Latest Neurophilosophy Podcast Episodes

The Final Cast

High Proof Podcast - November 06, 2017 17:11 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
This is it, guys. It’s been a good run, but this project has come to an end! Bye all, Ryan Price and Joel Eisenhofer

Sports Metrics

High Proof Podcast - September 27, 2017 03:07 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Joel and Ryan talk about developments in sports medicine that allow us to enhance athletic ability to unheard-of levels! Check us out at facebook.com/highproofpodcast. Write us at [email protected]

Are Cats a Liquid or a Solid? 2017 Ig Nobels in Review

High Proof Podcast - September 19, 2017 13:38 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
It’s that time of year again–the Ig Nobels have been released! In this thrilling episode we talk about female penises, liquid cats, scratching the wrong side of your body, and didgeridoos. As always, check us out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/highproofpodcast/

Social Media – Vice or Virtue?

High Proof Podcast - September 14, 2017 17:54 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
  Ryan and Joel take on social media. Ryan basically thinks that social media is a scourge that functions to further alienate people. Joel is a bit more reasonable and can see some good in it!

Season 3 Episode 8 – Interview with Sean Horan

High Proof Podcast - September 05, 2017 21:30 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this podcast, Joel and Ryan interview Ryan’s colleague Sean Horan, currently a PhD student in mathematics at UC Irvine. Sean came to biology from a mostly mathematics/data analysis background. We talk about Sean’s research, where mathematicians fit in to science, and how STEM education can fai...

The Importance of Animal Models with Bethany Wagner

High Proof Podcast - August 30, 2017 12:05 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this cast, Ryan flies solo and interviews the irrepressible Bethany Wagner. They discuss the challenges–ethical, legal, and personal–of working with animals in order to model human disease. Though these models allow insights often impossible to gain in simple cell culture or test tube systems,...

Eclipses et Cetera

High Proof Podcast - August 23, 2017 03:37 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
  This week, Joel and Ryan discuss the Great American Eclipse and why it will blow your eyes out, teaching biology, and whether numbers are like, real, man.  

Interview with Dan Zollinger, circa Spring 2016

High Proof Podcast - August 15, 2017 13:29 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this blast-from-the-past interview, Ryan and Joel interview Dan Zollinger, who was at the time a post-doctoral scholar at UCSF. We discuss how myelin, the insulating material around the long part of a neuron, is implicated in several neurological diseases; we also discuss the joys of brewing w...

Interview With Benjamin Stecher

High Proof Podcast - August 09, 2017 00:32 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Joel and Ryan interview Benjamin Stecher, who maintains the blog tmrwedition.com. Benjamin was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at a young age and now travels the world learning about cutting-edge research from the scientists on the front lines of disease research. We learn about some new and d...

13 Reasons Why and To the Bone: Controversial Depictions in Media

High Proof Podcast - August 01, 2017 13:07 ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Joel and Ryan start off talking about the recent Netflix content To the Bone and 13 Reasons Why. These shows tackle controversial topics (anorexia and suicide respectively) and some schools have had interventions for students to warn against the shows or against suicide. Your intrepid hosts discu...

Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences

Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences - September 29, 2009 15:15 - Video
In the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences GSN-LMU, groups of researchers working in different areas of neuroscience seek answers to one of the most fundamental questions in modern science: How does the brain work? The GSN-LMU is embedded into the Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & M...

Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences

Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences - September 29, 2009 15:15 - Video
In the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences GSN-LMU, groups of researchers working in different areas of neuroscience seek answers to one of the most fundamental questions in modern science: How does the brain work? The GSN-LMU is embedded into the Munich Center for Neurosciences – Brain & M...