Podcast Episodes

Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis

Whether by injury or disease, paralysis has afflicted humans through the ages.

Only now have science and technology converged to a point where scienti…

4 years, 10 months ago

Sam Wineburg: How to improve American students’ fact-checking skills

Sam Wineburg, a research psychologist at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, recently conducted a nationwide study of the fact-checking skills o…

4 years, 10 months ago

Julie Parsonnet: How faith in herd immunity may be misplaced

Many have now become familiar with the term herd immunity, an idea few outside the infectious disease community knew just a few short months ago.

It’s…

4 years, 10 months ago

Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing

Imagine typing words into a text editor and watching on a nearby television as a well-known celebrity speaks those words within seconds.

Computer grap…

4 years, 11 months ago

Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical

Biology is not typically considered a mathematically intensive science, says Noah Rosenberg, an expert in genetics, but all that is about to change.

M…

4 years, 11 months ago

Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric

Slowly but surely, the highly centralized, industrial electric grid that supplies power to the vast majority of American homes and business is changi…

4 years, 11 months ago

Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular

The world’s once linear — take it, treat it, use it, dispose it — model of freshwater usage is changing fast.

Despite two-thirds of Earth being covere…

4 years, 11 months ago

Catherine Gorle: How cityscapes catch the wind

Humankind has long harnessed the wind to its advantage. From ancient mariners to millers grinding grist, the wind has been an ally for millennia, but…

4 years, 11 months ago

Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide

As the world moves to more efficient and cleaner energy solutions, there is a growing divide between the clean-energy haves and have-nots, says Antho…

4 years, 11 months ago

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Electrical engineer Kunle Olukotun has built a career out of building computer chips for the world. These days his attention is focused on new-age ch…

5 years ago