How Are Chemical Contaminants Impacting Our Environment? | An Expert Explains
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Miriam Diamond joins the podcast today to discuss chemical contaminants in the environment – and viable strategies she is investigating to reduce them. Miriam is an environmental chemist and professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto, where she has been teaching for over 10 years.
Miriam has always been interested in the environment, and over the years, she has developed a deep passion for the reduction of chemical contaminants within it.
She accomplishes this within the Diamond Research Lab, a group she founded that is dedicated to identifying and connecting sources of chemical emissions to understand how they move through systems – and ultimately to exposure…
Join us now to learn more about:
- How scientists are discovering more about the sources of chemicals.
- Why chemical contaminants are so present in indoor environments.
- Chemical profiles that can exist within average homes.
- How smartphones can act as repositories for chemicals.
To find out more about Miriam and her work, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcast: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | I was very interested in biology, which started me birds and bird behavior. |
| 0:05.6 | So lucky to travel to the Arctic to study nomadic birds. So I studied |
| 0:13.4 | brick behavior, became very interested in environmental concerns. So I |
| 0:19.4 | pursued that through biology. Biologists and ecologists are very good at |
| 0:25.6 | observing the environment, understanding ecosystem complexity and problems. |
| 0:32.8 | When I saw however, it said engineers are swift finding solutions and |
| 0:39.2 | impermanent solution. As a result of that observation, I switched for biology |
| 0:44.5 | which focused on complexity and understanding the natural world to |
| 0:48.8 | engineering towards finding solutions. Okay. |
| 0:53.2 | Forget frequently asked questions. How about advice from a real genius? |
| 0:59.6 | 95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license. |
| 1:04.0 | 5% they become very good at what they do, but only 0.1% are real geniuses. Richard |
| 1:11.3 | Jacobs has made his life's mission to find them. For you, he hunts down and |
| 1:15.9 | interviews geniuses in every field. Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic |
| 1:20.4 | diets and more. Here come the geniuses. This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 1:25.6 | The Richard Jacobs. |
| 1:30.8 | This is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, now part of the Finding |
| 1:34.6 | Genius Foundation. I have Miriam Diamond, she's a professor in the Department of |
| 1:39.0 | Earth Sciences and Law School of the Environment at University of Toronto. |
| 1:42.9 | A way to talk about chemical contaminants in the environment. So Miriam, thanks for coming. |
| 1:47.6 | Richard, thank you so much for inviting me. Oh, no problem, yeah. |
| 1:51.2 | Well, tell me a bit about your background. How did you get into this field? |
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