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Curiosity Cake Podcast Curiosity Cake is a podcast about ideas for curious minds with big appetites.

Each episode I interview an academic or entrepreneur for accessible and entertaining conversations on a range of topics across Science, Humanities, Society & Culture and more.

18/05/2021

What does have to do with

Find out the answer to this and how biology impacts our everyday lives in many other ways in the latest episode of Curiosity Cake

We discuss the importance of to life

How feed and their role in

The relationship between and

and and whether humans are the end of evolution

And even more on top of all that!

Listen wherever you get your

Apple: https://bit.ly/3kv83mV

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC





A few nuggets from the latest episode of Curiosity Cake featuring   Dr Melanie PefferWe discuss a range of topics in bio...
13/05/2021

A few nuggets from the latest episode of Curiosity Cake featuring Dr Melanie Peffer

We discuss a range of topics in biology from her book Biology Everywhere including:

-the importance of water for life
-DNA, RNA and genes
-evolution
-climate
-the relationship between biology and arts

Listen on and and anywhere else you can get

Apple: https://bit.ly/3kv83mV
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC


@ Harrogate, North Yorkshire

NEW CURIOSITY CAKE EPISODE OUT NOWWith Dr Melanie Peffer discussing   all around us including           and more. Here i...
11/05/2021

NEW CURIOSITY CAKE EPISODE OUT NOW

With Dr Melanie Peffer discussing all around us including and more.

Here is a little picture of the biology around me everyday

Listen: Apple: https://bit.ly/3kv83mV Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC




18/04/2021
18/04/2021
28/03/2021

Curiosity Cake is a show on Harrogate Community Radio - Tune in to listen live or to past episodes. Just Click HERE.

I'll be on this tomorrow
28/12/2020

I'll be on this tomorrow

Collective noun for a group of performance artist/content creator types?

Join us for a hilarious, end of 2020, let your hair down discussion on YouTube Live! 12 performers, several Europeans, some Americans and 1 Aussie!

Link will be on demand for those asleep at the time 😆👇

https://youtu.be/9oqgLpg2ymQ

Ping That's what I call Science Curiosity Cake Podcast What 2 Do With That? Women in STEMM Australia

Crystallography and Coronavirus with Dr Sam Horrell   https://youtu.be/l9bcF9SvgJo via  Preview of the new episode out t...
14/12/2020

Crystallography and Coronavirus with Dr Sam Horrell

https://youtu.be/l9bcF9SvgJo via


Preview of the new episode out tomrorow

On this episode of the Curiosity Cake Podcast I’m discussing crystallography and the coronavirus with Dr Sam Horrell.Hear the full episode https://linktr.ee/...

30/11/2020

On this episode of the Curiosity Cake I talk to Dave Ellis of Bangor University. We discuss the potential connection between and , and consider whether there is room in science for spiritual .

https://linktr.ee/curiositycake

30/11/2020

Coming soon: my story. Summer Bay to Space Science and Einstein robots, award-winning Research, YouTube, Podcasting and , and what might be next 🎞🥳

28/10/2020

Latest episode explores with anthropologist of We discuss real life vigilantes such as and the Bakassi Boys as well as comics such as and more https://linktr.ee/curiositycake

06/10/2020

New Episode: I talk to author, entrepreneur and TEDx-speaker Marianne Cantwell Free Range Humans about free range options, being your own boss and making your fit who you are. Listen: https://linktr.ee/curiositycake

Marianne Cantwell explains her idea of being a free range human, someone who creates career optins which fully fit who they are so you don't have to leave a piece of yourself at the door to earn money.

TEDx

My latest guest Balint's enthusiasm for   is infectious.  Listen as he infects me with it on the latest   ep: https://bi...
09/09/2020

My latest guest Balint's enthusiasm for is infectious. Listen as he infects me with it on the latest ep: https://bit.ly/3jTOEuP
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Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC
Podbean: https://bit.ly/31zlF84

“One could dismiss this as a poor photo with an out of focus . I see it as a tiny ant in focus, Gardener caste, with a super major behind it. What’s mind blowing? Almost IDENTICAL GENOMES yet so different! ”

Many species of   make trash piles outside the colony much like our landfill and refuse sites but on an ant scale. They ...
09/09/2020

Many species of make trash piles outside the colony much like our landfill and refuse sites but on an ant scale. They fill the site with their own waste, trash from the nest such as rotting food, and the bodies of dead nestmates.

Taking care of the trash pile is the duty of a set group of ants. These tend to be older and they are not allowed inside the nest to avoid contimination from the trash.

The leaf cutter ant in the image is one of these types.

