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Episode: Does Practice Make Perfect? – Brooke Macnamara
Pub date: 2019-10-01

In striving to develop expertise, are 10,000 hours of deliberate practice really required, and must it be guided by a teacher or coach? In episode 59, we’re joined by Brooke Macnamara from Case Western Reserve University. She’ll discuss her attempted replication of the study which led to the mantra popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that these parameters are required to master a task.

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Episode: The Neuroscience of Terrorism – Nafees Hamid
Pub date: 2019-09-17

What can brain scans of radicalized jihadists tell us about how they react to what they perceive as attacks on their sacred values? In episode 58, we’re joined by Nafees Hamid from Artis International who who talks with us about his open access article “Neuroimaging ‘will to fight’ for sacred values: an empirical case study with supporters of an Al Qaeda associate,” published on June 12, 2019 in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

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Episode: Bending the Laws of Physics – Andreas Schilling
Pub date: 2019-06-25

“Nothing in life is certain,” writes MIT mechanical engineer Seth Lloyd, “except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.” But is this necessarily so? In episode 52, we’re joined by Andreas Schilling with the University of Zurich, who discusses his development of an amazingly simple device that allows heat to flow from a cold object to a warm one without an external power supply; a process that initially appears to contradict this fundamental law of physics.

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Episode: Becoming Deaf – Laura Mauldin
Episode pub date: 2019-03-05

To what extent could “coming out” be a useful analogy for the process of coming to identify as Deaf? In episode 44, Laura Mauldin from the University of Connecticut discusses her research into this question as detailed in her article “’Coming out’ rhetoric in disability studies: Exploring its fit with the Deaf experience” published in the Spring 2018 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly.

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Episode: Wisdom & Madness of Crowds – Wataru Toyokawa
Episode pub date: 2019-05-28

When in Rome, should you really do as the Romans do? In episode 50, Wataru Toyokawa from the University of Konstanz in Germany discusses how observing and imitating others in crowds can at times enhance collective ‘wisdom’ … though other times it can lead to collective ‘madness.’

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Episode: A Sniff Test of Stress – Jonathan Williams
Episode pub date: 2019-01-22

Might the chemicals we exhale while watching movies tell us about the emotional stress that we’re experiencing? In episode 41, Jonathan Williams from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany discusses his research analyzing the gasses emitted in cinemas, as described in his article “Proof of concept study: Testing human volatile organic compounds as tools for age classification of films,” published on October 11, 2018 in the journal PLOS One.

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Episode: Playing with Science History – Jean-François Gauvin
Episode pub date: 2018-10-30

Almost lost to history, these toys quite literally put quantum mechanics at one’s fingertips. In episode 35, Jean-François Gauvin from Université Laval in Canada, discusses how he came to understand the purpose and value of unique toy blocks that ended up on his desk at Harvard University in 2014 as the director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI).

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Episode: Trusting Our Machines — Neera Jain
Episode pub date: 2019-04-02

Might enabling computational aids to “self-correct” when they’re out of sync with people be a path toward their exhibition of recognizably intelligent behavior? In episode 46, Neera Jain from Purdue University discusses in her experiments into monitoring our trust in AI’s abilities so as to drive us more safely, care for our grandparents, and do work that’s just too dangerous for humans. Her article “Computational Modeling of the Dynamics of Human Trust During Human–Machine Interactions” was published on October 23, 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and was co-authored with Wan-Lin Hu, Kumar Akash, and Tahira Reid.


 

Websites and other resources

“The robot trust tightrope”
The Jain Lab
REID Lab
“A Classification Model for Sensing Human Trust in Machines Using EEG and GSR”

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