Joel McGuire is a research analyst at the Happier Lives Institute. The Happier Lives Institute is a think tank studying how to measure and increase happiness. Today, Joel discusses their new research on which evidence is best suited to measure happiness. And how charities can use that to help others.   

To learn more about the Happier Lives Institute, visit https://happierlivesinstitute.org

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Dr. Christine Aardal is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Dr. Aardal studies antimicrobial resistance, which is when the drugs we use to treat bacterial infections become ineffective. Today, she specifically explains how these drugs are developed and the economics of why antimicrobial research is underfunded.

To learn more about the Dr. Aardal's work, please see her profile

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Dr. Volker Heyd is a Professor of Achaeology at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He studies past cultures in the bronze age using tools from genetics, archaelogy, and anthropology. In this interview, we talk about the Yamnaya people of Eurasia and the complexity of understanding how they spead across two contintents!  

To learn more about the Dr. Heyd's work, see here

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Dr. Michaela Pascoe is a Senior Research Fellow of Health and Sport at Victoria University in Australia. She studies the health benefits of wellness practices like meditation. In this interview, we talk about the science behind meditation, how to meditate consistently, and the long history of this practice!  

To learn more about the Dr. Pascoe's work, please visit https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michaela-Pascoe 

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Kerry Vaughan is a Program Manager of Early Science at Leverage Research. He studies the history of how we developed electricity. Specifically, he analyses what makes some scientific inventions succeed and others fail.  

To learn more about his work, please visit: https://leverageresearch.org. Or see his research paper here: https://leverageresearch.org/research-voltas-electrophorus 

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Christian Diem is a PhD Candidate at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. His work studies risk modelling in the financial sector. Specifically, he models how banks do business with each other to minimise the risk of banks failing.  

To learn more about his work, please visit https://www.csh.ac.at/researcher/christian-diem/ 

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Dr. Maria del Rio-Chanona is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. Her work studies data-driven modelling in economics. Specifically, she has modelled how the UK's industries react to the shock of COVID-19 and how this influences the UK economy as a whole.  

Dr. Rhyne King is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the New York University in the US. His work studies the history of the Achaemenid (or Persian) Empire using archaeological remains. Specifically, he has studied the economic system and taxation of the Persian Empire.  

Dr. Moujan Matin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada. Her work studies the history of ceramic-making in the Islamic world. Specifically, she uses scientific techniques to analyse how this crafting process improved over time.  

Sarah Kennedy is a PhD. Candidate in Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh in the US. Her work focuses on the history of colonial Peru under Spanish rule. Specifically, she studies the history of indigenous workers at silver mines during this time period.