Latest Medical technology Podcast Episodes
Now That’s a Lot of Power
Neurotech Pub - July 02, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis episode features Paradromics CEO Matt Angle in a compelling discussion with Grayson Zulauf, CEO of Resonant Link; Alex Yeh, CTO and VP of R&D at Neuspera Medical; and Jacob Robinson, Founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech. They explore the latest advancements in neurotechnology, focusing on wir...
ENCORE: Old bones and modern germs
63 Degrees North - June 26, 2024 10:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode originally aired on Feb. 16, 2022. Trondheim, Norway’s first religious and national capital, has a rich history that has been revealed over decades of archaeological excavations. One question archaeologists are working on right now has a lot of relevance in a pandemic: Can insight...
ENCORE: Shedding light on the polar night
63 Degrees North - May 31, 2024 13:31 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode originally aired on January 27, 2021. Krill eyeballs. The werewolf effect. Diel vertical migration. Arctic marine biologists really talk about these things. There’s a reason for that — when it comes to the polar night, when humans see only velvety darkness, krill eyeballs see thi...
Strange bedfellows: Howard Hughes, a $2 billion ship and a lost Soviet submarine
63 Degrees North - March 21, 2024 19:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's 1968 and a Soviet sub carrying nuclear warheads has gone missing – lost, with all hands. The Soviets never found it – but the Americans did – in nearly 5000 meters of water. What follows is the strange tale of Project Azorian, an ultra-secret mission by the US Central Intelligence Agency, ...
Seabed mining – savior or scourge?
63 Degrees North - February 06, 2024 08:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNorway's Mid-Arctic Ocean Ridge is alive with underwater volcanic activity – where big towers called black smokers spew mineral-laden boiling hot water into the ocean. The minerals precipitate out, and have accumulated over millions of years. At the same time, this extreme environment is home to...
Report from Dubai
63 Degrees North - December 13, 2023 19:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOur guest on today's show is Anders Hammer Strømman, one of the lead authors for the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on mitigation of climate change, released in April 2022. He was invited to Dubai to the COP 28 climate talks to talk to the shipping industry about how they ...
When trees talk
63 Degrees North - November 01, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn their careful records of climate change over the centuries — and millennia — trees offer a kind of crystal ball on the past. But they can also help researchers figure out everything from what happened in Norway during the Black Death to how Nazis hid an enormous battleship from the Allies dur...
1100 Norwegian teachers fought Hitler — and won
63 Degrees North - October 18, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen Hitler's troops stormed into Norway on April 9, 1940, Germany's goal was to secure the country’s 1200 km long coastline so iron ore from Swedish mines could continue to flow to the northern Norwegian port of Narvik — and eventually to the German war machine. But that wasn't all that Hitle...
Tea bags on the tundra
63 Degrees North - October 11, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsUp on the Arctic tundra, a young man in chest waders is wandering around a peat bod, burying tea bags — Lipton tea bags, green tea and rooibos, to be exact. This week, I head to Iskoras mountain, a low peak in far northern Norway, outside of the town of Karasjok to find out what burying tea bag...
When the doctor is out
63 Degrees North - October 04, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSierra Leone used to be the most dangerous place in the world to give birth. Without enough doctors to do C-sections, women and babies were dying. But what if you didn't need a doctor? This week, the story of two determined surgeons and a no-so radical idea that is saving lives in Sierra Leone ...
Listening to Leviathans: Sounds from the deep
63 Degrees North - September 27, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNorwegian technology, courtesy of the 19th-century whaler Svend Foyn, played a critical role in establishing the modern era of industrial whaling.By the time the 1960s rolled around, most large whale populations hovered on the brink of extinction. Now, Norwegian researchers are testing new techn...
Running rats and healing hearts
63 Degrees North - September 20, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn 1998, a young Norwegian exercise physiologist found that a technique he had used to help Olympic athletes could help heart patients too. But his idea made doctors sweat. One famous cardiologist told him that if he used his technique in human heart attack patients, he "would kill them." Today...
Your Future Self Will Thank You | Connectomics Part II
Neurotech Pub - March 22, 2023 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe’re back with Part II of our two-part series on Connectomics! In part one we speculated on the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies in the connectomics field. In part two, we don our lab coats and take a deep dive into the latest research tools, from fixation protocols fo...
We're in Heated Agreement Over Here | Connectomics Part I
Neurotech Pub - March 14, 2023 23:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to Neurotech Pub! In this first installment of two episodes on Connectomics, host and Paradromics CEO Matt Angle kicks off a lively discussion on the rapidly accelerating research in the mapping, preservation, and reconstruction of the human connectome. We explore the ethical and ...
Wax, wood and CO2
63 Degrees North - November 15, 2022 15:15 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThree tons of wax. A 4-story office building made almost entirely of wood. And putting CO2 to work instead of letting it heat up the planet: Scientists and engineers across the globe are harnessing unlikely materials to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Today's show looks at how a zero-emissions o...
The EU has the strongest climate law in the world. But it's not enough.
