It is estimated that every 2.6 seconds, a new chemical substance is isolated or synthesized, adding to nearly 200 million identified chemical substances in the world. While many of these are essential for society and not harmful to the environment, one effect of this proliferation of chemicals in our everyday lives has been the increase of polluted environments with multiple contaminants.
Welcome back! Feeling a bit of a “déjà vu”? Makes sense, ’cause we ar etalknig about psycedelic drugs! …again! In this episode Giuliano & Eleanna interview Lauri Elsilä, Doctoral Researcher… Read More »3.16 Psychedelics vs Addiction? – w/ Giuliano, Eleanna & Lauri Elsilä
If you venture into the woods in Southern Finland, around the Hanko area, you’ll find groups of mounds with hundreds of ants dwelling on top that will spit acid at you when provoked.
You may not realise it, but many of the medicines sold in pharmacies are either directly sourced from nature or have an underlying operating principle drawn from a natural process. Widely used pain relievers paracetamol and aspirin? Originally derived from coal tar and willow bark, respectively.
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) To read part I, click here The Great food transformation: Turning the problem into a solution? So, is the planetary health diet the… Read More »World Changing Diet –Part II
Traditional historical and archaeological researchers have long thought that Ancient Greek colonies were ethnically and culturally exclusively Greek. In fact, they figured that Greek culture dominated over that of bordering nations and was immune to outside influences like neighboring non-Greek populations. But was that actually the case? The cult of goddess Hera in the Greek colony of Poseidonia, Southern Italy, offers a different perspective. Surprisingly, even religion, which is typically conservative as it defines its worshippers, showed signs of outside influence. This month Gianluca will share how he interprets offerings to the goddess Hera and excavation reports to piece together the potential dynamics of ancient Greek colonization, and to understand the role played by non-Greek populations in the life and development of “Greek” colonies.
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) The Planetary Boundaries: Have we pushed our planet to the limit? “It is a planetary emergency,” says world-renowned Professor Johan Rockström in his… Read More »World Changing Diet – Part I
University branding… doesn’t sound interesting does it?Well, it turns out that not only it’s a really cool subject, but there’s actual academic research studying it!Find out more about it in… Read More »3.15 University branding: defining and expressing identity – w/ Eleanna, Katja & Ari-Matti Erjansola
Near-Earth space is full of high-energy particles that are trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field. These particles form the radiation belts and create an extremely hazardous environment that satellites must pass through. Understanding how radiation belt particles move, how they become energised and how these particles can be lost from the radiation belts is essential to protect satellites orbiting the Earth. In this talk, Harriet George will present an overview of the Earth’s radiation belts and its dangers.
Welcome back you science-lovers!Yes, you read the title right!Turns out recycling CO2, as in removing it from one place and re-use it in another place is possible, and scientists are… Read More »3.14 Can we recycle CO2? – w/ Giuliano, Tomàs & Todd Elliott