Best Peter Littlewood Podcasts (2024)

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Prof. Peter Littlewood on phase transitions, and the connections between Physics, Biology and AI 56:19

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Peter Littlewood is professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. His research activities include the dynamics of collective transport and phenomenology and microscopic theory of superconductors.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a vo…

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Prof. Michael Dorf of Cornell on the nonidentity problem, debt ceiling, and Civil Disobedience 53:58

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michael Dorf is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. He has authored or co-authored well over one hundred scholarly articles and essays for law reviews, books, and peer-reviewed science and social science journals. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=…

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Prof. Bruce Ovbiagele of UCSF on Stroke and Global Health Equity 59:44

21m ago59:44

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Bruce Ovbiagele, is a professor of neurology and associate dean at UCSF, and chief of staff at the San Francisco Veterans Health Care System. Dr. Ovbiagele’s research focuses on reducing the burden of stroke in both the U.S. and Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…

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Prof. Viral Acharya of NYU on myopic governments, decarbonization, contingent credit, and employment 1:00:47

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Viral Acharya is Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. He was a Resident Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2017 to 2019 in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets, Fi…

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Prof. Thane Rosenbaum of Touro University on the first amendment, society, religion and policy 58:54

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Thane Rosenbaum is Professor of Law at Touro University. He is also the director of the Forum on Life, Culture, & Society, hosted by Touro University. Additionally, he serves as the Legal Analyst for CBS News Radio and frequently appears on cable television news programs1.Please subscribe to this channel:http…

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Prof. Joel Bakan on the New Corporation 59:03

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Joel Bakan is an author, filmmaker and a professor of law at the University of British Columbia. His work examines the social, economic, and political dimensions of law.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters…

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Prof. Chris Barrett on ‘Benevolent’ patent extensions, community forests, and crop yield estimation 1:00:01

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Chris Barrett is Professor of Applied Economics and Management and an international professor of agriculture at Cornell University. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Food Policy and edits the Palgrave Macmillan book series Agricultural Economics and Food Policy.Please subscribe to this channel:https://w…

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Dr. Paul Heggarty on the history and progression of Indo-Europeans 51:53

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Paul Heggarty is a research scientist at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research focus is on language (pre)history, aiming to ensure that the perspective from linguistics is better understood outside that field. He works closely with archaeologists, geneticists and historians.Please subscribe to …

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Prof. Eugene Volokh of UCLA on freedom of speech for humans, organizations, and AI. 1:11:52

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Eugene Volokh is Professor of Law at UCLA. He teaches First Amendment law, copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and firearms regulation policy. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/s…

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Prof. Mariassunta Giannetti on supply chains, market power, inflation and liquidity reallocation 1:00:48

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Mariassunta Giannetti is a professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics; she is also a CEPR research fellow in the financial economics program and a research associate of the ECGI. She studies how formal institutions (such as investor protection) and informal institutions (such as culture and soci…

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Prof. Anthony LoSasso on healthcare providers, payors, prices and markets 1:02:25

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Anthony LoSasso is Professor of Economics at DePaul University in Chicago. His research spans several dimensions of health economics and health services research. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s…

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Prof. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State on Covid reality & Normalization of Deviance in Project Management 1:07:08

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jeffrey Pinto is Professor of Management and Chair in Management Technology at Penn State University. His research interests include Project management, governance, team dynamics in projects, burnout, leadership, gender issues in project manager selection.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.c…

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Mr. Ashwin Ramaswami, senatorial candidate in Georgia on the opportunities for the next generation 38:51

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Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Ashwin Ramaswami, first ever Gen Z candidate for State Senate in Georgia's 48th district.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcast…

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Prof Annamaria Lusardi of Stanford University on the importance of financial literacy 1:00:08

3M ago1:00:08

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Annamaria Lusardi is Professor of Finance at Stanford University. She is also Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Financial Freedom Initiative, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at…

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Priyanca Ford on the promises and challenges of fusion energy 59:54

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Priyanca Ford is the Founder and Executive Board Member of Kronos Fusion Energy. Priyanca has dedicated her career to developing algorithms and machine learning simulations for fusion energy generators. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice…

