Gill Eapen
Scientific Sense ®
Scientific Sense ® is an invigorating podcast that delves into the intricate tapestry of Science and Economics, serving as a nexus for intellectual exploration and fervor. This daily venture engages listeners by conversing with preeminent academics, unraveling their research, and unveiling emerging concepts across a diverse array of fields. Scientific Sense ® thoughtfully examines multifaceted themes such as the frameworks of worker rights and policy, the philosophical underpinnings of truth and its pursuit within academia, and constitutional discourse within divided societies.
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Gill Eapen
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Jul 11, 2026
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Episodes
Prof. Mariassunta Giannetti on supply chains, market power, inflation and liquidity reallocation 14.04.2024 1:00:48
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Mariassunta Giannetti is a professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics; she is also a CEPR research fellow in the financial economics program and a research associate of the ECGI. She studies how formal institutions (such as investor protection) and informal institutions (such as culture and social norms) affect corporate finance, investor behav...
Prof. Anthony LoSasso on healthcare providers, payors, prices and markets 08.04.2024 1:02:25
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Anthony LoSasso is Professor of Economics at DePaul University in Chicago. His research spans several dimensions of health economics and health services research. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State on Covid reality & Normalization of Deviance in Project Management 28.03.2024 1:07:08
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jeffrey Pinto is Professor of Management and Chair in Management Technology at Penn State University. His research interests include Project management, governance, team dynamics in projects, burnout, leadership, gender issues in project manager selection. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Mr. Ashwin Ramaswami, senatorial candidate in Georgia on the opportunities for the next generation 25.03.2024 38:51
Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Ashwin Ramaswami, first ever Gen Z candidate for State Senate in Georgia's 48th district. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof Annamaria Lusardi of Stanford University on the importance of financial literacy 22.03.2024 1:00:08
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Annamaria Lusardi is Professor of Finance at Stanford University. She is also Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Financial Freedom Initiative, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at Stanford University. Please subscribe to this cha...
Priyanca Ford on the promises and challenges of fusion energy 19.03.2024 59:54
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Priyanca Ford is the Founder and Executive Board Member of Kronos Fusion Energy. Priyanca has dedicated her career to developing algorithms and machine learning simulations for fusion energy generators. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. Moran Cerf of Columbia Business School on humanity, AI and decision-making 15.03.2024 51:23
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Moran Cerf is professor of business at Columbia business school. His academic research uses methods from neuroscience to understand the underlying mechanisms of our psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decisions, and dreams. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. György Buzsáki of NYU on the Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership 11.03.2024 1:00:41
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: György Buzsáki is Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. His research focuses on brain networks, especially those serving cognitive functions and the packaging and segmentation of neural information. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. Ilana Redstone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the Certainty Trap. 08.03.2024 56:54
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also co-director of the Mill Institute at UATX. She is the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series and the author of the Certainty Trap (coming out in summer 2024) Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Scien...
Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker of the University of Cape Town on the prevalence of HIV and other diseases 04.03.2024 50:03
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is a Past President of the International AIDS Society. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. Cass Sunstein of Harvard University on the power of noticing what was always there 27.02.2024 1:00:08
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Cass Sunstein is University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White Hous...
Prof. Monica L. Smith of UCLA on the Fundamentals of the State 23.02.2024 1:03:32
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Monica L. Smith is Professor of Anthropology and the institute of environmental sustainability at UCLA. She is a historian who utilizes archaeological data to analyze the collective effects of routine activities through the study of food, ordinary goods, and architecture. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirm...
Prof. Claudia de Rham of Imperial College on Gravity. 21.02.2024 50:47
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia de Rham is professor is a Theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. She develops and tests cosmological theories dealing with a wide variety of concepts, from the early universe and dark energy to the behavior of gravity. She has been particularly involved in developing a new theory of massive gravity concerning gravitons, which are hypotheti...
Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gestures and language 15.02.2024 56:07
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow is Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development. Her research focuses on the most basic building blocks of language and thought as they are developed in early childhood. Her research has also generated more broadly applicable insights into how the spontaneous gestures that learners produce can reveal their readiness to learn...
Prof. Robin Chazdon on forest regeneration and climatic impacts 11.02.2024 52:29
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robin Chazdon is Professor Emerita in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut and part-time Research Professor with the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Her long-term and on-going collaborative research focuses on successional pathways, forest regeneration,...
Prof. Francine Blau of Cornell University on Gender Inequality in the Labor Market 07.02.2024 1:02:56
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Francine Blau is Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, a Research fellow of the National he Institute for the Study of Labor, Institute for Economic Research, and German Institute for Economic Research. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
Prof. Ulrike Malmendier of UC Berkely on CEO lifespan 30.01.2024 52:45
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ulrike Malmendier is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Finance at Berkeley Haas and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include corporate finance, behavioral economics/behavioral finance; economics of organizations; contract theory; law and economics; law and finance. Her area of focus is the intersection of economics and finance, an...
Prof. Laura Veldkamp of Columbia University on a model of the data economy. 25.01.2024 56:38
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Laura Veldkamp is a Professor of Finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on how individuals, investors, and firms get their information, how that information affects the decisions they make, and how those decisions affect the macroeconomy and asset prices. Her recent work examines the data economy and the value...
Prof. Phoebe Koundouri on Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics of Environmental Values 23.01.2024 50:56
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Phoebe Koundouri is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Professor at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her research and policy interests are in innovative, human-centric, interdisciplinary systems for the sustainable interaction between nature, society, and...
Prof. James Robinson of the University of Chicago on Why Nations Fail 20.01.2024 1:11:23
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Robinson is Professor of Global Conflict Studies and University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. His work explores the underlying causes of economic and political divergence both historically and today and uses both the mathematical and quantitative methods of economics along with the case study, qualitative...
Prof. George Schatz of Northwestern University on nanoparticles 18.01.2024 55:13
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. George Schatz is Professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His research involves theory and computation as applies to problems in nanotechnology, properties of materials, macromolecular structures and dynamics, molecular self-assembly, optics, plasma science, materials physics and biophysics. For the produc...
Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT on the deleterious effects of deuterium on health & metabolic diseases 11.01.2024 56:57
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation – developing a computational model for the human auditory system, understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems...
Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers of KU Leuven in Belgium on risk aversion in R&D funding 01.12.2023 54:48
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers is Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the KU Leuven in Belgium, known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels] and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?...
Celina Lee, CEO of Zindi on the quest to increasing access to AI in Africa and developing countries. 10.11.2023 50:18
Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Celina Lee is the CEO and co-founder of Zindi. Zindi hosts the largest community of African data scientists, working to solve the world’s most pressing challenges using machine learning and AI. It connects data scientists with organizations, and provide a place to learn, hone your skills and find a job. Zindi’s goal is to transform the African continent and showca...
Prof. Barbara Petrongolo of University of Oxford on gender inequality, trends, and policy 03.11.2023 56:37
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. She is Fellow of the British Academy, Director of the CEPR Labor Economics Program and a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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