Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Episodes
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Sep 15, 2024 • 42min
What happens to your data after you die?
Carl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci
Sep 10, 2024 • 19min
Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?
Joshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Sep 8, 2024 • 37min
Life after death
Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death.
Sep 3, 2024 • 19min
Extra: How our biology shaped world history
Guest: Professor Lewis Dartnell, Astrobiology Research Scientist at the University of Westminster and Author of 'Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History' @lewis_dartnell
Sep 1, 2024 • 41min
What really happens during brain surgery
Guest: Neurosurgeon Ted Schwartz @TedSchwartz13
Sep 1, 2024 • 15min
Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?
Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.
Aug 27, 2024 • 15min
Extra: A guide to our immune system
Guest: John Trowsdale, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Cambridge.
Aug 25, 2024 • 39min
How neurons encode the meaning of words
Guest: Ziv Williams, Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School.
Aug 20, 2024 • 16min
Extra: Is the dream of fusion power dead?
Guest: Dr. Brian D. Appelbe - Research Fellow in the Physics Department at Imperial College London.
Aug 18, 2024 • 37min
What is MicroRNA?
Guest: David Henshall - Professor of Physiology and Medical Physics at RCSI and author of Fine-Tuning Life: A Guide to MicroRNAs, Your Genome's Master Regulators.