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Prof. Moran Cerf of Columbia Business School on humanity, AI and decision-making 51:23

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Moran Cerf is professor of business at Columbia business school. His academic research uses methods from neuroscience to understand the underlying mechanisms of our psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decisions, and dreams.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confi…

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Prof. György Buzsáki of NYU on the Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership 1:00:41

2M ago1:00:41

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: György Buzsáki is Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. His research focuses on brain networks, especially those serving cognitive functions and the packaging and segmentation of neural information.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_c…

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Prof. Ilana Redstone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the Certainty Trap. 56:54

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also co-director of the Mill Institute at UATX. She is the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series and the author of the Certainty Trap (coming out in summer 2024) Please subscrib…

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Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker of the University of Cape Town on the prevalence of HIV and other diseases 50:03

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is a Past President of the International AIDS Society. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voic…

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Prof. Cass Sunstein of Harvard University on the power of noticing what was always there 1:00:08

2M ago1:00:08

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Cass Sunstein is University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health. From 20…

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Prof. Monica L. Smith of UCLA on the Fundamentals of the State 1:03:32

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Monica L. Smith is Professor of Anthropology and the institute of environmental sustainability at UCLA. She is a historian who utilizes archaeological data to analyze the collective effects of routine activities through the study of food, ordinary goods, and architecture.Please subscribe to this channel:https…

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Prof. Claudia de Rham of Imperial College on Gravity. 50:47

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia de Rham is professor is a Theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. She develops and tests cosmological theories dealing with a wide variety of concepts, from the early universe and dark energy to the behavior of gravity.She has been particularly involved in developing a new theory of massive …

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Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gestures and language 56:07

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow is Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development. Her research focuses on the most basic building blocks of language and thought as they are developed in early childhood. Her research has also generated more broadly applicable insights into how the spontaneous gestures that lea…

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Prof. Robin Chazdon on forest regeneration and climatic impacts 52:29

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robin Chazdon is Professor Emerita in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut and part-time Research Professor with the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Her long-term and on-going collaborative research focu…

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Prof. Francine Blau of Cornell University on Gender Inequality in the Labor Market 1:02:56

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Francine Blau is Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, a Research fellow of the National he Institute for the Study of Labor, Institute for Economic Research, and German Institute for Economic Research. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtub…

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Prof. Ulrike Malmendier of UC Berkely on CEO lifespan 52:45

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ulrike Malmendier is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at Berkeley Haas and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include corporate finance, behavioral economics/behavioral finance; economics of organizations; contract theory; law and economics; law and finance. Her area of focu…

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Prof. Laura Veldkamp of Columbia University on a model of the data economy. 56:38

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Laura Veldkamp is a Professor of Finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on how individuals, investors, and firms get their information, how that information affects the decisions they make, and how those decisions affect the macroeconomy and asset prices. Her recent…

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Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics of Environmental Values 50:56

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Professor at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her research and policy interests are in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the su…

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Prof. James Robinson of the University of Chicago on Why Nations Fail 1:11:23

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Robinson is Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. His work explores the underlying causes of economic and political divergence both historically and today and uses both the mathematical and quantitative methods o…

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Prof. George Schatz of Northwestern University on nanoparticles 55:13

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. George Schatz is Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His research involves theory and computation as applies to problems in nanotechnology, properties of materials, macromolecular structures and dynamics, molecular self-assembly, optics, plasma science…

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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT on the deleterious effects of deuterium on health & metabolic diseases 56:57

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation – developing a computational model for the human auditory system, understanding human…

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Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers of KU Leuven in Belgium on risk aversion in R&D funding 54:48

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers is Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the KU Leuven in Belgium, known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels] and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. Please subscribe to this c…

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Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi on the quest to increasing access to AI in Africa and developing countries. 50:18

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Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Celina Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Zindi. Zindi hosts the largest community of African data scientists, working to solve the world’s most pressing challenges using machine learning and AI. It connects data scientists with organizations, and provide a place to learn, hone your skills and find a job. Zindi’s goa…

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Prof. Barbara Petrongolo of University of Oxford on gender inequality, trends, and policy 56:37

