Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Episodes
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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
Jul 7, 2024 • 33min
The Evolution of Flight & Digital Babies
Lev Parikian - Conducter & Author of Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing @LevParikian&Professor Ines Thiele - Principal Investigator of the Molecular Systems Physiology group at University of Galway and Principal Investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland @ines_thiele @uniofgalway
Jul 2, 2024 • 21min
Extra: You're All Talk, What Our Accents Say About Us
Rob Drummond - Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and author of You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak
Jun 30, 2024 • 34min
The High Seas
Olive Heffernan - Science Journalist and Author of The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean @O_Heffernan
Jun 25, 2024 • 14min
Extra: The Swiftquake Comes to Dublin!
Eleanor Dunn - PhD Researcher at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @DIAS_Dublin
Jun 23, 2024 • 39min
How the things you see could alter how long you live!
Guest: Christi Gendron - Research Assistant Professor in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at The University of Michigan.
Jun 18, 2024 • 19min
Extra: The Evolutionary Effects of Endurance Hunting
Eugene Morin - Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Trent University @TrentUResearch @TrentUniversity
Jun 16, 2024 • 39min
Time Dilation & The Practical Challenges of Interstellar Travel
Les Johnson - Author & Space Technologist
Jun 6, 2024 • 22min
Gold: Faces
In this special episode of Futureproof we look at Face Blindness and super recognition with Professor Fiona Newell - Professor of Experimental Psychology at the Trinity Institiute of Neurosciences and Meike Ramon - Cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor at the University of Fribourg
Jun 4, 2024 • 18min
Extra: Carbon Capture
Dr John Breen - Chief Technology Officer of NEG8 Carbon @NEG8Carbon
