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Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds — 98 episodes
“Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload” with Professor Richard Cytowic
“The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren’t and Can’t Be Perfect” with Professor Laurence Hurst
“Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe” and “Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World” with Brian Clegg
“Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness” with Professor Philip Goff
“Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change” with Professor Alex Madva
“Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds” with Prof. Scott Solomon
“Everything Evolves” and the Generalised Evolutionary Theory with Professor Mark Vellend
Building a Thriving Future: Navigating the Metaverse and Multiverse with Dr Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio
“Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer” with Professor Michael Gurven
“AI Fairness: Designing Equal Opportunity Algorithms” with Professor Derek Leben
“How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything” with Professor Linda Zagzebski
“The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science” with Professor Massimiano Bucchi
“The Human Journey From Ape to Agriculture” with Professor Peter Bellwood
“The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood” with Professor James Boyle
“From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain” with Professor Todd Feinberg
“Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour” with Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The Evolution of Biological Information” with Professor Christoph Adami
“The Painful Truth about Hunger in America” with Professor Mariana Chilton
“The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution” with Professor David Mindell
“Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough” with Professor Paula Bialski
“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora
“The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience” with Professor Adam Frank
“The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty” with Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert
“Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space” with Dr Erika Nesvold
“Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter” with Professor W. Russell Neuman
“Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered” with Professor Don Norman
“The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment” with Eric Siegel
“Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM” with Professor Brandon Brown
“The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert
“Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness” with Professor Nicholas Humphrey
“The Smartness Mandate” with Professor Orit Halpern
“Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion” with Richard Conniff
“Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub” with Robert Buderi
“Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity” with Prof. Chris Impey
Reclaiming Human Intelligence and “How to Stay Smart in a Smart World” with Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer
“A Traveller’s Guide to the Stars” with Physicist, Author and Nasa Technologist Les Johnson
“When Galaxies Were Born: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn” with Professor Richard Ellis
Cloud Empires: Governing State-like Digital Platforms & Regaining Control with Prof Vili Lehdonvirta
“The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart” with Professor Sian Harding
“Working with AI”: Human-Machine Collaborations with Prof. Thomas Davenport and Prof. Steven Miller
"Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built" with Professor William Harris
“The Case Against Reality” and The Hard Problem of Consciousness with Professor Donald Hoffman
Augmented Thinking: The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science with Professor Julio Ottino
“Machines like Us: TOWARD AI WITH COMMON SENSE” with Professor Ronald Brachman
“The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds” with Professor Christopher Mason
"The Joy of Science" with Professor Jim Al-Khalili
"Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" with Professor Melanie Mitchell
The End of Astronauts, Robotic Space Missions and Our Future on Earth & Beyond with Prof Martin Rees
"Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life" with Professor Timothy Jorgensen
Asking Better Questions for Problem Solving, Innovation and Effective Leadership with Hal Gregersen
On Public Communication of Science and Technology with Professor Bruce Lewenstein
"Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering" with Dr Scott Small
"Learning How to Learn": Techniques to Help You Learn with Dr Barbra Oakley (CLASSIC)
"The Self-Assembling Brain" and Quest for Improved AI with Professor Peter Robin Hiesinger
Quantum Computers: Building and Harnessing the Power of Quantum Machines with Prof. Andrea Morello
"Nano Comes to Life": DNA NanoTech, Medicine and the Future of Biology with Professor Sonia Contera
"Free Will" Through the Lenses of Philosophy and Neuroscience with Dr Alfred Mele
Time, Space and Nature of Reality through the Lens of Quantum Theory with Dr Carlo Rovelli
The Spike: Journey of Electric Signals in Brain from Perception to Action with Prof. Mark Humphries
History of Information with Professor Paul Duguid
"On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" with Professor David Badre
"Philosophy & Ethics of Technology" with Professor Peter-Paul Verbeek
"A Passion for Ignorance" and for Denials and Negations with Professor Renata Salecl
Intriguing Science of Sense of Smell with Professor Matthew Cobb
"Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds" with Dr Dan Hooper
"The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)" with Dr Katie Mack
Artificial Intelligence: Fascinating Opportunities & Emerging Challenges with Professor Bart Selman
"Philosophy of Information" and "Ethics of Information" with Professor Luciano Floridi
"The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for The Anthropocene" with Professor Jürgen Renn
"Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" with Professor David Hand
Origin Of Mathematics and Mathematical Thinking with Dr Keith Devlin
Timefulness: Thinking Like a Geologist with Professor Marcia Bjornerud
"The Technology Trap" and the Future of Work with Dr Carl Frey
How Cooking Made Us Human with Professor Richard Wrangham
Spitzer Space Telescope: Discovering "More Things in the Heavens" with Michael Werner
"Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason" with Justin Smith
"2062: The World That AI Made" with Professor Toby Walsh
Robots, Artificial Life and Technology Imagined by the Ancients with Adrienne Mayor
Origin of Human Emotions and Underlying Neurophysiological Functions with Professor Joseph LeDoux
A History of the Concept of Genius from Antiquity to the Modern Time with Professor Darrin McMohan
Memory Slips, Ageing and Strategies For Keeping Brain Healthy with Dr Gary Small
Phoenix Mars Mission with NASA's Peter Smith
False Memories, Misinformation Effect and Eyewitness Testimony: Professor Elizabeth Loftus
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age with Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Why You Are Not Your Brain? A Conversation on Consciousness with Alva Noe
Everything a Curious Mind Should Know About Planetary Ring Systems: Dr Mark Showalter @ BTG
A Conversation with Dr Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and Sixth Person to Walk on the Moon
Giant Magellan Telescope: Past, Present and Future of Space Exploration with Ground Based Telescopes
Education: What works and what does not, with Professor John Hattie
Search for Exoplanets: A Discussion with Professor Sara Seager @ BTG
New Horizons Spacecraft's Pluto Flyby with Dr Mark Showalter
Multiple Intelligences and Future Minds with Dr Howard Gardner
From Consciousness to Synthetic Consciousness: Prof. David Chalmers
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Dr Jill Tarter
Growth Mindset: Professor Carol Dweck at BTG
Memory: Professor Daniel Schacter at BTG
Philosophy of Science: Professor Tim Maudlin at BTG
Meta-awareness and Mind Wandering: Professor Jonathan Schooler at BTG