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. She is Fellow of the British Academy, Director of the CEPR Labor Economics Program and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube…

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Prof. Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh on Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work 54:04

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Lise Vesterlund is professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also on the board of editors of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and of the Experimental Economics journal. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www…

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Prof. Paul Sutter of Stony Brook University on Cosmic Voids and the Structure of the Universe 40:56

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Paul Sutter is a research professor at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Center for Computational Astrophysics with the Flatiron Institute. He is also the host of popular podcast “Ask the Spaceman.” Please subscribe to this channel:https:/…

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Prof. Alexander Sack of Maastricht University on brain stimulation and treatment of CNS diseases 51:34

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alexander Sack is professor and chair of applied cognitive neuroscience at Maastricht University. He is also co-founder and board member of the Dutch-Flemish Brain Stimulation Foundation. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message:…

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Prof. Roman Sheremeta of Case Western University on the Russian war on Ukraine and International law 47:20

8M ago47:20

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Roman Sheremeta is Associate Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, Co-Chair of Ukrainian American House and Founding Rector of American University of Kyiv.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1--- Send in a voice message: https://podc…

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Prof. Matthias Kling of Stanford on Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) upgrade and applications 57:50

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Matthias Kling is Professor of Photon Science and Applied Physics at Stanford University and the Director of the Science, Research and Development (SRD) Division at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/S…

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Prof. James Tabery of the University of Utah on the Tyranny of the Gene 55:16

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: James Tabery is professor at the University of Utah, with appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Internal Medicine (Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and the Humanities). His research areas are history and philosophy of science, as well as bioethics. Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medic…

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Prof. Stephanie Cherqui of UCSD on Cystinosis, Friedreich’s ataxia, Alzheimer’s and gene therapy 42:07

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Stephanie Cherqui is professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego. Her research project is focused on the molecular characterization of cystinosis, a metabolic hereditary disease, and gene therapy.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=…

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Prof. Maria Castro of University of Michigan on Brain Cancer 53:19

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria Castro is Professor of Neurosurgery, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her research program focuses on epigenetic regulation of cancer progression, uncovering the role of oncometabolites in the brain tumor microenvironment (TME), and the devel…

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Prof. Robert Lufkin on Metabolic Syndrome 1:03:56

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Lies I taught in medical school and the truths that can save your life.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support…

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Dr. Ian Williams on Various Topics 1:08:42

9M ago1:08:42

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Extra Terrestrials, Fake News and Other Topics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

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Prof. Ellen Armour of Vanderbilt University on Seeing is Believing 1:09:19

11M ago1:09:19

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ellen Armour is Professor and Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School. She also directs the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. In addition to Seeing and Believing, she is the author of Signs and Wonders: Theology After Modernity that was featured in a previous podcast. Pleas…

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Dr. Julio Guerrero, CEO and founder of Cambridge Research and Technology on Energy Technologies 55:11

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Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Julio Guerrero who is CEO and founder of Cambridge Research and Technology L.L.C., which provides consulting services and actionable innovations in engineering and scientific fields at any stage of product development. Industries in which he has focused lately include Energy and Biomedical, with concentration i…

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Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policy 56:57

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julia Lane is a Professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She served in the National AI Research Resources task force and also on the advisory committee on data for evidence building. Her book democratizing our data a manifesto was published in 2020 and she was one of the early guests on …

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Prof. Ayelet Fishbach of the University of Chicago on the science of motivation 58:07

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Ayelet Fishbach is Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON). You think failure is hard? So is learning from it Motivating personal gr…

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Prof. Holden Thorp is Chief Editor Science on Covid, Misinformation, JWST and discrimination 59:29

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Holden Thorp is Editor-in-Chief of Science family of journals. Before he was provost at Washington University where he holds appointments in both chemistry and medicine. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8460 It ain’t over ’til it’s over The Biden administration is sheepishly waving a checkered f…

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Prof. Leah Krubitzer of University of California, Davis on the future of the brain. 49:19

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Leah Krubitzer is professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. Her current research focuses on the impact of early experience on the cortical phenotype, and she specifically examines the effects of the sensory environment on the development of c…

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