In this episode, Marco and Alessandro chat with Solvejg Dylan in order to discover all the secrets of our past through a discussion about the day to day activities of an archaeologist… which, surprisingly, it has nothing to do with what Indiana Jones normally does! If you want to know more, listen to today’s podcast with Solvejg Dylan.

In this interview of Supernova Podcast, Solvejg Dylan takes us to the past. She invites us to discover the mysteries of the lifestyle of our predecessors, how they lived, what their routines and habits were all from the perspective of an archaeologist. She will also give us an insight on what a real archaeologist does and the many different topics they can study as well as how their researches can help us to understand today’s society.

Solvejg Dylan is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion of the university of Bergen.

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Produced by: Rosa Duran and Marco Germinario

In this episode, Marco and Alessandro chat with Dario Fé, an Italian scientist working for DLF-Seeds a Danish cooperative and one of the largest seed producers in the market of forage and turf grasses - as well as a guest researcher at Aarhus University.

In this interview of Supernova Podcast, Dario Fé guides us through the process of raising and breeding plants. The many ways we can manipulate the breeding of plants to our own goals are impressive, and Dario Fé will talk about it today: genetic manipulation in plants and the many ways in which plants, essential to our survival, can reproduce and produce food for our consumption.

Dario Fé has studied Agricultural and environmental sciences at the University of Perugia (Italy) and wrote his PhD at Aarhus University (Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics). The title of the thesis was “Establishing the basis for Genomic Prediction in Perennial Ryegrass”. Genomic prediction consists on predicting phenotypes (observable characteristics) of individuals based on their DNA. In animals and plants this allows to identify the best individuals and select them as parent as soon as they are born or germinated.

If you are curious about today’s topic you can find more info in any of these links:

● Some amateur videos on pollen clouds:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhYtwBA3NNs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owBjOFHoHew

● Video on animals that transport pollen

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5uRVv7GGQM

● Genomic selection (about animals, but same concepts)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEqM9wfvOg

- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61741352

Produced by: Rosa Duran and Marco Germinario

In this episode, Marco and Alessandro chat with Susanna Andreasi, expert in waste management and recycling issues affecting today’s society.

Susanna Andreasi will discuss with Marco and Alessandro how all the waste we generate is managed. A fascinating topic that goes beyond the process of waste management itself, posing interesting questions about the way we consume, how trash should be properly handled and in which ways we can improve our consumption to help today’s urgent issue regarding the excess of waste, specially plastics.

Susanna Andreasi is a Scientific Officer in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. She has a Postdoc in the Department of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Denmark. She is specialised in waste management and environmental impacts.

If you are curious about today’s topic you can find more info in any of these links:

● Five Misperceptions Surrounding the Environmental Impacts of Single-Use Plastic - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c05295

● Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768

● Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782

If you want to reach out to us, please do not hesitate to contact us at: supernovapodcastfm@gmail.com

Produced by: Rosa Duran and Marco Germinario