Wanna Coffee Talk?

Listen to this fascinating podcast where we sit down with Rebecca Spencer, a renowned neuroscientist and professor, who graduated from the Purdue University Neuroscience graduate program and currently works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Discover how the brain processes learning and what goes on inside our heads when we acquire new knowledge, particularly when it comes to motor activities. Learn about the impact of naps on learning and how our learning capabilities change as we age. Gain insight into the intricacies of memory and explore whether we have control over it. Finally, we delve into the topic of memory impairments and the latest research on how to address them. Join us for a captivating conversation with a true expert in the field of neuroscience.

Jonathan Pritchard is a well-known mentalist, coach and consultant. In Wanna Coffee Talk? he talks about how he reached the point where performing magic tricks was not enough, helping people and companies achieve their own goals providing incredibly useful insights. How are martial arts, psychology and motivation all interconnected while seeming interdependent elements? What underlies human perception and how does that affect our daily lives? Jonathan has answer for every question!

The episode is about the history of euthanasia, sort of… as a historian, Warren provides some really nice insights regarding Nazi Germany and how the eugenics and sterilization/extermination programs worked and how they were the first so called “euthanasia” policies.

Warren is also really interested in the confinement of children with developmental disabilities in the 19th and early 20th century. Where were so many children, in Germany in particular, sent off to institutions? What were the forces that led to mass confinement? What was the relationship between putting kids in institutions around the turn of the century and the later policies of sterilization and mass murder (“euthanasia”) occurring under the Nazis?  What is the legacy of the mass murder of children with disabilities? Have we said goodbye to segregationist measures toward children with disabilities? Are we getting over the damaging stereotypes and misconceptions of the past?

[EPISODE FROM PREVIOUS PODCAST] In today’s episode, we will be interviewing Michael Wooldridge. He was educated at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he was awarded a PhD in 1991. He is now Head of Department and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a senior researcher at Hertford College. Before this, he was a professor of CS at the University of Liverpool for 12 years. He has also been chair for the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Lisbon. Last year, he was awarded the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society and in 2006, he was also awarded the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award.

Links to his books:

The Ladybird Expert Guide to Artificial Intelligence The Road to Conscious Machines

[EPISODE FROM PREVIOUS SHOW] Ted Mahr's foster mother was a psychic who used to find missing and lost children for the Seattle USA area police departments, he learned how to contact spirits from the “other side” at a young age, what has led him to a stunning amount of more than 24 solid years of experience in related areas. He will be joining us on today's episode and we will be talking about some of his experiences and, certainly, some of the greatest mysteries of all times.

[EPISODE FROM PREVIOUS SHOW] What is a virus? What are inhibitors? Joining us today, Paul Bieniasz, a well-known virologist, will be discussing with us many aspects of his job as a virologist and will provide us with some great information regarding both HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.