Lefteris asks science

Learning about the social life of gorillas is quite more exciting than you think it is. This week I chatted with Dr. Robin Morrison from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund international. We talked about orphan gorillas and how they manage to beat the odds with the help of their group. What is the social structure of a group of gorillas? and how do researchers try to study gorillas and their social interactions by observing them and being part of their daily lives

Read more about Dr. Robin Morrisons' work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1I9_QM0AAAAJ&hl=en

Read the article about orphan gorillas beating the odds here: https://gorillafund.org/motherless-gorillas-beat-the-odds-for-both-gorillas-and-humans-it-takes-a-village-to-raise-a-child/

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What is ferroelectricity? Where is it used? Why do we do research on them? (soon to be Dr.) Christina Stefani is helping me understand all these questions and explains to me how she works with atomic force microscopy...

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What’s the psychology of heavy metal music? what is the culture of the community? How are people with disabilities represented in it?

To answer these questions I had a great chat with Dr. Kyle J. Messick a psychologist that received his Ph.D. from the University of Coventry.

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Find out more about Dr. Messick and his work:

Publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0452-0922

What is hate speech? What is the best way to counter hate speech? How can mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence help us answer these questions and restore civility in online discourse? These are the things we discussed with Dr. Joshua Garland and Dr. Mirta Galesic from the Santa Fe Institute.

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Find out more about Dr. Garland, Dr. Galesic and their work:

https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/joshua-garland

https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/mirta-galesic

In a time where you don't know which news are real and which are fake, Panayiotis Smeros and the team at EPFL are trying to find the best method of identifying trusted sources of information.

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Find out more about Panayiotis and his work: https://panayiotis.smeros.info/

News Teller: https://newsteller.io/

SciLens: http://scilens.epfl.ch/

How does our brain work? Do we even know exactly? How does your brain choose the words to say at any given situation? This week I meet cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Evangelia Balatsou that through her research tried to answer all these questions.

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Find out more about Dr. Balatsou and her work:

https://sites.google.com/view/evangeliabalatsou/home

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Hp3O5uQAAAAJ&hl=en

Linking academia with the industry is not an easy task. Dr. Anirudh Venkatraman from NUS is going to walk us through his process by discussing erosion its problems and what are the tools engineers need in order to work more efficiently in the field.

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Find out more about Dr. Venkatraman and his work:

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&pli=1&user=rWAny9UAAAAJ

LinkdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anirudhvkrishnan/

Greetings humans. I've been waiting for a long time to discuss game theory with an expert and Dr. Aris Filos Ratsikas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Liverpool. He is kind enough to explain to me what is game theory, how is it used in day to day life and what are the main problems that game theory researchers face?

If you want to find out more about Dr. Ratsikas find more of his work here: https://arisfilosratsikas.com/

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Greetings humans! In this edition of the podcast we will talk with Gyo Kitahara, A PhD Student from the University of Tokyo. He recently published a paper about a new method of printing organic transistors. Find out what's special about his method and the organic transistors through our discussion [=

Find the paper here: :https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc8847

See more of Gyo Kitahara's work here: http://hsgw.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/member/personal/kitahara.html

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Games have been a great source of story telling, entertainment and indeed education since their inception. This last aspect of education is what we will discuss in this edition of Lefteris asks science with Dr. Maria Saridaki.

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Find out more about Dr. Maria Saridaki's work:

http://trustinplay.eu/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSegIhjgZXc

www.morethangames.gr

Contact Dr. Saridaki: [email protected]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/msaridaki/