Welcome to Episode 3 of Teaching Science, a podcast dedicated to exploring scientific literacy, and ways to improve it in the world we live in. My name is Anant, I’m a third-year medical student, and I’m your host. In today’s episode, Our guest is Mr. Eric Mayer, a science teacher at Nevada Union HS in Grass Valley CA who teaches physics and earth science. I’m so excited for you to listen to my conversation with him. This podcast is brought to you by Naik Labs, a creative venture in pursuit of universal science literacy. Don’t forget to follow @naik.labs on Instagram, and visit www.naiklabs.co ..read more

Welcome to Episode 2 of Teaching Science, a podcast dedicated to exploring scientific literacy, and ways to improve it in the world we live in. My name is Anant, I’m a third-year medical student, and I’m your host. In today’s episode, we explore the role of physicians in educating patients, and what one particular physician’s experience is in combating misinformation in his community, about COVID, but also beyond. Our guest today is Dr. Brent Reifsteck, an in-patient pediatric physician and leader at Carle Foundation Hospital in the Urbana, Champaign community in central Illinois. Dr. Reifstec ..read more

Citations is a sub-podcast of Teaching Science, with the objective of exposing listeners to a thorough analysis of primary science sources. In this episode, I break down a very important paper published on November 12, 2020, in the New England Journal of Medicine by the mRNA 1273 Research Group that investigates the mRNA vaccine by MODERNA against the SARS-C0V2 virus in a phase-1 clinical trial. Listen to me reading crucial components of the paper and explain what they did, why it's important and what's coming next in the vaccine world. Find the full paper here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1 ..read more

In this episode, I discuss some fundamental neuroscience behind decision making, and the reason behind why I'm starting this podcast in addition to what I hope to achieve. Continue the discussion by following Naik Labs on Instagram: @naik.labs, and joining the Naik Labs newsletter at www.naiklabs.com ..read more