Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

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  • Duration: 150:26:20
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Synopsis

Jonathan McCrea brings you the latest developments from the world of Science and Technology from robotics in warfare to artificial lifeforms and beyond

Episodes

  • Extra: A guide to our immune system

    27/08/2024 Duration: 15min

    Guest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.

  • How neurons encode the meaning of words

    25/08/2024 Duration: 39min

    Guest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.

  • Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?

    20/08/2024 Duration: 15min

    Guest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.

  • What is MicroRNA?

    18/08/2024 Duration: 37min

    Guest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.

  • Extra: The Wooden Age

    13/08/2024 Duration: 18min

    Dirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.

  • Studying Consciousness

    11/08/2024 Duration: 43min

    Lorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.

  • Extra: Symbiosis

    06/08/2024 Duration: 15min

    Dr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.

  • Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes

    04/08/2024 Duration: 41min

    Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show

  • Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special

    26/07/2024 Duration: 47min

    This week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.

  • Extra: Do I know you?

    23/07/2024 Duration: 19min

    Sadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination

  • Why do some people always get lost?

    21/07/2024 Duration: 41min

    Nora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe

  • Extra: Turbulence

    16/07/2024 Duration: 15min

    Ivan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb

  • What can we learn from whale ear wax?

    14/07/2024 Duration: 33min

    Stephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @stephenjtrumbleMichael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @NNCN_Germany 

  • Extra: Mapping the Cosmos

    09/07/2024 Duration: 14min

    Dr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology

  • The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies

    07/07/2024 Duration: 32min

    Lev Parikian - Conducter & Author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing @LevParikian&Professor Ines Thiele - Principal Investigator of the Molecular Systems Physiology group at University of Galway and Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland @ines_thiele @uniofgalway

  • Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us

    02/07/2024 Duration: 20min

    Rob Drummond - Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak

  • The High Seas

    30/06/2024 Duration: 34min

    Olive Heffernan - Science Journalist and Author of The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean @O_Heffernan

  • Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin!

    25/06/2024 Duration: 13min

    Eleanor Dunn - PhD Researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @DIAS_Dublin

  • How the things you see could alter how long you live!

    23/06/2024 Duration: 38min

    Guest: Christi Gendron - Research Assistant Professor in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at The University of Michigan.

  • Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting

    18/06/2024 Duration: 18min

    Eugene Morin - Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University @TrentUResearch @TrentUniversity

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