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TAB Podcasts brings the most diverse set of experiences and people in life science. Scientists, business people, educators, investors and healthcare professionals all live here. Based on the first A level biology hub in the world, TAB Podcasts jumps on the podcast as the most entertaining medium to share the most exciting area in the world. Your host, Arian Mirzarafie Ahi, boasts a dizzying breadth of life science experience across academia, research, business and communication. Beyond the standard qualifications and work experience, it is the people and places which most inspired Arian that make it to TAB Podcasts. Arian climbed those ladders so you don’t have to. All you have to do is tune in.

The A Level Biologist Podcasts Arian Mirzarafie Ahi

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TAB Podcasts brings the most diverse set of experiences and people in life science. Scientists, business people, educators, investors and healthcare professionals all live here. Based on the first A level biology hub in the world, TAB Podcasts jumps on the podcast as the most entertaining medium to share the most exciting area in the world. Your host, Arian Mirzarafie Ahi, boasts a dizzying breadth of life science experience across academia, research, business and communication. Beyond the standard qualifications and work experience, it is the people and places which most inspired Arian that make it to TAB Podcasts. Arian climbed those ladders so you don’t have to. All you have to do is tune in.

    🌌 Shepherd the Dark, Inspire the Light

    🌌 Shepherd the Dark, Inspire the Light

    This composite, double-recorded episode explores one of the richest nature photography editions of the Curious Natural Philosopher as it straddles the special announcements and recording of the first guest episode of Season 4 with Dr. Marios Kyriazis.

    💐 Making a print of the tea rose in full bloom
    🐝 Studying hoverflies hinting at Gucci wasps
    🎂 Marking 4 years of The A Level Biologist Podcasts
    + more!

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    • 21 min
    🍀 3's for Luck

    🍀 3's for Luck

    Celebrate with me 3 amazing pieces of news this edition and episode:

    🥳 4 years of the podcast - Can you believe it? Leave a review if you were here in Season 1!
    🏆 My first photography competition - And why I will not win...
    🖼️ Planning a product store - Find out who got the very first greeting card.

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    • 21 min
    📱 How Technology Is Changing Our Biology with Dr. Marios Kyriazis

    📱 How Technology Is Changing Our Biology with Dr. Marios Kyriazis

    When I found out that neurons get to compete with sex cells for resources, I found a deep well of research artfully brought together by Dr. Marios Kyriazis under the indispensable soma hypothesis. As technology advances, the positive stress it elicits in our minds (hormesis), trains our neurons to improve. This leads to slower ageing in an increasingly post-reproductive world. Tune in to a special guest episode this season, packed with new ideas and new perspectives on old ideas:

    ⚖️ Natural principles invoked in tech-driven cell repair
    🌐 Noeme: our tech-married selves
    🏆 Status and health in the technocognitive web

    Read more at indispensablesoma.info

    Research Paper: The Impact of Hormesis, Neuronal Stress Response, and Reproduction, upon Clinical Aging: A Narrative Review
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    • 50 min
    🌏 And Boy Do I Like This

    🌏 And Boy Do I Like This

    The experience of life on Earth underpins our psyche in our smallest everyday encounters. This edition, with a blue moth, red-faced duck and the sky's crack of summer. Oh, and the heaven trees. Again. They're kind of a leitmotif now.

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    • 13 min
    🌄 San Pellegrino

    🌄 San Pellegrino

    The mysterious sticker on the small glass water bottle hinted at a place long gone. It read: San Pellegrino Terme - Italia - 1899. The place is still alive. Want to visit? 

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    • 13 min
    ✅ Yes to Everything

    ✅ Yes to Everything

    After 2 years of teacher training in '20-'22, I finally graduated in Kent with my PGDE. This time, nothing could stop me celebrating 🎉 Live from a sweaty rental car on the first unofficial day of summer in Cambridge.

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    • 9 min

Customer Reviews

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2 Ratings

2 Ratings

Nomadworm ,

Fantastic breadth and depth

Arian is an amazing host and I could spend all day listening to his voice. Arian has a wonderful ability to engage on a topic and also the people and story underneath it. Highly, strongly recommended.

Aubrey de Grey ,

Aubrey de Grey

I've known Arian for several years and I'm really impressed with this new initiative of his. Bravo!

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