ResearchPod
Episodes
Picky eating: Factors affecting feeding
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many toddlers and infants go through a phase of picky eating – this won’t come a surprise to anyone, and is probably an intimately familiar story ...
Faith and forgiveness
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us will have heard the phrase "To err is human, to forgive divine", but personally internalising and scientifically measuring that f...
Environmental expeditions and arctic assessments
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The melt and recession of glaciers has been an environmental concern since the early 1900s, and make up a large part of the measurement and communicat...
How Our Brain Turns Language Into Meaning
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Jack Gallant from the University of California, Berkeley, tells us how his team are building an atlas to the semantic system and revealing h...
Circular economies and social services
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Life in a modern, interconnected world has delivered miraculous advances in communications, technology and trade. It is also becoming widely acknowled...
Bionic hearts: Ageing, exercise and mobile monitoring
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Heart disease comes in many shapes and sizes – the most serious cases requiring serious interventions to save the patients life, and none are more s...
Deciphering Brexit: A linguistic approach
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since entering the public sphere in 2016, Brexit has been an issue shaped by, and at whims of, media coverage. That contents of that coverage have mor...
Natural History Collections In The Digital Age
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Gunnell’s work focuses on the collection, management and preservation of vertebrate fossils while his research aims to understand the origin and ...
Robots Take Ultrasound To The Fourth Dimension
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Floris Ernst’s research investigates the potential for using robots and novel 3D-imaging technology to carry out ultrasounds within the so...