Science Episodes
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Oct. 22, 2025
Daylight Savings Time : Should we abandon it ? Talking with Stanford Professor Jamie Zeitzer.
Spring forward, Fall back. Our ongoing debate to keep or abandon our biannual clock change now has scientific evidence to support junking the change.
Guest: Professor Jamie Zeitzer
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Nov. 26, 2024
Fatal Inheritance: How a family misfortune revealed a deadly medical mystery. Talking with author Larry Ingrassia.
Hereditary cancer is a relatively new discovery in the annals of medical science. The Li-Fraumeni Syndrome which is related to a mutation of the P-53 gene, causes multiple cancers in family members. The Ingrassia family is one such case.
Guest: Larry Ingrassia
9
Sept. 23, 2024
New Alzheimer's medications are changing how we age. Talking with Dr. Dennis Selkoe.
Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s treatment.
Guest: Dennis Selkoe
5
Jan. 22, 2024
I am a Tinkerer: Talking with Professor Dr. Rolf Hut
Tinkering or the Maker Movement enables engineers to use everyday materials to craft solutions to even the largest challenges of Climate Change. MacGyver.
Guest: Professor Rolf Hut
8
June 10, 2023
Quantum Entanglement is not that Spooky after all. Talking with author, Professor Chris Ferrie.
Physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeillinger were awarded the Nobel Prize for Phusics in 2022 for their research regarding the Principle of Entanglement. Quantum Computing Science.
Guest: Professor Chris Ferrie
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May 4, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: What is the difference ? Talking with Aleksander Madry, Cadence Design Systems Professor of Computing at MIT.
AI is quickly being integrated into every aspect of American life and many people have misgivings.
Guest: Professor Aleksander Madry
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Jan. 26, 2023
On Learning to Heal or What Medicine does not know, In conversation with author, Professor Ed Cohen.
Modern medicine has overlooked the importance of healing which was the cornerstone of medical practice until the late 19th century when science began to dominate medicine.
Guest: Professor Ed Cohen
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Jan. 26, 2023
What the Fusion break through means. Talking with Professor Lee Bernstein of UC Berkeley and the Nuclear Data Group Leader at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The future of fusion power - from the science lab to the power plant.
Guest: Professor Lee Bernstein
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Feb. 16, 2022
Fusion Power Breakthrough: Clean, Limitless Power. What you need to know.
Takamak reactor at JET facility in Oxfordshire makes a major advance in the field of fusion power.
Guest: Jim Herlihy