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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Space Elevators
05/05/2024 Duration: 34minProfessor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
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Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?
30/04/2024 Duration: 13minSam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp
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The Interstellar Workshop
28/04/2024 Duration: 42minJoseph Meany is a Science consultant and board member of the IRG (Interstellar Research Group)
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Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
23/04/2024 Duration: 18minMike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at University of Bristol and author of Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
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The Purpose of the Universe
21/04/2024 Duration: 45minPhilip Goff is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and author of Why? The Purpose of the Universe
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Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?
16/04/2024 Duration: 16minBryan Choi - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Centre for Brain Tumour Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mass General (Massachusetts General Hospital)
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Near Death Experiences
15/04/2024 Duration: 43minJimo Borjigin is Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan
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Gold: Where Are We?
07/04/2024 Duration: 45minVanessa Collingridge is an Author, Broadcaster and Doctor of Historical CartographyHelene Courtois is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Lyon and Author of Finding Our Place In The Universe
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Gold: DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain
05/04/2024 Duration: 30minAnnie Jacobsen is a Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of DARPA - The Pentagon's Brain
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Extra: Studying psi
02/04/2024 Duration: 12minChris French is Emeritus Professor and Former Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at the University of London and author of The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Brains Conjure the Paranormal
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
31/03/2024 Duration: 45minAnnie Jacobsen is a Bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Nuclear War: A Scenario
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The Science of Menstruation
27/03/2024 Duration: 15minDr. Jennifer Gunter is a Gynaecologist & author of Blood: The Science, Medicine and Mythology of Menstruation
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Eat, Poop, Die
24/03/2024 Duration: 36minJoe Roman - Conservation biologist and marine ecologist at the University of Vermont and Author of Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
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Extra: Enhancing Daylight
19/03/2024 Duration: 14minJonathan speaks with Professor Brian Norton from the Tyndall National Institute
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The Nocebo Effect
17/03/2024 Duration: 35minCharlotte Blease is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and co-author of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick
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Extra: The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
12/03/2024 Duration: 15minFrancis Halzen is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Principle Investigator at the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
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Who Owns The Moon?
10/03/2024 Duration: 37minProfessor AC Grayling is a Philosopher and Author of Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space
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Extra: Brain Fog
05/03/2024 Duration: 15minIt’s almost exactly 4 years since the Covid 19 pandemic came to these shores and although thankfully the pandemic is over, there is still a lot to learn about the disease and its after effects.Long Covid is particularly perplexing but Irish scientists from the FutureNeuro Centre may have shed some light on one specific aspect of it; Brain FogSo what exactly is brain fog and how does a Covid infection bring it about?Dr. Matthew Campbell is a Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and Principal Investigator at the FutureNeuro Centre
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Why We Humans Can Get Used To Just About Anything
03/03/2024 Duration: 42minJonathan speaks to Cass Sunstein - Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and Co-Author of "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" about habituation and his new book.
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Futureproof Extra: A New Habitat in the Pacific Garbage Patch
27/02/2024 Duration: 14minJonathan is joined by Jim Carlton - Professor of Marine Sciences, Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts