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Horror In The Air - April 09, 2024 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsSalems_Lot_Part_2
755: Designing, Creating, and Testing Novel Materials with Unique Properties - Dr. Carlos Portela
People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers - April 08, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 282 ratingsDr. Carlos Portela is the Brit and Alex d'Arbeloff Career Development Professor in Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Carlos’s research involves designing, making, and testing new types of materials that have unconventional properties. To do this, they rearrange the components of existing materials ...
Eclipses, Cosmic Cataclysms, and More with Janna Levin
StarTalk Radio - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat can we learn from eclipses? Janna Levin joined by comedian Matt Kirshen and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Columbia University, Joe Patterson, discuss the 2017 eclipse, binary star systems, super novae and more. What is an eclipse on Jupiter like? NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can li...
Do ants count their steps?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 05, 2024 02:40 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDo animals ever get lost? Do ants count their steps? Could we recreate the greenhouse effect on Mars? Why can you hear some aircraft, but not others? Could we mine the Moon? Is it ever too late to stop somking? Do people with autism have a different brain structure? Dr Chris Smith and Clarence Fo...
Do ants count their steps?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 05, 2024 02:40 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDo animals ever get lost? Do ants count their steps? Could we recreate the greenhouse effect on Mars? Why can you hear some aircraft, but not others? Could we mine the Moon? Is it ever too late to stop somking? Do people with autism have a different brain structure? Dr Chris Smith and Clarence Fo...
EP 175: What is Lewy Body Dementia?
This Is Getting Old Podcast with Melissa B PhD - April 02, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes“Once diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, on average, individuals tend to live 5 to 8 years” —Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, FAAN Lewy body dementia (LBD) is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or overlooked, yet it affects millions worldwide. Join me as I explain one of the compli...
Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd
StarTalk Radio - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsIs space infinitely stretchable? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore fan grab bag questions about supermassive black holes, Planck lengths, and the gravitational wave background with extragalactic astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons ca...
A matter of conscience
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast - April 02, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsWill Harris's ranch, White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, has been in the Harris family for over 150 years. His ancestors had a polyculture farm, but when industrial tools came to ranching, his father, and then Will, went all in––corporate ranching allowed their family to make a good living....
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Horror In The Air - April 02, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsPet_Sematary_Part_3__4
How Do You Science | Meet an Ecologist (for the birds!)
Ask Dr. Universe - April 01, 2024 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Welcome back, young scientists. I’m Dr. Universe. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got lots of big questions about our world. Today we're talking about birds with Jennifer Phillips, an ecologist at Washington State University. Learn about sensory pollution and the...
Isaac Newton and a new kind of science
Night Science - April 01, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Night Science – coming up with novel ways to interpret the physical world – is as old as philosophy. In contrast, Day Science – empirical evidence as the sole argument for truth – was invented only in the 1700s, championed by the groundbreaking work of Isaac Newton. In t...
754: Hooked on Researching Marine Coastal Ecosystems and Fish Abundance - Dr. Joel Fodrie
People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers - April 01, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 282 ratingsDr. Joel Fodrie is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Marine Sciences and Department of Marine Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joel studies estuaries which are habitats where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with the salt water of the ocean. He acts a...
EP 174: What is Parkinson's Disease Dementia?
This Is Getting Old Podcast with Melissa B PhD - March 26, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutes“Symptoms of Parkinson's disease are gradual and they're very subtle.” —Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, FAAN What is Parkinson's disease dementia? How does it manifest differently from other forms of dementia? Join me in this insightful episode where we answer these questions and ...
Staying Curious with William Shatner
StarTalk Radio - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat is the value of curiosity? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with William Shatner to explore the nature of spacetime, Star Trek, human curiosity, loneliness, and more. How would warp drive work? NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkm...
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Horror In The Air - March 26, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsEncounter the death who walks, rats, descents in to madness, ghosts, mad scientists, crimes against nature.Tales of the supernatural from authors such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Ambrose Bierce. Features performances from Peter Lorre, Hal Holbrooke, Boris Karloff and the wor...
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Horror In The Air - March 26, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsCrewe_Kenneth_Cranham
753: Getting a Glimpse into the Most Distant Galaxies in the Universe - Dr. Taylor Hutchison
People Behind the Science Podcast Stories from Scientists about Science, Life, Research, and Science Careers - March 25, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 282 ratingsDr. Taylor Hutchison is an astrophysicist and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Taylor uses large telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope to study the most distant galaxies that we can detect in the universe. Her goal is to answer questions like what kinds of ...
