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Scientific Sense ®Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Ian Williams on Science Funding OptionsDecision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Ian Williams on Science Funding OptionsPlease subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12025-07-261h 17
Scientific Sense ®Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Aby Alexander on emerging technologies in connectivity.Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. ABY ALEXANDER, CEO of Broadsat Technologies, that is on a mission to deliver cutting-edge connectivity solutions where traditional fiber infrastructure is not viable. His expertise in ATSC 3.0 and Broadcast Internet technologies has been crucial in shaping the innovative approach to remote area connectivity. Prior to founding the company, Aby was the President & CEO of Thomson Broadcast America’s, & Thomson Holding.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12025-01-1649 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Julia Lane from NYU on AI policyScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julia Lane is a Professor at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She served in the National AI Research Resources task force and also on the advisory committee on data for evidence building. Her book democratizing our data a manifesto was published in 2020 and she was one of the early guests on this podcast.
Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12023-01-3156 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ayelet Fishbach of the University of Chicago on the science of motivationScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Ayelet Fishbach is Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the past president of the Society for the Science of Motivation and the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON).
You think failure is hard? So is learning from it Motivating personal growth by seeking discomfort Social exploration: When people deviate from options explored by others. Surprised elaboration: When White men get longer sentences. Can’t wait or won’t wait? The two barriers to patient decisions The structure of intrinsic motivation Get it Done: Surpris...2023-01-2958 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Holden Thorp is Chief Editor Science on Covid, Misinformation, JWST and discriminationScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Holden Thorp is Editor-in-Chief of Science family of journals. Before he was provost at Washington University where he holds appointments in both chemistry and medicine. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8460 It ain’t over ’til it’s over The Biden administration is sheepishly waving a checkered flag on the pandemic. h
ttps://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adf3072 Remember, do no harm? When the advocacy group America’s Frontline Doctors appeared on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in 2020, falsely stating that hydroxychloroquine was a cure for COVID-19...2022-12-2159 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Leah Krubitzer of University of California, Davis on the future of the brain.Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Leah Krubitzer is professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis. Her current research focuses on the impact of early experience on the cortical phenotype, and she specifically examines the effects of the sensory environment on the development of connections, functional organization and behavior and seeks to understand how culture impacts brain development.
The Combinatorial Creature: Cortical Phenotypes within and across Lifetimes.
Not all cortical expansions are the same: The coevolution of the neocortex and the dorsal thalamus in mammals Future of the B...2022-11-3049 minScientific Sense ®Prof Trey Ideker of UCSD on AI applications in Biology and Life SciencesScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Trey Ideker is Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering and Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. He directs the National Resource for Network Biology, and the Cancer Cell Map and Psychiatric Cell Map Initiatives.
A multi-scale map of cell structure fusing protein images and interactions. Nature. 2021 Nov 24. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04115 “We Might Not Know Half of What’s in Our Cells, New AI Technique Reveals Interpretation of cancer mutations using a multiscale map of protein systems. Science. 2021 A protein network map of head and neck cancer reveals PIK3CA mutant drug...2022-11-2354 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Alessandro Gavazza of London School of Economics on mortgages, cars and market frictionScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Alessandro Gavazza is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is an applied economist, with main interests in industrial organization. His research focuses on the role of frictions in markets. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12022-11-0650 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Adriana Lleras-Muney of UCLA on the relationships between socio-economic status and healthThe Persistent Effects of Decreasing Labor-Market Discrimination, Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal, The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census, Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes, and The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics at UCLA. Her research examines the relationships between socio-economic status and health, with a particular focus on education and income. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12022-08-2959 min
Scientific Sense ®Prof. Louise Westling of the University of Oregon on Deep History and the Rhythm of CatastropheDeep History and the Rhythm of Catastrophe and Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary,
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Louise Westling is Professor Emerita of English and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on ecophenomenology and literature, animality, and embodiment in language. A related activity is herding sheep with Australian Kelpies, a good way to learn and develop cross-species communication.
Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12022-06-241h 03Scientific Sense ®Prof. Benedict C. Albensi of Nova SouthEastern University on Nuclear Factor Kappa B and MitochondriaWhat Is Nuclear Factor Kappa B (NF-κB) Doing in and to the Mitochondrion? Evidence for the Involvement of TNF and NF-kB in Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, NF-κB p50 subunit knockout impairs late LTP and alters long term memory in the mouse hippocampus, Early Growth Response 2 (Egr-2) Expression is Triggered by NF-κB Activation, and Chronic dietary creatine enhances hippocampaldependent spatial memory, bioenergetics, and levels of plasticity-related proteins associated with NF-κB
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Benedict C. Albensi is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the co-director of the BRAIN C...2022-06-1547 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas on biases in academic and research decisionsWOMEN AND STEM, Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards, Reflections on race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards, Gender, Race, and Academic Career Outcomes —Does Economics Mirror Other Disciplines?, Does Mentoring Increase the Collaboration Networks of Female Economists? An Evaluation of the CeMENT Randomized Trial, Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?, and Association of Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Case Rates, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in Kansas
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Donna Ginther is Professor of Economics and the director of the Institute for Policy and Social Research at the University of Kansas. Her Research Interests incl...2022-06-111h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Bonnie Firestein of Rutgers University on Cypin and Brain InjuryCypin regulates dendrite patterning in hippocampal neurons by promoting microtubule assembly, Structural characterization of the zinc binding domain in cytosolic PSD-95 interactor, The Role of PSD-95 and Cypin in Morphological Changes in Dendrites Following Sublethal NMDA Exposure (cypin): Role of zinc binding in guanine deamination and dendrite branching, and Cypin: A novel target for traumatic brain injury.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Bonnie Firestein is Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University. Her interests include Regulation of dendrite patterning, synaptogenesis, and neural circuitry, with relevance to CNS injury and schizophrenia.
Please subscribe to this channel: http...2022-05-3154 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Priscilla Wald of Duke Univ. on how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human historyBlood and stories: how genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history, and Replicant Being - Law and Strange Life in the Age of Biotechnology
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Gender Sexuality and feminist Studies at Duke University, She works on U.S. literature and culture, contemporary narratives of science and medicine, science fiction literature and film, law, and environmental studies.
Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12022-05-231h 04Scientific Sense ®Dr. Marcela Uliano-Silva of the Wellcome Sanger Institute on error-free genome assembliesTowards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, and Scientific excellence in sequencing all life on Earth depends on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Marcela Uliano-Silva is Senior Bioinformatician at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her research interests are (i) mechanisms of genome evolution, (ii) the improvement of genome assembly pipelines and (iii) actions towards inclusion and diversity in science.
Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=12022-05-1848 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Monica Smith of UCLA on Resource Management in early Urban Centers and Complex Societies.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 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. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com...2022-05-161h 15Scientific Sense ®Dr. Iain McDonald of the Open University & Univ. of Manchester on Rogue exoplanetsThe 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. Cold exoplanets, and WFIRST and EUCLID: enabling the microlensing parallax measurement from space.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Iain McDonald is lecturer in Astrophysics at the Open University and Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His research interests include exo...2022-05-1145 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Timothy Cernak of the Univ of Michigan on supply chains, antivirals and molecular sonificationReinforcing 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 Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Michigan. His Lab studies the interface of chemical synthesis and computer science.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-05-0756 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Paul Novosad of Dartmouth College on Developing Country Policies.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 Analysis of Night Lights, Firms, and Poverty in India using the SHRUG Open Data Platform
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Paul Novosad is associate professor of economics at Dartmouth College. He examines why poor countries have remained poor for so long, and what pol...2022-05-0357 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Dean Karlan of Northwestern University on Poverty, Mental Health, Borrowing and Interventions.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 Multi-faceted Social Protection Program in Niger
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dean Karlan is Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University, and the Founder and President of Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit organization dedicated to discovering and promoting solutions to...2022-04-301h 05Scientific Sense ®Prof. John Sullins of Sonoma State University on Artificial IntelligenceGreat 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 for the Center for Ethics, Law and Society. His specializes in philosophy of technology, philosophical issues of artificial intelligence/robotics, cognitive science, engineering ethics and computer ethics.2022-04-271h 26Scientific Sense ®Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan of George Mason University on Socialistic Policies in India.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 comparative legal and political systems.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-04-221h 31Scientific Sense ®Prof. Julie Adams of the Oregon State University on Human-Robot Teaming.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.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-04-201h 20Scientific Sense ®Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory4 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/join2022-04-141h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Monica Smith of UCLA on Resource Management in early Urban Centers and Complex Societies.