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In the final Science Club Podcast of 2021 we welcome Yingwei Ouyang who is a PhD student at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden! She is working on creating new forms of plastic for protecting undersea cables and avoiding powercuts. She is also one of the European HERstory Makers. 

This week our guest is Jenny Shelton who is a molecular biologist and talks to us about DNA.

Emmajay Sutherland who is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews. She talks to us about bacteria and the importance of washing your hands!

This episode features guest Aryanne Finnie who talks to us about detecting bacteria with flourescence to check for illness. She also talks about her many pets!

Buchanan High School pupils created their own show titles, questions and artwork before recording their podcast!

Episode 16 - Dark Matter with Stephanie Campbell *In this episode we talk to Stephanie Campbell, who is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews.  *Stephanie researches how the stars in galaxies move around, and they use this to tell them how much dark matter is in the galaxies.  *Tune in to hear Stephanie describe their work, our young people sharing their knowledge of space and to...

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In this podcast episode the GBT science club talk to Layla Mathieson, who is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Layla researches new ways to help people with lung cancer. In the episode Layla tells us how she images the tissues which are inside the body to see how effective treatments are, we make our very own 'fibre optic camera' and we find out about how the pandemic has impacted Layl...

In Episode 14 of the science podcast we talk to Rebecca Wade from Abertay University! Tune in to hear us talk about Antarctica, wild swimming, what we love about nature, and future aspirations!

In this episode the science club meet Julie Gawrylowicz, who is a lecturer at Abertay University! During the episode, the young people learn facts about our memory, test how good their memories are, and learn about how false memories can be implanted.

The 2nd podcast on wind turbines! This time we speak to Marlee from Edinburgh University and Paul from Strathclyde University who come up with new ideas on how to make wind turbines more efficient. 

The Mysterious World of Pensions We should all be thinking about, and planning for, the future. That means thinking about retirement and how we are going to afford to finish up work later in life. In this episode, Robbie Hewitt of JKFS Independent joins us to talk about Pensions. Robbie explains in simple terms what pensions are, common misconceptions, and gives tips on how best to set up and mana...

The young people of Club 365 planned and recorded their own short interviews.

The first of two episodes both on Wind Energy. This week we interviwed Connor and Jade from Strathclyde University who are both doing degrees in wind energy. Here is a video about how an Offshore Wind Farm is made off of the coast of The Nedtherlands: How They Build Offshore Wind Farms - YouTube

In this episode our guest is Abd Alsattar Ardati who spoke to us about his project studying how people are trained and edit Wikipedia. Here is where you can "listen" to Wikipedia as mentioned in this episode: Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia  

This week we talked to Mari Cole who talked to us about experimenting on different substances to understand what happens to them under different conditions. Here is a video about levitating trains that were mentioned during this episode: The Technology of Maglev Trains: Explained - YouTube

A taster of some of our podcasts.

Expenses and Budget Building It can be difficult to work out where all your money has gone in a week or a month.  Sometimes we don't even realise we're buying unnecessary things and that our spending is getting out of control. This episode looks at how we should approach our spending in terms of working out what our expenses are and incorporating our expenses, alongside income, into a budget....

Rebecca Cornwell was our guest for this episode who talked to us about bacteria and anti-biotics. Here is the website for the project Rebecca mentions: Antibiotics under our feet .  Here are some images of bacteria: close up pictures of bacteria - Bing images

In this episode, I ditch the wheel and talk about a specific subject I want to talk about. I talk about a Doctor Who season 4 episode called "The Unicorn and The Wasp."

In this first episode of Spin N' Talk, I talk about three children's TV shows that were a big part of my early childhood.

Another noisey and fun Science Club as our guest Jane Essex helped the club build and design bridges by melting chocolate and welding it together (and eating some for test purposes!).  Here is a video of another choclate welding experiment Chocolate welding - YouTube

Income seems straight forward but it can become complicated if we have lots of different sources or don't know how much we might earn in a pay period. This episode looks at different places who might pay us, payslips, deductions and why knowing our full income is important.

This week the Science Club talked to Henry Rae about 3D priniting, the different ways plastic is used and 3D printed houses! Here is a video about a 3D printed house: Here's what the first 3D-printed home for sale looks like - YouTube

This has been Debt Awareness Week and I wanted to acknowledge it even though I want to wait to do a full in-depth episode, or several episodes on debt, later down the line. This short bonus episode give a few tips on dealing with debt and how we should think about what debt is so that we can manage it better.