8 OCT 2022 · Let's see if PiPs and the gang make it this time...

7 AUG 2021 · Hello dear listener! I read a lot of science stuff in the past months, and now I’m gonna tell you 9 science stories that I’ve already translated into mini-posts and related cartoons for the blog side of my silly self (you can find the links below). Sooo, dear listener, here we go! 1(of woodpeckers’ super skull)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/02/the-true-reason-why-woodpeckers-dont.html 2(of rats’ genome & New York)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-brown-rats-genome.html 3(of mammoths’ bones’ circles)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/03/the-true-reason-why-ice-age-mammoth.html 4(of cats music)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-nature-of-cats-specific-music.html 5(of flamingos' social life)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-truth-about-flamingos-social-life.html 6(of American robins' earlier migrations)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/04/the-true-reason-why-american-robins.html 7(of dingoes & the Tube Man)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2020/10/the-true-reason-why-dingoes-flee-from.html 8(of the fluffy exoplanet)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/the-true-reason-why-wasp-107b-newly.html 9(of the orange bats)- https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/the-true-reason-why-new-bat-species-is.html

15 JUN 2021 · Hellooo, dear listener! In this fourth and last part of the episode, I finish telling you the story of a group of Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, find plastics in human placentas of healthy women. Listening to this episode, you'll find out how bad is global plastic pollution, and how dangerous plastics are to living things in general, and to humans and human fetuses in particular. And there's also a brief interview to Dr. Ragusa, the leading investigator of this research! Aaand there's a also funny+unsettling fake commercial too... Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/05/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

21 APR 2021 · Hellooo, dear listener! In the third (of four) part of this episode, I keep telling you the story of a bunch of Italian researchers who are the first to find pieces of plastics smaller than 0.5 cm in human placentas of healthy women. Here you'll discover how the darn microplastics manage to sneak into the human body. Aaand there's also a GPS for bugs and antigens story... Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/04/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

21 MAR 2021 · Hellooo, dear listener! In this episode I'll tell you a story about urban horticulture, more precisely the story of how a bunch or researchers proved that a city (specifically Sheffield, England, UK) could potentially feed a big chunk of its own people with veggies and fruits grown in the city itself (on green spaces and even roofs)! And there's a very funny fake commercial about the green thumb too. Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/03/of-food-production-in-urban-areas-meet.html

23 FEB 2021 · Hellooo, dear listener! In this second part of this multi-part episode, I go on telling you the story of a group of smarty smart Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, finds man-made stuff, specifically microplastics, in human placentas. In this episode you'll find how the scientists understand that what they found is actually plastics, what kind of plastics this things are precisely, and, above other things, how much plastic has been made - I mean ever - and how much plastic garbage ended up in the environment so far. Aaand there's also a conspiracy theory about 1I/2017 U1 aka ʻOumuamua and some nanoprobes...  Ciao! Find the script (plus all the references & credits) here: https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/02/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

18 JAN 2021 · Hellooo, dear listener. In this multi-part episode I start telling you the story of a bunch of Italian researchers who, for the first time ever, find pieces of plastic in human placentas (those of four healthy women who had smooth pregnancies and deliveries). In this very part 1 you'll hear how the resourceful scientists from the boot-shaped country collect the samples they need for their study, and what technique they use to analyze them. Aaand there's also a joke about a horse, a gamma ray burst and a banana split... Ciaz The script is here:  https://www.sciencemug.com/2021/01/of-plastics-human-placenta-meet.html

21 DEC 2020 · Ho-ho-hoooo... Hello, dear listener, welcome to this Xmas episode! I'll tell you two stories this time. One  is about how the popular belief according to which Santa doesn't visit naughty children may be or may be not (listen and find out) actually  true. The other story, given the year is 2020, is about what would be the consequences of Santa Claus doing his worldwide tour on Christmas Eve while infected by a highly contagious virus. Here's the script (with the bibliography): https://tinyurl.com/y784b9e3. Enjoy&Merry Xmas&peaceful holidays! @sciecemug

23 APR 2020 · Ooooooh, caro auscultatore e cara auscultatrice, sono lieto di dirti che è arrivato @sciencemug ITALIA, il podcast dove potrai ascoltare tuuuti i nuovi episodi (e un po’ alla volta anche quelli vecchi) in italiano! @sciencemug ITALIA è già su iTunes, Spotify, Anchor, Castbox, e presto sarà disponibile anche su altre piattaforme. Benone, oh voi del quelli che il podcast sì ma solo in italiano, la notizia ve l’ho data, adesso vi saluto, che devo tornare a inseguire il bianconiglio... Ciaz! SM

21 APR 2020 · Oooh hallo dear listener, in this sort-of episode I tell you three science news (about climate change & biology, wildlife & ethology, and astronomy) and related infos that I've told in these weeks in my blog-self side via mini-micro post and cartoons. Next regular episode is on its way, it'll be 'bout food and cities... Enjoy! SM Links to the news: 1) Climate change & bumblebees extinction: https://tinyurl.com/yalgtyvh 2) Wolves & blueberries: https://tinyurl.com/y9woy6ot 3) Dimming super stars: https://tinyurl.com/y7ytj9gc