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#15. Ethical Complexities in Assisted Dying
Season 1 Episode 15
Katie Engelhart is a writer and producer based in Toronto and New York, whose recent work has focused on healthcare and bioethics. She has been inter…
3 years, 1 month ago
#14. A Neuroscientist Challenges the Prevailing Model of Physiological Regulation
Season 1 Episode 14
Peter Sterling is a senior professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, whose research focused on the three-dimens…
3 years, 1 month ago
#13. Human-Wildlife Conflict: Ill-Fated Attempts at Control vs. Cultivating an Attitude of Coexistence
Season 1 Episode 13
Bethany Brookshire is a science writer and a host of the podcast, Science for the People. From 2013 to 2021, she was a staff writer with Science News…
3 years, 2 months ago
#12. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Inspiring Response to Two Unthinkable, Juxtaposed Traumas: The Insurrection of January 6th, the Day after Burying His Beloved Son
Season 1 Episode 12
Jamie Raskin represents Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and in 2021 was the Lead Manager in the second …
3 years, 2 months ago
#11. How Does the Brain Enable Us To Perceive, Make Sense Of, and Learn From Sound?
Season 1 Episode 11
Nina Kraus is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning, its connection to other sense modalities, to …
3 years, 2 months ago
#10. Coming Soon(ish): Human Hibernation!
Season 1 Episode 10
Kelly Drew, is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and the Director for Transformati…
3 years, 2 months ago
#9. An Audacious Vehicle for Fostering Math Appreciation and Fascination
Season 1 Episode 9
Manil Suri, is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is also the author of three in…
3 years, 2 months ago
#8. The Momentous Lawsuit that Determined Who Owns Your DNA
Season 1 Episode 8
Jorge Contreras is a law professor at the University of Utah, specializing in the areas of intellectual property law, technical standardization, and …
3 years, 3 months ago
#7. Civilization and Water
Season 1 Episode 7
Giulio Boccaletti is one of the world’s foremost experts on the interface between geophysical and ecological science, world history, and economics a…
3 years, 3 months ago
#6. How Placebo Effects Complicate Medicine
Season 1 Episode 6
Kathryn T. Hall is a researcher at Harvard Medical School’s Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter. After earning her PhD at Harvar…
3 years, 3 months ago