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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.
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...
How to Measure Your Stress with Dr. Rosalind Picard
Making Sense of Science - February 21, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsToday’s podcast guest is Rosalind Picard, a researcher, inventor named on over 100 patents, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer. When it comes to the science related to endowing computer software with emotional intelligence, she wrote the book. It’s published by MIT Press and called Aff...
How to Use the Immune System Against Cancer and Alzheimer's, with Dr. Paul Song
Making Sense of Science - January 29, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOn today’s episode of Making Sense of Science, I’m honored to be joined by Dr. Paul Song, a physician, oncologist, progressive activist and biotech chief medical officer. Through his company, NKGen Biotech, Dr. Song is leveraging the power of patients’ own immune systems by supercharging the bod...
Leading XPRIZE Healthspan and Beating Negativity, with Dr. Peter Diamandis
Making Sense of Science - December 06, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA new competition by the XPRIZE Foundation is offering $101 million to researchers if they discover therapies that allow seniors to perform like when they were 10 to 20 years younger. For today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPRIZE’s founder and executive chairman. Under Peter’s...
New psychedelics that rewire the brain for more well-being, with Doug Drysdale
Making Sense of Science - November 29, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsA promising development in science in recent years has been the advance of technologies that take something natural and use technology to optimize it. This episode features a fascinating example: using tech to optimize psychedelic mushrooms. These mushrooms have been used for religious, spiritu...
Fast for Longevity, with Less Hunger, with Dr. Valter Longo
Making Sense of Science - October 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou’ve probably heard about intermittent fasting, where you don’t eat for about 16 hours each day and limit the window where you’re taking in food to the remaining 8 hours. But there’s another type of fasting, called fasting-mimicking diet, with studies pointing to important benefits for health...
A New Clue in Fighting Alzheimer's, with Dr. Michael Glickman
Making Sense of Science - October 17, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn recent years, researchers of Alzheimer’s have made progress in figuring out the complex factors that lead to the disease. Yet, the root cause, or causes, of Alzheimer’s are still pretty much a mystery. In fact, many people get Alzheimer’s even though they lack the gene variant we know can pl...
How to Use Thoughts to Control Computers with Dr. Tom Oxley
Making Sense of Science - September 13, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTom Oxley is building what he calls a “natural highway into the brain” that lets people use their minds to control their phones and their computers. The device, called the Stentrode, could improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with spinal cord paralysis, ALS and other neuro...
Will Eating Insects Go Mainstream by 2030?
Making Sense of Science - August 18, 2023 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn today’s podcast episode, Leaps.org Deputy Editor Lina Zeldovich speaks about the health and ecological benefits of farming crickets for human consumption with Bicky Nguyen, who joins Lina from Vietnam. Bicky and her business partner Nam Dang operate an insect farm named CricketOne. Motivated ...
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.
Episode 17 - Best of the Idiots (Compilation Episode)
Radioface Comedy presents: Idiot vs Arsehole - July 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hourFor reasons best explained by our psychiatrists, we've decided to take the funniest topics from episodes 1-16 and put them out as a "Best of" episode for your amusement. Included in this compilation are comedic highlights from our chats about immortality, serial killers, escaping a terrorist, an...
We Can Age Later, with Dr. Nir Barzilai
Making Sense of Science - June 29, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn today’s podcast episode, I talk with Nir Barzilai, a geroscientist, which means he studies the biology of aging. Barzilai directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. My first question for Dr. Barzilai was: why do we age? And do we have to age? His ans...
Meet Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the First Director of President Biden's New Health Agency, ARPA-H
Making Sense of Science - May 31, 2023 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn today’s podcast episode, I talk with Renee Wegrzyn, appointed by President Biden as the first director of a federal agency created last year called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. It’s inspired by DARPA, the agency that develops innovations for the Defense depart...
Friday Five: New Eye Scans Could Show How Fast You're Aging
Making Sense of Science - April 07, 2023 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you ...
Friday Five: Go to This Type of Event to Improve Well-Being, Research Suggests
Making Sense of Science - March 24, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you ...
Are You Having a Healthy Change of Heart? An HRV Sensor Can Tell You
Making Sense of Science - March 22, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis episode is about a health metric you may not have heard of before: heart rate variability, or HRV. This refers to the small changes in the length of time between each of your heart beats. Scientists have known about and studied HRV for a long time. In recent years, though, new monitors hav...
Friday Five: This Pill, Sold Online, Could Stop Alzheimer's - But More Research is Needed
Making Sense of Science - March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
Friday Five: Money Can Buy You Happiness If You're This Type of Person
Making Sense of Science - March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
Friday Five: A Pill, Sold Online, Could Help Prevent Alzheimer's - But More Research is Needed
Making Sense of Science - March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
Friday Five: A Pill, Sold Online, Could Protect Against Alzheimer's, but More Research is Needed
Making Sense of Science - March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
Friday Five: Breathe This Way to Increase Well-being, Stanford Study Suggests
Making Sense of Science - March 03, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
What Causes Aging - and What Could Reverse It - with Dr. David Sinclair
Making Sense of Science - February 28, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat causes aging? In a paper published last month, Dr. David Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, reports that he and his co-authors have found the answer. Harnessing this knowledge, Dr. Sinclair was able to reverse this process, making mice younger, acco...
The Real Solution to Freeing Our Kids - and Ourselves - from Tech Addiction, with Gaia Bernstein
Making Sense of Science - February 23, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEach afternoon, kids walk through my neighborhood, on their way home from school, and almost all of them are walking alone, staring down at their phones. It's a troubling site. This daily parade of the zombie children just can’t bode well for the future. That’s one reason I felt like Gaia Berns...
This Lifestyle Change Could Slow Down Aging, According to New Research
Making Sense of Science - February 17, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsLast Thursday, scientists at Columbia University published a new study finding that cutting down on calories could lead to longer lives. In the phase 2 trial, 220 healthy people without obesity dropped their calories significantly, and a test of their biological age showed that their rate of agi...
The Friday Five: Artificial DNA Could Give Cancer the Hook
Making Sense of Science - February 03, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
The Friday Five: A Surprising Health Benefit for People Who Have Kids
Making Sense of Science - January 27, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
The Friday Five: You've Never Heard of the Best Sport for Mental Health
Making Sense of Science - January 20, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a ...
The World's Longest Running Study on Happiness, with Dr. Bob Waldinger
Making Sense of Science - January 10, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat makes for a good life? Such a simple question, yet we don't have great answers. Most of us try to figure it out as we go along, and many end up feeling like they never got to the bottom of it. Shouldn't something so important be approached with more scientific rigor? In 1938, Harvard resea...
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