Bullaki Science Podcast
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThought provoking science podcast with the world's sharpest minds and leading scientists hosted by physicist Dr Samuele Lilliu. For guests and collaborations visit www.bullaki.com or contact [email protected]. The video version of our podcast is available on: *** https://vimeo.com/showcase/9207544 *** https://odysee.com/@bullaki:0- -*** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-lupVtBYdaPit2t5eHexGG-owKIFGcRJ ********** www.bullaki.com ***** www.scivpro.com ***** https://vimeo.com/ ***** bullaki ***** https://www.youtube.com/bullaki
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20. Exozoology | Bullaki Science Podcast with Arik Kershenbaum
March 29, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBDr Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist, a Fellow and Director of Studies at Girton College at the University of Cambridge, working on animal communication and the information content in highly social and cooperative species, such as wolves and dolphins. In his book “The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens and Ourselves” https://amzn.to/3qJcake, he lays down the foundation for a new field, Exozoology, or zoology beyond planet Earth. Arik is confident that p...
19. Earth’s Earliest Animals | Dr Emily Mitchell
March 24, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBDr Emily Mitchell is a palaeontologist, a NERC research fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge working on understanding the origins and early evolution of animals on Earth. In this Bullaki Science Podcast, Emily gives an overview of the first animal communities dating back to the Ediacaran time period (580 million years ago), which lived in the deep-sea. She also talks about her field work at Mistaken Point (Canada) involving the characterisation and preservatio...
18. Exotheology | Revd Dr Andrew Davison
March 13, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 81.5 MBRevd Dr Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Associate Professor in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Dean of Chapel at Corpus Christi College. His work spans Christian doctrine, biology and philosophy. His research interests include biological mutualism, life in the universe, evolutionary synthesis, and artificial intelligence approaches using suggestions from the medieval “thinking by analogy”. Andrew was among a group of 23 theologians in a NASA-sponsored progr...
17. Mars Perseverance Mission | Prof. Nicholas Tosca
March 04, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour - 77.8 MBNicholas Tosca is a Professor the Mineralogy & Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His research interest include understanding the co-evolution of life and environments through Earth’s early history. He’s also science team member of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission, currently exploring the ancient surface of Mars and seeking signs of ancient life. In this Bullaki Science Podcast Prof. Tosca talks about the PIXL instrument on the Perseverance...
16. Swarm Robots for Moon Exploration and Holography | Dr. Peter J. Christopher
February 08, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBDr. Peter J Christopher is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge working on embedded 3D holographic displays and additive manufacturing, and Chief Scientist at at Exobotics. In this Bullaki Science Podcast we discuss the future of moon exploration by new mini rovers that could be deployed as a swarm and holographic 3D printing. The video is available here: https://vimeo.com/manage/peterchristopher Recorded: 03/02/2022 Published: 08/02/2022 COPYRIGHT BULLAKI ltd ****** CONNEC...
15. The 4th Wave of Electronic Development | Dr. Mark Rosker (DARPA)
January 21, 2022 15:00 - 54 minutes - 39.2 MBAs the director of the Strategic Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA), Dr Mark Rosker leads the office in development of develop high-performance intelligent microsystems and next-generation components to ensure U.S. dominance in the areas of Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Directed Energy (DE). The effectiveness, survivability, and lethality of these sys...
14. High-Payoff/High-Risk R&D for Full-Spectrum Dominance | Dr. Bradford Tousley (Raytheon Technologies)
January 21, 2022 14:00 - 55 minutes - 39.7 MBAs the vice president of Advanced Concepts & Technology for Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Bradford Tousley leads an innovative technology incubator inside Raytheon Technologies, which focusses on high-reward/high-risk disruptive technologies for the defense industry. In this interview he discusses the history of Raytheon Technologies and some of the advancements, including quantum computing, ARAKNID, DyNAMO, directed energy weapons, digital engineering, and synthetic biology, which will ena...
13. Mosaic Warfare and Human–Machine Symbiosis | Dr. Timothy Grayson (DARPA)
January 29, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBAs the director of the Strategic Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA), Timothy leads the office in development of breakthrough technologies to enable war fighters to field, operate, and adapt distributed, joint, multi-domain combat capabilities at continuous speed. He is also founder and president of Fortitude Mission Research LLC and spent several years as a senior intelligence officer with the CIA. Here he illustrates the concept of Mosaic Warfare, ...
13. Mosaic Warfare and Human–Machine Symbiosis
January 29, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBAs the director of the Strategic Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (or DARPA), Timothy leads the office in development of breakthrough technologies to enable war fighters to field, operate, and adapt distributed, joint, multi-domain combat capabilities at continuous speed. He is also founder and president of Fortitude Mission Research LLC and spent several years as a senior intelligence officer with the CIA. Here he illustrates the concept of Mosaic Warfare, ...
12. On the Future (Existential Threats) | Prof. Lord Martin Rees
January 18, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBIn this Bullaki Science Podcast we cover some of the aspects illustrated by Professor Lord Martin Rees in his latest book “On the Future”, where he talks about existential risks including nuclear warfare, climate change, biotech, and artificial intelligence. Prof. Martin Rees is a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has conducted influential work on galaxy formation, cosmic jets, black holes, gamma ray bursts, and speculative aspects of cosmology. Prof. Rees is the Astronomer Royal a...
