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TED Radio HourUncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdomFrom the bugs in our backyards to prehistoric reptiles, animal biology and behavior are full of puzzles and conundrums. On this episode, we hear from experts solving the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Original broadcast date: July 14, 2023.Guests include paleontologist Dean Lomax, biochemical engineer Saad Bhamla, herpetologist Gowri Shankar and conservation biologist Patrícia Medici.TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without s...2025-06-2049 min
Short WaveAll Hail The Butt FlickerDid you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2020, principal investigator Saad Bhamla has been leading the charge to make science more accessible by publishing comics alongside every paper his lab publishes. Today, he introduces Emily to two of the most popular characters — Sheriff Sharpshooter and Captain Cicada — and shares why a comic about butt-flicking insects is a valuable way to take science beyond the lab. Want to hear more about nature's superpowers? Send u...2025-04-1412 minShort WaveAll Hail The Butt FlickerDid you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2020, principal investigator Saad Bhamla has been leading the charge to make science more accessible by publishing comics alongside every paper his lab publishes. Today, he introduces Emily to two of the most popular characters — Sheriff Sharpshooter and Captain Cicada — and shares why a comic about butt-flicking insects is a valuable way to take science beyond the lab. Want to hear more about nature's superpowers? Send u...2025-04-1412 min
Ask A Biologist PodcastFrom Cicadas to Centrifuges - The Frugal Science RevolutionEmbark on a journey through the intricate dance of nature and innovation as we welcome Saad Bhamla, a scientist at the forefront of biological engineering. Your curiosity will be rewarded as you and Dr. Biology learn about some of the smallest organisms that have sophisticated mechanisms that might help us solve our own challenges. Imagine the immense power hidden within a cicada's waste jet or the swift knot-escaping antics of a California blackworm—some might think of them as quirks of evolution, but others see them as blueprints for the future of design and technology. Our conversation do...2024-04-1334 min
TED Radio HourAnimal Enigmas: Uncovering the mysteries of the animal kingdomOriginal broadcast date: July 14, 2023. From the bugs in our backyards to prehistoric reptiles, animal biology and behavior are full of puzzles and conundrums. On this episode, we hear from experts solving the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Guests include paleontologist Dean Lomax, biochemical engineer Saad Bhamla, herpetologist Gowri Shankar and conservation biologist Patrícia Medici. TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at: plus.n...2024-03-2950 min
New Scientist CultureLabStranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers ReignFish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat your rash – all these oddities and more cohabit on the planet Vesta, the setting for the animated miniseries Scavengers Reign, where a group of human space travellers must innovate with what they find in the landscape to survive. While all this sounds fantastical, there are many parallels with Earth’s ecosystem and the way we regularly borrow technology from the natural world. New Scientist physics reporter Karmela Padavic-Callaghan often writes about biomimicry and bio-inspired devices and has been fascinated by th...2024-03-2636 min
The world, the universe and usCultureLab: Stranded on a fantastical planet: The strange creatures of Scavengers ReignFish you wear like a gas mask, moss that turns a robot sentient and critters that will eat your rash – all these oddities and more cohabit on the planet Vesta, the setting for the animated miniseries Scavengers Reign, where a group of human space travellers must innovate with what they find in the landscape to survive. While all this sounds fantastical, there are many parallels with Earth’s ecosystem and the way we regularly borrow technology from the natural world. New Scientist physics reporter Karmela Padavic-Callaghan often writes about biomimicry and bio-inspired devices and has been fascinated by th...2024-03-2636 min
This Week in Hearing164 - Pioneering Efforts to Provide Affordable and Accessible Hearing Care on a Global Scale
This week Andy Bellavia is joined by Deaftronics co-founder, Tendekayi Katsiga, and Georgia Tech professor, Dr. Saad Bhamla, to discuss their respective projects aimed at addressing the global crisis of hearing loss.
