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#26. Sixty-Six Years of Figuring Out How the Brain Makes a Mind
Season 1 Episode 26
Stephen Grossberg is one of the principal founders of the fields of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and artificial neural network research. At Boston University he has be…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
#25. How Did Life Originate on Earth?
Season 1 Episode 25
Loren Williams is a biophysicist, biochemist, astrobiologist, and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His research passions include th…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
#24. The Demands of Classical Violin, Time Distortion within Performance Anxiety, and the Wonder of Musical Improvisation
Season 1 Episode 24
Natalie Hodges is both a writer and a classical violinist. Born and raised in Denver and currently living in Boulder, Colorado, she has performed throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, a…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
#23. Aztec History and Culture Before the Spanish Conquest
Season 1 Episode 23
Camilla Townsend is a distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University, whose scholarship focuses on indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and in the relations between natives and newco…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
#22. Common Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health
Season 1 Episode 22
Barry Krakow, MD, is a board certified internist, sleep medicine specialist, and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia, having ear…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
#21. Two Identities: A Physicist-Administrator at Los Alamos and Also a Rabbi
Season 1 Episode 21
Jack Shlachter is a Ph.D. physicist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico for over three decades, also at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, as well as two organizations…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
#20. The Awesome Benefits and Potential Dangers of Recent Advances in Gene-Editing Technology
Season 1 Episode 20
Fyodor Urnov is a Professor of Molecular Therapeutics at UC Berkeley and a Scientific Director at its Innovative Genomics Institute. He co-developed the toolbox of human genome and epigenome editing …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
#19. The High-Stakes Work of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Season 1 Episode 19
Jay Wellons MD, MSPH is a Professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Universit…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
#18. Land Conservancy in the Private Sector: Values and Process
Season 1 Episode 18
“Jack” Wright (legal name “John Wright”) is a Regents Professor in the Department of Geography at New Mexico State University (NMSU), whose research encompasses land conservation, cultural geography,…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
#17. Human Waste: Underappreciated Treasure for Energy Production, Water Reclamation, Medical Interventions, and the Tracking of Epidemics
Season 1 Episode 17
Bryn Nelson is a PhD microbiologist who changed course to become an award-winning science journalist. In addition to several years as a staff writer at Newsday, focusing on genetics, stem cell resear…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago