Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe future of measuring cancer
Guest Olivier Gevaert is an expert in multi-modal biomedical data modeling and recently developed new methods in the new science of “spatial transcri…
2 years ago
The future of reading
Rebecca Silverman is an expert in how humans learn to read. It’s a complex process, she says. First we must connect letters and sounds to decode word…
2 years ago
The future of culture
Professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand’s latest book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, explores notions of what she calls “tight” and “loose”…
2 years, 1 month ago
Best of: What makes a surgeon great?
We’re taking you into our archive of over 250 episodes to re-share an interview Russ Altman did in 2022 with Stanford Medicine Professor of Surgery, …
2 years, 1 month ago
The future of bioprinting
Mark Skylar-Scott is one of the world’s foremost experts on the 3D printing of human tissue, cell by cell. It’s a field better known as bioprinting. …
2 years, 1 month ago
The future of language learning
Cognitive scientist Michael Frank studies differences in how children and AI learn language. There is a “data gap” between the billions of words Chat…
2 years, 1 month ago
Best of: Computational modeling can help us understand Alzheimer’s disease
We’re re-running an important episode on Alzheimer’s disease — a topic that touches many people. We still don’t have a complete understanding of the …
2 years, 2 months ago
The future of immigration
Ran Abramitzky studies the economic history of immigration by tapping into now-public government records and using AI to chart changing attitudes on …
2 years, 2 months ago
Best of: The future of art
We’re re-releasing a wonderful episode about the positive impact art has on individual and societal health. Guest Deborah Cullinan, vice president fo…
2 years, 2 months ago
The future of digital health
As the pandemic made a doctor visit as easy as a Zoom call and computer vision proved able to distinguish a benign blemish from something more worris…
2 years, 2 months ago