Find out more amazing facts about ants on the latest episode of Curiosity Cake: https://bit.ly/3jTOEuP

Listen wherever you get podcasts, including:
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Google: https://bit.ly/2F4kIgi
Stitcher: https://bit.ly/3fLbLp4
Podbean: https://bit.ly/31zlF84
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It's all queued up and ready to go early tomorrow morning UK time. The new Curiosity Cake episode. Listen to me run out ...
07/09/2020

It's all queued up and ready to go early tomorrow morning UK time. The new Curiosity Cake episode. Listen to me run out of ways to say wow as shares his amazing knowledge of (and a bit of too)

I'm on another podcast talking about the troubles in Northern Ireland .This is definitely one of the better indie podcas...
31/08/2020

I'm on another podcast talking about the troubles in Northern Ireland .
This is definitely one of the better indie podcasters out there so check him out

Listen to this episode from I’d love to have a beer with on Spotify. Welcome friend. I hope you're faring well in these strange times. Hopefully we can say goodbye to 'The Covid', or 'Rona' in the very near future. This episode I get to discuss the Northern Ireland Troubles with Lee Delany from th...

  in full   back in his   days. Flow is a state of hyper awareness, concentration and performance where things feel like...
27/08/2020

in full back in his days. Flow is a state of hyper awareness, concentration and performance where things feel like they come easy. find out more on my latest episode with a
Apple:https://bit.ly/3kv83mV Spotify:https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC

New Episode Dr Patricia Jackman of University of Lincoln talks about her work on   and     in   and  , and how this work...
25/08/2020

New Episode Dr Patricia Jackman of University of Lincoln talks about her work on and in and , and how this work can help elite athletes AND us normal folk in the .

Flow is a state in which people experience a sense of easiness in their activity that might make time stand still and feel like a meditative state.

While clutch is the American term for those moments in sport that are high pressure with big stakes such as penalty shoot-outs, last minute plays, and big tournament finals such as

https://bit.ly/3kT8Ez5
Apple: https://bit.ly/3kv83mV
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC

Curiosity Cake is an entertaining and educating podcast about ideas. We talk to experts from academic and industry to serve up a slice of something amazing across Science, Technology, History, Philosophy, Health, Society, Culture and more.

11/08/2020

New episode talking about with Nick Walkden from the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Nick explains how fusion works and the potential for it to be a and for the and worldwide.

Apple: https://bit.ly/3kv83mV
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kzsMpC

11/08/2020
10/08/2020

is process which occurs in the sun and produces energy. The UKAEA are trying to replicate this on earth to produce . I spoke to plasma physicist about fusion for the . Episode out tomorrow. Here's a sneak peak with amazing animation by Badly Drawn Science

05/08/2020
05/08/2020

If you're confused about or with lots of competing advice, guidance and gurus, check out my episode with Dietitian Maeve Hanan
Dietetically Speaking who explains how to recognise bad nutrition guidance and what you can do to eat well

You can listen on all the usual podcast platforms, or here: https://curiositycake.co.uk/

29/07/2020

Maeve explains her idea of nutri-bollocks: bad science and guidance in nutrition. She tells us how to spot nutribollocks, and how we can figure out who to trust when it comes to nutrition information.

The first 3 episodes of Curiosity Cake are scheduled to be published tomorrow morning at 3am just in time for breakfast ...
27/07/2020

The first 3 episodes of Curiosity Cake are scheduled to be published tomorrow morning at 3am just in time for breakfast or commuting to work. You can find out more here: https://curiositycake.co.uk/upcoming-episodes

Professor Emma Bell of Savoie University in France tracks the growing influence of authoritarian ideas in mainstream UK politics over the 20th Century. Find out more here

Launching the podcast proper on Tuesday morning with 3 episodes published at once. One with Prof Emma Bell discussing ho...
24/07/2020

Launching the podcast proper on Tuesday morning with 3 episodes published at once.

One with Prof Emma Bell discussing how authoritarian ideas have infiltrated UK politics throughout the 20th century on both the left and right
https://curiositycake.co.uk/uk-authoritarianism

One discussing how to navigate your way through nutrition information and particularly how to spot nutribollocks
(bad nutrition science) with Dietitian and nutrition consultant Maeve Hanan
https://curiositycake.co.uk/no-nonsense-nutrition

And I talk to Guy Windsor about Historical Martial Arts which is an umbrella term for using historical study to develop martial arts used in historical times including swordfighting and unarmed combat forms. Much of which comes from dueling practice. Demand satisfaction and find out more
by listening on Tuesday on your way to work

We explore the idea of soft authoritarianism, and how this concept can be used to examine British politics in the 20th century through to present day.

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