Info Under The Radar
27 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -A show where we deconstruct everyday ideas, concepts, and subjects that surround us!
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S02E10 | Relationship with Money with Kent Thune [Season Finale]
March 29, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBWelcome to the SEASON FINALE of the second season of IUTR. In this episode, we are talking about an individual's relationship with money with a veteran investment adviser, financial philosopher and a brilliant pedagogue Mr. Kent Thune. We decode one's relationship with money from first principles. We dive into conventional advice of whether or not to buy property in 2023, how does one sees money differently as one ages and gains experience and how can millenials invest wisely. There's a lot ...
S02E09 | Art of Storytelling with standup comic Mel Kelly
September 07, 2022 10:03 - 1 hour - 57 MBWelcome to the 9th episode of the second season of IUTR. In this episode, we are talking to renowned standup comic from Munich, Mr. Mel Kelly on the art of storytelling, from his process of creating a story to telling a story, different forms of storytelling, structuring a story, and much more with a final takeaway on how a lay person can learn some key tricks to be a good storyteller in day to day life, be it a social setting or a business setting. Timestamps (0:00) - Intro (9:35) - Wel...
S02E08 | Deepfakes: A very real technology with massive impact w/ Prof. Sebastian Marcel and Dr. Pavel Korshunov.
June 15, 2022 16:17 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBWelcome to yet another episode of Info Under the Radar. Let me ask you, what’s common between Russia-Ukraine war, American Presidential election, and Tom Cruise.. nope not another Hollywood movie but rather they are all victims of DeepFakes. Under the hood, DeepFakes is a technology that comes under the AI umbrella. As the name suggests, it uses Deep Learning to generate Synthetic or Fake media. To understand it better, we invited the very people who were responsible for popularising the te...
S02E07 | Understanding our own Identity through Personal Stories /w Prof. Theo Klimstra : Part-3 Religion, Gender and Sexuality
May 09, 2022 17:31 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBWelcome to the third part of our 3 part series on Personal Identity. In the first part, we talked about how one associates their identity with language and race. In the second part we talked about identities that don’t really have a strong association and one’s association of identity with their work in lack of any special hobbies, how does the perception of ethnicity shape future planning for inter-racial couples, and how does a not-so-decided relationship with God look like. In this epis...
S02E06 | Understanding our own Identity through personal stories /w Prof. Theo Klimstra | Part-2: A more relatable take
May 09, 2022 16:16 - 1 hour - 60 MBWelcome to the second part of our 3 part series on Personal Identity. In the first part we talked about how one associates their identity with language and race. This time we are making an attempt to understand identities that don’t really have a strong association like the one we saw in the previous episode. We talk one’s association of identity with their work in lack of any special hobbies, how does perception of ethnicity shape future planning for inter-racial couples and how does a n...
S02E05 | Understanding our own Identity through Personal Stories /w Theo Klimstra : Part-1 Language and Ethnicity
April 06, 2022 16:18 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBWelcome to the first episode of our three part series on Understanding Personal Identity. This is a special one for us since we are talking about a topic that everyone has thought about at some point but more often than not we are left with more questions that we initially started with. Figuring out one’s identity is a life long process and it’s an ever evolving process. We tried to cover some really important aspects of it in this series. Prof. Theo Klimstra who is an expert in the field o...
Shortcast: Cost of War
March 21, 2022 17:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this short episode, we are discussing the economic cost of war. Starting from the GDP of a country and the amount of tax that goes into military funding to how much individual war equipment costs, to give you a very concrete idea of why wars are so expensive. We are talking about this in the context of the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia but the calculations we mentioned in the episode can be easily expanded to other such wars. Some of the references used in this episode: http://...
S02E04 | Understanding formation and transformation of political beliefs from the lens of a Political Scientist w/ Prof. Bert Bakker
February 07, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBIn the fourth episode of the second season of IUTR, we are talking about how do beliefs form and what leads to their transformation among other things from the lens of Political Beliefs. We also looked into who are politically sophisticated people (for conciseness referred to as sophisticated during the conversation) and why they tend to be more aligned with their political parties. We invited Dr. Bert Bakker, who is a Political Scientist and an Associate Prof. of Political Communication an...
Shortcast | Teleportation is indeed Possible BUT not in the way you think
January 10, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.2 MBWelcome to the first shortcast of season 2. We will be talking about Quantum Teleportation and the underlying concepts to understand it ground up. We are no experts but Quantum Computation is a topic that excites us a lot and we wanted to share whatever little we know. Here are all the links that helped us understand the topic a bit and will help you if you got interested listening to us Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED - https://www.youtube.c...
