Gill Eapen

Scientific Sense ®

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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.

Author

Gill Eapen

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Science

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www.scientificsense.com

Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Dr. Iain McDonald of the Open University & Univ. of Manchester on Rogue exoplanets 11.05.2022

The hunt for rogue planets just got tougher, No large population of unbound or wide-orbit Jupiter-mass planets, Kepler K2 Campaign 9: I. Candidate short-duration events from the first space-based survey for planetary microlensing,  Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing, ExELS: an exoplanet legacy science proposal for the ESA Euclid mission I....

Prof. Timothy Cernak of the Univ of Michigan on supply chains, antivirals and molecular sonification 07.05.2022

Reinforcing the supply chain of umifenovir and other antiviral drugs with retrosynthetic software,  Ultrahigh-Throughput Experimentation for Information-Rich Chemical Synthesis, A map of the amine–carboxylic acid coupling system, Molecular Sonification for Molecule to Music Information Transfer    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Timothy Cernak is Assistant Professor of Medic...

Prof. Paul Novosad of Dartmouth College on Developing Country Policies. 03.05.2022

COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths,  Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities, The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India, and Rural Roads and Local Economic Development, and Development Research at High Geographic Resolution: An A...

Prof. Dean Karlan of Northwestern University on Poverty, Mental Health, Borrowing and Interventions. 30.04.2022

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment, Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana, Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for  Liquor in an Autarkic Society, and Pathways out of Extreme Poverty: Tackling Psychosocial and Capital Constraints with a...

Prof. John Sullins of Sonoma State University on Artificial Intelligence 27.04.2022

Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence, The AI Wars, 1950 - 2000, and their consequences, The Role of Consciousness and Artificial Phronēsis in AI Ethical Reasoning, and Robots, Love, and Sex: The Ethics of Building a Love Machine   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen:  Prof. John Sullins, Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University and the director of programming...

Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan of George Mason University on Socialistic Policies in India. 22.04.2022

The 1991 Reforms and the Quest for Economic Freedom in India, and Battling COVID-19 with dysfunctional federalism: Lessons from India   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law. Her area of interest is the economic analysis of comp...

Prof. Julie Adams of the Oregon State University on Human-Robot Teaming. 19.04.2022

SAHRTA: A Supervisory-Based Adaptive Human-Robot Teaming Architecture and Human-Collective Collaborative Site Selection   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julie Adams is Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University. Her research interests include human-machine teaming, and human interaction with unmanned systems.   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www....

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory 14.04.2022

4 Part Series on String Theory : Part 4, Super String Theory   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string theory and particle physics.   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join

Prof. Monica Smith of UCLA on Resource Management in early Urban Centers and Complex Societies. 06.04.2022

The origins of the sustainability concept: Risk perception and resource management in early urban centers, Linear Statecraft along the Nile: Landscapes and the Political Phenomenology of Ancient Egypt, and The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Monica Smith is Professor of Anthropology and the institute of enviro...

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Grand Unification Theories in Physics 03.04.2022

Early attempts at the Grand Unification Theories in Physics   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string theory and particle physics.   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Theory of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics 27.03.2022

4 Part Series on String Theory: Part 2, Theory of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string theory and particle physics.   Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawo...

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory: Part I, The 4 Fundamental forces 25.03.2022

4 Part Series on String Theory: Part I, The Four Fundamental Forces Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string theory and particle physics. #cosmology #physics #stringtheory #scientificsense

Prof. Rita Goldstein of the Icahn School of Medicine on neuropsychological studies in addiction 21.03.2022

Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex, Neuroimaging Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution in Human Drug Addiction: A Systematic Review, The neurobiology of drug addiction: cross-species insights into the dysfunction and recovery of the prefrontal cortex, and Structural and functional brain recovery i...

