Little Brains Big Topics

Randall S. Abate is the inaugural Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology, at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Global Understanding at Monmouth. He teaches courses in domestic and international environmental law, climate justice, constitutional law, and animal law. Professor Abate joined the Monmouth faculty in 2018 with 24 years of full-time law teaching experience at six U.S. law schools. He has delivered lectures and taught international and comparative law courses on environmental and animal law topics in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the U.K, and Vanuatu.  Books:  What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law? (Environmental Law Institute Press, 2d. ed., forthcoming July 2020)  https://www.eli.org/eli-press-books/what-can-animal-law-learn-environmental-law-second-edition   Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources (Cambridge University Press, 2019)  https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/environmental-law/climate-change-and-voiceless-protecting-future-generations-wildlife-and-natural-resources?format=PB  Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://twitter.com/big_topics  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Ben Burgis is a Professor of Philosophy and the author of ‘Give Them An Argument: Logic for the Left’. He is also one of the authors of the recently published book ‘Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson’. You can also find him on patreon.com/benburgis where he writes 2 essays a week exclusively for his patreons.  Buy Ben's Books From: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/authors/ben-burgis  Support Ben On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis  Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://twitter.com/big_topics  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Neil Hirst is the Senior Policy Fellow for Energy and Mitigation at the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London. He is currently working with China’s Energy research Institute of the NDRC on a joint project on China and International Energy Governance. He is the lead author of the recent Grantham Institute/Chatham House Discussion Paper “The Reform of Global Energy Governance”.   Get his latest book, The Energy Conundrum: Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make from Amazon:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Energy-Conundrum-Prosperity-Decisions-Research-ebook/dp/B079Y2JK28/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1589723686&refinements=p_27%3ANeil+A+C+Hirst&s=digital-text&sr=1-1  Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://twitter.com/big_topics  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Dr. Kupers is a psychiatrist with a background in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, forensics and social and community psychiatry. He did his residency training at the University of California, Los Angeles Neuropsychiatric Institute and, because of an interest in object relations theory, spent the third year of his residency at the Tavistock Institute in London. He also did a fellowship in social and community psychiatry. Since 1974, he has practiced psychiatry in both the public and private sectors. At Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital (and Charles Drew Postgraduate Medical School, where he was Assistant Professor) in South Central Los Angeles and the Richmond Community Mental Health Center in Richmond, he served as director or co-director of an outpatient clinic, a psychiatric residency program, and a partial hospitalization program. He left the Richmond Center in 1981, joined the faculty at the Wright Institute, and has continued to teach and to maintain his private practice while consulting to various mental health centers and social rehabilitation programs in the community. His forensic psychiatry experience includes testimony in several large class action litigations concerning jail and prison conditions, sexual abuse, and the quality of mental health services inside correctional facilities. He is a consultant to Human Rights Watch.  Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://twitter.com/big_topics  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Paul Allan Offit is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1992-2014), and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been a member of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Offit is a Board Member of Every Child By Two and a Founding Board Member of the Autism Science Foundation.  Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, and is the author or co-author of books on vaccines, vaccination, and antibiotics. He is one of the most public faces of the scientific consensus that vaccines have no association with autism. As a result, he has been the frequent target of hate mail and death threats.  Order his latest book 'Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far' from Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Overkill-When-Modern-Medicine-Goes-ebook/dp/B07V6BK7XG/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=overkill&qid=1587173233&sr=8-4  Make sure to Like, Share and Subscribe if you enjoyed the video!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://twitter.com/big_topics  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/little-brains-big-topics/id1506431166

Davidson Hamer is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Nutrition at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Dr. Hamer, a board-certified specialist in infectious diseases with a particular interest in tropical infectious diseases, has extensive field experience in neonatal and child survival research including studies of micronutrient interventions, maternal and neonatal health, malaria, pneumonia, and diarrheal diseases. Full Biography at: https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/davidson-hamer/  We are going to have many more exciting interviews in the future!  You can find us on:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkXYM0v5AtEiS1FV-7nkakQ/  https://www.facebook.com/Little-Brains-Big-Topics-100713241600938/?modal=admin_todo_tour  https://www.instagram.com/littlebrainsbigtopics/  https://open.spotify.com/show/7fgsElbVdoSJyzMKmr83Dk  [email protected]

This is the introductory video to Little Brains Big Topics podcast. Hosting Ashhad Noor and Mohammad Nemati. Please stay tuned for future episodes where we'll be discussing topics such as: 

• Isolation

• Death

• AI 

• Economy 

• Modern Day Slavery 

• Human Rights Violations 

• Quantum Mechanics 

•  String Theory 

• Sleep 

• Consciousness 

• Evolution 

• History 

• Life 

• Science of attraction

 • Relationship dynamics

 • Global Warming 

• Security, civil liberties and surveillance  

And many more to come! We will also bring expert guests on to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.  You can find us on: 

Instagram : @littlebrainsbigtopics

Facebook: Little Brains Big Topics

[email protected]