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Talk That Science
by Talk That Science
Talk That Science is an Amsterdam-based podcast by a group of science and music enthusiasts. We play the nicest tunes while talking about the coolest research!
Episodes
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Female Leadership in Economics @ Echobox Radio
What does gender representation in economics really look like today—and why does it matter? In this episode of Talk That Science, we’re joined by Kaneta Zillur, Head of Research at the Women in Economics Initiative (WiE), to explore the state of gender equality across academia, the private…
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Political Trust @ Echobox Radio
Can we trust our political institutions? And how is that trust—or distrust—shaped over time? In this episode of Talk That Science, we sit down with Hannes Bey and Giovanni D’Agostino, PhD candidates in the Challenges to Democratic Representation research group at the University of Amsterdam, to...
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Pluralistic Logic @ Echobox Radio
In this episode of Talk That Science, we sit down with Erik Stei, an assistant professor in theoretical philosophy at Utrecht University, to explore the fascinating world of logic and its philosophical foundations. Erik recently published his book Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence with...
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Understanding Glaciers through Satellites @ Echobox Radio
Are glaciers really disappearing? And what does that mean for our planet? In this episode of Talk That Science, we welcome back returning guest Marion Dugue, a PhD student at ETH Zurich, to uncover the role of satellite technology in glaciology and climate research. Marion shares insights from…
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What Is Quantum Computing @ Echobox Radio
What is quantum computing? and how might it impact our society? In this episode of Talk That Science, we sit down with Pablo Cova Fariña, a PhD student at the research institute for quantum computing and quantum internet to unpack the core principles of quantum physics, like superposition and...
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The Evolution Of Depression @Echobox Radio
This episode Annemie Ploeger, a Senior Lecturer at the programme group for Developmental Psychology at the University of Amsterdam will be our guest.She is an evolutionary developmental psychologist whose research provides an evolutionary perspective on mental disorders, with the focus on...
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What Is An Equal City @Echobox Radio
What is an equal city, and how do we achieve one? In this episode of Talk That Science, we sit down with Elisabetta Gobbo, a PhD student at Erasmus University, to dive into the complex relationship between gentrification, housing, and tourism. Elisabetta explores how political philosophy helps...
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'Our’ Revolution For The Orient @Echobox Radio
Join us for a special episode on how the Iranian Revolution was perceived in the USSR. Lilit Zeltburg talks us through how these two historical revolutionary regimes came in contact. She has studied how the media in the USSR depicted the revolution of 1979, how the elites appropriated the…
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Conspiracy Theories as a Political Tool @Echobox Radio
Tune in for a fascinating discussion on the philosophy of conspiracy theories, why do people believe them, is it wrong to believe in conspiracies, and why do they seem so useful for pursuing political goals? In this episode we answer to these questions, and pose many more, with Giulia Napolitano,...
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Sexual Double Standards @Echobox Radio
Sexual double standards shape the ways in which we interact with each other and how we think about ourselves. We spoke with Gijsje Maas, a PhD candidate and junior lecturer at the Communication and Media research group of the Behavioural Science Institute at Radboud University. In this episode we...
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Skateboard Science @Echobox Radio
An ollie is a fundamental trick in skateboarding. But have you ever wondered about the physics of an ollie, and what the ideal skateboard for performing one looks like? Delve into the world of sports engineering and the complexities of using science to enhance performance with Jan T. Heinen, a...
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A Logical Brain @Echobox Radio
Logic has a rich philosophical history for understanding the limits of our reasoning. But can it also be used for computational tasks? Nick Bezhanishvili is the President of the Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy. His main field of research is the relationship between algebra and…
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Menstruation In Space @Echobox Radio
Join us for an enlightening episode featuring Marion Dugue, a geophysics master student and analogue astronaut. In this episode, Marion opens up about the unique challenges women face during scientific expeditions in survivalist conditions, particularly the pressing issue of the lack of menstrual...
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Coral Reefs @Echobox Radio
Coral reefs are the only structures made by a single living organism (apart from humans) that you can see from space, and they are the most diverse and productive ecosystems out there. In this episode of Talk That Science, dr. René van der Zande and Sarah Solomon MSc explain how coral reefs are...
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Games And Cooperation @Echobox Radio
Cooperation is everywhere around us, at the heart of nature's most triumphant endeavors. It shows up in the cells that make up complex organisms, in ant colonies, and, of course, in the societies we live in. But it is also a bit of a mystery, because it involves being helpful at a personal cost.…
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Vaginal Microbiome @Echobox Radio
The human vaginal microbiome is quite unique for its high level of acidity. This environment is maintained by a variety of bacteria, but a healthy vaginal microbiome is dominated by Lactobacillus Crispatus. Once other more harmful bacteria increase in number in the vaginal microbiome, the chances...
