Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists
Robyn Schenk
28 episodes
7 months ago
Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...
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Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...
Ep. 12: Doing Tai Chi with Drones with Design Researcher Joseph La Delfa
Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists
32 minutes
5 years ago
Ep. 12: Doing Tai Chi with Drones with Design Researcher Joseph La Delfa
Joseph La Delfa is an industrial designer doing his PhD in design research, where he has developed a drone that responds to bodily movements, to be used as a meditation tool for the practice of Tai Chi. Although he's not a scientist, I find out what design research is, and the similarities and differences to scientific research. See for yourself what DroneChi looks like here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjaTtLwhwY&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2ndjBNtADervJkcDJR9TKMo71e7wkx8a0qpYa...
Nice to Know - Conversations with Everyday Scientists
Turns out, pigeons are way more interesting than your average street critter. Their ability to navigate has been known and used by people for centuries, but we still don't know how they are able to sense the earth's magnetic fields. Greg Nordmann (@GregNordmann) is a PhD student in the lab of David Keays (@keays_lab) at the IMP in Vienna (@IMPvienna), where he is trying to answer this question, by studying the pigeon brain's response to magnetic stimuli. Check out keayslab.org for more abou...
