Episodes

Stefan is Professor of Marine Engineering at University of Sydney. He talks about the Titan submersible disaster.

AI is transforming cardiology in diagnosis and therapy , precision medicine, remote monitoring.

The advent of Artificial Intelligence in Education is facing challenges being integrated into college, high school and elementary school curriculums.

Are America and its Allies stepping back from their deep economic ties with China ?

A controversial ad campaign about Fentanyl use has stirred controversy in San Francisco.

On June June 29, 2023 the US Supreme Court handed down two decisions that profoundly effect Affirmative Action policy.

The life story of 1920s and 30s Hollywood actress Marion Davies and her life with press baron William Randolph Hearst

US and India’s relationship has waxed and waned over the last 76 years. However, PM Modi’s visit was described as a Hinge in Geopolitics by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Was it ?

Over the last 40 years political movements have appropriated the Legitimacy of the Civil Right Movement for their own ends. What effect does it have on our collective memory ?

A new global equality index based on 8 criteria has been developed by the Cato Institute. The media persists in its pessimistic view of global equality despite the data.

Hitchcock’s classic horror film - one of his best - is as terrifying as it was when first released in March 1963.

When Russia privatized the 45,000 state owned corporations when Communism and the USR collapsed, every man, woman and child received a privatization voucher. The book recounts the story of a young American investment manager who participated in the process.

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.

Finland has ranked #1 in the World's Happiest Country listing for the sixth year in a row. How did this small Nordic country of 5 million, which 100 years ago was the poorest country in Europe and bullied by Russia for much of the 20th Century, become the happiest place in the world ? Oxford University Professor Danny Dorling breaks down the statistics and the reasons may surprise you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-herlihy/message

A sweeping review of history, culture and politics of the Muslim people on the Indian Subcontinent.

Ursula Parrott a famous author from 1929 to the late 1940s and a member of the Lost Generation was largely forgotten but Marsha Gordon is bringing Parrott’s works back to readers.

Breaking the cycle of drug addiction in the Tenderloin and going on to help others to overcome substance dependence.

1970s San Francisco whodunit full of colorful characters with an homage to 18th century poet William Blake.

Airport 1975 was a derivative of the disaster movies of the early 1970s as well as influenced by Arthur Hailey’s novel Airport.