Diversity. Fashion Term or Scientific Concept?
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoThe term "diversity" is nowadays on everyone's lips and has become a key concept in the governance of institutions. The task of the panel discussion at CAS is to scientifically enlighten the concept of "diversity", by considering its changeful history and analysing its different areas of applicat...
Platforms and their Societal Impact. A Force for Good?
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoPlatform businesses connect at least two sides, e.g. a buyer and a seller of a good or service, and have grown tremendously in importance in recent years. Indeed, platform business models form the basis of many household names in social media, ridesharing, operating systems and many more. The org...
Levels: Descriptive, Explanatory, and Ontological
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoChristian List focuses in his CAS-lecture on the category of levels in philosophy of science. He develops different perspectives against the background of reasoning and argumentation in general. | Christian List is Professor for Political Science and Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
Knowledge Creation in Museums
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoMuseums are often considered as instruments of dissemination of knowledge created elsewhere, but museums have a deep history as institutions of knowledge creation behind the scenes of their public exhibitions. How is the definition of museum-based research shifting in the 21st century? How can mu...
Is Critique Obsolete in the Age of Post-Truth?
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoDr. Sebastian Schindlers Habilitationsprojekt befasst sich mit der Aufgabe von Kritik in Zeiten der post-faktischen Politik. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass sich gegenwärtig in der Gesellschaft eine bestimmte Form von pseudo-kritischem Denken verbreitet hat, das davon ausgeht, dass hinter...
Gesundheitsversorgung, Forschung und Ausbildung. Herausforderungen einer Universitätklinik
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoIm Zuge des Aktionsmonats „Gesunde Universität“ an der LMU spricht der ehemalige Ärztliche Direktor des Klinikums der LMU, Karl-Walter Jauch, über die verschiedenen Anforderungen, die sich heutzutage an eine Universitätsklinik richten. Die aktuelle Krise zeigt mehr denn je, in welchem Spannungsf...
Epischer Rhythmus im Anschluss an August Wilhelm Schlegel
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoWo immer es um bewusste Formung von Prosa geht, stehen Fragen der Bindung und Verknüpfung zur Diskussion. Dass Prosa eine freie bzw. ungebundene Rede ist, bedeutet nicht, dass sie sich – wie es bei Cicero heißt – "verflüchtigt und verirrt"; vielmehr weiß sie sich "auch ohne Fesseln selbst das rec...
CAS Showcase: Global History
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) Miscellanea (LMU) - HD - March 22, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour - VideoThe series "CAS Showcase" invites professors from LMU to talk about their discipline's State of the Art.| Roland Wenzlhuemer is Professor for Global History at LMU Munich.
Is Aging a Disease? Epigenetics with David Sinclair
StarTalk Radio - March 22, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsIs aging a disease that can be cured? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly discover the field of epigenetics, the Information Theory of Aging, and curing blindness for mice with Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can ...
Do farmers produce double yolk eggs on purpose?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 22, 2024 02:16 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDr Chris answers more listener submitted questions including, Why is South Africa on the bottom of the world map? Why are countries interested in landing on the moon again? How do undersea cables work? What is the Square Kilometre Array? Why are my car keys better at unlocking my car than my TV r...
Do farmers produce double yolk eggs on purpose?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 22, 2024 02:16 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDr Chris answers more listener submitted questions including, Why is South Africa on the bottom of the world map? Why are countries interested in landing on the moon again? How do undersea cables work? What is the Square Kilometre Array? Why are my car keys better at unlocking my car than my TV r...
EP 173: What to Expect When Moving into Assisted Living
This Is Getting Old Podcast with Melissa B PhD - March 19, 2024 09:00 - 55 minutes“Understanding the unique needs of each resident requires a holistic approach that goes beyond medical care.” —Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP, FGSA, FAAN In this episode, Melissa Batchelor and Rebecca Adelman explore the crucial topic of managing expectations in assisted living. Drawing...
Cosmic Queries – Infinite Quarks
StarTalk Radio - March 19, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat happens to quarks during spaghettification? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about positrons, how we got the speed of light, where the Big Bang took place, and more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://sta...
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