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
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Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age
01/12/2024 Duration: 32minPeter Ungar - Paleoanthropologist and Author of Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins @PeterSUngarChristopher Preston - Professor of Philosophy at the University Of Montana and Author of The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World @SyntheticAge
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Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World
26/11/2024 Duration: 16minCaroline Curtin - Senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland @CarolineCurtin8 @AnatRcsiGarry Duffy - Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Therapies at University of Galway @gduffy00 @uniofgalway
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What 'mastering' AI looks like
24/11/2024 Duration: 52minJeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine
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Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds
19/11/2024 Duration: 15minPeter Lynch - Lecturer in Computer Games in TUD 0868130745 @WeAreTUDublinAphra Kerr - Professor of Information & Communication Studies and a senior adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy 0872891531 @AphraK @DigitalPolicyIE
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Futureproof Live Science Week Special
17/11/2024 Duration: 33minCollie Ennis - Science Officer with the Herpetological Society of Ireland, Zoology research associate at Trinity College and co-host of The Critter Shed Podcast Aedin McAdams - PhD student in Trinity College Dublin, researching habitat restoration
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Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device
12/11/2024 Duration: 18minProfessor David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Landing the Paris Agreement
10/11/2024 Duration: 43minTodd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.
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Extra: Why are animals the size they are?
05/11/2024 Duration: 16minDr. Shovonlal Roy - Ecosystem modeller and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.
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Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?
04/11/2024 Duration: 13minNow if you’re anything like me, it’s at around this time every four or so years when you once again find yourself wondering how it’s possible that the person who wins the vote to be the next US President can get less votes and still win.It doesn’t seem fair at all but of course there are many ways in which democracy can seem unfair.So just what is the fairset system?Elizabeth Maggie Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.
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Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?
03/11/2024 Duration: 39minMike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.
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Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly
29/10/2024 Duration: 13minGuest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin
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The future of law enforcement
27/10/2024 Duration: 33minGuest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL
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Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations
22/10/2024 Duration: 17minGuest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni
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Replicating the moon
20/10/2024 Duration: 35minGuest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight
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Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology
15/10/2024 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.
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How drugs are discovered
13/10/2024 Duration: 30minGuest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.
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Extra: The Myths of Evolution
08/10/2024 Duration: 18minSimon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni
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The Search for Male Contraception
06/10/2024 Duration: 43minLogan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow
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Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
01/10/2024 Duration: 14minGuest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
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A brief history of UFOs
29/09/2024 Duration: 34minGuest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.