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 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.2022-04-0659 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Grand Unification Theories in PhysicsEarly 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/join2022-04-031h 12Scientific Sense ®Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Theory of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics4 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/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-03-271h 10Scientific Sense ®Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory: Part I, The 4 Fundamental forces4 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 #scientificsense2022-03-251h 16Scientific Sense ®Prof. Rita Goldstein of the Icahn School of Medicine on neuropsychological studies in addictionDrug 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 in individuals with substance use disorders during abstinence: A review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Rita Goldstein is the professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research focuses on neuroimaging and neuropsychological st...2022-03-2149 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo of Williams College on Religion, Migration and PoliticsThe 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/join2022-03-1752 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Anusha Chari of the University of North Carolina on shocks and capital flows in emerging marketsQuantitative 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 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research is in the fields of macroeconomics, international finance and empirical corporate finance.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-03-121h 09Scientific Sense ®Prof. James Shapiro of the University of Chicago on Evolution, a View from the 21st Century.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 Shapiro is Professor of Microbiology at the University Of Chicago. An expert in bacterial genetics, he proposes the concept of Natural Genetic Engineering, a process described to account for novelty created in the process of biological evolution. He is an advocate of no...2022-03-0153 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Susan Alberts of Duke University on social behavior of baboons and other mammalsIntergenerational 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 Glucocorticoid exposure predicts survival in female baboons
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Susan Alberts is Professor of Biology and chair of the Evolutionary Anthropology department at Duke University. She studies the behavior, ecology, physiology, and genetics of wild populations of la...2022-02-2755 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Gisela Kaplan of the University of New England, Armidale, Australia on Birds and PrimatesPointing 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 Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gisela Kaplan is an Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. Her main research interests are in complex cognition and communication both in birds and primates.
Join this...2022-02-241h 11Scientific Sense ®Prof. Enrique Neblett of the University of Michigan on Racism and HealthFuture 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 Relationship Between Discrimination and Anxiety, Racial Identity and Changes in Psychological Distress Using the Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity, The Associations Between Internalized Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Distress, Racial residential segregation and economic disparity jointly exacerbate COVID-19 fatality in large American cities, and The Clarion Call of the C...2022-02-201h 01Scientific Sense ®Prof. Emmanuelle Auriol of Toulouse School of Economics on Cannabis, immigration and promotion biasWeeding 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. Her research interests include industrial organization, regulation, labor economy, collective decision making and development economics.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-02-1654 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Kate Scholberg of Duke University on supernovae and neutrinosSupernova 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 and cosmology.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-02-1353 minScientific Sense ®Dr. Thomas Fellowes of the University of Sydney on environmental effects on atoll nationsPatterns 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, Patterns of Sediment Transport Using Foraminifera Tracers across Sand Aprons on the Great Barrier Reef, Sediment supply dampens the erosive efects of sea level rise on reef islands, and emergent properties in the responses of tropical corals to recurrent climate e...2022-02-0946 minScientific Sense ®Dr Ana Bugnot of the University of Sydney on environmental impact of human developmentUrban 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 University of Sydney. Her research interests include environmental impact of human development.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-02-0558 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Vineet Arora of the University of Chicago on scientific misinformationA 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 the University of Chicago. One of her research interests is the use of social media to improve the workplace learning in teaching hospitals on a variety of topics.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPa...2022-02-0456 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gesturesDiscovering 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 interests include Language development and creation and Gesture’s role in communicating, thinking, and learning.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-01-2254 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Jörg Rocholl is the president of ESMT, Berlin on political corporate boards and firm valueDo Politically Connected Boards Affect Firm Value?, Politically Connected Boards of Directors and The Allocation of Procurement Contracts, Institutional Investors and Corporate Political Activism, and Do credit shocks affect labor demand? Evidence for employment and wages during the financial crisis
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jörg Rocholl is the president of ESMT, Berlin. His research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Financial Intermediation.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-01-1747 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ulrike Malmendier iof the University of California, Berkeley on behavior and decision-makingExposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations, Behavioral CEOs: The Role of Managerial Overconfidence, Behavioral Corporate Finance: The Life Cycle of a CEO Career, and Investor Experiences and International Capital Flows?
