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Physics of the Internet

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - April 25, 2024 05:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Daniel and Jorge talk about how our understanding of physics is central to making the internet work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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302 Unearthing Missing 411 Part 13

Unearthing Paranormalcy - April 25, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 17 ratings
This week use dive into Missing 411 Sobering coincidence  by David Paulides. This book is a little different from all the others. The cases in this book are all men of college age that go missing and then are found in bodies of water http://missing-411.com https://www.onemontauknation.org/ h...

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[Q&A] Bigger JWST for Starship, Day on A Gas Planet, Real Science Gatekeepers

Universe Today Podcast - April 24, 2024 23:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 238 ratings
Why don't they just build a bigger version of James Webb for Starship? What's the pressure inside Europa's oceans? How can you measure a day on a planet without a surface? Answering all these questions and more in this week's question show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universeto...

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344: Shanghai

Veterinary Podcast by the VetGurus - April 24, 2024 22:28 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 6 ratings
News: Australian shepherds are soaring in popularity – but are they doggone Aussies? Main Topic: Travel Brendan discusses his recent trip to Shanghai, China and teaching exotics pet medicine and surgery. VetGurus Merchandise - VetGurus Etsy Store VetGurus Shop Checkout the VetGurus range of...

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CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 16440]

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is a cultural anthropologist with a subspecialty in primatology, who researches conflict resolution, altruism, moral origins, and feuding a...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research takes an inclusive approach, addressing the biology of chimpanzees from many viewpoints and applying this knowledge to our understanding of the evolution of co...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Patricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and development of the hypothesis that the mind is the brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21283]

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 18 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects is centered on microbial life history and sociality. The theory of virulence is an example of the broader problems of sociality and life history. Series: "C...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economics, he is interested in conflict and cooperation at the level of individuals and of genes. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anth...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologist who seeks to understand, step by Darwinian step, how apes could have evolved to imagine and care about what the lives of others might be like. Series: "CA...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Trai...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, focuses on the processes of cultural evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 21289]

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Elaine Mardis - The Orangu-tan Genome

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 16 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Elaine Mardis, Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University and Senior Research Scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories, explores the orangutan genome. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21980]

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ed Green - The Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Richard “Ed” Green, Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, explains how and what we know about our relation to Neandertal Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21981]

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Evan Eichler - Evolution of Human Duplications: Genomic Instability and New Genes

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Evan Eichler is an Associate Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. The long-term goal of his research is to understand the evolution, pathology and mechanisms of recent gene duplication and DNA transposition within the human genome. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic R...

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Alysson Muotri - Comparisons of Human and Ape Stem Cells

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Alysson Muotri, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego, focuses on human brain development and evolution, exploring mobile elements as generators of neuronal diversity. He is also interested in modeling neurological diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cells. Series: "CARTA - Center for Ac...

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Katherine Pollard - Human Accelerated Regions in the Genome

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Katherine Pollard, Associate Investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at UC San Francisco, specializes in evolutionary genomics, in particular identifying genome sequences that differ significantly between or within species and their relationship to biomed...

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Yoav Gilad - A Comparative Study of Immune Response in Primates

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Yoav Gilad is Associate Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He studies genetic and regulatory differences between humans and our close evolutionary relatives, with the long-term goal of identifying the genetic basis for human-specific traits, including genetic variation tha...

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Genevieve Konopka -Human-Specific Signaling Networks

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Genevieve Konopka is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of her research is elucidating how developmental signaling pathways are disrupted in neuropsychiatric illnesses, and identifying human-specific pathways that are vulnerable to neuropsychiatri...

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CARTA: The Genetics of Humanness: Ajiit Varki - Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Video) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 17 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Ajit Varki, Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Co-Director of CARTA, and Co-Director of the Glycobiology Research and Training Center at the University of California, San Diego, focuses on a family of cell surface sugars called the sialic aci...

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CARTA: Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics: Closing Remarks - Margaret J. Schoeninger

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Closing remarks for CARTA’s Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics symposium held in March 2009. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 16440]

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Christopher Boehm -Social Selection Versus the Notorious Free Rider

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Christopher Boehm is Professor of Biological Sciences & Anthropology and Director of the Goodall Research Center at the University of Southern California. He is a cultural anthropologist with a subspecialty in primatology, who researches conflict resolution, altruism, moral origins, and feuding a...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism- Christophe Boesch - Ecology of Cooperation and Altruism in Humans and Chimpanzees

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Christophe Boesch is Director of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His research takes an inclusive approach, addressing the biology of chimpanzees from many viewpoints and applying this knowledge to our understanding of the evolution of co...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Patricia Churchland - Brain-Based Values

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Patricia Smith Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. The central focus of her research has been the exploration and development of the hypothesis that the mind is the brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 21283]

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Steve Frank - Social Evolution in Microbes Animals and Humans

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Steve Frank is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. One of his current research projects is centered on microbial life history and sociality. The theory of virulence is an example of the broader problems of sociality and life history. Series: "C...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Hammerstein - Partner Choice Markets and the Evolution of Cooperation

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Peter Hammerstein is a theoretical biologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Given his background in game theory and economics, he is interested in conflict and cooperation at the level of individuals and of genes. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anth...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Sarah Hrdy - How Humans Became Such ‘Other-Regarding’ Apes

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Sarah Hrdy is currently professor emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is a renowned anthropologist and primate sociobiologist who seeks to understand, step by Darwinian step, how apes could have evolved to imagine and care about what the lives of others might be like. Series: "CA...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Donald Pfaff - Brain Mechanisms Underlying Behavior that Obeys the Golden Rule

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, upends our entire understanding of ethics and social contracts with an intriguing proposition: the Golden Rule is hardwired into the human brain. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Trai...

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CARTA: The Evolution of Human Altruism - Peter Richerson - Tribal Social Instincts and Human Cooperation

CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (Audio) - April 24, 2024 21:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Peter Richerson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, focuses on the processes of cultural evolution. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Show ID: 21289]