The Ignorance Podcast

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Micah Voraritskul who is asking how humans can thrive and survive in the AI revolution. Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow Micah Voraritskul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahvoraritskul/Website/book: https://micahvoraritskul.comVerifiedHuman: https://verifiedhuman.infoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahvoraritskul/People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more: God - Genesis 1-2 https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0 Klaus Luehning — Klaus is a friend and a recurring presence throughout “Human Is the New Vinyl”. Some of his writing is featured on the VerifiedHuman site: https://verifiedhuman.info Lang Lang & Yuja Wang — world-class pianists  Vic Damone & Frank Sinatra - world class artists LLM models: Midjourney, DALL·E, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini  Jeremy Cowart — photographer. https://jeremycowart.com The Bakers / Dragon Dictate — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking The ELVIS Act — Tennessee law. "Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act." 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELVIS_Act C2PA — Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity. https://c2pa.org Paul Bessie Trio — https://paul-biese-trioxq.bandcamp.com/album/in-sweet-september-sweet-sugar-babe John Stobart — Boston maritime artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stobart “Human Is the New Vinyl: Why Human Creativity Still Wins in the AI Revolution.” Micah Voraritskul. 2025. https://micahvoraritskul.com VerifiedHuman — https://verifiedhuman.infoBlinkist - https://www.blinkist.com/Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected] Ignorance Podcast is VerifiedHuman™Learn more: https://www.iamverifiedhuman.com/Music:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Anne Mook who is asking How do environmental change and society affect each other?Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Anne Mook:https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-mook-phd-74829012/ https://www.pbl.nl/en/about-pbl/employees/anne-mookhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RjFHtk8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aoPeople, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:Nitrogen policy in the Netherlands (in Dutch): https://www.pbl.nl/publicaties/sociaaleconomische-effecten-van-stikstofbronmaatregelen-en-natuurmaatregelen-0 and https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/d60dd0f5-6177-41a8-8eec-12d22eb3347c/file  Social Network Analysis: https://www.insna.org/what-is-sna Importance of social research and catalysts projects in the US Example: https://emerge-bii.github.io/ “Slowing down: Research takes time and perspective.” The Ignorance Institute. 2026. https://theignoranceinstitute.substack.com/p/slowing-down-research-takes-time Science of team science: https://inscits.org/Christine Overdevest: https://soccrim.clas.ufl.edu/overdevestdraft/National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center: https://www.sesync.org/Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected] Ignorance Podcast is VerifiedHuman™Learn more: https://www.iamverifiedhuman.com/Music:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she discusses her working theories on research based on the Ignorance Podcast so far. Subscribe to The Ignorance Institute Substack for more content like this: @theignoranceinstitute, https://theignoranceinstitute.substack.com/ Substack article: https://theignoranceinstitute.substack.com/p/slowing-down-research-takes-timeFollow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavPeople, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:The Ignorance Podcast: theignoranceinstitute.orgJames Wilson: Do we really need all this energy? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/NTgwMWM0M2ItZTYxMS00NTU4LTllODUtNTNlYzk1OGFmYjMy%29 (first episode)Rethink: Think Again. Adam Grant. 2021. https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/ 2025 Wrap up episode: https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/NzlhYWJkMzUtYWZkMS00YTFjLWE2MmItMTM3NGU2Y2YyMTRmJulie Horvath: How do genes and microbes influence health and behavior? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/YTBkYjg2MDktMmYwMy00ZjNmLTlhMGYtZmQxNDFiN2QzOThk%29 Paul Lerner: How and what can we learn from the past and present? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/ZDg1YzliMTItYmJjMi00Nzg5LTgyMzItNWFlY2YxODQ0ZGEw Mayla Boguslav: How can we help people achieve their goals? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/ZWEyMTBiNzYtOGMzYy00ZTFhLTk0MzEtYmNkNGQwNjIzNDIx David Brandman: How does the brain work to help people with paralysis? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/NGEwNGVhYzQtNTQxYi00NTVmLThlNWItZTZhOGFmOTc4YTdh Teri Hernandez: What should pregnant people eat? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/YjlhZTJhYmUtNGI0MC00MDc1LWFlYTQtNzA1MDYwOGY2YmZjKayla de la Haye: How do we transform complex food systems for good? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/MzhhMjY1MDEtMzk0My00NWJjLWI4MzQtN2Y5MGI2NGM3MGIxAdam Russell: How to get the best of everyone as a team and individuals? https://pod.link/1799118727/episode/ZmI1ZTI0NjEtOWFiYS00ZTJlLWFjMmMtZTAyODQ1NDVjMTY4%29Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected] Ignorance Podcast is VerifiedHuman™Learn more: https://www.iamverifiedhuman.com/Music:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews Melissa Haendel who is asking How do we meaningfully treat rare disease patients?Mayla Boguslav:@drmaylab.bsky.socialhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavMelissa Haendel::https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-haendel-bb97232/ Monarch Initiatives: https://monarchinitiative.org/community/get-involved Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/  Hypermobile EDS characterization: Understanding Comorbidities in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Could a Viral Infection Unmask the Disorder? Pearson ML. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.22.25338573Fourth Wing. Yarros R. 2023. https://rebeccayarros.com/ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_WingRare disease definitions vary across the world. Wang CM. 2024. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39261914/The IDeaS initiative: pilot study to assess the impact of rare diseases on patients and healthcare systems, Tisdale A, 2021, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34674728/Diagnosis codes: (International Classification of Disease (ICD) Codes, https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/classification-of-diseasesThe Monarch Initiative's Mondo Disease Ontology (Mondo) has identified over 15,000 known rare diseases, https://mondo.monarchinitiative.org/pages/rare-disease/ ; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7771654/ Mondo Ontology and its benefits: Mondo: integrating disease terminology across communities, Vasilevsky NA et al, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf215 IMO Health, https://www.imohealth.com/ ; and Mondo 101: Your guide to clinical terminology for rare diseases, 2025, https://www.imohealth.com/resources/mondo-101-your-guide-to-clinical-terminology-for-rare-diseases/ The science of team science: A review of the empirical evidence and research gaps on collaboration in science. Hall, KL et al. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000319 How Ontologies Facilitate Science. National Academies of Science; Beatty AS, Kaplan RM, editors. 2022. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584333/Christopher G. Chute, Johns Hopkins University, https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/3157/christopher-g-chute American Medical Informatics Association, https://amia.org/ Chasm of semantic despair , McMurry J, Haendel M, 2017, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4876838Chasm of drug development: Surviving in the Valley of Death: Opportunities and Challenges in Translating Academic Drug Discoveries. Parrish MC et al. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010818-021625  Matt Might discussing how Mondo helped save his son’s life. 2024. https://youtu.be/kYyP6My2tWA?si=2UlsrcuoV3Ua5nemThe N3C governance ecosystem: A model socio-technical partnership for the future of collaborative analytics at scale. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.681 The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C): Rationale, design, infrastructure, and deployment, Haendel MA et al. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa196On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature. Vasilevsky NA. 2013. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3771067/Trouble at the lab. 2013. https://www.economist.com/briefing/2013/10/18/trouble-at-the-lab NIH plans to enhance reproducibility. Collins F. 2014. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4058759/NIH Policy: Enhancing Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency. 2024. https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/reproducibility Gene naming issues in excel: Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates. 2020. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates Producer:Joshua MendelQuestions, [email protected]™Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Adam Russell who is asking How do you put people together to get the best out of everyone individually, but also collectively?Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Adam Russell:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ai-nthropologist/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_H._Russell People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:Krav Maga: https://www.kravmaga.com/ Ted Lasso: https://tv.apple.com/us/show/ted-lasso/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy “After science”. James Evans, Eamon Duede. 2025. Science 390, eaec7650. DOI: 10.1126/science.aec7650Larry Hunter episode 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTdMdqX4vsg Collective intelligence: https://cci.mit.edu/https://blog.cip.org/Platforms for anti-social media and controversial topics: https://digitalmarketinginstitute.com/blog/10-of-the-hottest-alternative-social-media-platforms E.g., https://joinspread.comSubstack reinvent science - https://www.reinvent.science/p/use-humor Abraham LincolnBill Russel: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/644541 Jim Rohn - average of the five people you spend the most time withSimon Sinek - self-help vs. help others René DescartesUbuntu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy Nelson MandelaMarvin MinskyGrandparentsUniversity professors that believed in AdamNegative influencersARPAs: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intelligible Failure”: https://issues.org/arpa-intelligible-failure-russell/ DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/iARPA: https://www.iarpa.gov/ ARPA-H: https://arpa-h.gov/ Philip TetlockForcasting:IARPA on prediction markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregative_Contingent_Estimation_Program  “Identifying and Cultivating Superforecasters as a Method of Improving Probabilistic Predictions”. Mellers, B., et al. 2015. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(3), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615577794 “The World Is More Uncertain Than You Think: Assessing and Combating Overconfidence Among 2,000 National Security Officials”:  https://tnsr.org/2025/09/the-world-is-more-uncertain-than-you-think-assessing-and-combating-overconfidence-among-2000-national-security-officials/ Forecasting for Scientific & Technological Exploration: https://anandmuthusamy.substack.com/p/forecasting-for-scientific-and-technological “Human Is the New Vinyl: Why Human Creativity Still Wins in the AI Revolution”. Micah Voraritskul. 2025. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM5ZL51T?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_X5A9ERC2HWCJWCWGJ9N2&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_X5A9ERC2HWCJWCWGJ9N2&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_X5A9ERC2HWCJWCWGJ9N2&bestFormat=true “Profiles of the Future”. Clarke, A. C. 2013. Hachette UK.“Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow”. Harari, Yuval Noah. 2016. United Kingdom, Harvill Secker.“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”. Harari, Yuval N. 2016. United Kingdom, McClelland & Stewart.“Calling Dunbar's numbers”. Mac Carron, P., Kaski, K., & Dunbar, R. 2016.  Social Networks, 47, 151-155.“Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”. Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. 2012. United Kingdom, Random House Publishing Group.“Art of Self-evaluation: the power of rubrics”. Mayla R. Boguslav. Work in progress. “Beyond Expertise”. Adam Russell. Work in progress.Verified Human: https://www.iamverifiedhuman.com/  Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav in asking most of the 2025 podcast guests how their research has impacted them over this past year! Stay tuned to The Ignorance Podcast for more exciting science and research guests next year! Have a guest in mind? We’d love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions.Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-Boguslav2025 Podcast Guests: Find all episodes on your preferred platform: https://pod.link/1799118727theignoranceinstitute.org1: James Wilson “Do we really need to use all this energy?”LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wilson-9909b4134/2: Larry Hunter “Where do our desires come from?”Bluesky: @ProfLHunter.bsky.social 3: Teri Hernandez “What should pregnant people eat?”LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-hernandez-265047276/4: Paul Lerner “How and what can we learn from the past and present?”Bluesky: @plerner.bsky.social5: Bradley Shavit Artson “How can religion help us thrive?”Facebook: www.facebook.com/RabbiArtson 6: David Brandman “How does the brain work to help people with paralysis?”X/Twitter: @drdavidbrandman, https://neuroprosthetics.science/7: Julie Horvath “How do genes and microbes influence health and behavior?”LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/julie-horvath-82676088: Kayla de la Haye “How do we transform complex health and food systems for good?”https://www.kayladelahaye.com9: Wade Troxell “How do things connect beyond just the physical phenomena?”https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/faculty/dr-wade-o-troxell/10: Mayla Boguslav “How can we help people achieve their goals?”LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Joshua Mendel as he interviews this episode’s guest Mayla Boguslav who is asking “How do I help people achieve their goals?” Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavPeople, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:Boguslav, Mayla R., et al. "Concept recognition as a machine translation problem." BMC bioinformatics 22.Suppl 1 (2021): 598. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-021-04141-4Boguslav, Mayla R., et al. "Identifying and classifying goals for scientific knowledge." Bioinformatics Advances 1.1 (2021): vbab012. https://academic.oup.com/bioinformaticsadvances/article/1/1/vbab012/6329631Boguslav, Mayla R., et al. "Creating an ignorance-base: Exploring known unknowns in the scientific literature." Journal of biomedical informatics 143 (2023): 104405. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046423001260Mayla google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mayla+boguslav&oq= Porter, Theodore M. "Agnotology: The making and unmaking of ignorance." (2009): 445-446. https://philarchive.org/archive/PROATMHall, Kara L., et al. "The science of team science: A review of the empirical evidence and research gaps on collaboration in science." American psychologist 73.4 (2018): 532. https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2018-23205-018.pdfAustin, Christopher P. "Opportunities and challenges in translational science." Clinical and Translational Science 14.5 (2021): 1629-1647. https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cts.13055People:Guests on podcastMath teachers from high schoolHigh school chemistry teacher1st year math professor from collegeProducer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Wade Troxell asking how do things connect beyond just the physical phenomena? Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Wade Troxell:https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/faculty/dr-wade-o-troxell/People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:- Student Senior design projects https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/senior-design/ - Agricultural (ag) sciences https://agsci.colostate.edu/department/ - 10,000 tons of bovine hair waste: https://agsci.colostate.edu/directory/bio/?user=1712 - Paradox of design as an ill-formed problem (design synthesis approach) - MECH 580B5 (Artificial Intelligence and Engr Design) course notes. Contact Wade Troxell.- Roger L. Firestien. Solve the Real Problem: Because what you think is the problem is usually not the problem. 2024. https://www.amazon.com/Solve-Real-Problem-Because-problem/dp/183663191X - Einstein’s quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/22/solve/ - Make-a-wish foundation: https://wish.org/ - Peter Kageyama: https://www.fortheloveofcities.com/ - City Give - City of Fort Collins: https://www.fcgov.com/citygive/ Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla as she interviews Kayla de la Haye! How do we transform complex food and health systems for good?Follow Mayla:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFind Kayla at:https://www.kayladelahaye.com Citations:Seung Hee Lee et al. Adults Meeting Fruit and Vegetable Intake - Recommendations — United States, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7101a1Junxiu Liu et al. Trends in Diet Quality Among U.S. Adults From 1999 to 2020 by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage. 2024. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/M24-0190 Ana Bulsa et al. Using nudges to improve food choices. 2024. https://tinyurl.com/anabalusaSilvia Sapio et al.The effect of nudges on healthy food choices of individuals with a low socio-economic position: A systematic literature review. 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224424001511 Alix Martichoux. Changes to SNAP benefits take effect in October: What to know. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/alixsnapIncentive strategy to double your bucks if you purchase fruits and vegetables: https://marketmatch.org/ & https://doubleupamerica.org/ Bernardo García Bulle Bueno et al. Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits. 2024. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46425-2 Australian Government research organization on nutritional sciences - CSIRO: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/health-medical/nutrition?start=0&count=12 Food Insecurity in LA County project: https://publicexchange.usc.edu/food-insecurity-in-la-county/ Surveys to monitor diet, food, and nutrition security: https://tinyurl.com/dietsurKayla de la Haye et al. Enough to Eat: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity and the Food Environment in L.A. County April 2020–September 2021. https://tinyurl.com/kayladlhfoodThe Los Angeles County Food Equity Roundtable: https://foodequityroundtable.lacounty.gov/ & https://lacountyfoodequityroundtable.org/report/LA County Office of Food Systems https://lacountyfoodsystems.org/ Marcia Brown. USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/marciausdaMatthew P. Rabbitt et al. Food Security in the U.S. - Key Statistics & Graphics. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/mattusdaKayla de la Haye et al. Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Los Angeles County, October 2024. https://tinyurl.com/kaylafoodKayla de la Haye class: SSCI 175g: Food, Health and Place. https://dornsife.usc.edu/spatial/ssci-175g-food-health-and-place/ Nick Chater. The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray. 2022. https://tinyurl.com/nickpolicyJi Lin et al. Projection of the future diabetes burden in the United States through 2060. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0166-4 Daniéla Oliveira Magro et al. Long-term weight regain after gastric bypass: a 5-year prospective study. 2008. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11695-007-9265-1 The Economic Times. McDonald’s downgraded amid Ozempic craze - investors worry fast food losing charm, stock under pressure. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/ozempicstockVince Martin. Analysis: Ozempic Likely to Impact Snack Manufacturers’ Bottom Line. 2024. https://tinyurl.com/ozempicsnackHannah Ritchie. Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. 2019. https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions UCLA Dining. Fight Climate Change with Food. https://dining.ucla.edu/carbonfootprint/ Producer:Joshua Mendel @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments:[email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Julie Horvath who is asking How do our genetics and the microbes that live on our body impact our health and behavior?  Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Julie Horvath:linkedin.com/in/julie-horvath-8267608 People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: https://naturalsciences.orgJack Hanna: https://www.jackhanna.com Karen Friderici: https://directory.natsci.msu.edu/Directory/Profiles/Person/101713Citizen scientists (participate in research projects!): https://www.zooniverse.org and https://scistarter.org are portals that connect people to many different projectsMonkey health project: http://monkeyhealthexplorer.org and https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mbarrierz/monkey-health-explorerMicrobes and body odor study: https://www.the-scientist.com/how-are-earwax-and-body-odor-linked-72476https://time.com/4207846/deodorant-antiperspirant-microorganisms/Placental microbiome controversy: https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-023-02764-6 Team Science at RENCI: https://renci.org/team-science/Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest, David Brandman, who is asking “How does the brain work to help people with paralysis?” Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest David Brandman:Email: [email protected] if interested in contributing your time and energy to work with researchers to develop brain-computer interface technologyX/Twitter: @drdavidbrandmanhttps://neuroprosthetics.science/Citations mentioned in this episode:BrainGate clinical trial: braingate.orgParadromics: paradromics.comhttps://www.massdevice.com/paradromics-launch-bci-study-2025-investigators/Neuralink: https://neuralink.com/All News and Journal Articles about Casey: https://neuroprosthetics.science/?newsPeople mentioned in this episode:Casey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPhBDVSxz0Neuroprosthetics Lab: 3 postdocs, faculty scientist, 4 PhD students, 3 staffSergey StaviskyThe patientsGarnnete SutherlandLeigh HochbergP. Daniel McNeelyGwynedd PickettBob GrossASSFN: American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (https://newsletters.aans.org/assfn/)Nicholas BoulisKia ShahlaieEric LeuthardtSarah Miller (wife)Transcript:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pUmRywdDdQBBOE451r0Ph7m3Wo5Eahx3/edit?usp=sharing&rtpof=true&sd=trueProducer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas, Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Bradley Shavit Artson who is asking: How do we unlock the capacity of religion to allow us to experience joy and connection?Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Bradley Shavit Artson:www.facebook.com/RabbiArtsonCitations mentioned:Neff, Kristin D. "Self‐compassion, self‐esteem, and well‐being." Social and personality psychology compass 5.1 (2011): 1-12.Artson, Bradley Shavit. “Wells of Wisdom”, in progress: What resources does Jewish wisdom bring to the conversation for people on how to organize their spiritual lives?Hebrew Bible https://www.sefaria.org/texts/TanakhKrumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth J., et al. "Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility." Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024).Checketts, Levi. Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.The Talmud: https://www.sefaria.org/texts/TalmudTerms mentioned:Religio: "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods; conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation; fear of the gods; divine service, religious observance; a religion, a faith, a mode of worship, cult; sanctity, holiness," in Late Latin "monastic life" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/religio-)Seder: “a Jewish home or community service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seder)Planck Time: “the length of time at which no smaller meaningful length can be validly measured due to the indeterminacy expressed in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Theoretically, this is the shortest time measurement that is possible” (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time)People mentioned :MosesMy wifeMy parentsMy grandparentsPeople I run into who may offer a throwaway commentTeachers, RabbisGodTranscript:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H1ymDwmIjyu5OUXruxwSfBg90fu--Gv7/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101485872771342871212&rtpof=true&sd=true Producer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Paul Lerner who is asking what did the world look like in different historical moments and how profoundly different the past was from the present but also how similar it was?Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Paul Lerner:Bluesky: @plerner.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/plerner.bsky.socialCitations mentioned in this episode:Plato. The Apology of Plato. The Clarendon press, 1867.Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929). Freud took the concept of “oceanic feeling” from his friend Romain Rolland who described it in a 1927 letter to Freud.Re:Thinking with Adam Grant: https://adamgrant.net/podcasts/rethinking/Definition of fascism disagreement: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/what-was-the-fascism-debate/ Mayla R. Boguslav (2023). Revealing and Exploring the Literature’s Known Unknowns: Ignorance and How It Drives Science (Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus).People:Students(Isadore) Jack Lerner (Paul’s Father), 1930-2024 Karl Joachim (Jock) Weintraub, 1924-2004. Thomas E. Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Chicago, also taught in the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the History of Culture, the Humanities Division and the CollegeSocrates (ca. 470 BCE - 399 BCE), foundational Greek philosopher.Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and History, The University of ChicagoFriedrich (Fred) Hacker (1914-1989), Vienna-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who practiced mostly in Los Angeles and specialized in the psychology of violence and terror. Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French Historian and Philosopher of ScienceBruno Latour (1947-2022), French Philosopher, Anthropologist, and SociologistThomas Kuhn (1922-1996), Historian and Philosopher of ScienceTranscript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fQvIUHYR1d3sXf07j3gGEhfScvpvEuS4xnErnmGK_Mo/edit?usp=sharing Producer & editor:Joshua Mendel and Mayla BoguslavBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Teri Hernandez who is asking what pregnant people should eat?Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Teri Hernandez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-hernandez-265047276/Citations mentioned in this episode:Low carb vs. high carb in gestational diabetes:Hernandez TL, Mande A, Barbour LA. Nutrition therapy within and beyond gestational diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2018 Nov;145:39-50. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2018.04.004. Epub 2018 Apr 19. PMID: 29679625; PMCID: PMC6195478.Triglyceride study: Barbour LA, Hernandez TL. Maternal Lipids and Fetal Overgrowth: Making Fat from Fat. Clin Ther. 2018 Oct;40(10):1638-1647. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2018.08.007. Epub 2018 Sep 18. PMID: 30236792; PMCID: PMC6195465.Longitudinal studies:Barbour LA, Farabi SS, Friedman JE, Hirsch NM, Reece MS, Van Pelt RE, Hernandez TL. Postprandial Triglycerides Predict Newborn Fat More Strongly than Glucose in Women with Obesity in Early Pregnancy. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Aug;26(8):1347-1356. doi: 10.1002/oby.22246. Epub 2018 Jun 22. PMID: 29931812; PMCID: PMC6107410. Banteen and Bess - insulin discovery 1923:Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin: University of Chicago Press, 2021. University of Chicago PressCHOICE study:Hernandez TL, Farabi SS, Fosdick BK, Hirsch N, Dunn EZ, Rolloff K, Corbett JP, Haugen E, Marden T, Higgins J, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. Randomization to a Provided Higher-Complex-Carbohydrate Versus Conventional Diet in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Results in Similar Newborn Adiposity. Diabetes Care. 2023 Nov 1;46(11):1931-1940. doi: 10.2337/dc23-0617. PMID: 37643311; PMCID: PMC10620537.Free fatty acid finding (replication): first study:Hernandez TL, Van Pelt RE, Anderson MA, Daniels LJ, West NA, Donahoo WT, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. A higher-complex carbohydrate diet in gestational diabetes mellitus achieves glucose targets and lowers postprandial lipids: a randomized crossover study. Diabetes Care. 2014;37(5):1254-62. doi: 10.2337/dc13-2411. Epub 2014 Mar 4. PMID: 24595632; PMCID: PMC3994935.Hernandez TL, Farabi SS, Fosdick BK, Hirsch N, Dunn EZ, Rolloff K, Corbett JP, Haugen E, Marden T, Higgins J, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. Randomization to a Provided Higher-Complex-Carbohydrate Versus Conventional Diet in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Results in Similar Newborn Adiposity. Diabetes Care. 2023 Nov 1;46(11):1931-1940. doi: 10.2337/dc23-0617. PMID: 37643311; PMCID: PMC10620537.Low carb saga:Hernandez TL. Carbohydrate Content in the GDM Diet: Two Views: View 1: Nutrition Therapy in Gestational Diabetes: The Case for Complex Carbohydrates. Diabetes Spectr. 