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The Foundation for Science and Technology podcast - exploring issues of science, technology and innovation with experts from government, parliament, industry and the research community.
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Listen to a selection of podcasts reporting on the latest science and technology developments, looking into the impact they will have on our lives and capturing their policy implications.
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Get your weekly burst of scientific illumination from The Debrief’s network of rebellious journalists as they warp through the latest breaking science and tech news from the world of tomorrow. Every Friday, join hosts Stephanie Gerk, Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, and MJ Banias as they roundup the latest science and tech stories from the pages of The Debrief. From far-future technology to space travel to strange physics that alters our perception of the universe, The Debrief Weekly Report is mean ...
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Nature Science and Technology discussion with Michael McDonnough.
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In the Defence Science and Technology podcast, you will hear from DST Group's leading scientists about how our innovative research adds value to the Australian Defence Force.
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This podcast is all about leaks, news, and updates on our tech giants Apple and Microsoft!
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Learn about everyday wonders of science and technology! Wydea Wonders animated videos explain topics ranging from computer networking and digital music to airplanes and engines in an easy-to-understand, interesting way. For more information and additional content please visit www.wydea.com.
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GIST brings you a glimpse of new ideas and innovations currently cooking at colleges, universities and companies across the U.S.
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The recorded articles are accompanied by an activity that you can do on your computer while you listen, or print out and do when you want. They are free, and if you subscribe we will send them to you every month.
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Interviews with Scholars of Science, Technology, and Society about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society
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We work and are passionate about different fields in Science, Technology, Gaming and Stuff. We also invite guests to speak about their field of expertise.
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Lakeside Labs performs research at the intersection of information & communication technology and self-organizing & networked systems. These videos capture some seminar-style lectures from leading scientists from both areas.
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The STEMCAST is a semi-monthly podcast released on Mondays. It is hosted by us, Jess and Elisabeth. We talk about anything, and everything, affecting us on our journey through engineering! We also offer terrible advice to students, scientists, researchers, (etc.) and pretty much anyone that asks about school.
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Did complex life on Earth begin 1.5 billion years earlier?
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Ernest Chi Fru, reader at Cardiff University, tells us about his latest study which places the emergence of complex life much earlier in Earth’s history. London’s ‘defib deserts’ revealed. The Standard’s Health Reporter, Daniel Keane, discusses the new data that’s revealed 150 areas of capital are in desperate need of defibrillators, with poorest r…
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Kate McDonald on Asian Mobility History as Labor History
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at University of California, Santa Barbara, about her fascinating research on the history of mobility in Asia and how it looks different when we approach it as a history of work and labor. The pair traverse McDonald’s career from her current project, The Ricks…
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The AI-powered search engine prototype will eventually be incorporated into ChatGPT. Enhanced Games: the Olympics alternative where performance-enhancing drugs are allowed. Shark spotted in the River Thames in London. Also in this episode: Christian Angermayer explains his plans for the ‘Enhanced Games’ olympics alternative - hear the full intervie…
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Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global medi…
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Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels, "Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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War in the 21st century will remain a chameleon that takes on different forms and guises. Beyond Ukraine: Debating the Future of War (Oxford University Press, 2024) edited by Tim Sweijs and Jeffrey H. Michaels offers the first comprehensive update and revision of ideas about the future of war since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. It argues that …
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Crowdstrike’s $10 apology vouchers after global IT outage
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..but some report the gift cards don’t work. Why the T. rex may have been much heavier and longer than previously thought. Is having a glass of wine a day actually good for you? Also in this episode: Dr Neil Adams from the Natural History Museum explains the incredibly rare mammal fossil set to join their collections Study finds AI could help two-t…
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Cancer cells trick the body into helping them grow
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Cancers pretend to be ‘super fit’ to steal nutrients from healthy cells. Weight-loss jab approved for use in UK to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Video footage shows breaching whale capsize boat. Sharks found in waters off Brazil test positive for cocaine. Also in this episode: Data watchdog reprimands school over facial recognition for canteen…
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Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, "Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Distributed to millions of people annually across Africa and the global south, insecticide-treated bed nets have become a cornerstone of malaria control and twenty-first-century global health initiatives. Despite their seemingly obvious public health utility, however, these chemically infused nets and their rise to prominence were anything but inev…
