ScienceVinyl Show Notes 1. "Planet Telex" 4:19 2. "The Bends" 4:06 Henry, W. (1803). "Experiments on the quantity of gases absorbed by water, at different temperatures, and under different pressures". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 93: 29–274. doi:10.1098/rstl.1803.0004. 3. "High and Dry" 4:17 4. "Fake Plastic Trees" 4:50 Challenge of Synthetic Cellulose, SHIRO KOBAYASHI, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pola.20662 Anselme Payen, distinguished French chemist and pioneer ... - JStor https://www.jstor.org/stable/24530133 5. "Bones" 3:09 6. "(Nice Dream)" 3:53 https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/jack-l-gallant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecvv-EvOj8M 7. "Just" 3:54 8. "My Iron Lung" 4:36 9. "Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was" 3:28 10. "Black Star" 4:07

University Academics Nick and Steve are back from the shed to make a fool of themselves and share some science, introducing TheScienceShed, series 2: Science Vinyl! Lyrics Nothing on the TV Antiques road trip is finishing Bored of I’m a celebrity coz Willoughby’s just not Mcpartlin So grab a beer and have a bath Put some toons inside my head Relax and try and have a laugh With the boys from in da shed It’s Science Vinyl Listening to Lionel Ritchie and other tunes Cos it Science Vinyl!!!!!!1

Dearest Shedlings, Nick and Steve have enjoyed the first 2 years of TheScienceShed, but it's time for a change, listen in to our short extro to season 1. We'll be back in the autumn we promise. In the mean time please contact us with ideas of what you would like to see, and what you would like less of. For the last time in a while... LOVE YOU BYE!!!

The boys are back sliding down the flume of knowledge into the swimming pool of ignorance for the summer, Brian's back and he's excited about the world cup! This week we're talking about artificial intelligence, weather forecast on other planets and we get technical when it comes to bike lights. 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

This week Bob the Banana is back. In other news the intrepid academics discuss how hard you'd have to throw an egg at a wall to cook it, why the Apollo 11 mission could have been handled by a smartphone, and how you can journey into one of your own cells using virtual reality. ENJOY!!!!