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ulrike Malmendier is professor of Finance and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research area of focus is the intersection of economics and finance, and why and how individuals make decision—specifically how individuals make mistakes and systematically biased decisions
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/j...2022-01-1244 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Johanna Drucker of UCLA on the Ethics of Aesthetics and Alphabet HistoriesThe Ethics of Aesthetics: Visualizing Catastrophe and Alphabet Histories
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Johanna Drucker is Professor of Bibliographical Studies at UCLA. Her research interests span artists’ books, the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2022-01-071h 11Scientific Sense ®Prof. Maria-Luisa Alegre of the University of Chicago on Organ Transplant RejectionGut microbes contribute to variation in solid organ transplant outcomes in mice, Impact of the Microbiota on Solid Organ Transplant Rejection, Distinct Graft-Specific TCR Avidity Profiles during Acute Rejection and Tolerance, and Resilience of T cell-intrinsic dysfunction in transplantation toleranc
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria-Luisa Alegre is Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her laboratory is interested in T cell responses in settings of transplantation, autoimmunity and cancer, with an emphasis on mouse mod...2021-12-2354 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Azra Raza of Columbia University on Cancer diagnosis, prevention and treatmentScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Azra Raza is Professor of Medicine and the Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. Her research focus has been the identification of the presence of cancer as early as possible and to prevent it from developing into its end-stage monstrosity.2021-12-1650 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh of University of Vermont on the economics of obesity, food and policyWe are what we eat: Obesity, income, and social comparisons, Could obesity be contagious? social influence, food consumption behavior, and body weight outcomes, The elusive link between income and obesity, Hand-to-mouth Consumption and Calorie Consciousness: Consequences for Junk-food Taxation, and Economic Stress and Body Weight During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on the effect of tax reforms, optimal tax...2021-12-141h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Philip Lebel of Montclair State University on risk, economic growth and policyThe Role of Creative Innovation in Economic Growth, Managing Risk in Africa Through Institutional Reform, and Risk and the State: How Economics and Neuroscience Shape Political Legitimacy to Address Geopolitical, Environmental, and Health Risks for Sustainable Governance
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Philip Lebel is emeritus professor of economics at Montclair State University. His research spans drivers of economic growth and management of risk2021-12-111h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Frank Wilczek of MIT and the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics on the Fundamentals of PhysicsFundamentals: Keys to Reality
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Frank Wilczek who is Professor of Physics at MIT and the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Known for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and more.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2021-12-081h 29Scientific Sense ®Prof. Nadine Strossen of New York Law School on free speech and cancel cultureAmerica’s Censored Speech Platforms, and Resisting Cancel Culture
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Nadine Strossen is Professor of Law, Emerita at New York Law School. She is also the Former President, American Civil Liberties Union from 1991–20082021-12-061h 04Scientific Sense ®Prof. Alex Frangi of the University of Leeds on in-silico clinical trialsIn-silico trial of intracranial flow diverters replicates and expands insights from conventional clinical trials, and Virtual endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms: models and uncertainty.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alex Frangi is Chair of Computational Medicine at the University of Leeds. His focus area of research includes computational medicine with emphasis on computational medical imaging, image-based biomechanics, machine learning, deep learning, and big health data analytics2021-12-041h 01Scientific Sense ®Prof. Jennifer Jordan of IMD, Switzerland on leadershipEvery Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions, Cracking the millennial code, and Antecedents of leaders' power sharing: The roles of power instability and distrust
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jennifer Jordan is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the areas of digital leadership, ethics, influence, and power.2021-12-0349 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Bruce Hammock of University of California, Davis on insect Biology and Mammalian EnzomologyInsect Biology, Mammalian Enzomology, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, and Immunoassay and Biosensor
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Bruce Hammock is Professor of Entomology & Nematology at the University of California, Davis. His Research Interests span Immunochemistry, Insect Research and Mammalian Research2021-11-2651 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago on Libertarianism and EconomicsWhy You Are Not a Conservative, Wokesters, Wake!, Infantilized Liberalism, The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren are Immense, Prudence Over Sustainability, and How Growth Starts
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Deirdre McCloskey is Professor of Economics and of History, Emerita, and Professor of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. One of her recent books is Why liberalism works: how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all2021-11-231h 27Scientific Sense ®Prof. Kenneth Pomeranz of the University of Chicago on China, Europe, and the making of the modern World economyThe great divergence China, Europe, and the making of the modern World economy
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kenneth Pomeranz is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Chicago2021-11-191h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Claudia Flores of the University of Chicago on aligning law enforcement with human rightsGlobal impunity: How police laws & policies in the world’s wealthiest countries fail international human rights standards
