Latest Aidan long Podcast Episodes
We WILL Stop Climate Change: Here's How
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - November 14, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe world's most important climate conference to date, COP27, is on right now in Egypt. Why should I give a f**k!? You might ask. This is why: Humans have managed to increase Earth's temperature by 1.1 C since the late 1800s, and we're on a trajectory for 3 C warming by 2100, which would basical...
How to Care About Climate Change (& Why You Should) w/ Researcher & Activist Dr Clare Watson
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - November 07, 2022 00:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn today's episode of this award winning science podcast, Aidan interviews a social scientist and climate activist, Dr Clare Watson, who tells us why many people deny or ignore climate change, and how positivity and community engagement (with a little help from the government) can refresh people...
Green Energy: Economy Booster, Climate Solver w/ Researcher & Policy Advisor Dr Paul Deane
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - October 31, 2022 00:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn today's episode of this award winning science podcast, Aidan interviews an expert in renewable energy, Dr Paul Deane, who explains why renewable energy could play a huge part globally in stabilising energy supplies, reducing costs and reducing carbon emissions massively. Paul has previously g...
The Power of Offshore Wind w/ Lecturer & Engineer Dr Frances Judge
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - October 23, 2022 23:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn today's episode of this award winning science podcast, Aidan interviews an offshore wind energy expert Dr Frances Judge, to find out just how big offshore wind is getting, how to build Eiffel Tower sized structures in raging seas, and why offshore wind may be one of the worlds ways to curb ri...
Do men feel more pain than women? w/ Dr Siobhain O'Mahony
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - October 15, 2022 23:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat is more painful, a kick in the jewels or giving birth? Who REALLY experiences more pain: men or women? On today’s show, we sit down with Dr Siobhain O’ Mahony, a senior lecturer at University College Cork specializing in pain neuroscience, women's health, and the gut-brain axis. Dr. S...
How an Irish Mathematician is Uncovering LIFE in the Universe at NASA w/ Dr Caoimhe Rooney
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - October 02, 2022 23:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday, we sit down with Dr. Caoimhe Rooney, a research scientist at NASA whose areas of expertise include mathematical modelling of complex engineering systems, planetary science, public communication and mission design. She has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022. Listen in as Dr. R...
How Women can OPTIMISE Training to their Bodies w/ Sports Scientist David Nolan
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 25, 2022 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDoes the menstrual cycle impact performance? What about the contraceptive pill? How does a history of research in men, impact how we advise women to exercise? This week Andrew speaks to David Nolan, a fantastic PhD candidate in applied sports sciences under the supervision of Dr. Brendan Egan at...
When is processed food BAD for you? w/Prof Alan Kelly
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 18, 2022 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsToday, we sit down with Alan Kelly, a professor in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences at University College Cork. Listen in as Professor Alan deep dive into the various myths and misconceptions around processed food. Defining “processing” as the transformation of raw material, he sh...
Stress: Why some suffer and others COPE w/ Dr Samantha Dockray
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 11, 2022 23:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat makes one persons bad day, another persons trauma? This week we go through the extraordinarily complex concepts which are as complex as any individual but Dr Samantha Dockray breaks it down. Dr. Samantha Dockray is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology, University College ...
When the Truth doesn't match your Reality w/ Dr Keith Gaynor
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 04, 2022 23:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMadness, insanity, and being mental are core to the stigma around mental health. Whilst the depression and anxiety have become more accepted, much of mental health is still poorly understood and draped in stigma, such as psychosis. To get to the core of this Andrew spoke to Clinical Psychologist...
Rising Star in Irish Podcasting Nomination: and How I think we should about Science w/Andrew McGovern
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 14, 2022 23:01 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAndrew has been nominated as a rising star in Irish podcasting. Wild. In this episode he talks about how he thinks about talking science, who he looks up to, how the nomination makes him feel as well as sharing his best bits so far! You can vote for Living Room Logic in the public vote for the ...
How Poo Made Old Mice Young w/ Dr Katie Guzzetta
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 21, 2022 00:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSeason finale warning that will blow your butt off,but.. we might have just the treatment in mind. This week we interviewed the brilliant Dr Katie Guzzetta, former UCC PhD student and current Harvard visiting research fellow. One big paper from her PhD was published in one of the biggest journal...
The Best Telescope in Space w/ Optics Engineer Louis Martin
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 14, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe James Webb Space Telescope is nearing its destination 1 million miles away from earth. In the run-up to it’s first images of what the universe was like as far back as 50 million years after the start of time, Aidan interviews optics engineer Louis Martin, an expert in telescope instrumentati...
Are Jellyfish taking over the oceans? w/ jellyfish expert Dr Aidan Long
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 07, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEveryone has seen a jellyfish flattened on the beach, or swam frantically away from one from fear of getting a nasty sting. But there's a lot more to jellyfish than meets the eye.... Outside Aidan's time as a co-host of the podcast, he's actually an experienced marine researcher, and did his Ph...
