Podcast: The Story Collider (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Scientist is Born: Stories that cross generations
Pub date: 2019-12-13

This week we present two stories that give us insight into the birth and life of a scientist.

Part 1: As a 16-year-old, Lily Be gets an unexpected education on the reproductive system.

Part 2: Xavier Jordan discovers the party side of science at his first scientific conference.

Lily Be started sharing stories in Chicago by accident in 2010. She never had a want to express herself artistically. This is not something she ever planned on doing. Lily is from the westside of Chicago, born and raised where she’s spent most of her days raising her son. Storytelling fell into her lap one day and she’s gone on to do crazy amazing wonderful things with it. From winning story competitions that would inspire and oftentimes usher more Latinos and marginalized people to tell their stories, to teaching people from all walks of life to share theirs, Lily has not stopped giving back to the artform that changed and saved her life. Lily produces The Stoop and Story Collider, is an editorial assistant for Story News magazine, and account manager for GoLucky Studios. She teaches storytelling all over the city both in person and online, is writing a book, and hosting a myriad of community and storytelling events. She’s half magic, half amazing, and 100% real.

Xavier Jordan is a University of Illinois graduate in chemistry and molecular and cellular biology. He is currently applying for microbiology research positions in Chicago. He’s been telling stories for a long time and is glad to be part of the scene again.

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Podcast: Idea Machines (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Roadmapping Science with Adam Marblestone [Idea Machines #26]
Pub date: 2020-04-20

In this episode I talk to Adam Marblestone about technology roadmapping, scientific gems hidden in plain sight, and systematically exploring complex systems. Adam is currently a research scientist at Google DeepMind and in the past has been the chief strategy officer at a brain-computer interface company and did research on brain mapping with Ed Boyden and did his PhD with George Church. He has a repeated pattern of pushing the frontiers in one discipline after another – physics, biology, neuroscience, and now artificial intelligence. I wanted to talk to Adam not just because it’s fascinating when people are able to push the frontier in multiple disciplines but because he does it through a system he calls technological roadmapping.

Most of our discussion is framed around two of Adam’s works – a presentation about roadmapping biology and his primer on climate technology. The conversation stands on its own, but taking a glance at them will definitely enhance the context. Links below.

Key Takeaways

1. Technological roadmapping enables fields to escape local maxima
2. It might be possible to systematically break down complex technical disciplines into basic constraints in order to construct these roadmaps
3. Figuring out these constraints may also enable us to reboot stalled fields

Links

• Road-mapping Biology presentation
• Architecting Discovery paper
• Adam’s Website
• Adam on Twitter
• The Longevity FAQ
• The Longevity FAQ – Making of
• Hypothes.is

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Podcast: Teaching in Higher Ed (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Relationship-Rich Education
Pub date: 2020-10-15

Peter Felten and Leo Lambert talk about their new book Relationship-Rich Education on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We don’t use relational language to talk about how to go to college. And we need to do that.
-Leo Lambert

Relationships are high stakes for students both in college and after college.
-Leo Lambert

Of all the places on college campuses where relationships take hold, the classroom is still the most important place.
-Leo Lambert

They’re not asking us to solve all their problems, they just want to be seen as humans.
-Peter Felten

Podcast: UnDisciplined
Episode: Undisciplined: Senses and Sensibility
Pub date: 2020-11-13

Without having a really good reason for doing so, nobody in their right mind would put a dead fish into a ziploc bag, attach it to wires to an electric stimulator, and release it into a tank with an electric eel. But thankfully, Kenneth Catania had a perfectly good reason for doing all of that. Or maybe he’s not in his right mind. Either way, the result was a revelation about the eel — evidence that eels don’t just use their capacity to stun prey with zaps of electricity to kill, but also to

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Podcast: Useful Science (LS 45 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 27: The Circadian Rhythm
Pub date: 2019-12-24

http://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/27

This week we’re talking about the Circadian Rhythm.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

Follow us @usefulsci or email us at [email protected].

Show Notes

• Wearing amber lenses that block blue light before bedtime can improve sleep quality.
• Going camping without artificial lights for the weekend can help reset your sleep cycle to more closely match natural light cycles and wake up earlier.

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Podcast: Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves. (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Minds of Single-celled Organisms – Jeremy Gunawardena
Pub date: 2020-03-17

Can even a single-celled organism truly learn? In Episode 70, Jeremy Gunawardena with the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School talks with us about his replication of an experiment originally conducted over a century ago, which suggested that at least one single-cell organism – the trumpet-shaped Stentor roeseli – is able to carry out surprisingly complex decision-making behaviors

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Podcast: The Insight (LS 51 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Siberian paleohistory
Pub date: 2020-08-06

Razib and Spencer discuss the geography, prehistory, and genetics, of Siberia. Also, the time Spencer experienced a Siberian winter!

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Podcast: Quanta Science Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves
Pub date: 2020-11-05

Rogue waves — enigmatic giants of the sea — were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict them all.

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