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Sciencentric episodes
- Into the Abyss | Anthony David
Anthony David is Director of the University of College London Institute of Mental Health. For twenty-eight years he was a consultant psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. His new book, "Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrists Notes on Madness", explores several of his most challenging cases and examines the biological, psychological and sociological roots of mental illness.
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Into the Abyss: A Neuropsychiatrists Notes on Madness https://www.amazon.com/Into-Abyss-neuropsychiatrists-notes-troubled-ebook/dp/B07XYFZ2QB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=into+the+abyss+anthony+david&qid=1582817823&sr=8-1
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Brian D. Earp is a cross-disciplinary academic whose work draws on philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, history of science and medicine, and ethics. He is the Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His new book, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships", builds a case for conducting research into drugs that affect the emotion we call love and explores the ethical implications for individuals and society.
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**DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE**
Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships https://www.amazon.com/Love-Drugs-Chemical-Future-Relationships/dp/0804798192
An un-consenting child, an unnecessary, invasive surgery: is there any moral difference between male and female circumcision? https://aeon.co/essays/are-male-and-female-circumcision-morally-equivalent
A quick intro to the Integral Theory of philosopher Ken Wilber
https://www.dailyevolver.com/theory/Aldous Huxley's "A Brave New World" (video summary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqVySPrDUEParental Investment Theory and Sexual Selection (Trivers, 1972) http://www.roberttrivers.com/Robert_Trivers/Publications_files/Trivers%201972.pdf**TELL US WHAT YOU THINK**Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric1 hr 10 min - #15 Evolution & Design with Evolutionary Theorist Mark Changizi
Mark Changizi is an evolutionary theorist, author, and entrepreneur. His work focuses on the ultimate foundations underlying why we think, feel and see as we do. He has made important discoveries such as why we see in color, why we see illusions, why we have forward-facing eyes, why the brain is structured as it is, why animals have as many limbs and fingers as they do, why the dictionary is organized as it is, why fingers get pruney when wet, where emotional expressions came from, and how we acquired writing, language and music. He has authored more than three dozen scientific journal articles and written three other books on his research, "The Brain from 25,000 Feet", "The Vision Revolution", and "Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man." He is working on his fifth non-fiction book on emotions and facial expressions, called "The Poker Origins of Emotional Expressions."
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**DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE**
Mark's paper on pruney fingers
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/328223Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Manhttps://www.amazon.com/Harnessed-Language-Mimicked-Nature-Transformed-dp-1935618539/dp/1935618539/Language acquisition device (LAD)https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100051869Evolution of red-green color vision (link to Mark's TEDx talk)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWl58r4ZBkVino Opticshttps://www.vino.vi/**TELL US WHAT YOU THINK**Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric1 hr 13 min - #14 The Secrets of Snakes with Wildlife Biologist David A. Steen
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David A. Steen is a wildlife biologist who specializes in snakes and other "creepie crawlies." He is the author of the award-winning science blog Living Alongside Wildlife where he writes about natural history, ecology, and his own research. He's also been called the "best biologist on Twitter", using his presence on the platform to help people identify reptiles in their environment and debunk common wildlife myths, particularly about snakes. He explores many of these myths in his new book, "Secrets of Snakes" published this fall by Texas A&M Press.
In this episode, we spoke to David about how to ID venomous snakes, the top three myths he’d like to dispel and whether daredevil personalities like Coyote Peterson and Steve Irwin help or hurt wildlife....and much more!
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David's Website
https://davidasteen.comLiving Alongside Wildlife blog
https://livingalongsidewildlife.com/David on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/AlongsideWild"Secrets of Snakes" book https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Snakes-Science-Natural-History/dp/1623497973**TELL US WHAT YOU THINK**Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric54 min - #13 The Quantum Supremacy with Science Writer George Musser
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A little over a week ago, Google announced they had achieved something called “quantum supremacy”, a powerful new way of computing that makes use of quantum principles.
Google claims it's quantum processor can tackle a really difficult computational problem in about two and a half minutes--a task that would take the fastest classical supercomputer about 10,000 years.
Researchers at IBM have contested that estimate and dialed it back to only two and half days. Whatever the true number is, we know Google’s processor is really fast--faster than any other computer preceding it and powered by quantum technology.
Our guest in this episode, science writer George Musser, helps us unpack what quantum means and how quantum computing works. George has been writing about astronomy and physics, for over 25 years. He’s a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and author of the book “Spooky Action at a Distance” all about the strange phenomena called quantum entanglement.