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia Flores is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the director of the Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC). Her research and advocacy focuses on issues of inequality and failures of good governance and rule of law2021-11-1739 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Holly Ingraham of UCSF on Estrogen signaling in the brain and gutEstrogen signaling in arcuate Kiss1 neurons suppresses a sex-dependent female circuit promoting dense strong bones, Oestrogen engages brain MC4R signaling to drive physical activity in female mice, and LRH-1 mitigates intestinal inflammatory disease by maintaining epithelial homeostasis and cell survival
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Holly Ingraham who is Professor of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. Her research focuses on the basic science of "Hormones and Nerves in Female Physiology" aimed at improving women's health.2021-11-1643 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Wendy Pearlman of Northwestern University on Syrian uprising and politicsNarratives of Fear in Syria, Moral Identity and Protest Cascades in Syria, Mobilizing From Scratch: Large-Scale Collective Action Without Preexisting Organization in the Syrian Uprising, Syrian Views on Obama’s Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad, and Religion and Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising and War.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Wendy Pearlman is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research interests include Comparative Politics of the Middle East, Social Movements, Conflict Processes, Emotions, The Political Effects of Emigration, and The Arab-Israeli Conflict2021-11-1258 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Sreekumar Bhaskaran of Southern Methodist University on durable goods pricing & distributionSelling and Leasing Strategies for Durable Goods with Complementary Products, Implications of Channel Structure for Leasing or Selling Durable Goods, Consumer Mental Accounts and Implications to Selling Base Products and Add-ons, and Sequential Product Development and Introduction by Cash-Constrained Start-Ups
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sreekumar Bhaskaran is an associate professor of information technology and operations management at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. His research focuses on new product development and innovation.2021-11-101h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Marianna Bolognesi of the University of Bologna on language, concepts and communication.Editors’ Introduction: Abstract Concepts: Structure, Processing, and Modeling, How language and image construct synaesthetic metaphors in print advertising, On abstraction: decoupling conceptual concreteness and categorical specificity, The linguistic dimensions of concrete and abstract concepts: lexical category, morphological structure, countability, and etymology, and Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Marianna Bolognesi is Senior assistant professor of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on lexical semantics and multimodal communication, and in particular on the relation between language and thought, and on the s...2021-11-0859 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ryan Ogliore of Washington University in St. Louis on comets, meteorites, and Earth's waterIncorporation of a late-forming chondrule into comet wild 2, Earth’s water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites, and Cosmic symplectite recorded irradiation by nearby massive stars in the solar system’s parent molecular cloud
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ryan Ogliore is Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research group uses microanalytical techniques to study extraterrestrial materials in order to better understand the formation and evolution of our Solar System, as well as other stars.2021-11-0654 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Lance Dixon of Stanford University on the connection between gravity and subnuclear forcesHow the fundamental force of gravity is essentially the “square” of the subnuclear forces underlying the Standard Model of particle physics (gauge theory), and how this idea can be used for gravitational wave physics.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Lance Dixon is Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University. He is interested in novel descriptions of how relativistic particles scattering, and how those insights can be applied to a variety of problems.2021-11-0458 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Claudia Goldin of Harvard on Career & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward EquityCareer & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward Equity
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia Goldin is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group.2021-11-021h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Matteo Maggiori of Stanford University on investor beliefs, trading, and global capital flowsFive facts about beliefs and portfolios, The joint dynamics of investor beliefs and trading during the covid-19 crash, A model of the international monetary system, International Currencies and Capital Allocation, Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens, and Climate change and long-run discount rates: evidence from real estate
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Matteo Maggiori is a Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on international macroeconomics and finance.2021-10-301h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Keith Riles of the University of Michigan on Continuous Gravitational WavesAll-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars LIGO Data
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Keith Riles, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. He carries out research into the fundamental forces of nature, working in both gravitational wave and elementary particle physics.2021-10-281h 07Scientific Sense ®Mr. Steve Hoffman of Founders Space on how technology is shaping our futureThe five forces that change everything: How technology is shaping our future
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Steve Hoffman who is the CEO of Founders Space, a Silicon Valley based Incubator and Accelerator. He is also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several books.2021-10-181h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago on the tension on Hubble Constant measurementsAnswering the Most Important Problem in Cosmology Today: Is the Tension in the Hubble Constant Real?
