"Dragons Den for Nerds" Simon Watt and Rachel Wheeley invite academics to pitch good ideas for the human body.
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Simon and Rach consider listener suggestions for human body improvements. This week, adjustable digestive tracts, floral farts, and retractable testicles.
In the news
Elon Musk’s baby: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557291 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557291)
Ocean warming: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242786-a-japanese-nuclear-power-plant-created-a-habitat-for-tropical-fish/ (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242786-a-japanese-nuclear-power-plant-created-a-habitat-for-tropical-fish/)
Golden tongue: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52683468 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52683468)
Wound healing blue-green algae: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243352-wound-healing-patch-of-blue-green-algae-mends-skin-quickly/ (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243352-wound-healing-patch-of-blue-green-algae-mends-skin-quickly/)
Listener suggestions
@TraceyH100 (https://twitter.com/TraceyH100) - retractable breasts and testicles
@KJames_IntBio (https://twitter.com/KJames_IntBio) - a pause button for the digestive tract
@sheencr (https://twitter.com/sheencr) - floral farts
Check out…
In mice twitter account: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice (https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice)
Kangaroos penis and testicles the other way round: https://grist.org/animals/kangaroo-genitals-are-weirder-than-you-ever-thought-possible-2/ (https://grist.org/animals/kangaroo-genitals-are-weirder-than-you-ever-thought-possible-2/)
Face lice with no anuses: https://www.livescience.com/65533-your-face-mites-never-poop.html (https://www.livescience.com/65533-your-face-mites-never-poop.html)
Miracle berry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum)
Clare Jonas’s blog article: https://www.thatthinkingfeeling.co.uk/blog/smell-language-difficult-to-describe (https://www.thatthinkingfeeling.co.uk/blog/smell-language-difficult-to-describe)
Does it fart?: https://amzn.to/2TkflxU (https://amzn.to/2TkflxU)
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19 May 2020
Level Up Human - Sally Le Page vs James Piercy
S2E12: Level Up Human is a podcast on a mission to redesign the human body.
Simon (https://twitter.com/simondwatt) and Rach (https://twitter.com/RachelWheeley) chat to biologist and science YouTuber Sally Le Page (http://sallylepage.co.uk/) and science communicator James Piercy (https://www.headway.org.uk/about-brain-injury/individuals/brain-injury-and-me/james-piercy/).
We discuss periods, expanding skulls and a rebooted ear.
In the news
Female female aggression in fruit flies: https://bit.ly/LUHfruitflies (https://bit.ly/LUHfruitflies)
The new kilogram: physicsworld.com/a/new-definition-of-the-kilogram-comes-into-force/ (http://physicsworld.com/a/new-definition-of-the-kilogram-comes-into-force/)
Robots powered by the spines of rats: https://bit.ly/LUHRatSpines (https://bit.ly/LUHRatSpines)
The pitches
Sally wants selective ovulation, James wants a skull flap. There’s a suggestion from the audience for One Massive Ear and Simon is borrowing from the opossums which could hold the key to saving snakebite victims.
Mentioned this episode
Dragons’ Den: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006vq92 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006vq92)
Lesbian lizard colonies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail)
Parthenogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis)
Decompressive craniectomy: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319755 (https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319755)
Fontanelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontanelle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontanelle)
Barn owl hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SI73-Ka51E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SI73-Ka51E)
Opossum’s natural immunity to snake venom: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150323-opossums-snakes-snakebites-venom-health-world-science/ (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/03/150323-opossums-snakes-snakebites-venom-health-world-science/)
Stay In for Towel Day: https://www.savetherhino.org/get-involved/events/stay-in-for-towel-day-2020/ (https://www.savetherhino.org/get-involved/events/stay-in-for-towel-day-2020/)
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12 May 2020
Level Up Human Extra - Regeneration
Simon and Rach consider regeneration. Humans are pretty rubbish at it. Some lizards, newts and salamanders are INCREDIBLE at it. How do we get it, and would we really want to?
Check out…
The Shining: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/)
THAT tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184 (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239815256797184)
Bee sniffing tech: https://phys.org/news/2010-03-bee-sniffing-technology-dangerous-vapors.html (https://phys.org/news/2010-03-bee-sniffing-technology-dangerous-vapors.html)
FaceTime some Japanese eels: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-call-eels-tokyo-aquarium-so-they-dont-forget-people-2020-5?r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/video-call-eels-tokyo-aquarium-so-they-dont-forget-people-2020-5?r=US&IR=T)
Zoo animals are lonely in lockdown: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52493750 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52493750)
T1000 – Liquid Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8h8d2XLWKY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8h8d2XLWKY)
Teratoma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teratoma)
Planarian worm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian)
Combination of master and mistress is: Mastress. No, I don’t have a link for that.
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