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Episodes
The future of law enforcement 27.10.2024 33:14
Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL
Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations 22.10.2024 17:26
Guest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni
Replicating the moon 20.10.2024 35:40
Guest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight
Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology 15.10.2024 15:59
Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.
How drugs are discovered 13.10.2024 30:52
Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.
Extra: The Myths of Evolution 08.10.2024 18:27
Simon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni
The Search for Male Contraception 06.10.2024 43:14
Logan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It? 01.10.2024 14:38
Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
A brief history of UFOs 29.09.2024 34:01
Guest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.
Extra: Lucid Dreaming 24.09.2024 16:35
Emma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
How AI will change your life 22.09.2024 38:48
Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.
Extra: When can we have lab grown meat? 17.09.2024 18:43
Seren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope
What happens to your data after you die? 15.09.2024 42:28
Carl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci
Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work? 10.09.2024 18:54
Joshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Life after death 08.09.2024 37:11
Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death.
Extra: How our biology shaped world history 03.09.2024 18:40
Guest: Professor Lewis Dartnell, Astrobiology Research Scientist at the University of Westminster and Author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History' @lewis_dartnell
What really happens during brain surgery 01.09.2024 40:47
Guest: Neurosurgeon Ted Schwartz @TedSchwartz13
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It? 01.09.2024 14:37
Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
Extra: A guide to our immune system 27.08.2024 15:16
Guest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.
How neurons encode the meaning of words 25.08.2024 39:17
Guest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead? 20.08.2024 15:58
Guest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.
What is MicroRNA? 18.08.2024 37:00
Guest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.
Extra: The Wooden Age 13.08.2024 18:48
Dirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.
Studying Consciousness 11.08.2024 43:04
Lorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.
Extra: Symbiosis 06.08.2024 15:32
Dr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.
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