Holiday Special - Festivities Around the World 🎄
December 27, 2021 11:34 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBFestivities, cultures, traditions, and enjoyment... The holiday season is all about this! In the same spirit, in lieu of our regular episode, we decided to bring to you a special episode this holiday season. We were joined by some amazing people from different parts of the world, Germany, Ecuador, Poland, Egypt, and Spain (and not to forget your hosts from India as well). They shared their stories and culture with us. So without further ado, let’s step into the shoes of these different cul...
S02E03 | How to Establish Peace in Conflicted regions with Prof. Eran Halperin
December 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.3 MBWelcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts. In the third episode of this new season, we are talking about something which everyone talks about but no one really knows how to do it. We are talking about establishing peace in conflicted regions, be it Israel-Palestine or in Afghanistan, Myanmar, or any other regions with conflicts. For this special topic, our guest is Prof. Eran Halperin. Eran is a professor of psychology at the Hebrew Unive...
S02E02| Navigating the ethical landscape in AI and Tech with Prof. Christoph Lütge
December 13, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBWelcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts. In the second episode of this new season, we are talking about Ethics in the forever growing field of Technology. We talked about various aspects of it from a philosophical, pragmatic and scientific standpoint. Prof. Christoph Lütge is in a special position since he is the head of an ethics institute that is funded by Facebook, so we had to discuss that. We also talked about AI and ethics, Ethics and...
S2E01 | CRISPR: Changing Course of Humanity with Kevin Davies
December 06, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBWelcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics and new guests with your familiar hosts. In the first episode of this new season, we are talking about one of the most revolutionary gene-editing technologies, CRISPR. We are talking about various facets of CRISPR with none other than Kevin Davies, who is the author of EDITING HUMANITY: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing and many other books, links of all of which can be found below. Timestamps (06:15) - Why should a...
EP10 | Intersection of Food with Identity, Race and Cultural Representation with Food Journalist Serena Dai
July 08, 2021 10:33 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBIn the season finale of Info Under The Radar, we bring to you food served hot right on your plate or we should say your ears?! In this episode, we talked about food, and its intersection with identity, culture, race, and beyond. Serena Dai, Senior Editor: Food and Wine at San Francisco chronicles (maybe you know her from Netflix show Ugly Delicious or her past adventures in Eater NY!) join us and share her experience on a variety of topics that are all around the food and culinary world. ...
EP09 | Lunar Missions, Space Trajectory Design & Inter-planetary Sustainability w/Waldemar Martens, Mission Analyst ESA
June 16, 2021 19:03 - 1 hour - 192 MBHave you ever thought about being an Astronaut? In this episode of Info Under the Radar, we will talk about space mission. How are they designed? Why is moon all of a sudden important again? What does day to job of a person at a space agency look like?...and much more Our Guest today is Dr. Waldemar Martens, mission analyst: European Space Agency. Waldemar, theoretical physicist at heart is an expert in Space Trajectory planning. He will share his experience and some concepts from what it l...
EP08 | Fallacy of too big to fail for E-Commerce and beyond with Arnav Gupta
June 10, 2021 15:27 - 1 hour - 188 MBIn the 8th episode of Info Under the Radar, we are trying to understand E-Commerce. "Wait what? You think I don't understand what is it already?" Now hold on a second Tiger! There's much more to it than meets the eye. We invited Arnav Gupta, who among many hats that we wears happens to be working in E-Commerce sector for quite some time now to discuss various aspects of it in detail. With his anecdotes and holistic overview, one thing is for sure is that you won't get bored listening to ...
Shortcast | Concorde and beyond | Past, Present and Future of Air travel
June 02, 2021 14:54 - 23 minutes - 54.3 MBWelcome to another short episode of Info under the radar, the show where we deconstruct everyday ideas, concepts, and subjects that surround us. In this episode, Devendra and Vishwajeet explore the Air Travel landscape. Decades ago we were able to travel faster than speed of sound... what happened to that? We should have been teleporting by now, right? Well this is where Sci-Fi and Science kind of go there separate ways. We ventured into the history of Concorde, the once famous Aerodynami...
Shortcast | First Principles Thinking and why Elon Musk is obsessed with it?
May 26, 2021 16:30 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MBWelcome to another short episode of Info under the radar, the show where we deconstruct everyday ideas, concepts, and subjects that surround us. In this episode, Devendra and Vishwajeet discuss the concept of First Principles Thinking. First Principle Thinking has gained quite a bit of traction in pop culture due to usage by people such as Elon Musk or Reed Hastings. We have covered the origins of the term, its practical application, when to use the first principle, how to use it, what is ...
