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. Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support" rel="payment">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support</a>

Prof. Rob Jackson of Stanford on "Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere"

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Rob Jackson is Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. His lab examines the many ways people affect the Earth Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-23
47:32

Prof. Glenn Cohen of Harvard on emergency abortions, uterus transplants, psychedelics and medical AI

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Glenn Cohen is Professor of Law and Faculty Director, for the Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard University. His current research relates to medical AI, mobile health and other health information technologies, abortion, reproduction/reproductive technology, the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, medical tourism and many other topics. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-19
54:16

Prof. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University on Aging

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Terrie Moffitt is University Professor of Psychology at Duke University, and Professor of Social Development at King’s College London. Her expertise is in the areas of longitudinal methods, developmental theory, clinical mental health research, neuropsychology, and genomics in behavioral science. She is uncovering the consequences of a lifetime of mental and behavioral disorders on processes of aging. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-14
58:43

Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson on Planet 9, Star burst, Plank and JWST

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson is a Distinguished Research Fellow Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College. He was Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College in London from 1993 to 2007 Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-10
55:41

Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz of Johns Hopkins on Syria and Mesopotamia

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Glenn M. Schwartz is Professor of Archaeology and Archaeology Program Director at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Near Eastern archaeologist whose research focuses on the emergence and early history of urban societies in Syria and Mesopotamia. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-06
47:20

Prof. Zhaoping Li of UCLA on Spices and Health

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Zhaoping Li, is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on clinical nutrition and beneficial effects of food on nutrition. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

12-03
33:14

Prof. Stacy McGaugh of Case Western on the Mutual Incommensurability of ΛCDM and MOND

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Stacy McGaugh is Professor and Director of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University. He studies galaxies, cosmology, and the mass discrepancy problem. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

11-25
55:37

Prof. Salikoko Mufwene of the U of Chicago on Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Salikoko Mufwene is professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include Evolutionary Linguistics (including the emergence of Creoles, the Indigenization of European Colonial Languages, Language Vitality), Bantu Linguistics, Language Contact in Africa and the Caribbean Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

11-22
58:21

Prof. Elizabeth Loftus of UC Irvine on misinformation, AI and LLM amplification of false memories

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Elizabeth Loftus is Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is an expert on memory. She has been an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of cases related to memory. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

11-17
55:11

Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld of University of Pennsylvania on Statistics, Democracy and Choice

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the eighteenth century for modern democracy. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

11-12
01:06:02

Prof. Jacqueline Gerson of Cornell on how anthropogenic activities changed nutrients in watersheds

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Jacqueline Gerson is Assistant Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She studies how anthropogenic activities have altered the cycling of nutrients and contaminants through watersheds. She is particularly interested in linked biogeochemical cycles within complex socio environmental systems. She also evaluates the implications of contaminants for the people and animals that live in these landscapes. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

11-04
41:36

Prof. Yotam Ophir of the University at Buffalo on disinformation, and conspiracy theories.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yotam Ophir is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. His work combines computational methods for text mining, network analysis, experiments and surveys to study media content and effects in the areas of political, science, and health communication. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

10-16
59:06

Prof. Robert Sternberg of Cornell University on Intelligence and Wisdom

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robert Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His research include intelligence, creativity and wisdom, Styles of thinking, Cognitive modifiability, Leadership, Love and hate --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

10-05
59:45

Prof. Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania on Privacy

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Anita Allen is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is as an expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law; ethics; bioethics; legal philosophy; women’s reproductive rights; and faculty advancement. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

09-26
59:02

Dr. Anna Trindade Falcão of Harvard on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Anna Trindade Falcão is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Astrophysics at the Smithsonian Institute of Harvard University. She is interested in multi wavelength studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN), their evolution, and connection to the interstellar medium. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

09-21
01:01:05

Prof. Mike Wiest of Wellesley College on Consciousness

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Mike Wiest is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Wellesley College. He researches the physical basis of Consciousness. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

09-12
01:10:57

Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer of the University of Sydney on battery technologies and plastics recycling.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, serves as Founding Director of the Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability (School of Chemistry), and is Founder of Gelion Technologies Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

08-24
44:13

Prof. Ben Levinstein of the University of Illinois on the mind of ChatGPT (Part 2)

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ben Levinstein is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, who specializes in formal epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of science, and—increasingly—in the ethics and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Much of Ben's past work has developed new accounts of rationality for both belief and action. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

08-20
01:10:39

Prof. Ben Levinstein of the University of Illinois on the mind of ChatGPT - Part I

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ben Levinstein is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, who specializes in formal epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of science, and—increasingly—in the ethics and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Much of Ben's past work has developed new accounts of rationality for both belief and action. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

08-17
44:26

Prof. Sharon Block of Harvard on worker power, rights, unions and policy

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. She has held key labor policy positions across the legislative and executive branches in both Obama and Biden administrations. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scientificsense/support

08-14
01:03:34

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