WGS STEM

WGS STEM

The podcast consisting of two subsections: STEM Discussion: Regular people discussing topics and news about STEM ranging from Space to Medicine to AI. STEM Careers: Podcast with guests that have a good and strong knowledge on STEM at University or STEM as a career.

Episodes

  1. 10/15/2021

    STEM Discussion: MILD combustion feat. Prof. Swaminathan of Cambridge University

    In this excellent episode we are honoured to have Professor Swaminathan of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University as well as the usual hosts who are Tom Vernon, Daniel Cheng, Christian Masiye, Charlie Plein and Alex Broome. We kick off the podcast showing the professor what we know about combustion from A-Level Chemistry and Physics and from there he kindly gives us in depths explanations of greener fuels especially MILD combustion. This really interested us as we were enlightened on how this technology could change the world of electricity/power generation. During the end of the podcast, the Professor went through his story of how he managed to become a professor at a world renowned university while also giving advice to students our age.  If you enjoyed this podcast, you could listen to other podcasts that you may also enjoy and share about our podcast to friends and family. Many thanks again to Professor Swaminathan for being a guest on this episode!

  2. 10/13/2021

    STEM Discussion: Gravity isn't a force! (Relativity theories and Artificial Gravity concepts)

    In this interesting episode we move into the more theory side of STEM with the usual hosts of Tom Vernon, Daniel Cheng, Charlie Plein, Christian Masiye, Seb Howles and Alex Broome's first podcast. We start off explaining why the Newtonian Laws of gravity (which is what you learn in school) is not always right and in fact wrong most of the time for very large masses which is where Einstein's theories of relativity come in and works for all applications until recently where their could be evidence in dark matter that may prove it wrong. Moving on from gravity we talk about artificial gravity in the second half of the podcast, namely spin gravity and 1g rocket gravity which are amazing concepts and have been used before in space and on Earth before! The most interesting part is that you would be feeling gravity in the midst of space without a planet's mass underneath your feet. If you enjoyed this podcast, you could check out other podcasts we have produced and could spread the word of it to friends and family.

  3. 08/02/2021

    STEM Discussion: The future of CRISPR and customizing your child (feat. Mrs Richardson)

    In this episode we are joined by a special guest Mrs Richardson who teaches biology and is very knowledgeable in this topic area as well as the usual hosts Charlie Plein, Daniel Cheng, Tom Vernon and Adam Shann. Throughout this episode we talk things from what CRISPR is doing and will do to things such as gene editing babies to fulfil a particular need. We also debate on the ethical issues of gene edited medicine and the recent gene editing of two twin babies.

  4. 07/19/2021

    STEM Discussion: AI could keep your presence forever or extinguish human presence forever

    In this episode we are joined by Seb Howles, Christian Masiye, Fiona Trimby, Daniel Cheng, Tom Vernon, Adam Shann, Sophia Nwachukwu and Charlie Plein (who had to join through Teams halfway due to having to isolate). We discuss the uses of AI as well as the positives and negatives of it. This ranges from current uses such as in self-driving vehicles to even your phone. The We also explore how AI can be used to create an AI of yourself essentially giving your the ability to keep your presence around forever, and how AI may or is going so far that it may realise it can be independent from humanity and render the human race as useless and possibly destroying the human race. In the future episodes we plan to invite Mrs Richardson to discuss gene editing and CRISPR's work.

  5. 06/12/2021

    STEM Discussion: This virus causes you to fall asleep! (Encephalitis Lethargica)

    In this episode we are joined by Christian Masiye, Daniel Cheng, Charlie Plein, Seb Howles, Adam Shann and Fiona Trimby. We discuss the disease causing virus and it’s origins as well as the medicine used to relieve some of its symptoms and the ethical issues that it comes with. Also the interesting side of the cases of people falling into a lethargic/sleeping state, and viruses very similar yet different to it. We hope you enjoy today’s episode!

  6. 05/29/2021

    STEM Discussion: Applying Stats and modelling to the real world (feat. Mrs Kerr)

    In this episode Daniel Cheng, Seb Howles, Sohpia Nwachukwu, Fiona Trimby, Lucy Hart, Tom Vernon and Mrs Kerr features on this podcast as a very special guest. We talk about the different uses of the stats and modelling from more relevant pandemic we are in to things like predicting stocks and shares. As well as uses we also discuss ethically to what extent is stats and modelling not controlling our lives which gets very interesting as dive deeper into algorithms used to target ads or content to a certain person. We apologise if your hear background noises or spontaneous cuts in this episode, this is due the windows being left open for COVID meaning you can hear the kids in the background. If you enjoyed or found this podcast interesting please share with your friends or consider following on whatever platform you are on.

  7. 05/21/2021

    STEM Discussion: Space exploration and its impacts

    In this episode (our first official one) we discuss with Christian Masiye, Daniel Cheng, Adam Shann, Seb Howles, Tom Vernon, Sofia Nwachukwu and Fiona Trimby about recent topics in Space exploration development such as NASA's Artemis program and China's Mars Rover and Space station module. We dive into the different aspects of this topic including the future of moon colonisation, ethics related to moon colonists and space debris and the protests held by Blue Origin and Dynetics. If you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more be sure to subscribe/follow and make sure to tell your friends about it.

    STEM Discussion: Space exploration and its impacts
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About

The podcast consisting of two subsections: STEM Discussion: Regular people discussing topics and news about STEM ranging from Space to Medicine to AI. STEM Careers: Podcast with guests that have a good and strong knowledge on STEM at University or STEM as a career.

Information

  • Creator
    WGS STEM
  • Years Active
    2021
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © WGS STEM
  • Show Website
    WGS STEM