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Artificial Intelligence for Music @Echobox Radio
Marcel Vélez Vásquez is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in explainable artificial intelligence for playability from musical audio. In this episode, he explains all about what AI for music is, and how it is different from textual AIs like ChatGPT. Artificial…
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How to Detect a Particle @Echobox Radio
Particle physicist Flavia de Almeida Dias helps us understand the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Working from CERN in Switzerland and Nikhef in Amsterdam, she knows all about elementary particles and how to make them visible to humanity, that has been interested in this since the...
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Computation Cancer Research @Echobox Radio
When women have breast cancer, they sometimes have to undergo chemotherapy to lower the risk that the cancer will spread out from the breast. This is however not always necessary if the cancer is not so aggressive. Computer scientist Ajey Pai Karakala does research on how we can use deep learning...
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Mobility in Motion @Echobox Radio
Our guest, engineer and storyteller Vikas Bagde, moved from India to Amsterdam for his PhD. He immediately noticed differences in mobility, and especially in the way that people travel the 'last mile'. In this episode, he tells us about how the popularity of the bicycle rose in the Netherlands...
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Exoten in Amsterdam @Echobox Radio
Met Amsterdamse stadsecoloog Geert Timmermans bespreken we twee diersoorten en één plantensoort die van nature niet in de stad voorkomen, maar er toch terecht zijn gekomen en al flink zijn ingeburgerd. Hoe? En waarom zit niet iedereen op de komst van deze zogenoemde exoten te wachten? Dat en meer...
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The Great Auk @Museumnight Amsterdam
In this episode we are live at the photography museum Huis Marseille during Musuemnight Amsterdam. There is an exhibition 'Natural Sources' from Jochen Lempert, consisting of poetic pictures of the natural world, inspired by Jochen's scientific background in biology. Jochen and our guest, Bram...
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Getting Worms Drunk @Museumnight Amsterdam
During her bachelor thesis, Tess Heeremans shared her bedroom with worms. She put these worms in a maze, and got half of them drunk. She then looked at the behaviour of sober and drunk worms in the maze. In this way, the worms served as a model for active matter: a set of particles that can move…
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Fungal Networks @Echobox Radio
Do trees talk to each other? In this episode we are exploring the underground world of Fungal Networks with Vincent Merckx, assistant professor at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics and research fellow at Naturalis. His research focuses on a specific type of fungi that…
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Hormonen & Anticonceptie @Echobox Radio
*disclaimer: episode in Dutch* De laatste tijd wordt het steeds duidelijker dat hormonale anticonceptie bijwerkingen heeft waar we niet altijd goed over worden ingelicht. Een inmiddels wel bekende, maar vreselijke bijwerking is dat de kans dat vrouwen depressieve klachten ontwikkelen wordt...
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Open Dag Deel II - Trekvogels
Dit is de tweede aflevering die is opgenomen tijdens de open dag op het Science Park in Amsterdam. Misschien heb je wel eens gehoord over vogels die in de winter Nederland verlaten voor een vakantieland in het Zuiden waar het warmer en beter is. Maar hoe weten vogels waar ze heen moeten vliegen?…
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Open Dag Deel I - Zware Sterren
Dit is de eerste aflevering die is opgenomen tijdens de open dag op het Science Park in Amsterdam. We praten met Annelotte Derkink over zware sterren. Dit zijn sterren die maar kort bestaan en snel steeds kleiner worden terwijl ze even zwaar blijven. De allerzwaarste sterren kunnen hierdoor zelfs...
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The Lunar Effect @Echobox Radio
(English below) We weten dat de maan ervoor zorgt dat er getijden in de zeeën bestaan, maar er zijn nog een boel meer fenomenen waarvan sommigen zeggen dat ze worden veroorzaakt door de maan. Er zijn mensen die denken dat er een link bestaat tussen de positie van de maan en hun humeur of...
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Effective Altruism @Echobox Radio
"Calculate before you give" Effective altruism is a recent movement that brings extensive rationality and altruism together. It aims to calculate the most effective way to spend your money or time in order to improve the world. The idea that one life can never be worth more than another is far...
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Matching Mechanisms @Echobox Radio
Last year, Daniela Loustalot Knapp and Nicolien worked on a project to study matching algorithms for the school choice problem. Matching is the abstraction of a problem that arises in many real-world situations and consists of making pairs of individuals from two groups that have preferences over...