63 Degrees North - November 07, 2022 09:06 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEarlier this year, tremendous floods in Pakistan forced 600,000 pregnant women to leave their homes for safer ground. It was among the latest in a series of nearly unthinkable happenings caused by climate change."Can you imagine if you are about to give birth to a child, and you have to leave yo...
Neuro Mapping & Napping
Neurotech Pub - August 25, 2022 12:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to Neurotech Pub! In this episode we’re talking about sleep–why we sleep, how sleep works on a neurophysiological level, and some of the emerging sleep technologies that are about to revolutionize this essential neural activity. Our guests are Amy Kruse, PhD, General Partner at P...
BCI Pioneers Part II
Neurotech Pub - July 12, 2022 06:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Panel: Jan Scheuermann is an author and public speaker, and self-styled “professional lab rat.” She has spoken at DARPA, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and the National Convention of the ALS Association about her experience as a BCI trial participant at UPitt. She is the aut...
BCI Pioneers Part I
Neurotech Pub - June 16, 2022 12:38 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this very special two part series in collaboration with Blackrock Neurotech, Paradromics CEO Matt Angle and Blackrock Creative Director Taryn Southern co-host a discussion with BCI research pioneers Jan Scheuermann, Ian Burkhart, and Nathan Copeland. In part one, we discuss their personal jou...
Getting to Net Zero
63 Degrees North - June 02, 2022 09:40 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe all know that climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. In today's podcast extra episode, we go behind the scenes at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and talk to Anders Hammer Strømman, who was one of the lead authors for their latest report, released in ...
Mind Control with Lasers: Optical Recording Part II
Neurotech Pub - May 13, 2022 14:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to Neurotech Pub! This episode is part two of a two part series on optical methods for recording and stimulating neural activity. Our guests on this episode are Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, Mark Schnitzer, PhD, and Jacob Robinson, PhD. Last time we talked about optical recording method...
The Alchemists: Turning wild water into white coal
63 Degrees North - April 13, 2022 17:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe secrets behind how Norwegian scientists and engineers harnessed the country’s wild waterfalls by developing super efficient turbines — and how advances in turbine technology being developed now may be the future in a zero-carbon world. They include an engineer who figured out how to take adv...
Let there be Light: Optical Recording Part I
Neurotech Pub - April 11, 2022 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to Neurotech Pub! This episode is one of a two part series on optical methods for recording and stimulating neural activity. Our guests on this episode are Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, Mark Schnitzer, PhD, and Jacob Robinson, PhD. So far, our technical dives have focused mainly on dir...
Let there be Light: Optical Recording Part I
Neurotech Pub - April 11, 2022 17:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to Neurotech Pub! This episode is one of a two part series on optical methods for recording and stimulating neural activity. Our guests on this episode are Elizabeth Hillman, PhD, Mark Schnitzer, PhD, and Jacob Robinson, PhD. So far, our technical dives have focused main...
The Detectives: Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic
63 Degrees North - March 30, 2022 20:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBaby grey seals. Polar bears. Zooplankton on painkillers. How do toxic chemicals and substances end up in Arctic animals — and as it happens, native people, too? Our guests on today's show are Bjørn Munro Jenssen, an ecotoxicologist at NTNU, Jon Øyvind Odland, a professor of global health at ...
Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe and the $6 billion deal
63 Degrees North - March 16, 2022 18:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow the unlikely combination of WWII Germany, a modest English engineer who created a worker’s paradise, an ambitious industrialist prosecuted as a traitor and a hardworking PhD helped build modern Norway, one aluminium ingot at a time. Today's guests are Hans Otto Frøland, Svein Richard Brandt...
Business Models in Neurotech
Neurotech Pub - March 03, 2022 04:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWelcome back to the Season 2 premiere of Neurotech Pub! In this episode, host and Paradromics CEO Matt Angle sits down with fellow Founder/CEOs Carolina Aguilar, Brian Pepin, and Kunal Ghosh to talk shop about building cutting edge neurotech companies from the ground up. We dive deep into busin...
Pirates, noblewomen and bicycling housewives
63 Degrees North - March 02, 2022 16:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhy does Norway always rank among the top countries on the planet when it comes to gender equality? It didn't happen by accident. Instead, it took powerful medieval noblewomen, 19th century farmers’ wives, an early 20th century activist on a bicycle, and the feminists who emerged from the postwa...
Old bones and modern germs
63 Degrees North - February 16, 2022 15:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTrondheim, Norway’s first religious and national capital, has a rich history that has been revealed over decades of archaeological excavations. One question archaeologists are working on right now has a lot of relevance in during a pandemic: Can insight into the health conditions of the past she...
Dr. Sergio Vañó - Dermatologist
Before we call it Medicine - August 05, 2021 16:55 - 20 minutesDr. Sergio Vañó is a dermatologist in Madrid, Spain. With the highest national distinction for medical residents in his country, his career was stelar since the beggining. An absolute pioneer in creating a diagnostic app and prescribing digital health, his focus on trichology has made him interna...
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