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Wendy Freedman is Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her current projects involve measurements of the Hubble constant -- the current expansion rate, as well as the past expansion rate, providing constraints on the acceleration of the universe and dark energy.2021-10-1559 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Vardit Ravitsky of the University of Montreal on the ethics of genetic testing & communicationConceived and Deceived: The Medical Interests of Donor-Conceived Individuals, Autonomous Choice and the Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins, Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Identifying key clinical, ethical, social, legal and policy issues, The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Public Health, and Let’s Do Better: Public Representations of COVID-19 Science
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Vardit Ravitsky is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal. Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and reproduction.2021-10-1356 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci of ESMT Berlin on InnovationKnowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains, The Ecology of Technological Progress: How Symbiosis and Competition Affect the Growth of Technology Domains, Where do firms’ recombinant capabilities come from? intra-organizational networks, knowledge, and firms’ ability to innovate through technological recombination, Social networks, cognitive style, and innovative performance: a contingency perspective, Risky Recombinations: Institutional Gatekeeping in the Innovation Process, and Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci is a professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin. Gianluca's research interests revolve around the analysis of inter- and intra-organizational networks, with parti...2021-10-111h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Michael Gibbs of the University of Chicago on working from HomeWork from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals, “Working” remotely? selection, treatment, and the market provision of remote work, and Why Working From Home Will Stick
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michael Gibbs is Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. He studies the economics of human resources and organizational design.2021-10-101h 00Scientific Sense ®Dr. Christof Koch of Allen Institute on the architecture of the brain and consciousnessA survey of spiking activity reveals a functional hierarchy of mouse corticothalamic visual areas, Human cortical expansion involves diversification and specialization of supragranular intratelencephalic-projecting neurons, and The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. His passion are neurons – the atoms of perception, memory, behavior and consciousness – their diverse shapes, electrical behaviors, and their computational function within the mammalian brain, in particular in neocortex.2021-10-0751 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Dean Buonomano of UCLA on the biology of timeThe biology of time across different scales, Population clocks: motor timing with neural dynamics, Temporal Perceptual Learning, and The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dean Buonomano, Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience and Neurobiology at UCLA. The primary goal of his laboratory is to understand the neural basis of temporal information processing.2021-10-051h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Garance Genicot of Georgetown University on aspirations, inequality, networks and electionsTolerance and Compromise in Social Networks, Aspirations and inequality, Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions, and Political Reservations as Term-Limits.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Garance Genicot is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. She studies key issues in development economics such as aspirations, informal credit and insurance markets, intra-household bargaining, social networks, tolerance and inequality.2021-10-031h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Gautam Menon of Ashoka University on the dynamics of COVID spread and policies in IndiaThe dynamics of COVID spread and policies in India
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gautam Menon is Professor of Physics and Biology, and Director of the Centre for Climate Change & Sustainability at Ashoka University, India. He is also Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Biology at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in India.2021-10-011h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. James Hughes of the University of Massachusetts on public policy, sociology and ethicsEcoSocialism and the Technoprogressive Perspective, The Politics of Moral Enhancement: Tripping our Way to Social Democracy, and A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Hughes is Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His interests span many areas including public policy, community medicine, sociology and ethics.2021-09-291h 31Scientific Sense ®Prof. Amy Orsborn of the University of Washington on brain-machine interfacesClosed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Shapes Neural Plasticity for Skillful Neuroprosthetic Control, Parsing learning in networks using brain–machine interfaces, and A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-Adaptive Brain-Machine Interface.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Amy Orsborn who is assistant professor of Computer and Bio Engineering at the University of Washington. She works at the intersection of engineering and neuroscience building brain-machine interfaces to restore and rehabilitate motor function after injury. The main emphasis of her work is building interfaces that can adapt along-side the brain to shape brain plasticity.2021-09-2756 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Teresa Fort, Associate Professor of Dartmouth College on the decline in US manufacturingNew Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment, Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States, Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States, and Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Teresa Fort is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She conducts research in international trade and industrial organization.2021-09-251h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Gabriele Veneziano of Collège de France on the Quantum Universe and String TheoryA Quantum Universe Before the Big Bang(s), String Theory and Pre-big bang Cosmology, and High-energy collisions of particles, strings and branes.