• Level Up Human S2E11 - Steve Backshall vs Kate Storrs

  • May 5 2020
  • Length: 50 mins
  • Podcast

Level Up Human S2E11 - Steve Backshall vs Kate Storrs

  • Summary

  • S2E11: Level Up Human is a podcast on a mission to redesign the human body.

    This week, Simon and Rach chat to naturalist and broadcaster Steve Backshall and visual perception scientist Kate Storrs.

    We discuss enhanced vision, limb regeneration, gecko hands, super kidneys and re-breathing.

    Extended show notes including edited transcripts are available here.

    In the news 

    Kate is tickled and baffled by a news story about Microsoft

    Steve's news story is entitled, 'Venomous Frogs use Heads as Weapons.'

    Rach's levelled up human is Bertolt Meyer, who has hacked his prosthetic hand to hook it up to his synth.

    The pitches 

    Steve wants to borrow the abilities of the Iberian sharp-ribbed newt, a type of salamander which can regenerate limbs and organs.

    Kate thinks the human body should be able to see the polarisation of light

    Plus pitches from our audience and Mother Nature herself 🌱


    Mentioned this episode

    Microsoft's new patent: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a32318654/microsoft-brainwaves-mine-cryptocurrency

    Venomous frogs use heads as weapons: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280753150_Venomous_Frogs_Use_Heads_as_Weapons

    Bertolt Meyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSKBtEBRWi4

    'Scuba-diving' lizard, Anolis aquaticus: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/bu-lc032019.php

    Steve's Home Schooling (9.30am, Wednesdays): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm-URP49TgSgyIU1rgh2m7A/videos

    The Mirror Trap: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mirror-trap-online-tickets-104125171190

    Stay In for Towel Day: https://www.savetherhino.org/get-involved/events/stay-in-for-towel-day-2020/


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    …or join our newsletter: http://www.leveluphuman.com/keep-in-touch


    With thanks to the Physiological Society.

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