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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Extra: Lucid Dreaming
24/09/2024 Duration: 16minEmma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
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How AI will change your life
22/09/2024 Duration: 38minPatrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.
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Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?
17/09/2024 Duration: 18minSeren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope
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What happens to your data after you die?
15/09/2024 Duration: 42minCarl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci
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Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?
10/09/2024 Duration: 18minJoshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
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Life after death
08/09/2024 Duration: 37minSam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death.
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Extra: How our biology shaped world history
03/09/2024 Duration: 18minGuest: Professor Lewis Dartnell, Astrobiology Research Scientist at the University of Westminster and Author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History' @lewis_dartnell
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What really happens during brain surgery
01/09/2024 Duration: 40minGuest: Neurosurgeon Ted Schwartz @TedSchwartz13
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Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
01/09/2024 Duration: 14minGuest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
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Extra: A guide to our immune system
27/08/2024 Duration: 15minGuest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.
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How neurons encode the meaning of words
25/08/2024 Duration: 39minGuest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
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Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?
20/08/2024 Duration: 15minGuest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.
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What is MicroRNA?
18/08/2024 Duration: 37minGuest: 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.
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Extra: The Wooden Age
13/08/2024 Duration: 18minDirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.
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Studying Consciousness
11/08/2024 Duration: 43minLorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.
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Extra: Symbiosis
06/08/2024 Duration: 15minDr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.
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Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes
04/08/2024 Duration: 41minRobin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show
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Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special
26/07/2024 Duration: 47minThis 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.
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Extra: Do I know you?
23/07/2024 Duration: 19minSadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
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Why do some people always get lost?
21/07/2024 Duration: 41minNora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe