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Migrants Bring Opportunity to Boston and Beyond (with Jacqueline Bhabha, Monique Nguyen, and Maggie Sullivan)
Epicenter - May 29, 2024 12:17 - 52 minutesMassachusetts has long been a welcoming state to immigrants and migrant families. In the summer of 2023, its one-of-a-kind “right to shelter” law was put to the test when emergency shelters reached capacity. It was called a humanitarian crisis, and images of families sleeping on the floor of Log...
Social Technology for Aging Societies (with Arthur Kleinman, Hong-Tu Chen, Ann Forsyth, and Fawwaz Habbal)
Epicenter - December 14, 2023 19:13 - 44 minutesPeople aged sixty-five and older make up the fastest growing population around the world, posing unique challenges to societies. A Harvard initiative called Social Technology for Global Aging Research is founded on the belief that there’s a great potential for technologies and interventions to b...
Who Can Stop a Dictator? Resistance to the War in Ukraine (with Sasha de Vogel, Serhii Plokhy, and Alexandra Vacroux)
Epicenter - August 25, 2023 20:39 - 53 minutesWhen the Wagner mercenary group staged a near coup in Moscow in June, it was seen as the greatest challenge to Vladimir Putin’s regime in decades. Though it didn’t come to fruition, it nevertheless exposed some of the fissures in Putin’s ironclad control over the military and the course of the w...
Can Erdogan be Unseated? (with Ahmet Akbiyik, Andrew O’Donohue, and SZ)
Epicenter - May 10, 2023 23:06 - 31 minutesThe presidential election in Turkey this spring is shaping up to be the most consequential in decades. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has led the country for twenty years, is facing the staunchest opposition in his career in the form of an unprecedented coalition of six parties, called the “Table of ...
What Is Holding Up the Transition to Green Energy? (with Dustin Tingley, Jeff Colgan, and Aleksandra Conevska)
Epicenter - February 06, 2023 18:37 - 52 minutesGreen technology has come a long way, to the extent that it can, in theory, be scaled up to solve the world’s energy problems. If this is true, then why does the US lag so far behind in transitioning away from fossil fuels? This episode addresses the politics of climate change by looking at the ...
The Politics of Sports (with Susie Petruccelli, Justin Morrow, and Isabel Jijón)
Epicenter - November 30, 2022 20:19 - 49 minutesThere’s a shadow over World Cup Soccer this year, and it’s become impossible to separate the sports from the politics. Host country Qatar gained notoriety for bribes, exploitation of workers, and antigay laws. In this episode, a group of athletes and scholars take a close look at the concept of ...
Lebanon in Free Fall (with Melani Cammett, Carmen Geha, Nate George, and Lana Salman)
Epicenter - March 16, 2022 17:15 - 34 minutesLebanon has been called many different things: a gem of the Middle East, a failed state, a geopolitical Gordian knot (or nightmare). Its financial system has recently collapsed, people cannot find basic services, and residents are still recovering from the massive Beirut explosion of 2020. It ma...
Negotiating with Terrorists Part 2 (with Annette Idler, Jytte Klausen, and Fredrik Logevall)
Epicenter - January 20, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutesPulling out of Afghanistan was the top foreign policy event of 2021. Perhaps overlooked in the collective relief to be done with this twenty-year war is the fact that the US had to negotiate with terrorists to get there. In fact, it ceded an entire country to a violent, extremist group. Througho...
Negotiating with Terrorists Part 1 (with Annette Idler, Jytte Klausen, and Fredrik Logevall)
Epicenter - January 04, 2022 16:32 - 24 minutesPulling out of Afghanistan was the top foreign policy event of 2021. Perhaps overlooked in the collective relief to be done with this twenty-year war is the fact that the US had to negotiate with terrorists to get there. In fact, it ceded an entire country to a violent, extremist group. Througho...
The Blurry Lines of Belonging (with Talia Shiff, Anna Skarpelis, and Elke Winter)
Epicenter - May 12, 2021 20:37 - 46 minutesWe think of citizenship as a binary category: you’re either a citizen or you’re not. But the levels of membership can be complex. Refugees and asylum seekers often find that the criteria for acceptance change, as states devise rationales to exclude them. Three Weatherhead Center sociologists rev...
COVID-19 and Climate Change Part 2 (with Alicia Harley, Rob Paarlberg, and Troy Vettese)
Epicenter - January 26, 2021 13:11 - 29 minutesCOVID-19 radically reduced global productivity, but isn’t that just what we need to combat climate change? Is there such a thing as a silver lining in this pandemic? In Episode 5, we continue the conversation about the relationship between COVID-19 and climate change. Three Weatherhead Center sc...
COVID-19 and Climate Change Part 1 (with Alicia Harley, Rob Paarlberg, and Troy Vettese)
Epicenter - December 09, 2020 16:15 - 27 minutesCOVID-19 forced radical change on the world, but isn’t that just what we need to combat climate change? The simple concepts of how we use land and how we eat may very well determine the future of our species—and our planet. Three Weatherhead Center scholars guide us through the complex environme...
Pandemic Stress (with Vikram Patel, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, and Giuseppe Raviola)
Epicenter - July 09, 2020 13:00 - 35 minutesWhether or not you’ve been exposed to the virus, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts everyone’s sense of well-being. Three scholars in the field of global mental health look at the various ways loss, fear, anxiety—and on top of it, a massive global recession—weigh on the mental well-being of different...
Brexited! (with Jeffry Frieden and Christina Davis)
Epicenter - April 14, 2020 13:35 - 42 minutesIt was a momentous day for the UK. The United Kingdom finally exited the European Union on January 31, 2020. So what happens next, and should we care? Our guests both demystify Brexit and explain the purpose of the European Union in ways you have never understood before. We know that British p...
Inequality in the US and Europe (with Michèle Lamont, Peter A. Hall, and Paul Pierson)
Epicenter - January 30, 2020 19:01 - 49 minutesDespite the decline in global poverty rates over the past five or six decades, the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow ever wider, especially in the industrialized West. Three scholars—Michèle Lamont, Peter A. Hall, and Paul Pierson—discuss how housing and education can actually ...
Disruptive: 3D Bioprinting
Disruptive - September 17, 2019 18:01 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere are roughly 120,000 people in the United States on waiting lists for live-saving organ transplants, with only about 30,000 transplants happening every year. To address this great challenge of organ shortages, a team at the Wyss Institute led by Core Faculty member Jennifer Lewis, Sc.D., is ...
Disruptive: Accelerating Diagnostics
Disruptive - August 21, 2019 17:57 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of Disruptive, David Walt, Wyss Core Faculty member, discusses his lessons learned from founding successful biotech companies and how he incorporates translation-minded thinking early on into his current diagnostic research in his labs at the Wyss Institute and the Brigham and Wom...
Disruptive: Soft Robotics for Deep Sea Exploration
Disruptive - October 12, 2018 19:59 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe deep ocean is the least explored environment on Earth, and scientists estimate that many thousands of species are yet to be encountered. Marine researchers depend on tools primarily developed for the military or the oil and gas industry to study and capture undersea organisms. Many of them ar...
Disruptive: Art Advances Science
Disruptive - December 20, 2017 21:34 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber and Staff Scientist Charles Reilly discuss their process creating The Beginning, a short film inspired by Star Wars, to better communicate science to the public…and how they made a scientific discovery along the way. To m...
Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine and Immuno-Materials
Disruptive - October 24, 2017 13:53 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsImmunotherapy – treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to help fight disease – has groundbreaking and life-saving implications. In an effort to make immunotherapy more effective, Wyss Institute researches are developing new immuno-materials, which help modulate immune cells to treat or ...
Disruptive: Sports Genomics
Disruptive - March 24, 2017 13:21 ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWith 100 trillion cells in the human body, bacteria outnumber our own human cells 2 to 1. These bacteria make up one’s microbiome, and particularly bacteria in our guts affect all our key organ functions. They play a role in our health, development and wellness, including endurance, recovery and ...
Disruptive: Mechanotherapeutics – From Drugs to Wearables
Disruptive - September 30, 2016 12:44 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMechanobiology reveals insights into how the body’s physical forces and mechanics impact development, physiological health, and prevention and treatment of disease. The emerging field of Mechanotherapeutics leverages these insights towards the development of new types of pharmaceuticals, drug del...
Disruptive: Fluorescent In Situ Sequencing
Disruptive - September 27, 2016 19:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDeveloped at the Wyss, FISSEQ (fluorescent in situ sequencing) is a spatial gene sequencing technology that reads and visualizes the three-dimensional coordinates of RNA and mRNAs – the working copies of genes – within whole cells and tissues. FISSEQ affords insights into biological complexity th...
Disruptive: Putting Biofilms to Work
Disruptive - September 11, 2016 17:56 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBiofilms are commonly known as the slime-producing bacterial communities sitting on stones in streams, dirty pipes and drains, or dental plaque. However, Wyss Core Faculty member Neel Joshi is putting to work the very properties that make biofilms effective nuisances or threats in our daily lives...
Disruptive: Rapid, Low Cost Detection of Zika & Future Pandemics
Disruptive - June 21, 2016 21:21 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe rapid emergence of the Zika virus on the world stage calls for a detection system that is just as quick. In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member and MIT professor Jim Collins and University of Toronto Assistant Professor Keith Pardee discuss how they developed a low cost, pape...
Disruptive: Molecular Robotics
Disruptive - March 09, 2016 15:13 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow can DNA be programmed to build novel structures, devices, and robots? We have taken our understanding of DNA to another level, beginning to take advantage of some of DNA’s properties that have served nature so well, but in ways nature itself may have never pursued. Humans can now use DNA as ...
Disruptive: Cancer Vaccine & Hydrogel Drug Delivery
Disruptive - November 20, 2015 21:24 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHow can a materials science approach lead to medical breakthroughs? In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Founding Core Faculty Member Dave Mooney discusses programmable nanomaterials approaches to fighting disease. Mooney explains how a cancer vaccine, developed by his team and currently in a clin...
Disruptive: Confronting Sepsis
Disruptive - October 07, 2015 21:21 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSepsis is a bloodstream infection caused by an uncontrolled spread of pathogens and release of toxins that can lead to systemic inflammation and multi-organ failure. Sepsis is the leading cause of hospital deaths and kills at least eight million people worldwide each year. Current treatment is to...
Disruptive: Bioinspired Robotics (pt. 3 - Wearable Robots)
Disruptive - July 24, 2015 18:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn part 3 of the Bioinspired Robotics episode, Wyss Core Faculty Member Conor Walsh discusses how a wearable robotic exosuit or soft robotic glove could assist people with mobility impairments, as well as how the goal to create real-world applications drives his research approach. Our bodies — an...
Disruptive: Bioinspired Robotics (pt. 2 - Materials, Manufacturing and Design)
Disruptive - July 24, 2015 18:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn part 2 of the Bioinspired Robotics episode, Wyss Founding Core Faculty Member Robert Wood discusses new manufacturing techniques that are enabling popup and soft robots. Our bodies — and all living systems — accomplish tasks far more sophisticated and dynamic than anything yet designed by huma...
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