Latest Nanotech Podcast Episodes
Episode 5: How Do We Know Anything?
Science Talk - May 01, 2024 09:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsOn this show, we’ve been talking about uncertainty from a variety of different angles. We’ve heard how uncertainty can be a spark for creativity and scientific discovery. We’ve discussed how uncertainty can go unseen and make science really difficult. And we’ve explored some of the research techn...
Episode 4: This Simple Strategy Might Be the Key to Advancing Science Faster
Science Talk - April 24, 2024 09:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsScience is an iterative process. Progress comes from people coming up with ideas that are sort of right and then new evidence and ideas coming in to update them to become even more correct. Underlying this process is a willingness by scientists to accept that they might be wrong and be open to up...
Episode 3: When Uncertainty Hides in the Blindspot of Overconfidence
Science Talk - April 17, 2024 08:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsToday’s episode of Uncertain is about the ways that studies can leave us overconfident and how “just-so stories” can make us feel overly certain about results that are still a work in progress. And sometimes studies get misleading results because of random error or weird samples or study design. ...
Episode 2: Think Seeing is Believing? Think Again
Science Talk - April 10, 2024 09:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsIn this episode, we’ll talk with two researchers whose work probes the uncertainty surrounding how we perceive the world around us. It turns out that what we see may not always be a perfect reflection of reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 1: Uncertainty is Science's Super Power. Make It Yours, Too
Science Talk - April 03, 2024 09:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsWelcome to Uncertain, a five-part podcast miniseries from Scientific American. Here we will dive head first into the possibilities of the unknowing. Over the next five episodes, I’ll be talking with people like her: explorers who work in the realm of uncertainty. Through them, we’ll discover the ...
Coming Soon: 'Uncertain' - A New Short Series on the Thrill of Not Knowing
Science Talk - March 27, 2024 13:46 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsDoes the word "uncertainty" make you nervous? Does it rule your life? Would you say it kinda describes the state of the world these days? Enter Uncertain, a new limited podcast series from Scientific American. In this series, host Christie Aschwanden will help to demystify uncertainty. She's goi...
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, ...
Ep 45. The World is Really Ready for Change
Sustainable Nano - March 15, 2024 21:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsProfessor Mike Curry of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technological State University (NCAT) is a scientist, inventor, mentor, and advocate with a passion for bringing attention to the great research that happens at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). In this episode we share ...
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...
Ep 44. Part of Something Bigger: Social Media, Mentoring, & Friendship with Stuart Cantrill
Sustainable Nano - December 20, 2023 20:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEarly in the COVID pandemic, then-graduate student Safia Jilani became Twitter buddies with the Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry, Dr. Stuart Cantrill. Dr. Jilani is now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, and Dr. Cantrill is now the E...
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 ...
A Conversation with Craig Bandes, CEO of Pixelligent Technologies
Stories from the NNI - December 06, 2023 15:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast features Craig Bandes, CEO of Pixelligent, a company that manufactures tunable, high-refractive-index nanocrystal formulations that enable extended-reality devices, organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and optical sensors. Mr. Bandes describes ...
Ep 43. Revolutionizing How we Grow, Distribute, & Store Food: Revisiting the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Sustainable Nano - November 07, 2023 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsFive years after our first interview, we catch up with Dr. Jason White about chemistry at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and how nanoscience can benefit agriculture and global food security. Graduate student Beza Tuga interviews Jason about his new role as Director of CAES and e...
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...
Inspiring curiosity, creativity, and action in students with nanotechnology
Stories from the NNI - October 06, 2023 14:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat do superheroes, sloth backpacks, and digital movie projectors all have in common? In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Marshall Escamilla, co-host of the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids; Matthew Jackson, a physics teacher at Cobb County School District in Marietta (near Atl...
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...
Racism in Health: The Roots of the U.S. Black Maternal Mortality Crisis
Science Talk - August 10, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratingsWhat is behind the Black maternal mortality crisis, and what needs to change? In this podcast from Nature and Scientific American, leading academics unpack the racism at the heart of the system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep 42. Why We All Feel So Terrible And What to Do About It
Sustainable Nano - July 03, 2023 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMental Health Awareness Month was back in May, but it's never too late to talk about mental health and strategies for taking care of ourselves during difficult times. In this episode we share a discussion with psychiatrist Dr. Kaz Nelson called "Why we all feel so terrible and what to do about i...
Season 6 Trailer
Sustainable Nano - June 27, 2023 21:05 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe've got a great set of episodes for Season 6 following our themes of Nanotechnology, Sustainability, and Life in Science. Interviews include the founders of @BlackinNanotech, Dr. Olivia Geneus and Jarriaun Streets; materials scientist Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu; and psychiatrist Dr. Kaz Nelson, plus...
Near-term solutions don’t have to be sexy!
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 2 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Education as a carbon abatement strategy
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 4 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Is this the golden hour of nano entrepreneurship?
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 3 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Nanotechnologies are already having an impact
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 6 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Why aren't these technologies deployed already?
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 5 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Introducing Nano4EARTH and our podcast guests
Stories from the NNI - April 21, 2023 14:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is Part 1 of a "Stories from the NNI" podcast episode on perspectives from participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023). This episode was broken down into six parts, and listeners can choose any part in which they are most interested. Full podcast episode: https://www....
Trailer for "Perspectives from Participants in the Nano4EARTH Kick-off Workshop" podcast episode
Stories from the NNI - April 20, 2023 18:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, four participants in the Nano4EARTH kick-off workshop (Jan. 24–25, 2023; Washington, DC, and virtual) provide their perspectives on various topics related to climate change and nanotechnology that were discussed during the workshop. The podca...
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