Ours, Scientifica Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Ours, Scientifica podcast shares about research developments worldwide, in Singapore and student life in NUS. We answer common questions regarding NUS and have students share their experiences here. We also introduce Professors and their exciting research work here! Ultimately we aim to teach, educate and inspire. Ours, Scientifica have a magazine too! https://linktr.ee/OursScientificaSJC
Ours, Scientifica Issue 8 is out! The theme for the current issue is Veni, Vidi, Vici which meant I came, I saw, I conquer in Latin. In this podcast, we interviewed writers on the motivation behind the articles they wrote and share about their experience writing for this issue. Check out our latest magazine here!
(0:27) - Introduction and Slaying The Mathematical Monster
(13:30) - Malaria Vaccine
(31:00) -Diagnosing Parkinson's Disease
Ours, Scientifica Issue 8 is out! The theme for the current issue is Veni, Vidi, Vici which meant I came, I saw, I conquer in Latin. In this podcast, we interviewed writers on the motivation behind the articles they wrote and share about their experience writing for this issue. Check out our latest magazine here!
Introduction to OS Issue 8 - 00:27
James Webb Telescope (News In Focus) - 01:19
Science Behind Fairytails (Science through art) - 09:15
RICE Protocol (Perish The Thought) - 14:44
In this episode, we have a special guest, Jessie joining us. Jessie is currently pursuing her PhD studies in the field of cancer and stem cells at Duke-NUS medical school. She is also a young entrepreneur who has her very own start-up called Handy Dandy which sells trendy jewellery.
Join us in this episode to find out more about Jessie's entrepreneurial journey and the motivations that have led her down the path to becoming a young scientist and entrepreneur.
Check out Jessie's shop here!
You can connect with Jessie on Linkedin here!
(0:50) - PhD in Duke NUS Medical School
(14:06) - Overseas PhD
(17:22) - Choosing the right PI
(18:57) - Work-life balance
(21:35) - Facing burnout
(27:00) - Handy Dandy shop
(34:07) -Final advice for prospective students
(37:00) - Social media contact
This time, we have a special guest, Yong Qi with us! He is one of our writers at Ours Scientifica, who has written two articles on dark matter and is also currently working as an editor at World Scientific Publishing. The two articles are The Enigmatic Dark Matter from Issue 6 and Axion Quark Nugget: A Dark Matter Candidate from Issue 7.
Join us on this episode to learn some insights into being an editor and also uncover some of the mysteries behind dark matter!
(0:30) - Introducing Yong Qi (Editor at World Scientific)
(1:00) - Why editing and science communication?
(2:36) - Editing nitty-gritty: What it's all about
(4:16) - Yong Qi's Articles (The Enigmatic Dark Matter, Axion Quark Nuggets)
(5:12) - Defining dark matter
(8:15) - Dark energy
(10:08) - Space-time curvature and dark matter
(14:17) - Axion quark nuggets (AQN): A new dark matter model
(17:14) - Strong charge-parity problem & AQN
(23:30) - Axions as a candidate for dark matter
(24:16) - The axion-quark relationship
(26:03) - The problem of matter-antimatter asymmetry
(28:50) - How axions and the axion quark nugget model explains this asymmetry
(37:14) - Gravitational force and image distortion
(39:30) - Final advice on editing and publishing
You can contact Yong Qi at:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yong-qi-soh-551327119/
As the semester is starting, here are some common questions posted by freshman in NUS! We hope that we gave some valuable advice!
(0:35) - NUS Second minor and major
(8:09) - FYP and FYI
(10:08) - How to find research opportunities in NUS (UROPS)
(12:33) - Favourite module
(14:50) - Looking for friends
(17:10) - Mental health as NUS student
(22:15) - Advice on NUS grades (Success start with S/U)
(24:41) - Final advice
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