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Your avocado is ripe for the next 1362 seconds.... starting 1361 seconds ago. Timing a ripe avocado is tricky, but Angie Homez makes easy math out of it.

If cow burping infuriates you as much as it does Lucas Lopes, then you ought to listen up. Cows burp methane, but Lucas wants to know which cows burp more, to reduce green house gasses.

GLUTEN!!! If that terrifies or intrigues you, listen to Navneet Sharma talk about how she uses bean flour to bake better gluten free bread.

Much like when we sleep, soil also wants a cover... cover crops that is. Dan Colcuc talks with us about cover crops and how they can be used to recycle nutrients on farms.

You can breathe easy after you listen to Kristin Yates talk about the power of breath and the human body

When the white mold comes who defends the innocent and vulnerable soybean? Deus Mugabe of course! There is a hidden code in the genome of a soybean and Deus won't stop till he finds it.

From one talker to another, Katie and Vinny, the hosts of "Learn Real Good" podcast talk to me about science communication. Why we need it, and how we try to do it.

Click bait titles are killer, just like Serge Levesque's water disinfection system. Using electricity he is able to continuously clean and recycle water for agriculture.

Water! Seems simple, but there are many wet mysteries deep down. Hannah May tells us all about nutrients in water, and where those nutrients end up. And she recants potentially the first ever "water-science crime".

Peppers! Ring a bell? It might get more difficult to remember peppers if sneaky little pests keep eating them. But Serena Leo is here to tell us about a wasp hunts those pesky pests

Who's telling mites to buzz off? Alvaro De la Mora Pena. Or well... he is finding bees who kill mites! These bees are here to make honey and kill mites, and the honey has already been made

Rabbit Rehab. As adorable as it sounds, it is a serious topic. Pauline Kosmal is going to teach us all about bunny rehab, what to do if you see an abandoned bunny, and how we can make a bunny's transition back into the wild a little easier.

Cherry on top of ice cream!? No that's too simple. Try putting the cherry on top of herbicides! Nima Nalin does it everyday! Also find out how to kill your tomato plants and more!

Brains! Who needs them!? This just in, Abdalla Albeely has just informed me that we need them. He studies the brain and its association with schizophrenia, and tells us all about it in this episode.

Computers can do more than just play space pinball 2000! They can determine if an x-ray of lungs belong to a person with COVID. But somebody needs to teach them (the COVID thing, not the pinball). Jenita Manokaran is the teacher for this artificially intelligent COVID spotter

Leaky pipes, busted roof, or the construction of gentrified condos next-door are all great reasons for you to migrate out of your current home. But animals have slightly less autonomy, and when they move, they like to bring diseases with them. Sam Allen is in charge of diseases when it comes to moving populations of animals.

Everyone that I know that goes to the arctic often talk about how awesome the freshwater invertebrate are up there. And since Dani Nowosad is the only person I know who goes to the arctic often, the reviews are all 5 stars.

Someone has to teach computers to go up stairs… I guess… Either way, Val Bauman is the one to teach them. She programs AI to recognize if a user is going up stairs or not.

Grab a material and look at it closely. closer. no, closer. Are you seeing that material at the nanoscale? That’s where Sarah Martell operates. She tunes materials at the nanoscale to improve their functionality, and that’s a big job! Listen to what she sees and says about it

Selecting an episode to listen to is very stressful, but would you pass that stress down to your future children? Michael Lim wants to know if chronic stress is passed down from generation to generation. But don’t stress, he talks all about it in this episode.

Planning to listen to this episode on a casual 160 km run? Alex Coates would encourage it, but warns about the dangers of over-training! You can’t run from reality, so you better listen up!

Keeping an eye on how body parts develop is difficult, especially when that body part is eyes. Tara McDonnell looks at the development of eyes. Listen to what she sees and says about it below

Keeping an eye on how body parts develop is difficult, especially when that body part is eyes. Tara McDonnell looks at the development of eyes. Listen to what she sees and says about it below

Teachers teaching teachers! What madness is this! Serena McDiarmid is learning how to best teach children with refugee experiences so we can have teachers who are armed with the knowledge to help all children succeed. Listen to what she has to say about it below

Can oceans read and write? What does it mean to be ocean literate? And how can you become ocean literate? Lisa Chen knows how, and she working on making the world more ocean literate. Listen to what she has to say about our oceans below