Lefteris asks science

And we made it to number 10 folks! Who would have thought? And as a treat for this edition of the show I interviewed Dr. Dimitris Statharas. Dimitris is my older, wiser and pipe-welder brother. Welding is a process that has been used for decades. However in this edition of the show through his research we will see that there are many things we can still find out about a process we know so well. (o...

Language is a structured method of communication. Languages exist and evolve through the years and through space. In this edition of the show I met Dr. Florian Lionnet from Princeton University. I had many questions about how you can start documenting a language that you do not speak, what other things can someone understand from the ways languages evolve and adapt through time and space. 

Scientists continue to discover new things in their quest to understand the fundamental principles of life, and at the same time help improve the lives of millions. But with scientists being busy with their research and the public living in an extremely fast paced world, there are a lot of new technologies or discoveries that are either being overlooked or even misunderstood. Lefteris (that's me)...

Diagnostic devices have been in the epicenter since the start of the year. Hence, this week I meet Sophia Shanko a PhD candidate at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She explained to me how some diagnostic devices work and how she is trying to make them work faster.

Have you ever thought how fun bubbles are? Have you realized that bubbles could actually be extremely catastrophic for materials? This week I met Dr. Yves Paquette that explained to me how complex the phenomenon of a bubble burst can be inside a material. 

Greetings fellow humans. This week in quarantine I ask questions to Dr. Samantha Montano about disaster management. Trying to find out, how do people deal with catastrophes, disaster and... global pandemics.

And we're back with another interview this week. This time I had questions about humanities and social science. Specifically i called Prof. Anjeline De Dios and we talked about cultural geography; geographies of cultural labour; creative and cultural industries; and a bit of Filipino history. 

A different episode before we continue with more interviews.  Using my work during the PhD I go through the steps of the scientific method, An important step in the understanding of how scientists work. Knowing this will help the cross referencing of news and a better understanding as to why you shouldn't say "It's just a theory" 

In this episode I meet Dr. Angela Tam who wants to create robot physicians. We talk about her work in the use of machine learning to identify patients that will develop Alzheimer's disease in the next 3 years based on MRI and their cognitive tests.

In this episode,  I rang a nuclear physicist to answer all the questions I had after watching the series Chernobyl.  What is nuclear power? What's the problem with using it? Can we do something to solve the problems? Dr. Thanos Stamatopoulos helps me answer all these questions.

In this episode we had a coffee with neuroscientist Dr. Joanes Grandjean  and we discussed about depression, Alzheimer's disease and how his work helps us understand how the brain works.