Corn cups, bioluminescent fungi, MIT cooking classes, attempts to speak Italian, Burning Man, and refusing to be defined by one label… Welcome to Scirens Show Episode 11! Thanks for joining Screen Sirens for Science Tamara Krinsky, Gia Mora and Taryn O’Neill as we chit chat about:
– The Power of the Polymath
– Glowing Plant Lights
– The Real Dirt on Composting
Also, we’d love to know your fave charities that support science and the arts or are helping folks during Covid19. Thanks!
Xo,
Gia, Tamara & Taryn
EPISODE NOTES
- If You Throw a Compostable Cup in the Trash, Does It Still Break Down?: https://www.livescience.com/63597-compost-trash-in-landfills.html
- Bioplastics in high end design: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/09/bioplastic-projects-algae-corn-starch-beetle-shells
- Bioplastics in dry food packaging: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/13/sustainable-food-packaging-emma-sicher-peel
- “Using Story to Change Systems”: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/using_story_to_change_systems#
- “The 4th Act – A New Narrative” – by Taryn O’Neill: https://medium.com/@tarynoneill/the-4th-act-a-new-narrative-ebec460f8cf6
- “Scientists Engineer Gorgeous Glowing Plants That Shine Bright Their Entire Life Cycle”: https://www.sciencealert.com/gorgeously-glowing-plants-shine-bright-throughout-their-life-cycle
- “Scientists create glowing plants using mushroom genes”: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/27/scientists-create-glowing-plants-using-mushroom-genes
- Engineers create plants that glow (MIT – 2017): http://news.mit.edu/2017/engineers-create-nanobionic-plants-that-glow-1213
- Future Cities Lit by Bioluminescent Trees/ SXSW: https://blog.suny.edu/2014/03/future-cities-lit-by-beautiful-bioluminescent-trees
- “Why the Coronavirus is so confusing”: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-confusing-uncertainty/610819
- Bonnie Gillespie’s blog: https://bonniegillespie.com/category/mindset/
- Flash Forward Y2K Episode: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2020/04/14/doomsday-2000-2038-2100/
- “Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full”: MIT Italian Language/Cooking Class https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-s41-speak-italian-with-your-mouth-full-spring-2012/
Companion Videos
- All Power to the Polymath:
- Why California’s Oceans are Glowing with Bioluminesence:
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