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On today’s episode: What happens when mice eat a ketogenic diet mostly consisting of Crisco? What causes the northern lights? And why does everyone keep talking about how much damage they can do? All that and more today on All Around Science...
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How do you pronounce “hockey”? US players say it with “fake Canadian” accent. | Ars Technica https://theconversation.com/solar-storm-knocks-out-farmers-high-tech-tractors-an-electrical-engineer-explains-how-a-larger-storm-could-take-down-the-power-grid-and-the-internet-177982 https://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAscales.pdf https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-kp-index.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/solar-storm-tractor-break-nebraska.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Trying to be a perfect parent might actually make you…a worse parent. Storing energy from the grid using mechanical batteries. All that and more today on All Around Science...
Dr. Kana's Reading Intervention and Brain Study
Dr. Kana’s Reading Intervention and Brain Study (BrainREAD) is recruiting autistic and non-autistic children, ages 7-13 years, with reading comprehension difficulties to participate in an MRI study that includes a 10-week long free reading intervention. Participation involves pre and post sessions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Participants will be compensated for both testing sessions. If interested, please contact:
call: 205-202-0616 email: cas-cbalab@uab.edu RESOURCES
DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say Algorithms help people see and correct their biases, study shows Rajesh Kana’s The Neuroscience of Autism: Tracing the A-Z of Cutting-edge ASD Research CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Trying to be a perfect parent might actually make you…a worse parent. Storing energy from the grid using mechanical batteries. All that and more today on All Around Science...
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Caterbot? Robotapillar? It crawls with ease through loops and bends- Princeton Engineering Study: Pressure to be “perfect” causing burnout for parents, mental health concerns for their children | The Ohio State University College of Nursing Storing energy with compressed air is about to have its moment of truth https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052022/inside-clean-energy-flow-battery/ https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/energy-storage-for-electricity-generation.php https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/blog/pumped-storage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9slIBECva4 CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Programmable fluids that can help pick blueberries without making a mess. And I talk about math and games with our very own math nerd; Bobby Frankenberger! All that and more today on All Around Science...
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Tiny rubber spheres used to make a programmable fluid CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Playing sports is good for you; turns out, watching other people play is good for you too! Scientists have discovered a whole new part of a cell that seems to be evolving as we speak! All that and more today on All Around Science...
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Zoe's Fundraiser - tinyurl.com/helpthezoo The Joy of Sports: How Watching Sports Can Boost Well-Being – Waseda University Researchers find a new organelle evolving Evidence for endosymbiosis Chloroplast | Wikipedia Mitochondria | Wikipedia CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com

On today’s episode: Your bad sense of direction is probably b/c you didn’t explore your neighborhood enough as a kid. How to publish a scientific paper. All that and more today on All Around Science...
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Evidence for a unitary structure of spatial cognition beyond general intelligence Explaining World-Wide Variation in Navigation Ability from Millions of People: Citizen Science Project Sea Hero Quest Spatial Navigation in Childhood and Aging Why do some people always get lost? https://interestingengineering.com/science/moon-keeps-drifting-away-from-earth Our moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.5 billion years | Space Why Total Solar Eclipses Will Be a Thing of the Past in 600 Million Years | The Weather Channel CREDITS:
Writing - Bobby Frankenberger & Maura Armstrong
Booking - September McCrady 
THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen
https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL
http://andrewallenmusic.com