Guest: Bill Martin - Evolutionary Biologist and Head of the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf 

Guests: 

• Philip Smyth, Broadcaster and Science Communicator 

• Dr. Laura Hayes, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies 

• Prof. Paul Kenny, Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience and Director of The Friedman Brain Institute in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City 

Presenter Jonathan McCrea and Producer Aidan McKelvey discuss the making of the Futureproof documentary ‘The Lost Bridge’.

Guests:

• Genevieve Von Petzinger, Paleoanthropologist and rock art researcher and Project Director of the LIACARA Project

• Dr. George Nash, Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool

• Dr. Barbara Oosterwijk, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Exeter

• Shane Diffily, National Treasurer Irish Cave Rescue Organisation

We conventionally think of time as something simple and fundamental that flows uniformly, independently from everything else, from the past to the future, measured by clocks and watches.

In the course of time, the events of the universe succeed each other in an orderly way: pasts, presents, futures.

The past is fixed, the future open... And yet, all of this has turned out to be false.

Carlo Rovelli is a Theoretical Physicist and author of ‘The Order of Time’ and joins Jonathan to discuss.

First aired 21/7/2018

Guest: Julie Elie, Associate Project Scientist in the Department of Neuroscience at University of California, Berkeley.

Guests:

• Jim Al Khalili, Theoretical Physicist, Host of BBC’s ‘The Life Scientific’ and author of ‘On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick‘

• Dr. Ruth Freeman from Research Ireland

• Matthew Campbell, Professor of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin

Guest: Kathryn Paige Harden, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of ‘Original Sin: The Genetics of Wrongdoing, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness’

Guests:

• Steven A. Benner, Chemist, Astrobiologist and author of ‘Meet the Neighbors: Life on Mars and How to Find It’

• Jessamyn Fairfield from the University of Galway

• Fergus McAuliffe, Head of Research Engagement and Impact Trinity College Dublin

Guest: Rose Anne Kenny, Regis Professor of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin and Founding Principal Investigator of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)