The Conduct Science Podcast

Welcome to the Conduct Science Podcast variety show! This week we don’t have a topic and are answering questions that we found interesting and intriguing. Tom takes you through the history of space waste, how much humanity could hope to explore the universe and whether the T-rex was actually aquatic! While Mitch brings you into his world of cybersecurity exploring denial of service and the slow loris attacks. Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on The Method Section, Tom is taking a look at obedience and the Milgram experiment. There have been many times throughout history where people have committed atrocious acts but their defence, as was the case with Eichmann and the holocaust, was they were following orders. At what point do orders overtake morality and ethics of an individual? And even in an experiment testing this were scientific moral protocols broken? Find out in The Method Section! Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on the conduct science podcast Tom and Mitch decide to intervene on the topic of addiction. Take everything you thought you knew about addiction and discard it, a trip through history will reveal why we think what we do about addiction and what we now know. The guys take you on a crash course through drug addiction and treatment, video game addiction and the ever more important, social media addiction. Come find out how these things are affecting your mental state! Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on the Method Section, Tom guides you through coding bootcamps! A new and booming industry aiming to shortcut many eager students into the tech industry. Here Tom discusses what they are like compared to university or college degrees, if they are worth it, the jobs you can expect to find yourself in, the salary you can expect to make among much more. Tom uses real data collected from the coding bootcamps themselves to give advice on how to choose where to go and if it is right for you! You too can find the data at https://cirr.org/data. Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on The Conduct Science Podcast, Tom and Mitch take a close up look at morality. Debating some moral dilemmas, is it nature or nurture and lots of the main moral theories presented in today’s world and throughout history, from Kant and deontological theory to Mill and utilitarianism. What do they try to achieve, is there a best one and where do our hosts stand? Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on The Method Section, Tom is combatting bad science. He explores who is at fault when it comes down to performing and publishing bad science and the effects that it has on both the scientific and public worlds. Bad science led to the worst public health crisis scene in over a hundred years… anti-vaccination groups, find out how this started and how we can combat it. Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week this description is false! Tom and Mitch take a look at paradoxes, one’s we see in everyday life, ones that took over 2,000 years to figure out and many that still perplex us to this day! From time travel and the Bootstrap Paradox to the statistical likelihood but no evidence for alien life in the Fermi Paradox, join us on The Conduct Science Podcast! Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

Tom is joined Under the Microscope with Derek Edwards, entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Behaviour Cloud and Talio. Behaviour Cloud aims to bridge the gap between technology and research taking advantage of the cloud, Tom and Derek explore what life is like setting up your own business, how to face the challenges along the way and take an in-depth look at behaviour cloud and how it came to being. Join us on Under the Microscope. You can visit behaviorcloud.com to find out more! Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on The Method Section, join Tom as he dives into the unknown. Challenging the view of the role of scientists in this world and the journey that they take. What if instead of being in the pursuit of knowledge we were in the pursuit of ignorance? What if we were trained to deal with the fact that experiments don’t always work and that within the unknown comes the most exciting adventures? Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.

This week on The Conduct Science Podcast, Tom and Mitch turn the cogs of intelligence. They each reveal their scores on an IQ test and explain why it is or isn’t the best way to explore human intelligence. From animals to AI the world shows many signs of what could be intelligence, but is it? And how does intelligence arise, is it through the classic nature or nurture argument or is something larger at play? Music by: Joakim Karud - https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud.