Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA mobile app can be the gateway for helping communities improve their health and well-being
Take a look around your neighborhood and you’ll see a few things you like -- and, most likely, a few you don’t. Maybe you need a crosswalk near the s…
4 years, 2 months ago
How to design algorithms with fairness in mind
Algorithms inform the news you read, the TV shows you watch, and the advertisements that appear on your internet searches – and they also have a say …
4 years, 3 months ago
Using technologies from the gaming industry to improve medicine
Unfortunately, not every medical procedure is 100% successful. Due to the complexity of breast cancer lumpectomies, for instance, 16–25% of surgeries…
4 years, 3 months ago
How to make quieter airplanes
Since they were invented more than a century ago, airplanes have gone from carrying a single person to ferrying many hundreds of people and several t…
4 years, 3 months ago
A cardiologist says embracing diversity will catalyze medical research
Data shows that greater gender diversity on company leadership groups leads to improved business outcomes, says Stanford cardiologist Hannah Valantin…
4 years, 3 months ago
An innovative polling model can move us past political polarization
In our deeply polarized society, the prospect of holding thoughtful discussions on policy issues seems impossible. But it doesn’t have to be. In this…
4 years, 4 months ago
How cryptography and Web3 can fight misinformation and help restore trust in digital media
Many of the lies, distortions, and pieces of disinformation online are easy to spot. But as technology advances it will become harder to tell the dif…
4 years, 4 months ago
Computational modeling can help understand Alzheimer’s disease
Physicians diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with tests that measure memory loss and behavioral change. But many years before these symptoms appear, the d…
4 years, 4 months ago
Data is transforming our understanding of natural disasters
Humans have been trying to predict when earthquakes will happen for centuries, with little success, by developing earthquake detectors and by wonderi…
4 years, 4 months ago
How to develop ever better computer chips
Computer chips are everywhere: your cellphone, your car, even your refrigerator. And they’re essential to enabling advances in artificial intelligenc…
4 years, 5 months ago