Episodes
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Talia Lowi-Merri is a PhD student at the University of Toronto, based in the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Splitting her time between both palaeontology (the study of fossils) and ornithology (the study of birds), her current work surrounds the origin and evolution of flight in birds and their raptor dinosaur ancestors.
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Daniel was joined by environmental scientist, birdwatcher, and visual storyteller Haya Aldoori and nature interpreter Matthew Kinasz to discuss the importance of urban natural spaces in Toronto and the current state of traditional education.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusFollow Haya on Instagram @hayaaldoori and learn more about the High Park Nature Centre at highparknaturecentre.com.
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Dr. Thomas S. Mullaney is a Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University, and Curator of the international exhibition, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age. His latest book, The Chinese Typewriter, "examines China’s development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure encompassing telegraphy, typewriting, word processing, and computing”.
Radical Machines is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA).
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Buy your copy of Chinese Typewriter: A History at mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter
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Gil Wizen is an entomologist, macro photographer, and keeper of arthropods! For the past 8 months, Gil and Daniel have been collaborating on educational videos about arachnids and venomous insects. Watch some of their videos at curiosityinfocus.com/videography!
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusLearn more about Gil at gilwizen.com, follow him on Twitter @wizentrop, and on Instagram @gilwizen.
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Jason Pitre is a biologist for the Canadian government by day, and an independent game designer by night.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusJason’s work of speculative zoology, After the War, is now on Kickstarter! Fund the project at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jagash/after-the-war
Links from this episode:
The Curious Case of Radiotrophic Fungi
Canis soupus: The Eastern Coy-Wolf
Polar-Grizzly Hybrids
Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping in Prince Edward Island
Corn Domesticated From Mexican Wild Grass 8,700 Years Ago
What is Synthetic Biology?
What are Hox Genes?
The Last Dragon
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Simu is a Canadian Screen Award nominee best known for his role as Jung on the CBC TV sitcom Kim's Convenience. They talked about whitewashing, problematic castings in mainstream media, the broader trend of Asian erasure in pop culture, and the world of online dating.
This was an episode about creating change, finding purpose, and transforming pop culture.
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Conor McDonnell is a poet, doctor, and martial arts practitioner. In 2016, he published The Book of Retaliations with Anstruther Press. His second book, Safe Spaces, is now available for purchase at Frog Hollow Press.
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Kevin Rawlings is an environmental technician for Environment and Climate Change Canada and a photographer currently working in Alert, Nunavut, Canada. He is also the world's northern most permanent resident.
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Osama Dorias is a Senior Game Designer at Warner Brothers Montreal and the co-founder of the Indie Video Game studio Magic Pants and the Montreal Independent Games Festival.
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Games recommended during this episode include: Overwatch, The Last of Us: Part II, Rainbow Six Siege, Spec Ops: The Line, Tacoma, Good Pizza, Great Pizza, Sleeping Dogs, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Red Dead Redemption 2!
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Jayd Matyas is an industrial designer at Secret City Games and a performer with the Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers (RAW).
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Joe DeSimone is a Brooklyn-based educator working toward a more diverse understanding of games and their uses.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusFollow Joe on social media @iheartfargo and learn more about Make Room! and the Brooklyn Game Lab.
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Season 6 of Curiosity in Focus is just around the corner! Fresh out of Gen Con 2018, here's audio from a panel Daniel co-hosted with Shel Kahn and Cat Tobin about saving the world through gaming. How do we translate our experiences as gamers into productive expression, activism & persuasion? Join us as we look at the map, hash out the tactics, & min/max our way out of the darkest timeline.
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Follow Shel on social media @portablecity and learn more at portablecity.net
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Fraser Simons is a writer and game designer based in Calgary, Canada. He is known for his cyberpunk roleplaying games The Veil: Cyberpunk, The Veil: Cascade, and the upcoming title Hack the Planet.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusBlog post - How “playing pretend” with tabletop RPGs can make you a more self-aware person.
Learn more about Fraser (@frasersimons) on social media, read his blog Consuming Cyberpunk, and check out his games with Samjoko Publishing!
Cyberpunk recommendations: Tokyo Ghost, The Fortunate Fall, Red Spider White Web, The Summer Prince, & He, She, and It.
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Lauren Stasyna is a Toronto-based creative and self-proclaimed Meme Queen. She is passionate about museums, film, and Jeff Goldbum; as well as an advocate for inclusivity and self-care.
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Mark Richardson is a professional cartographer and graphic designer with the Canadian Federal Government and the owner of Green Hat Designs.
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Will Parks is a graphic designer working in Toronto, Canada. Will studied at OCAD University and graduated with a Bachelor's in Design in 2017. Will is now working on Keel-Haul!, a pirate action game for the PC platform as well as other projects.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusLearn more about Will (@willdparks) at willparks.ca and Keel-Haul at facebook.com/keelhaulgame
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Ashley Reynolds is an evolutionary biologist that studies prehistoric cats! Apologies for the audio, something mysterious happened during the live-stream and the recording was compromised. If you'd like to see the accompanying video for this episode, you can watch it below or at facebook.com/curiosityinfocus!
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusAshley's blog at ashinonyx.wordpress.com!
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Jason Morningstar is an award-winning indie game designer and one half of Bully Pulpit Games.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusCheck out 'Terps, Night Witches, Durance, Fiasco, and Winterhorn! Learn how to use Winterhorn in your classroom here!
Learn more at bullypulpitgames.com!
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During the first live-streamed episode of Curiosity in Focus, Daniel sat down with evolutionary biologist Danielle de Carle (from episode #39) at the Royal Ontario Museum to watch a live leech feeding!
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Learn more about Danielle's work on her ResearchGate profile and learn more about the Kvist Lab at kvistlab.com,
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Victoria Arbour is an evolutionary biologist and vertebrate palaeontologist studying the evolution of dinosaurs. She currently studies ankylosaurs, a group of armoured dinosaurs often known for their tail weapons. Over the course of her career, she's investigated the biomechanics of tail clubbing in ankylosaurian dinosaurs through mathematical modeling and finite element analysis.
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Facebook: facebook.com/curiosityinfocusZuul, Destroyer of Shins at the Royal Ontario Museum
Victoria's blog, Pseudoplocephalus
Victoria's latest academic publication - The evolution of tail weaponization in amniotesYi Qi, the dinosaur with bat-like wings
The Carolina Butcher
Dino 101 of Coursera
Bulbasaurus, the dinosaur Pokemon? - Show more