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano who is a pioneer of String Theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN , and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris till he retired.2021-09-231h 22Scientific Sense ®Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on SleepInput Source and Strength Influences Overall Firing Phase of Model Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells During Theta: Relevance to REM Sleep Reactivation and Memory Consolidation, Different Simultaneous Sleep States in the Hippocampus and Neocortex, Unraveling Why We Sleep: Quantitative Analysis Reveals Abrupt Transition from Neural Reorganization to Repair in Early Growth, and Shining a Light on the Mechanisms of Sleep for Memory Consolidation
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gina Poe, who is Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA. Her Lab investigates the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation.2021-09-211h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Maria Roche of Harvard Business School on the impact of inter-personal exchange on innovationThe impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation in three different contexts: neighborhoods, co-working spaces, and university laboratories.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts.2021-09-1953 minScientific Sense ®Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician of Middlesex University on the statistics of COVID in IndiaScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician in the School of Science & Technology at Middlesex University, London. He has worked on a variety of problems at the interface between dynamical systems, and combinatorics, with applications to real-world systems with a network structure, including in biology and chemistry.2021-09-171h 01Scientific Sense ®Prof. Selva Nadarajah of the University of Illinois, Chicago on Real OptionsReal Options in Energy: A Guided Analysis of the Operations Literature, Data-Driven Storage Operations: Cross-Commodity Backtest and Structured Policies, Meeting Corporate Renewable Power Targets , and Self-adapting Robustness in Demand Learning.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Selva Nadarajah who is Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. One of his research interests is decision-making under uncertainty and flexibility.2021-09-161h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Katarina Juselius of the University of Copenhagen on Searching for a Theory That Fits the DataSearching for a Theory That Fits the Data: A Personal Research Odyssey.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Katarina Juselius is Professor Emeritus of econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been on empirical macro models and associated issues.2021-09-131h 06Scientific Sense ®Prof. Maja Matarić of USC on human-robot interaction methods for behavior change.Designing a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Older Adults with Low Vision, Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller, Affect-Aware Deep Belief Network Representations for Multimodal Unsupervised Deception Detection, and Simulation-Based Analysis of COVID-19 Spread Through Classroom Transmission on a University Campus
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maja Matarić is professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Her research is focused on developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for behavior change aimed at health, wellness, rehabilitation, training and education.2021-09-1156 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Sabine Kastner of Princeton University on the Ryhtemic Theory of Attention and Gender BiasA rhythmic theory of attention, A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker, Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, and Bringing Kids into the Scientific Review Process.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sabine Kastner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The goal of her research program is to better understand how large-scale networks operate during cognition, with particular emphasis on interactions between cortex and thalamus.2021-09-091h 05Scientific Sense ®Prof. Carol Gould of Florida Atlantic University on the histrionic personality disorderWhy the histrionic personality disorder should not be in the DSM: A new taxonomic and moral analysis
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book on True Glamour, an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.2021-09-0743 minScientific Sense ®Dr. Peter Vereš of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Planetary DefensePlanetary Defense: Discovery and characterization of Near-Earth objects and possibilities to protect the Earth against the cosmic collisions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Peter Vereš is a research scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the Minor Planet Center (MPC). MPC is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data of minor planets, calculating their orbits, computing ephemerides, announcing discoveries and publishing the data. 2021-09-051h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Daniel Appelbaum of the University of Chicago on Radiomics, Theranostics and AIRadiomics in Oncology, Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine and the rise of AI in the field.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel Appelbaum who Professor of Radiology and the Director, of the Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging at the University of Chicago.2021-09-0346 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University on Food AllergiesFOOD WITHOUT FEAR: Identify, Prevent, and Treat Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ruchi Gupta is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on food allergies2021-09-011h 04Scientific Sense ®Prof. Henry Greenside of Duke University on How Nervous Systems Produce BehaviorFrom Matter to Minds : A Physics Perspective on How Nervous Systems Produce Behavior