**More to explore**
George's article on AI and quantum computing for Quanta
https://www.quantamagazine.org/job-one-for-quantum-computers-boost-artificial-intelligence-20180129/George's website
http://spookyactionbook.comQuantum entanglement videos for Scientific American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z34ugMy1QaAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM3GOXaci7wThe Integral Theory of Ken Wilber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory_(Ken_Wilber)**Tell us what you thought of this episode**
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There is a growing body of scientific literature about video games. Not how their made, but how they impact our brains and our lives. Researchers are looking at questions like: do violent video games make us more violent in real life? Can games be addictive? Or, how much time sitting in front of the screen is really good for us?
Our guest in this episode, psychology professor Pete Etchells, has taken an in-depth look at the research around video games in his new book, “Lost In a Good Game: Why We Play Video Games and What They Can Do for Us.”
We talked about some common concerns parents, in particular, have about so-called screen time. The positive impact video games can have on our lives, including a touching personal story of Pete’s. And we spent a good deal of time talking about the common pitfalls of psychology research, which not only affect the study of video games, but literally every other sub-discipline of psychology.
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1 hr 4 min - #11 How to Use Your Brain with Neuroscientist Henning Beck
We may marvel at the precision and efficiency of computers, wishing our brains operated in much the same way. We’d remember everything perfectly, we’d never feel bored or get distracted, we’d have laser-like focus, we’d be on all the time….
But not so fast, says our guest, neuroscientist Henning Beck. Henning is a writer, speaker, consultant and author of the forthcoming book “Scatterbrain: How the Mind’s Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful.” He says what we perceive as our brain’s “flaws” are actually the things that make us uniquely human and in some ways more capable than computers. We spoke about how the human brain actually works, how tech companies are using our distractibility against us and what we can do to use our brains in the most productive way possible.
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Henning Beck’s website
https://www.henning-beck.com/english/about-me/
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47 min - #10 Hacking the Code of Life with Molecular Biologist Nessa CareyIn this episode, we’re talking about the most exciting thing to happen in biology in the last ten years--the development of the CRISPR-CAS9 gene-editing system, more commonly known as CRISPR. It’s a molecular tool that allows scientists to make precise changes to DNA, even within living cells. In the near future, CRISPR will have an impact on pretty much everything--from medicine to conservation to the very food we eat.Our guest, Nessa Carey, knows the story of CRISPR well. Nessa is a molecular biologist who worked in the biotech industry for 13 years and a visiting professor at Imperial College London. Her new book, “Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures” examines the origins of CRISPR and gives us a glimpse of what we can expect from the technology in the future. While it’s mostly positive, there are some areas of concern, particularly in regards to editing the human genome. We discuss all of this and more, so give it a watch.Links:Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futureshttps://sciencentric.com/link/hacking-the-code-of-life-how-gene-editing-will-rewrite-our-futures/--Receive 25% off your new web hosting plan using the promo code "science": http://hostgator.com--Tell us what you thought of this episode:Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric44 min
- #9 Vanishing Fish with Marine Biologist Daniel PaulyDaniel Pauly is a professor of marine biology at the University of British Columbia and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us Project, which seeks to understand the impact that fisheries have on the world’s oceans. His new book, "Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries", is a kind of greatest hits of his essays over the years.He is perhaps most famous for the essay he penned in 1995, in which he coined the phrase “shifting baselines”. The phrase describes our shifting perception, from generation to generation, about the normal state of Nature. The essay is widely-cited and the concept has now been applied to other generational paradigm shifts.In this wide-ranging interview, Pauly talks about the origin of the shifting baselines concept, the current state of the world’s ocean, why overfishing is a problem and what we as individuals can do about it.--Receive 25% off your new web hosting plan using the promo code "science": http://hostgator.com--Tell us what you thought of this episode:Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric1 hr 1 min
- #8 Getting Cultured with Author Katherine CourageThe gut microbiome is the collection of microbes living in our digestive tract and concentrated in the large intestine. Science is revealing that a healthy microbiome has a number of important benefits related to digestion, weight loss, the immune system and even our mood. What we eat has big impact on the health of our gut microbes.In this episode, we speak with science writer Katherine Harmon Courage about foods that sustain our intestinal flora. Her new book “Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome” took her around the world to sample foods that are good for the gut.--Win a free copy of "Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome ". Enter here: http://sciencentric.com/giveaway--Receive 25% off your new web hosting plan using the promo code "science": http://hostgator.com--Tell us what you thought of this episode:Email: [email protected]Instagram: http://instagram.com/sciencentricFacebook: http://facebook.com/sciencentricTwitter: http://twitter.com/sciencentric32 min
About Sciencentric
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Welcome to Sciencentric, your portal to captivating content at the intersection of science, society, and the natural world!
Founded in 2018 by filmmaker, journalist, and host Eric R Olson, Sciencentric seeks to bridge the divide between progress and Nature...innovation and conservation...all wrapped up in an entertaining and sometimes humorous package.
Join us on a journey of curiosity and discovery, where we unravel the wonders of the world around us.