11. Future Warfare and Swarm Drones | David Hambling
November 19, 2020 18:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBThe future of warfare is heading towards a battle between software engineers rather than soldiers and pilots. World superpowers are pursuing an arms race to develop super swarm drones, which some have identified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In this podcast technical consultant, journalist, and author David Hambling talks about the state of the art of military drones and distributed approaches in warfare. The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/HHKvzVvt0nc David’s boo...
10. Exoplanets | Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz
November 02, 2020 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBDidier Queloz is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) and Geneva University. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. In this interview he talks about his challenging journey from the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star in 1995 to the acknowledgement of his discovery by the scientific community. He explores his experience in reporting a paradigm-changing finding an...
9. The Ribosome | Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
November 02, 2020 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBIn this interview Venki Ramakrishnan reviews part of his work on the structural resolution of the ribosome, for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009. He discusses the role that synchrotron facilities have played in unravelling the structure of the ribosome and how cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has become an essential tool for structural biologists. He provides an overview on his current research activities at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. H...
8. Perovskite LEDs | Prof. Sir Richard Friend
November 01, 2020 18:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBSir Richard H. Friend is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge. In the 1990s, he reported for the first time efficient operation of polymer based FET and LED, which contributed to the commercialisation of OLED displays employed in current TV and smartphone devices. He is co-founder of several companies and start-ups including Cambridge Display Technology, Plastic Logic, and Heliochrome limited. In this interview, he and Dr. Dawei Di, who recently joined Zhejiang Unive...
7. The Path to Perovskite on Silicon PV | Prof. Henry Snaith
November 01, 2020 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBHenry J. Snaith is Professor of Physics in the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford and Fellow of the Royal Society. He has pioneered the field of perovskite solar cells and published hundreds of papers. He is founder and CSO of Oxford PV, which holds the largest perovskite patent portfolio worldwide and focuses on developing and commercializing perovskite PV technology. In this interview, he discusses the present status and future prospects of perovskite PV. This interview was ...
6. The Nobel Prize Factory | Nobel Laureate Richard Henderson
October 31, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 47 MBNobel Prize Laureate Richard Henderson introduces structural biology and electron cryo-microscopy, and talks about the successful journey of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He also talks about Jacques Dubochet's, Joachim Frank's and his contributions to the development of electron cryo-microscopy. What is radiation damage? Are electrons more suitable than X-rays in structural biology? Richard Henderson talks about synchrotron radiation and how cryo-EM laboratories are being establ...
5. UFOs and other Weird Things | Dr Michael Shermer
October 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBMichael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic. In this podcast we discuss the Pentagon UFO videos, the documentary “Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation”, the UFO entertainment business, “Mirage Man”, ancient civilizations, water memory and homeopathy, the paranormal, cold fusion, and quantum quackery and mysticism. The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/p8ls1oSQvc0 His new ...
5. Why People Believe Weird Things | Dr Michael Shermer
October 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBMichael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic. In this podcast we discuss the Pentagon UFO videos, the documentary “Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation”, the UFO entertainment business, “Mirage Man”, ancient civilizations, water memory and homeopathy, the paranormal, cold fusion, and quantum quackery and mysticism. The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/p8ls1oSQvc0 His new ...
4. Mind–Matter Unification Project | Nobel Laureate Prof. Brian Josephson
October 31, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBNobel Laureate Josephson talks about the Josephson Effect, transcendental meditation, the Mind–Matter Unification Project, intelligence, science orthodoxy, paranormal, water memory, the publication process, cold fusion and LENR, understanding quantum mechanics, coordination dynamics, biosemiotics, artificial intelligence, cymatics, and intelligent design. Brian David Josephson FRS (born 4 January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of C...
3. Quantum Biology | Prof. Jim Al-Khalili
October 31, 2020 01:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBProf. Jim-Al-Khalili explains the emerging field of quantum biology and discusses how this new discipline has developed from its inception in the 1920s until fruition in the late 1990s with the discovery of quantum effects in magnetoreception, olfaction, enzyme catalysis, and photosynthesis. This episode was recorded in November 2019 and published as a video article for Scientific Video Protocols (11/05/2020): https://scivpro.com/manuscript/10_32386_scivpro_000020/. The video is available h...
2. Life on Venus? | Dr Paul B. Rimmer
October 30, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBDr Paul B. Rimmer is one of the scientists who contributed to the discovery of a potential biomarker (phosphine) in the atmosphere of Venus. In this podcast we explore what does this finding actually mean and go through the details of their publication ‘Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus’. The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/syQmBJkpfw8 Paul details the journey of this discovery lead by Prof. Jane S. Greaves, which took almost 4 years and involved a large collabor...
1. Nonscience: How to Rule the World | Prof. Brian J. Ford
October 29, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBBrian J Ford is a well-respected research scientist, BBC broadcaster, world-wide lecturer and author with books out in over 140 editions. His original Nonscience dates from 1971, and caused a sensation. It was translated, featured on television, and enthusiastically reviewed. To celebrate its fiftieth birthday has been expanded, with loads of amusing new pictures and amusing information . It is available here: https://amzn.to/342F8Rb. The video podcast is available on YouTube: https://youtu...