Prof. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo of Williams College on Religion, Migration and Politics 16.03.2022

The Bible as a Text of Migration. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Professor of Latina Studies and of Religion as well as Associate Dean for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College.    Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join

Prof. Anusha Chari of the University of North Carolina on shocks and capital flows in emerging markets 11.03.2022

Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows, Global Fund Flows and Emerging Market Tail Risk,  Distress Risk in emerging markets, The Macro-prudential stance and the Vulnerability to Global Financial Cycles, Regulatory Forbearance and Zombie Firms, and liberalization of autarkies.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Anusha Chari is Professor of Economics a...

Prof. James Shapiro of the University of Chicago on Evolution, a View from the 21st Century. 28.02.2022

Evolutionary Change is Naturally Biological and Teleological, Engines of Innovation: Biological Origins of Genome Evolution, What We Have Learned About Evolutionary Genome Change in the Past 7 Decades, What prevents mainstream evolutionists teaching the whole truth about how genomes evolve?, and Evolution, a View from the 21st Century. Fortified. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Shapi...

Prof. Susan Alberts of Duke University on social behavior of baboons and other mammals 27.02.2022

Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons, Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes, Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions, Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates, Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions, and Glu...

Prof. Gisela Kaplan of the University of New England, Armidale, Australia on Birds and Primates 24.02.2022

Pointing gesture in a bird- merely instrumental or a cognitively complex behavior?, Play behaviour, not tool using, relates to brain mass in a sample of birds, Long-Term Attachments and Complex Cognition in Birds and Humans are Linked to Pre-Reproductive Prosociality and Cooperation. Constructing a Hypothesis, and Of Great Apes and Magpies: Initiations into Animal Behaviour    Scientific...

Prof. Enrique Neblett of the University of Michigan on Racism and Health 19.02.2022

Future Directions in Research on Racism-Related Stress and Racial-Ethnic Protective Factors for Black Youth, OC symptoms in African American young adults: The associations between racial discrimination, racial identity, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, Racism and Health: Challenges and Future Directions in Behavioral and Psychological Research, The Influence of Internalized Racism on the Relatio...

Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol of Toulouse School of Economics on Cannabis, immigration and promotion bias 16.02.2022

Weeding out the Dealers? The Economics of Cannabis Legalization, Cannabis: How to Take Control Back?, Skilled Immigration: A Visa for Growth, Controlling Irregular Migration: Can a Market for Temporary Foreign Work Permits Help?, and Women in Economics: Europe and the World   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol is Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics...

Prof. Kate Scholberg of Duke University on supernovae and neutrinos 13.02.2022

Supernova Neutrino Burst Detection with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, A Next-Generation SuperNova Early Warning System for Multi-messenger Astronomy, and COHERENT at the Spallation Neutron Source   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kate Scholberg is Professor of Physics at Duke University. Her research interests include experimental elementary particle physics, astrophysics...

Dr. Thomas Fellowes of the University of Sydney on environmental effects on atoll nations 09.02.2022

Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations, Sustained coral reef growth in the critical wave dissipation zone of a Maldivian atoll, Global-scale changes in the area of atoll islands during the 21st century, The importance of large benthic foraminifera to reef island sediment budget and dynamics at Raine Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Patte...

Dr Ana Bugnot of the University of Sydney on environmental impact of human development 05.02.2022

Urban impacts across realms: Making the case for inter-realm monitoring and management, Current and projected global extent of marine built structures, Belowground ecosystem engineers enhance biodiversity and function in a polluted ecosystem, and Linking habitat interactions and biodiversity within seascapes. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr Ana Bugnot, Senior Research Associate at the Univers...

Prof. Vineet Arora of the University of Chicago on scientific misinformation 04.02.2022

A coordinated strategy to develop and distribute infographics addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and misinformation, Addressing Medical Misinformation in the Patient-Clinician Relationship, and Prevalence of Personal Attacks and Sexual Harassment of Physicians on Social Media.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Vineet Arora is Professor of Medicine and Dean of Medical Education at t...

Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gestures 22.01.2022

Discovering the Biases Children Bring to Language Learning,  Approaching Learning Hands First How Gesture Influences Thought, Taking a Hands-on Approach to Learning, and Using Gesture To Identify and Address Early Concerns About Language and Pragmatics. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen:  Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow is Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Her research inter...

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