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A podcast episode with mechanical engineer Emma McCarthy at LSU on making materials for extreme conditions!

Imagine smelling a dead rat 🐀, seeing flesh flies snacking on and laying eggs in its corpse, and deciding, I need to make art out of this. That is exactly what Manuela Guzman, an illustrator who made her MFA thesis all about helping people engage with insects via art, did. You'll want to catch this whole story! It's somehow both gross and beautiful and heartwarming.

In this podcast, Manuela Guzman shows many of the drawings and books she created on insects for her MFA thesis.

This scientist quit her day job to hang from her hair! She talks science, science of hair, and applying the scientific mindset to circus.

If we expect something to be painful, it is. But why? Neuroscientists are trying to figure that out. It may be embedded in the secondary motor cortex.

10 Fascinating Mosquito Facts, from the lab of mosquito and malaria researcher Cassandra Fieldson at Seattle Children's.

A Q&A with a biology educator about how he creates creative assignments to help students engage with biology.

Hey all! I’m brand new to podcasting! I just launched a show on Spotify and YouTube “Facetime with Scientists” interviewing scientists.

I’m using Adobe podcast for now because it seems simple to get my show off the ground, but I’m wondering if I should ultimately use Descript for more detailed video editing of my podcast. I guess it depends on how many people listen versus watch - but I want my podcast to always involve scientists doing something active in the lab or field and talking through it while answering questions about the scientific process and life as a scientist.

How detailed should I get with video editing for a video podcast? And how do I make sure all episodes are still friendly to listening only!

An important message from science artist Shelby Prindaville: no matter what you do in your professional life, stay true to who you are. As an artist who has nature and the human-nature relationship as her theme, here’s how she converted a vinyl record art challenge into a commentary on the human footprint!