Latest Aidan long Podcast Episodes
Where is the Cure to Cancer?
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 15, 2021 23:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode, Andrew and Aidan cover a difficult, but important topic - today we talk about cancer. We explore the many ways cancers have been treated through time, how far our understanding of cancers have come, and why finding the cure to cancer is a lot harder than it sounds. Some promising n...
Evolution of Guns w/ Sgt Emmet Long
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 08, 2021 23:01 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode, Aidan interviews US Army Sergeant Emmet Long about Guns - breaking down how guns work, why they’ve changed over time, and how this has redefined the way wars are fought today. This season is supported by FameLab Ireland. FameLab is the world's leading science communication competi...
Percy goes to Mars
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - August 01, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we talk about Percy and his adventure to Mars. From drones on mars to the future of colinising the red planet, from Matt Damon in the martian or alien volcanoes, this week we wander thought the science. This season is supported by FameLab Ireland. FameLab is the world's leading scienc...
Addiction and Human History
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - July 29, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor the second half of this two-part topic, Andrew and Aidan chat about the history of addictive disorders in humans, and how these issues have flowed well into the modern age. This season is supported by FameLab Ireland. FameLab is the world's leading science communication competition, designe...
Neuroscience of Addiction
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - July 25, 2021 23:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor the first of this two-part topic, Aidan and Andrew discuss the science of addiction, its links to our brain’s evolutionary history, and why happy rats don’t want cocaine. This season is supported by FameLab Ireland. FameLab is the world's leading science communication competition, designed...
Ireland's Forgotten Pandemic w/ Dr Fiona Gallagher
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - July 18, 2021 23:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this weeks episode, Andrew interviews Dr Fiona Gallagher about the last pandemic which ravaged Ireland. How the country responded, the formation of the Irish medical board (an ancient NPHET) and how they managed the spread of Cholera when they didn't even know what a bacteria was in 1832. Clo...
Back with a Big Bang
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - July 11, 2021 23:01 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSeason 2 has landed with the biggest bang in space and time! To kick off this freshly cooked season, Andrew and Aidan retell the origin story of the entire universe using some of the most supported theories in science, all of which involve a cosmic egg and zero chickens! We explain what stuff t...
SEASON 2 of Living Room Logic - Monday July 12th
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - July 07, 2021 23:01 - 29 seconds ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe are back! Launching on Monday July 12th we will start releasing episodes weekly for the next 10 weeks. We have loads of great stories and interviews which revolve around the world of science and technology, from the creation of time to vacuum cleaners, we have a jam packed season ahead of us!...
Spread the Good: The light at the end 31/05
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 30, 2021 23:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode marks the end of Spread the Good, a miniseries that has hopefully helped you digest the last 8 weeks of everything COVID-19 related, and get through the final weeks of Ireland’s lockdown. For the finale, Andrew shows us how far we’ve come in cold hard numbers since the last covid wa...
Spread the Good: No news is good news 24/05
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 23, 2021 23:01 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAndrew spends the vast 7 minutes of this episode of spread the good going through the news of the week. In a fantastic turn of events, there is little to talk about. We did around 300'000 vaccinations last week, 45% of adults have their first dose and and the hospitalization situation is stable....
Spread the Good: Antigen tests and the latest news 17/05
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 16, 2021 23:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week Andrew talks through the latest stats for Ireland on COVID-19. He also dives into the complexity of antigen testing. Their use, why LIDL and Tony Hoolahan are butting heads, where Dr Ronan Glynn stands on it and what does antigen test results actually tell you? It is certainly a comple...
Spread the Good: Balance at the end of the pandemic
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 09, 2021 23:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode Andrew has more good news about Ireland’s fight against covid, and describes the balance we are finding between the vaccine rollout and reopening the country. Aidan highlights the balance we will also need to find between our physical and digital lives as things return to normalcy. ...
Spread the Good: Balance at the end of the pandemic 10/05
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 09, 2021 23:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode Andrew has more good news about Ireland’s fight against covid, and describes the balance we are finding between the vaccine rollout and reopening the country. Aidan highlights the balance we will also need to find between our physical and digital lives as things return to normalcy. ...
Spread the Good: Opening the country 03/05
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - May 02, 2021 23:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode Andrew talks through the latest stats and NPHET models, the road to reopening the country and appreciates the weight that is slowly being lifted. Go get a nights sleep, eat well and spend time outside. Andrew is actively working with the department of health and meeting members of ...
