Life and Science

This podcast is the audio recording of a webinar that we organized with AAAS / Science Magazine. The scientific method has been successfully applied to advance human health and well-being. The process of experimentation, ethical oversight, and critical review of empirical data enables verifiable truths to be uncovered and knowledge to be advanced. Can the same scientific method also be applied to...

This podcast has been extracted from a webinar created by Science magazine, our partner for this program. Science is relevant to every person—it is just that many people don’t realize it. The volume and complexity of modern science, and the speed at which nonsense (nonscience) is transmitted, make the dissemination of  accurate scientific concepts a challenge. Add Fake Science to the mix and one c...

This podcast, adapted from a webinar co-organized by AAAS/Science magazine and Fondation Ipsen, seeks to address the issue of mental health in the scientific community  candidly and openly. It is critical that scientific leadership and  mental health professionals recognize that scientists, like all members  of society, deserve the freedom to have mental illness recognized and  treated without fea...

This podcast, extracted from a webinar we organized with Science magazine, attacks the issue of fake science head-on, examining what can be done to combat bad science and how good science can be encouraged  and promoted. The expert panel will discuss solutions to counteract  fake science and explore how the scientific community can better  communicate truth over falsehood. With: Barbara Jasny, Ph....

What is success to you? For each of us, what it means to be successful in our work and our personal lives might be very different.  Where do we develop our concept of success, and how is it influenced by  our environment and culture? How do we measure our success, both  internally and relative to others? Do we value money, inner peace, or a  Nobel Prize? Do we fear failure? And what price are we w...

Fondation Ipsen and Science journal/AAAS are patners for an incredible series of webinars, which are now available as podcasts. This webinar addressed the continuing problem of  gender-based discrimination in the sciences. The expert panel examined  the efforts being taken by scientific organizations, academic centers,  and funding agencies to end gender bias in science. They also considered  the...

Is your hope fading? Don’t let it. Many are justifiably astounded that  this coronavirus pandemic simply will not stop. How can a virus that we  understand down to the very molecule still evade public health measures  and medicines? Whatever we do, it seems to slip through our defenses. A  vaccine will eventually come, but it will take months to reach everyone  who needs it. What more can we do to...

Top on the world’s want list right now is a coronavirus vaccine. There is plenty of speculation about how and when this might become a reality,  but clear answers are scarce. Science /AAAS, the world’s leading scientific organization and publisher of the Science family  of journals, brings together experts in the field of coronavirus  vaccine research to answer the public’s most pressing questions...

During the locdown, we reinvented family relationships, work practices, exercise  regimens and socialization. This podcast uses the best scientific advice to guide you into this new life. We will examine the current conditions in which we find ourselves, putting our fears into context. We’ll discuss how to adapt to the new normal: spending more time with  family, altered personal freedom, and pote...