Zach Elliott is an architecture student, author, and creator of the YouTube channel “The Paradox Institute.” In this episode, we talk about how he got interested in the topic of sex and gender as a non-scientist, how intersex conditions are misused in discussions of transgender rights, his step-by-step guide for […]
In this episode, we’re speaking to award-winning French journalist and documentary filmmaker Guillaume Pitron. For the last decade or so, Guillaume has been following the global trade in rare earth metals. There are around 30 of these metals and they can be found in virtually all of our electronic devices […]
Writer and producer George Zaidan spoke to over 80 health experts for his new book “Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us”. In this video, he shares the four key things he learned. TRANSCRIPT ERIC R. OLSON: This whole thing with coronavirus is really […]
Writer and producer George Zaidan spoke to over 80 health experts for his new book “Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put In Us and On Us”. In this video, he shares the four key things he learned. TRANSCRIPT ERIC R. OLSON: You have four recommendations in the book […]
George Zaidan is the executive producer for the American Chemical Society and a former co-host of CNBC’s “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor.” Most recently, he authored the book, “Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and On Us”.
Biologist Carin Bondar shares which group animals she thinks has the most unusual sexual behavior.
In this episode, we speak with Carin Bondar, a biologist, writer, TV host, and public speaker. Carin is probably best-known for covering the topic at the forefront of everyone’s mind: sex. In various forms, she has documented all the strange and fascinating ways that animals approach enterprise reproduction–including us.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
In 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 […]
Daniel 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 […]
The 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.
One of the most polarizing political issues of the day is President Trump’s proposed border wall. An Executive Order he signed in 2017 calls for a “contiguous, physical wall or other…impassable…barrier” along the entire U.S. Mexico border. The idea being that an unbroken, impassable wall would help deter illegal immigration […]
Who can forget the classic 1993 movie Jurassic Park? In that film, scientists extracted dino DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber fossils and used it to bring back all kinds terrifying creatures–from the mighty T-rex to overgrown velociraptors. Fast forward to 2019 and we’ve yet to create dinosaurs, or any […]
About six years ago, a wildlife biologist noticed a pack of mysterious creatures living on Galveston Island, a barrier island off the Gulf Coast of Texas. The creatures looked an awful lot like coyotes, but also red wolves, an ancient coyote-wolf hybrid that had been extinct in the wild for […]