Podcast Episodes

Michal Kosinski: Living in a post-privacy world

Much has been made of the use of personal data gathered from social media and other channels to target voters during the 2016 U.S. Presidential elect…

7 years, 11 months ago

Craig Criddle: Redefining waste treatment

It’s been said that sewers were one of the major advances in human history and the Clean Water Act of 1972 was one of the most successful environment…

7 years, 11 months ago

Michael Fischbach: Making sense of the gut biome

The bacteria of the human digestive system have been likened to tiny factories that ingest raw materials — food — and processing them into finished p…

7 years, 11 months ago

Paul Wise: Saving the children, on the frontlines of war

One of the tradeoffs of modern medicine is that technology that allows physicians to save more lives also drives them closer than ever to the frontli…

8 years ago

​Michael Bernstein: Welcome to the future of crowdsourcing

While billions scroll their merry ways through Facebook and Twitter each day, behind the scenes are legions of reviewers scanning photos and video to…

8 years ago

Maneesh Agrawala: Artificial intelligence comes to multimedia

As the digital world grows, the sheer amount of video and audio in our lives has become overwhelming.

It is easy to shoot and record, but few have th…

8 years, 1 month ago

Sarah Heilshorn: Building replacement parts for the human body

Heart attacks, burns, strokes, disease and just plain-old aging can devastate human tissues.

But, emboldened by new understandings about the building…

8 years, 1 month ago

Jennifer Cochran: Guided missiles target cancer

For years, cancer treatment was confined to three flawed strategies. You could cut it out with a scalpel, you could burn it out with radiation, or yo…

8 years, 1 month ago

Manu Prakash: The physics of biology

Manu Prakash is a bioengineer, a physicist and an inventor, who has developed a $1.50 foldable microscope and the 20-cent “paperfuge” that are democr…

8 years, 1 month ago

David Relman: What dolphins can teach us about our own health

From weaponized anthrax to killer strains of bird flu, we often hear only the worst of the worst when it comes to the microbes who share our world.

T…

8 years, 2 months ago