EP07 | Making the Buck Walk and Talk | Money, Finance and Stories with Prof. A.P Singh
May 19, 2021 18:07 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBWelcome to ep. 7 of Info Under the Radar. This is a special one for us and a bit personal as well! In this episode, we are talking about Money, Finance, Investing, Insurances, and more from the first principle. We talked to our beloved professor from undergrad, Prof. AP Singh (or APS for short) who had a long and successful career in banking/finance for more than 30 years, working for ICICI (one of the top 4 banks in India) and learned about money from a very different perspective. In his...
Shortcast | Clubhouse Craze and All Things Audio Social
May 12, 2021 17:14 - 25 minutes - 18.6 MBWelcome to another short episode of Info under the radar, the show where we deconstruct everyday ideas, concepts, and subjects that surround us. In this episode, Devendra and Vishwajeet discuss the craze around Clubhouse and why it's extremely popular at the moment. We also looked into audio social media space as a whole and talked about its inception, privacy concerns, its future, etc, among many other things. We also talked about twitter spaces, how it's different from Clubhouse, and the ...
EP06 | “Plastic is not the problem, we are” | Sustainability and more with Eleonore Eisath
April 28, 2021 16:23 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBIn the 6th episode of Info Under the Radar, we are covering a topic that is a global issue. We are talking about sustainable living with a focus on recycling plastic. We have a very special guest with us, Eleonore Eisath. Eleonore's empathetic relation with nature led her to embark on a journey to resolve the problem of plastic pollution. Her brainchild, beworm.org, is a BioTech startup working on recycling processes using microorganisms to decompose plastic material into their building bloc...
Shortcast | Reimagining Work In Post-Pandemic World
April 21, 2021 13:19 - 19 minutes - 45.6 MBWelcome to a special episode of Info under the radar, the show where we deconstruct everyday ideas, concepts and subjects that surround us. It's a special episode since firstly it's just the two of us this time; we don't have any guest joining us. Secondly, compared to our regular episodes(usually >70 minutes) this is just a small bite-sized <20 minute episode. Hence, the name: Shortcast In this episode, we discuss the current situation of work in light of the pandemic. We discuss how has...
EP05 | Future of Events and all things Event Management with Izabela Baša Perša
April 19, 2021 14:29 - 1 hour - 174 MBDo you ever wonder what events such as music concerts, sporting events, conferences, etc will look like when we are on the other side of the pandemic? Do you want to know about how event management works and the skills needed to be in this business? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then you are gonna enjoy this episode of Info Under the Radar, where we are talking about all of this and more with our guest Izabela Baša Perša, who is an Event Manager and founder of the event ma...
EP04 | Dissecting Social Media Networks with Dr. Sakthi Balan
April 07, 2021 16:24 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBIn the fourth episode of Info Under the Radar we are going to talk about Social Media and explore it from the eye of a social media researcher. We talk about how social media has impacted our day-to-day conversations over time, it’s history, how did Facebook cracked the code of connecting over a billion people, how to deal with misinformation and much more! In this episode, our guest is Dr. Sakthi Balan. He is a researcher in the field of Social media network analysis and Professor at The L...
EP03 | Understanding Artificial Intelligence with Shivani Shah
March 31, 2021 15:26 - 1 hour - 213 MBIn the third episode of Info Under the Radar, we are going to talk about what is Artificial Intelligence (AI in short), the fears around it, possibilities with AI, terminologies commonly associated with AI, its practical usage, the future of AI, and much more. In this episode, our guest is Shivani Shah. She is the co-founder & CTO of SAMP, a Paris-based startup, that is using AI to build digital twins for Industrial Facilities. Shivani also has her PhD in AI for Biology/Meta-genomics from U...
EP02 | Demystifying magic of wearables with Greg Kemnitz
March 21, 2021 10:15 - 1 hour - 65 MBWe are back! In the second episode of Info Under the Radar we are going to dive into the world of wearables. In the last 4-5 years smart-watches, smart bands, health and fitness bands have become an integral part of many people's life. So like us, we hoped that you'd be curious to know about a thing that is attached to your body and is collecting your health data without you even realizing it. We invited Mr. Greg Kemnitz, Senior Engineer from Google Fitbit, to discuss the tech the goes behi...
EP01 | Understanding Your Online Presence with Rajat Sharma
February 03, 2021 17:56 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBIn our very first episode of Info Under the Radar we are going to understand our online presence. What happens behind the scenes with our data, how companies process our data, what about those annoying cookie banners? We are also gonna talk about how people from different cultures think about privacy differently. We are going to touch on many aspects of our online presence along with our guest Rajat Sharma. Rajat is currently a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at booking.com and lives in Ams...