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Henry Greenside is Professor of Physics and Neurobiology at Duke University. His research group study problems in theoretical neurobiology.2021-08-301h 05Scientific Sense ®Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Princeton University on brain and behaviorThe primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain, Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space, A model of mood as integrated advantage, and The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain)
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The main focus of her research is to elucidate the computational, cognitive and neural processes involved in learning task representations from experience.2021-08-281h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Timothy Buschman of Princeton University on Working Memory in the human brainBalancing Flexibility and Interference in Working Memory, Shared mechanisms underlie the control of working memory and attention, Rotational dynamics reduce interference between sensory and memory representations, and Toward a neurobiology of internal selective attention
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Timothy Buschman is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His research aims to understand how the brain accomplishes intelligent and rational behavior by guiding our actions towards a goal.2021-08-261h 06Scientific Sense ®Prof. Sliman Bensmaia of the University of Chicago on Neuroprostheses and bionic handIntracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex and Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sliman Bensmaia is Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how nervous systems give rise to flexible, intelligent behavior, especially sensory processing, that is how are robust and flexible neuronal representations of the environment constructed to support behavior?2021-08-241h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Piyush Agarwal of the University of Chicago on the disparity in Urology specialityDemand and capacity imbalance for urologists as population ages, The disparity in care for rural populations, Changing ideas in cancer, and the need for more female participation in urology.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Piyush Agarwal is Professor of Surgery and Urology and Director, Bladder Cancer Program at the University of Chicago. His clinical and laboratory research focuses on bladder cancer, the urinary microbiome, molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy.2021-08-2243 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Issam Awad of the University of Chicago on Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM)Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) across multiple species and genotypes, Common transcriptome, plasma molecules, and imaging signatures in the aging brain and a Mendelian neurovascular disease, cerebral cavernous malformation, and A Roadmap for Developing Plasma Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers of Cerebral Cavernous Angioma With Symptomatic Hemorrhage (CASH)
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Issam Awad is Professor of Neurological Sciences and Surgery, Neurology, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior at the University of Chicago. One of his research interests is the natural history and biologic behavior of vascular malformations of the brain2021-08-2048 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Zhirong Huang of Stanford University and SLAC on x-ray free-electron lasersFully Coherent X-Ray Pulses from a Regenerative-Amplifier Free-Electron Laser and Refractive Guide Switching a Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser for High Peak and Average Power Hard X Rays
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Zhirong Huang is Professor of Photon Sciences, Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab. His research focuses on accelerators and x-ray free-electron lasers.2021-08-1856 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Michal Zochowski of the University of Michigan on the Physics of Brain, Sleep and MemoryA Dynamical Role for Acetylcholine in Synaptic Renormalization, Resonance with subthreshold oscillatory drive organizes activity and optimizes learning in neural network, and Acetylcholine Mediates Dynamic Switching Between Information Coding Schemes in Neuronal Networks
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michal Zochowski is Professor of Physics and Biophysics at the University of Michigan. His group focuses on trying to understand mechanisms of the formation of patterns in coupled dynamical systems, with special focus on their applicability and role during information processing in the brain.2021-08-1657 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Daniel McKinsey of the University of California, Berkeley on hunting for dark matterScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel McKinsey is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on direct searches for dark matter interactions, and he serves as Co-Spokesperson of the LUX experiment. He also collaborates on the LZ experiment and is doing R&D on superfluid helium for low-mass dark matter detection.2021-08-1457 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Janet Currie of Princeton University on the inequality in mortality and disparities in policyScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Janet Currie is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research2021-08-121h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Robert Lustig of UCSF on Metabolical, The Lure & Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition & Modern MedicineScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robert Lustig who is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF. His most recent book is Metabolical – The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine.2021-08-101h 02