Spread the Good: What to expect over the next few weeks 26/04
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - April 25, 2021 23:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode we explain some key changes that occurred in the case numbers last week that bring great hope, and a sprinkle of caution. Inspired by an interview that Brezzie had with An Taoiseach Micheal Martin, the lads also discuss a mental health action plan that our youth will need to overcom...
Spread the Good: We are Going in the Right Direction 19/04
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - April 18, 2021 23:01 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week cases went down and vaccinations went up. What is the origin of sars-cov-2? Should you be worried about variants? In this weekly mini-series we focus on the GOOD! Updates on progress towards normalcy, the importance of compassion in getting through the next 8-12 weeks and we answer you...
Spread the Good: The Progress that will End the pandemic 12/04
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - April 11, 2021 23:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHow will the AstraZenica vaccine side effects impact vaccine roll-out? When does NPHET see normalcy returning? What can you do to get through this last lockdown? In this weekly mini-series we focus on the GOOD! Updates on progress towards normalcy, the importance of compassion in getting through...
The Mind of the Machine
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 22, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe U.S.A. used A.I. supercomputers to win one of the final cold war battlefields: Chess. This episode, Andrew and Aidan discuss the history of intelligence, why our global perception of it changed over time, and how we now find ourselves losing to machines. Did you know that China uses artifici...
From Ape to Vape: Human Evolution
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings70,000 years ago, the eruption of an Indonesian supervolcano whittled the human population down to a few thousand globally. This episode, we walk our way along our evolutionary path from the last known common ancestor of apes and homo sapiens to us: Modern humans. Did you know that scientists fo...
Einstein's Quantum Conundrums: Part 2
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 08, 2021 00:05 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEinstein once called quantum physics spooky, listen in to find out why! This part 2 we explore some of the biggest mysteries in physics, the shoelaces that may define the universe and the Irish scientist John Bell that proved Einstein wrong. Do you know that Heisenberg wasn’t just the one who kn...
Einstein's Quantum Conundrums: Part 1
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 08, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTwo greeks first once asked if we kept cutting an object in half, would we find the smallest building block of the universe? This episode we discuss how after an age of cosmic exploration through telescopes physicists began looking for the smallest of things, some of the biggest discoveries of 2...
Mass Extinctions
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - March 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings99% of all the species that have ever lived are now extinct, making all life that’s still on earth the lucky 1%. This episode, Andrew and Aidan walk through the biggest extinction events in the fossil record. From that time when dinosaurs got wrecked by a giant space pebble, to when a Siberian s...
COVID-19 Review with Dr Liz Ryan
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 22, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode we interview a vaccine specialist and immune system expert, Dr Liz Ryan. What makes COVID-19 so unique that it caused a pandemic? What actually makes the elderly vulnerable? Should we be concerned about new strains? Should we be concerned about how fast the vaccines have been devel...
The Nature of Love
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 15, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAlbatross pairs mate for life. Garter snakes mate in 100+ orgies. Whether you were together, apart or alone this Valentine’s day, our tales of love in the wild will send you swooning. We describe the different ways animals show their affections, the many hormones which make us addicted to each o...
Uranium Fever
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 08, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt only took 3 years after humans invented the first nuclear reactor for the first nuke to be dropped. This episode we recount the origins of nuclear everything, from atomic discoveries and nuclear families to nuclear warfare and the symbolism of Godzilla. Did you know that there are an uncomfor...
Cybernetic Organisms
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 01, 2021 00:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDo you use technology to gain information at the click of a button? Then you’re a cyborg! This episode we explore our dependence on technology, how we use it to extend our ever-changing lives and how Elon Musk wants to put computer chips in our brains! Will we live forever on Cloud 9.0? We real...
Bugs are the Pest
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 01, 2021 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAll the bugs on planet earth outweigh all the humans on earth 70 to 1, so surely our leggy neighbours have a lot going on? This episode we discuss the secret underground societies of ants, why creepy crawlies give us the heebie-jeebies and how some funky bugs get their freak on. Did you know tha...
Aliens, Man.
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - February 01, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOf the billions of stars in the night sky, surely one has an orbiting planet that sustains life? This episode, Andrew and Aidan explore the history and science of looking for signs of extraterrestrial life. On earth, life exists in the deepest parts of the oceans and the hottest volcanic pools. ...
Introducing: Living Room Logic
Living Room Logic – Irish Science Podcast - January 25, 2021 17:32 - 47 seconds ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWelcome to living room logic. Let us get the door and sure take a seat where ya want. Do you want a cuppa tea? We'll get ya something stronger if you'd like. Lets get some relaxing tunes going (we made them by the way) and crack into a conversation about all sorts of things we have no authority t...
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