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3D Printing In Space @Echobox Radio
In this episode we talk about 3D printing on Earth and in Space. We have a range of guests from the physics' soft matter group: Mazi Jalaal, Jackson Wilt and Olfa D'Angelo. Soft matter is a type of soft material, examples include tooth pasta and chocolate spread. As you can imagine, it is harder…
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Must Discuss: Circular Society @Echobox Radio
Nature itself is circular. Trees produce fruits that birds can eat, and their feces in return replenish the soil so that new trees can grow. If a bird builds a nest it simply uses branches from the tree that will decompose into the soil again. For us humans it now seems almost impossible to go…
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Avatars For Sign Language @Echobox Radio
How often do you use Google Translate? I do quite often. It is so easy to go from one language to the other. But suppose you want to communicate with a deaf person, or you are deaf yourself. Then Google Translate is of no use, because deaf peope speak sign langue. There are 70 million deaf and...
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Gender and Race Bias in Science @Echobox Radio
In STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths), but also in areas like philosophy and law, women and racial minorities are underrepresented. In the Netherlands only 35% of the people who pursue a career in academics in STEM are women. At the University of Amsterdam, only 4% of the Dutch…
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Causation & Moral Responsibility @Echobox Radio
Every day, we deal with causation. We assume that when we shoot a billiard ball against another it will start rolling, we assume that when we smoke we will have a bigger chance of getting lung cancer, and we think about how human activities can impact climate change. In all these cases, we assume...
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Must Discuss: Mind and Machines
The media have covered many of the recent achievements of artificial intelligence: there are chess-computers that can beat humans, there is Sofia the robot who has been granted actual citizenship and with the help of deep fakes, fake videos are easily created. It is often assumed that artificial...
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Why we like to Talk That Science @Echobox Radio
In this episode, Nicolien and Nikki host the first live show of Talk That Science on Echobox Radio. We introduce you to the people behind Talk That Science, explain what we love about science and why we think that making science more accessible is important. With the live chat on Echobox Radio…
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How do materials shape our mindset?
In this episode, we talk about material culture with Maikel Kuijpers. Material culture concerns that aspect of society that is grounded in material objects. As an archeologist, Maikel is specialized in material use over time. Although archeology focuses on the past, Maikel interestingly enough…
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The World Of Crystals Around You!
In this episode, we talk about crystals with Noushine Shadidzadeh, professor of crystallization at the UvA. We can all agree: crystals are beautiful to look at. And this is exactly what Noushine loves about her research field. Interestingly enough, crystals play a huge role in our everyday lives,...
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Must Discuss: Drugs
In this episode, we must discuss drugs. Many people experiment with recreational drugs like Cannabis and MDMA every now and then. But do we know how they affect our brain? Although some research has been done on their negative effects, it is only recently that scientists started to do research on...
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Can Robots Stop Deforestation?
In this episode we talk about evolutionary robotics. Evolutionary robotics is a new approach to artificial intelligence. Standard artificial intelligence designs solutions for small problems, such as playing chess games. The problem with robots designed in this way is that they will not be able…
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Must Discuss: Relativity Of Time
We present to you: our new format Must Discuss! In Must Discuss, we open up a discussion about the most pressing questions in science! We invite a group of students and researchers from different disciplines to shed their light on a subject from their point of view. We must discuss: Time. Chances...
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How "Bio" Is Bioplastic?
It is almost impossible to imagine the world without plastic. Plastic is everywhere around us! However, nowadays there is so much plastic pollution in the world that it has become one of the biggest problem for nature and humanity. This has led to the development of alternatives in recent years....
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Wiskunde Tegen Misdaad: Een Buitenkansje?
Het is zaterdagavond, 20 februari 2010, als een groep mannen met bivakmutsen een vakantiehuisje binnendringt, de bewoners mishandelt en op de vlucht slaat. De dagen erna volgt intensief onderzoek en verderop worden bivakmutsen, met DNA sporen, in de berm gevonden. Helaas is dit nog geen concreet...
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What Does The Democracy Of The Future Look Like?
We are in touch with democracy every day. For example, when the population of a country needs to make a decision as for who should rule their country. However, democratic decision making takes place on much smaller scales as well. Think of a committee that together has to decide who to hire for a...
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Black Holes: A Nice Place To Retire?
You have probably heard of black holes. They are known as all-destructive holes that sluck up everything that comes near it. Some say they might be used as time machines! But what about this is science, and what is fiction? In this episode, Sera Markoff shares insights about how she made the…
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Houden Koikarpers Van Bluesmuziek?
Wat is muzikaliteit? In hoeverre zijn dieren muzikaal? En in hoeverre kunnen we hier eigenlijk onderzoek naar doen? Deze vragen beantwoordt Henkjan Honing, professor muziekcognitie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, in de eerste aflevering van Talk That Science. Meer over onderzoek van Henkjan's...
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