Are Jellyfish taking over the oceans? w/ Dr Aidan Long
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 07, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEveryone has seen a jellyfish flattened on the beach, or swam frantically away from one from fear of getting a nasty sting. But there's a lot more to jellyfish than meets the eye.... Outside Aidan's time as a co-host of the podcast, he's actually an experienced marine researcher, and did his Ph...
Why Medicine Fails Women
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 28, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWomen are consistently receiving worse treatment from doctors, getting less care for painful procedures and having more significant side effects from drugs than men. This episode Andrew speaks about his research into deciphering women’s place in medicine. Unravelling the origin of sex differenc...
Sex differences in the Brain
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 28, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingshttps://www.patreon.com/LivingRoomLogic See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
High Seas Black Market Salmon
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 21, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEverybody loves Salmon right? Turns out they're not doing too good. In a shocking turn of events, Atlantic Salmon have been tangled up in a story of illegality and black market activity on the high seas that would make Jack Sparrow quiver in his boots, that's led to an Atlantic-wide collapse in ...
Dinosaurs: Ancient Chickens?
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 13, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJurassic Park was great, but Steven Spielberg got it wrong. Dinosaurs have fascinated scientists and the public alike for centuries, and only recently have we been able to shed light on a heated debate surrounding these mysterious creatures - did Dinosaurs have feathers? This raises the question...
Time is not real: here's why
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 07, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere is a subtle but massive difference between, “what time is it?” and “what is time?”. Have you thought about it? It’s a bit like eating a clock… Time consuming. We can’t hold time or see it, but we are all a slave to it. We experience it but cannot say what it is exactly. This episode, Andr...
How to Rid the World of Plastic
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - January 31, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's at the bottom of the ocean. It's in the food we eat. It's in our cells. It's on the beach, or floating in the ocean. It's in your home, on the street and surrounds you in shops. It's plastic. Single use plastic has revolutionized much of our society, but at what cost? We have been making m...
Neuroscience of Depression
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - January 24, 2022 00:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhy do humans get sad? Our emotions are regulated in our brain and sometimes we are happy and sometimes we are sad. Mental health issues are a result of this process becoming dysregulated. For example, depression could be simplified as a sadness which does not return to neutral. Rather, your ne...
How to See the Rest of the Universe
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - January 17, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's season 3! The $10bn James Webb telescope, named after the 1960s leader of NASA who saw the moon landing through, has been in the works since the 1990s and astronomy has laid all of their eggs in this basket. Science enthusiasts everywhere are delighted to have a distraction from that whic...
How to see the Future of Omicron w/ NPHET modeller Prof. Cathal Walsh
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - January 04, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the worst things about COVID-19 has been the uncertainty of what happens next. Professor Walsh is a member of the disease modeling team that projects cases and hospitalizations for NPHET. These models have been a critical tool in NPHETs decision making but has their value been miscommunic...
Omicron and the Future of COVID in Ireland
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - December 06, 2021 00:01 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOmicron is the latest thing COVID-19 has dumped on our windscreen just as we thought we left the driveway and were going places. This episode Andrew talks through the science of the most mutated variant yet Omicron after Ireland's first case, how our defenses will manage and what the future of I...
Climate Change facts to Save the World
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - November 08, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe climate is changing, and as this episode airs, world leaders are deciding the global plan for climate action at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. In the episode, Andrew sits nervously as Aidan walks him and YOU through the most important facts from the latest UN climate report that came out in A...
Climate Change w/ Dr Aidan Long
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 12, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt is unequivocal that humans have changed the earth's climate. For this season finale, Dr Aidan puts his climate expert cap on and guides Andrew through this contentious and misunderstood topic. Together, the lads explore the many times the earth's climate has changed in the past, how humans ar...
Psychology of Conspiracy w/ Dr Daniel Jolley
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - September 05, 2021 23:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDr Daniel Jolley is a social psychologist who studies why people believe conspiracy theories and if they are worth worrying about. From 5G to jet fuel melting steel beams to Bill Gates microchipping the world, we talk through all the questions you want answered. This season is supported by Fam...
GMOs
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 29, 2021 23:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEver worry about genetically modified food? What about genetically modified humans!? This episode Andrew and Aidan explore the ways humans have tweaked the genetics of many organisms for our benefit, and the promising but morally grey future of genetic modification from recent scientific breakth...
Appliance Science
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 22, 2021 23:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTo make the science of appliance even more fun, Andrew and Aidan crack out some facts, splutter how unnecessarily complicated some appliances are and get absolutely smashed. This history of appliances inspires intrigue with references to Ice Man, how one of the worlds biggest defense companies s...
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