BMC Podcast Network

Catherine Robinson remembers being awestruck listening to a crackling radio station, when it was announced that we had successfully landed a man on the moon.

Positively Beech Street - Episode 5 05 - 03 - 2019 by Belmont Media Podcast Network

Belmont MA weekly news program produced by Belmont Media Center featuring 5G coming to town center, limebikes go electric and pricey, Belmont Savings Bank foundation clock clicks on, three new businesses in Cushing Square, bikes not bombs, and more.

CBSBostonSports.com producer Matt Geagan stops by the TODDcast again to talk about the incredible playoff run of the Bruins and the incredible offseason that lies ahead for the Celtics (and if you're a fan of classic SNL there's even a little nugget waiting for you near the end of the show).

04-23-19 Robert Whitaker, prize-winning author of Anatomy of an Epidemic, Mad in America, and co-author of Psychiatry Under the Influence. Founder of the resource/info organization Mad in America.com More than one in five Americans now takes a psychiatric medication. Yet, as our use of these medications has soared, so too has the burden of mental disorders in our society. Why would this be so?

04-09-19. Andrew Knoll, Ph. D., Harvard University. The causes of the previous five extinctions on Earth --all caused by natural factors. The very real possibility of a sixth extinction is due to human negligence that could have been avoided. The key issue now is how well evolutionary mechanisms can adapt to this type of destruction.

03/18/28. Amala Mahadevan, Ph. D. Woods Hole Oceanograhic Institution. The vital relationship between oceans and atmosphere is necessary for sustaining life on Planet Earth. Here is a description of that relationship and how excess CO2, ocean warming and acidification all threaten that balance.

03/26/19. Gautam Dantas, Ph. D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Discussion of the innovative technical and biological approaches of the Dantas Lab toward a solution to antibiotic resistance. This includes a possible cure for MRSA, a particularly deadly staph infection.

Red Sox beat writer Chris Mason from the Eagle Tribune returns to the TODDcast to discuss the club's recent resurgence, the latest injury updates and a look at some young talent (really!) down on the farm.

Positively Beech Street - Episode 4 03 - 29 - 2019 by Belmont Media Podcast Network

Belmont Ma weekly news program produced by Belmont Media Center featuring reports on Town Meeting, defibrillator installed in park, safe routes to Winnbrook, community calendar, lacrosse and more.

05/07/19 Andrew Myers, Ph. D. Northeastern University. An explanation of the enormous and very efficient energy production of offshore wind farms and why the east coast of the US is one of the best locations in the world for this form of renewable energy.

08-28-19 Susan Heideman and Michelle Lougee. These two artists describe their recent Cambridge, MA exhibit, their joint effort to communicate through art the importance of science, and they also discuss some shared perspectives of artists and scientists.

06-21-18 Wendy Jacobs, Harvard Law School. Citizens today must be assertive in order to save the environment. We need the force of the law. This presentation tells how we can defeat the attack on our environment.

10/10/18 Evelina Fedorenko, Ph. D. Harvard Medical School & MIT. How does the brain process multiple languages? And how does the bilingual brain process very different types of languages? And what about those rare individuals who learn dozens of languages?

03-27-18 Alan Jasanoff, Ph. D., MIT. Dr. Jasanoff discusses his new book, The Biological Mind, in which he emphasizes how the brain must be considered within its biological and social environment. This is a refutation of the notion of an "independent" mind, one separate from its physical and environmental connections.

11-15-18 Julian Munoz, Ph. D., Harvard University. Exciting new possibilities about the nature of dark matter and primordial black holes.

02-13-2018. Brian Helmuth, Ph. D & James Cooley, Ph. D., Northeastern Univ. To understand how people learn about complex issues like climate change, it is essential to take into account factors such as personal experience, cognitive biases, and perceptions of one’s environment. This information will help us communicate and educate the public.

11-13-2018. Illeana Streinu, Ph. D., Smith College, MA; Ciprian Borcea, Rider Univ., NJ. How geometry determines the limits of structure and motion in animate forms, from protein folding to human movements, and inanimate forms, from crystals to robots.

04-24-18 Daniel Cziczo, Ph. D., MIT. How measurement issues – such as technological limitations and artifacts – can impact our certainty about climate change. And how claims about the effectiveness of geoengineering should be treated with caution.

02-20-2018. Julie Guthman, Ph. D., UCSC. The complex relationship between Big Agriculture in the U.S. and one of California’s major crops, the strawberry. Big Agriculture is super-production, but we must consider effects on plant breeding, and effects on environment and health through extensive use of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.

12-11-18 Markus Klute, Ph. D., MIT A discussion of a recent CMS discovery of a possible new particle that awaits confirmation. And an explanation of the complexity of the Large Hadron Collider -the challenges of both engineering and data collection– and the great importance of the investigation of the most fundamental level of the universe.

08-21-18. Philippe Grandjean, D.M.Sc. M.D., Univ of S. Denmark & Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) are industrial chemicals used in many products, including fire-fighting foam, water-repellent clothing, moisture-proof coatings in food packaging (popcorn bags, etc,), furniture fabric protections and many other consumer products. These chemicals are eventually dep...

05-08-2018 Sameer Sonkusale, Ph. D., Tufts Univ. Many answers to the grand challenges facing the society may lie in going small….really small. With no-scale science and engineering we can design and manipulate matter bottom-up with precision of less than one thousandth the thickness of a human hair into life-size devices.

01-30-2018. Sandro Galea, M.D., DrPH. Dean, School of Public Health, Boston Univ. Why do we care so much about health, spend so much money on it, and yet do worse at it than essentially any other peer country? We must consider that personal health is significantly influenced by social, economic and environmental factors. This is especially important today.