Deaftronics, based in Botswana, designs and manufactures affordable hearing aids that utilize solar power, while promoting awareness and accessibility to hearing care solutions, particularly in low-resource and underserved communities.
Dr. Bhamla and his lab have been working towards creating a $1 hearing aid and he discusses the challenges involved in developing a functional, but extremely low-cost hearing device.
For more information on these projects visit:
* Deaftronics: https://deaftronics...2023-09-0444 min
TED Radio HourAnimal EnigmasFrom the bugs in our backyards to prehistoric reptiles, animal biology and behavior are full of puzzles and conundrums. On this episode, we hear from experts solving the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Guests include paleontologist Dean Lomax, biochemical engineer Saad Bhamla, herpetologist Gowri Shankar and conservation biologist Patrícia Medici. TED Radio Hour+ subscribers now get access to bonus episodes, with more ideas from TED speakers and a behind the scenes look with our producers. A Plus subscription also lets you listen to regular episodes (like this one!) without sponsors. Sign-up at: plus.npr.org/ted 2023-07-1450 min
Curiosity WeeklyGERD Anxiety, Crowd Math, Insect CatapultToday we discuss the link between gastrointestinal disorders and mental health, how the path you take walking through a crowd can be predicted by mathematics, and how we’ve now witnessed an example of super propulsion in nature for the first time! GERD Anxiety “The causal role of gastroesophageal reflux disease in anxiety disorders and depression: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study” by Youjie Zeng, Si Cao, and Heng Yanghttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1135923/full“Linking the Gut and the Mind: New Evidence Shows GERD May Increase Risk of Anxiety and Depression” by Heng Yang, Youjie Zeng, and Si...2023-04-0617 min
TED Talks DailyThe fascinating physics of insect pee | Saad BhamlaScientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study of the physics behind how bugs take care of business and invites us to be more curious about the seemingly mundane. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-02-2808 min
TED TalksThe fascinating physics of insect pee | Saad BhamlaScientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study of the physics behind how bugs take care of business and invites us to be more curious about the seemingly mundane.2023-02-2809 min
Research in 90sec'sWhat’s the physics of a finger snap like in the Avengers movie?What’s the physics of a finger snap like in the Avengers movie?
In this episode, I feature a paper by Acharya and colleagues who uncovered the role of skin to skin friction behind how powerful the snap of a finger is. They found, for instance, that the snap of a finger is 20 times faster than the blink of an eye.
Full citation:
Acharya, R., Challita, E. J., Ilton, M., & Saad Bhamla, M. (2021). The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(184), 20210672.
2022-04-2701 minCuriosity WeeklyTo the Moon Artemis, Oh Snap!, The Skunky Funk of CannabisToday, you’ll learn about a super exciting space program, blasting off in a few months, that will take us back to the moon for the first time in 50 years, how the simple snap of your fingers actually involves some cool physics and the chemistry behind the skunky stank of cannabis.We’re going back to the moon, for the first time in 50 years! NASAArtemis-I: https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogramArtemis: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/Artemis Program: https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogramAround the Moon with NASA’s First Launch of SLS with Orion...2022-04-2214 min
熱血科學家的閒話加長（The Excited Scientists' Hot Tea）EP.50 彈指神通！人體做什麼動作最快？EP.50 彈指神通！人體做什麼動作最快？
粉絲專頁:https://www.facebook.com/scientists543/
人體做哪一個動作最快呢？很多人都會回答「眨眼」；錯了！正確答案是「手指」，「彈指」是最快的動作！
科學家有發現從中指開始，到中指打到手掌的拇指，算一次彈指，歷時只有 7 毫秒(0.007 秒) ，眨眼的時間是 150 毫秒，所以「彈指」比「眨眼」快！
說到「彈指」就會聯想到「復仇者聯盟」的「薩諾斯的彈指」，一彈對全宇宙半數生命造成威脅(為什麼威力這麼強大…)。
喬治亞理工學院Saad Bhamla教授看完電影後，跟學生討論劇情並對「彈指的動力學」展開研究，其中戴上不同材質的手套來測試，最後發現戴著手套的薩諾斯無法彈指！