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Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
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Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public? We tell the story of George Gall…
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Feeling ruff? Human stress linked to dogs' emotions
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Study finds just the smell of stress in humans can change a dog’s behaviour. Researcher explains ‘amazing’ similarities between chimpanzee and human conversations. London police officer quits after calling 999 while high on magic mushrooms. Also in this episode: Dr Gal Badihi explains chimp & human conversational similarities ‘Dark oxygen’ produced…
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Joe Biden deepfake shared after US election withdrawal
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A deepfake video of the president has been shared on ‘X’ after he announced his withdrawal from the election race. Cyber security expert warns another global IT outage is ‘likely’. US researchers hopeful of a ‘one and done’ flu-jab within five years. Also in this episode: Health reporter Daniel Keane discusses NHS delays as services recover from gl…
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Anton Howes, "Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Over the past 300 years, The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve British life in every way imaginable. It has sought to influence education, commerce, music, art, architecture, communications, food, and every other corner of society. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nati…
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David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your chi…
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In this episode of Brave New World, Evgeny Lebedev talks to bestselling author and brain coach Jim Kwik. Kwik suffered a traumatic brain injury aged 5 and is now a world authority on brain optimisation. To hear the full interview with Jim Kwik, and to learn his top tips to boost your brain power, search Brave New World or click here. Hosted on Acas…
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#MicrosoftDown: what caused ‘world’s worst IT failure’?
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The world’s IT infrastructure went into meltdown with many Microsoft cloud-based systems hobbled after a CrowdStrike cybersecurity Windows update. The Covid-19 inquiry’s bombshell report has found successive UK governments were totally unprepared for the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic, which killed over 235,000 Britons. Also in this episod…
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Özge Çelikaslan, "Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma" (DPR Barcelona, 2024)
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“Stories of archives are always stories of phantoms, of the death or disappearance or erasure of something, the preservation of what remains, and its possible reappearance—feared by some, desired by others,” writes Thomas Keenan. Archiving the Commons: Looking Through the Lens of bak.ma (DPR Barcelona, June 2024) is about those stories and much mor…
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Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
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Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames. Playing American: O…
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World’s most expensive dinosaur skeleton sold
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The nearly complete fossilised remains of a stegosaurus fetched almost $45 million at auction in New York - a record sum for a dinosaur. King’s speech: power plans and progressing to renewables - with Regen energy analyst Dr Jess Hogan. Dyson unveils luxury headphones to rival AirPods Max. Also in this episode: Can anti-ageing drug really extend yo…
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DIY cervical cancer test kits could boost NHS screening
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Evening Standard health reporter Daniel Keane says DIY tests to detect HPV are part of a new generation of at-home kits to provide clinicians with data and improve gaps in treatment. Covid lockdown fitness guru Joe Wicks gets honorary degree for public health work. Paris Olympics 2024: Mayor swims Seine ‘to prove river cleanliness’. Also in this ep…
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Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure. For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical force…
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Artificial intelligence bill and the King’s speech, with Eleanor Shearer, senior research fellow at the Common Wealth think-tank. Amazon Prime Day: consume the hype. iPhone thieves ‘making £15,000 a month’. NHS approves ADHD digital test. Also in this episode: Concern over rise in NHS cancer care delays Malaria jab ‘breakthrough’ Moon cave ‘could b…
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Trump Rally Shooting: Apple, Microsoft and Meta CEOs react
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The CEOs of Microsoft, Google, Apple and Meta have all condemned the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Astronomers say they’ve created the most detailed - and first - weather report for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system. We speak to the lead author of the report, Professor …
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Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
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Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, about her recent book, Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton UP, 2024). The pair talk about the art of ethnographic study of software work, and how, maybe,…
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Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, a…
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Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
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A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death. In fact, AI technology is already enabling us to “interact” with the …
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