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George Church and shooting for the stars
Night Science - April 29, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsGeorge Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, leads a large research group at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. A pioneer in the fields of personalized genomics and synthetic biology, he has co-founded over 50 biotech companies. In 2017, Time magazine na...
How does cloud seeding work?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 26, 2024 00:31 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWhy are viruses so contagious? Are there any treatments for macular degeneration? How are we treating depression with psychedelics? Why do people lose their sense of smell? Is cloud seeding a real thing? Dr Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help ...
How does cloud seeding work?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 26, 2024 00:31 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhy are viruses so contagious? Are there any treatments for macular degeneration? How are we treating depression with psychedelics? Why do people lose their sense of smell? Is cloud seeding a real thing? Dr Chris Smith and Relebogile Mabotja have all the answers... Like this podcast? Please help ...
Why do we dream the things we dream?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 19, 2024 00:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIs our perfect total eclipse just a total coincidence? Where do our dreams come from? Can you launch a missile without it being picked up by satellites? Which animals have the best memory? Do humans have any instincts? Can gravity be 1g on a planet with a greater mass than Earth? Where could we g...
Why do we dream the things we dream?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 19, 2024 00:13 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsIs our perfect total eclipse just a total coincidence? Where do our dreams come from? Can you launch a missile without it being picked up by satellites? Which animals have the best memory? Do humans have any instincts? Can gravity be 1g on a planet with a greater mass than Earth? Where could we g...
From suburban Chicago to rural Montana: the journey of a bison rancher
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast - April 16, 2024 01:42 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsMatt Skoglund grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, went to law school, and for ten years worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council doing policy work to protect bison in Yellowstone. Always happy in the outdoors and with an interest in both hunting and conservation, he started a bison ranch ...
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science
Night Science - April 15, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsProf. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz directs research labs at both CalTech in the US and the University of Cambridge in England. Magdalena is one of the world’s leading developmental biologists, who has been recognized by the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize and Science magazin's People's Vote for ...
Are lactose intolerant mothers allergic to their own milk?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 12, 2024 02:39 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhy did the eclipse move west to east across the Earth? Why are we so interested in nuclear fusion? Could we ever breathe underwater? What is the opposite force to gravity? Would alcohol sterilise a drowning fly? What the difference between cancer and cancerous growths? Are lactose introlerant mo...
Are lactose intolerant mothers allergic to their own milk?
Ask the Naked Scientists - April 12, 2024 02:39 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsWhy did the eclipse move west to east across the Earth? Why are we so interested in nuclear fusion? Could we ever breathe underwater? What is the opposite force to gravity? Would alcohol sterilise a drowning fly? What the difference between cancer and cancerous growths? Are lactose introlerant mo...
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...
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....
How Do You Science | Meet an Ecologist (for the birds!)
Ask Dr. Universe - April 01, 2024 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome 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 difference between a phe...
Isaac Newton and a new kind of science
Night Science - April 01, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNight 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 the April 1st, 2024, episo...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The robber barons of today's food corporations
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast - March 19, 2024 03:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsAustin Frerick grew up in Iowa, which in his youth had a robust regional food system that offered abundant produce and meat from family farms. But because of one "baron"––that's the name Frerick calls the men whose monopolistic corporations profoundly reshape markets and communities––rural areas...
Why do we want to scratch our wounds?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 15, 2024 04:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsChris Smith answers science questions from the public. Does the rate of nail growth differ between men and women? What are the advantages of a nose swab over a mouth swab? What could improve the connectivity of my remote? Accounting for the rotation of Earth, does a plane flying from London to Ca...
Why do we want to scratch our wounds?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 15, 2024 04:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsChris Smith answers science questions from the public. Does the rate of nail growth differ between men and women? What are the advantages of a nose swab over a mouth swab? What could improve the connectivity of my remote? Accounting for the rotation of Earth, does a plane flying from London to Ca...
Could popping a pimple on your face kill you?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 08, 2024 12:35 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDo statins affect your Vitamin D production? Why do we have leap years? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Could we live on the moon of Titan? Did COVID come from a lab? What aspects of science can we still now answer? Could popping a pimple on your face kill you? How does wireless chargin...
Could popping a pimple on your face kill you?
Ask the Naked Scientists - March 08, 2024 12:35 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsDo statins affect your Vitamin D production? Why do we have leap years? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Could we live on the moon of Titan? Did COVID come from a lab? What aspects of science can we still now answer? Could popping a pimple on your face kill you? How does wireless chargin...
Farm Aid: Food, festivity, and fighting for farmers
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast - March 05, 2024 06:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsIn 1985 Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young organized a concert to benefit farmers and spread awareness of the crisis U.S. farmers were facing. The concert raised $7 million and spread awareness across the country. Since then Farm Aid has become a force advocating for farmers, promoti...
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