本集以彈指的動力學，來聊聊「薩諾斯的彈指」！
＃薩諾斯 ＃復仇者聯盟 ＃彈指 ＃喬治亞理工學院
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The Smart 7 Ireland EditionEp. 217. The Sunday 7 - NASA launches Planet Defender, Glacial Rock Flour, the Science of Snapping Fingers and Clever Crabs...The Smart 7 Ireland Edition is the daily news podcast that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week… Consistently appearing in Ireland’s Daily News charts, we’re a trusted source for people every day. If you’re enjoying it, please follow, share or even post a review, it all helps… Today's episode includes the following guests: Nancy Chabot, coordination lead at the NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics LaboratoryProf Siobhan Quenby - Director of the Biomedical Research Unit in Reprod...2021-11-2819 min
The Soft Matter ShowEp #11 - Dr. Saad Bhamla on Slingshot Spiders, Worm Blobs, and Frugal ScienceEp #11 - Dr. Saad Bhamla on Slingshot Spiders, Worm Blobs, and Frugal Science
Hello Soft Matter People! Welcome to another episode of The Soft Matter Show. Our today's guest is Dr. Saad Bhamla (https://www.bhamla.com). Saad is a Professor at The School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this episode, Saad talked about some of the organisms that possess unique biophysical mechanisms for sustaining their life. These organisms include Slingshot spiders, Californian worms, and much more. You may even find parts of this conversation about "How insects pee". Yes...2021-06-1249 min
The Branded and Gilded LifeCan hearing aid embarrassment be cured?Hearing aids are advertised as being invisible.But the problems don't stop there. There's the social stigma that people with hearing loss have to deal with.Which seems strange because vision loss is perfectly acceptable.And so are spectaclesBaldness and the gradual loss of hearing with age are seen differently.The problem extends to costs as well. Good hearing aids cost as much as a top flagship mobile phone.And that puts them out of reach of most of the world's population.Saad Bhamla...2021-04-2506 min
People Behind the Science Podcast573: Dr. Saad Bhamla: Investigating the Physics of Ultra-Fast Movements in Animals and Developing Low-Cost Scientific Tools
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Dr. Saad Bhamla is Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. Afterwards, he conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University and was awarded a Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioengineering. In addition, Saad has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Beazley Design Award, Medgadget’s Best Medical Technology Award...2020-09-2841 min
People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science CareersInvestigating the Physics of Ultra-Fast Movements in Animals and Developing Low-Cost Scientific Tools - Dr. Saad BhamlaDr. Saad Bhamla is Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Research in Saad’s lab spans two different focus areas. Some of his projects are dedicated to developing very low-cost scientific tools and medical devices to make these items more accessible and affordable worldwide. Another area of research examines questions in biology and organismal physics. In this area, he is investigating how animals are able to move very rapidly, as well as how organisms can form aggregates that can sense their environment and share information. In his free time, Sa...2020-09-2841 min
2020 Opening Weekend FestivalFrugal/Low Cost Science: Panel by After iGEM - iGEM 2020 Opening Weekend FestivalDiscussing and taking a deeper look at low-cost science, development, and distribution of affordable scientific tools towards underfunded iGEM teams and labs. The panel will introduce and discuss different discoveries in Frugal Science, the challenges faced and the multitude of opportunities created by award winning scientists.
Speakers:
Shanti Hedge (Moderator), Dr. Saad Bhamla; Gaurav Byagathvalli; Soham Sinha; Dr. Ally Huang; Bethan Wolfenden
After iGEM Communications Committee
https://igem.org/After_iGEM
See more from the iGEM 2020 OPENING WEEKEND FESTIVAL:
https://2020.igem.org/Opening_Weekend
2020-09-1600 min