Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Episodes
Mentioned books
Aug 13, 2024 • 19min
Extra: The Wooden Age
Dirk Leder - Research associate in the office for Cultural Heritage in Lower Saxony.
Aug 11, 2024 • 43min
Studying Consciousness
Lorina Naci - Associate Professor, leader of the 'Consciousness and Cognition' group at TCD.
Aug 6, 2024 • 16min
Extra: Symbiosis
Dr. Gregory Moore - Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at The University of Melbourne joined Jonathan on the show.
Aug 4, 2024 • 42min
Storm Chasing: The Science of Tornadoes
Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University, joined Jonathan on the show
Jul 26, 2024 • 47min
Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special
This week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.
Jul 23, 2024 • 19min
Extra: Do I know you?
Sadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Jul 21, 2024 • 41min
Why do some people always get lost?
Nora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe
Jul 16, 2024 • 16min
Extra: Turbulence
Ivan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb
Jul 14, 2024 • 33min
What can we learn from whale ear wax?
Stephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @stephenjtrumbleMichael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @NNCN_Germany
Jul 9, 2024 • 14min
Extra: Mapping the Cosmos
Dr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology
