Jonathan McRae

Future Proof with Jonathan McRae.

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Hello and welcome to Future Proof, the podcast.

This is the show where we take a closer look at the world around us.

I'm Jonathan McRae.

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Coming up on this week's programme, we're going to be talking about proto-taxites.

which is a new word to me, so presumably it's a new word to some of you.

These are living creatures that existed before dinosaurs and before even trees.

They were very interesting, and an Irish researcher has been studying all about them.

We'll be hearing about that in a bit.

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We get to all of the comments at the end of the podcast.

First up, time to look back at some of the more interesting stories from the world of science this week.

We're joined by Dr. Shane Bergen from UCD and associate professor of chemistry at DCU, Susan Keller.

I'm an associate professor as well.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Shane, our first story has to do with something that I would have thought was obvious.