A radio adventure from our gut fungus to Mars
Catch up on the special episode of Science Friday I guest-hosted, and also my first non-Covid article in a year.
Did you know that there are fungi in our guts, and that they influence different diseases? Or that scientists have figured out a way to measure quakes… on Mars? Or why certain viruses hang out in our bodies longer than others? I delved into all of these questions in interviews with some of the most brilliant scientists on the plant on the episode of Science Friday that I guest hosted. Catch up via the Science Friday website or via iTunes (Spotify link below as well).
Science Friday website: https://www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/july-30-2021/
iTunes: New CDC Mask Rules, Viral Persistence, Disaster Preparedness. July 30, 2021, Part 1
iTunes: Gut Fungi, Olympic Challenges, Planetary Seismology. July 30, 2021, Part 2
Also, this week my first non-Covid article in over a year just went online. As you might have heard, in recent months more than 1300 unmarked graves of Indigenous children have been discovered in Canada at the site of ‘residential schools’ that operated for decades. I spoke about these atrocities and the role of the doctors in these deaths with Samir Shaheen-Hussain, a paediatric emergency physician who has written a book about medical colonialism called Fighting for a Hand To Hold.