Welcome to Mid-Thrust! This is the place where two almost scientists try to get a grip on various scientific and not-so-scientific topics. If you wanted your random discussions supplemented with some overly specific jargon, you're in the right place.
What is a critical period in the biological sense? This time we delve deep into a discussion about what it means to adapt to your environment. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce MurphyHit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
Should you always be focused on the goal? In today’s podcast we discuss the merits of side projects and how a changing scientific landscape may encourage them like never before. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce Murphy Hit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
What does it mean to be an extremophile? Today we talk about life at the extreme conditions on our planet and why it evolved the way it did. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce Murphy Hit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
Today we are revisiting a topic discussed in private, namely the limits, next stages of human evolution and how we could cheat our way forward. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce Murphy “Money analogy” for instrumental convergence originally by Robert Miles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeecOKBus3Q Hit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
We ponder whether scientific communication requires a new media outlet and discuss what ethical responsibilities we have to the audience. Final of three initial episodes. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce Murphy Hit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
This time we talk about the effects of technological progress on the nature of scientific thought. Second of three initial episodes. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce Murphy Hit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.
In this inaugural episode we discuss what it means to be a human being in a constant state of change and whether life can ever truly be brought to a standstill. First of three initial episodes. Intro music: “Just Give It Time” by Pierce MurphyHit us up on midthrustpodcast@gmail.com or midthrustpodcast.podbean.com for your rants and suggestions.