2016 May;29(2):82-8. doi: 10.2337/diaspect.29.2.82. PMID: 27182176; PMCID: PMC4865387.Largest cohort study of pregnancy (early 2000s) - 25,000 people:HAPO Study Cooperative Research Group; Metzger BE, Lowe LP, Dyer AR, Trimble ER, Chaovarindr U, Coustan DR, Hadden DR, McCance DR, Hod M, McIntyre HD, Oats JJ, Persson B, Rogers MS, Sacks DA. Hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2008 May 8;358(19):1991-2002. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0707943. PMID: 18463375.People:Dr. Robert Eckel: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/endocrinology/about-us/endo-bios/Eckel-Robert-UCD12770Dr. Linda Barbour: https://som.cuanschutz.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/12537Dr. Richard Feynman: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdfProducer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com#NewWayToCommunicateScience#IgnoranceIsBliss#RebuildingTrustInResearch

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Larry Hunter who is asking about our desires including where do they come from? What are desires? Who or what can desire? Listen to learn about the fundamental nature of these questions and the many different fields that touch on these questions.Follow Mayla Boguslav:Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayla-boguslav-phd-30402239ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mayla-BoguslavFollow this episode’s guest Larry Hunter:Bluesky: @ProfLHunter.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/proflhunter.bsky.socialPeople, research, & citations mentioned in this episode: Citations:Artemy Kolchinsky and David H. Wolpert “Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics.” Interface FocusVolume 8, Issue 6. 19 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2018.0041Barrett, Lisa Feldman. “How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.” Pan Macmillan, 2017.Ram, Ashwin, and Lawrence Hunter. "The use of explicit goals for knowledge to guide inference and learning." Applied Intelligence 2 (1992): 47-73.David Silver, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, “Reward is enough,” Artificial Intelligence,Volume 299, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103535.Prat, Chantel. “The neuroscience of you: how every brain is different and how to understand yours”. Penguin, 2022.People: Artemy Kolchinsky David Wolpert Lisa Feldman BarrettAshwin RamLarry’s MotherLarry’s PartnerUnnamed philosopherTranscript:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zF6K2rAifyK3R2cOMYM0ertv4-h_BgHU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101485872771342871212&rtpof=true&sd=trueProducer & editor:Joshua MendelBluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch?Email [email protected]:Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats | https://open.spotify.com/artist/03JYfsI9Ke7JFuxHD239m2Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest James Wilson, who is asking questions about computation and its energy cost, discussing being there for his students through dialogue, and appreciating the small wins in life.Follow Mayla Boguslav: Bluesky: @drmaylab.bsky.social LinkedIn ResearchGateFollow this episode’s guest James Wilson: Website LinkedInPeople mentioned: Phillip Hall Chris Genly William (Bill) Kantor Laslo (Laci) Babai Uriya First, University of Haifa Joshua (Josh) Maglione, University of GalwayCitations: "The threshold for subgroup profiles to agree is log n-2 Theory of Computing", James B. Wilson. Vol. 15, pp. 1--25, 2019. "A spectral theory for transverse tensor operators". Uriya First, Joshua Maglione, James B. Wilson. arXiv:1911.02518 "Law of the Excluded Middle, see Stanford Encyclopedia" "Deepseek-r1: Incentivizing reasoning capability in LLMs via reinforcement learning". Daya Guo, et al. arXiv:2501.12948 "Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less". Greg McKeown. Crown Currency, 2014. "Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away". Annie Duke. Penguin, 2022.Link to Transcript: TranscriptProducer & editor: Joshua Mendel Bluesky: @jbmendel.bsky.socialQuestions, comments, want to get in touch? Be interviewed? Email: [email protected]: Curious by Ron Gelinas Chill Beats Music promoted by free-stock-music.com