Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Episodes
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Dec 24, 2024 • 20min
Extra: What Animals Understand About Death
Guest: Susana Monso - Philosopher of Animal Minds at the National Distance Education University in Madrid and Author of Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death @UNED.
Dec 22, 2024 • 30min
Into the Unknown
Guest: Kelsey Johnson - Professor of Astronomy at the University of Virginia, former president of the American Astronomical Society & author of Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos @UVaAstroLabs @UVA.
Dec 17, 2024 • 14min
Extra: Mushroom Robots
Rob Shepherd - Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University @CornellMAE @Cornell.
Dec 17, 2024 • 34min
How quantum computing works
Dr. Ciaran Hickey - Assistant Professor in the School of Physics at UCD and a member of UCD's Centre for Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology (C-QuEST) @Ciaran__Hickey @cquest_ucd @ucddublin.
Dec 10, 2024 • 14min
Extra: Private speech in twins
Nancy Segal - Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University and author of 9 books about twins @nlsegal.
Dec 8, 2024 • 47min
Can death be abolished?
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - Neuroscientist and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death @ariel_zj.
Dec 3, 2024 • 14min
Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System
Dr. Robert Hampson - Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and lead author of this paper @wakehealth
Dec 1, 2024 • 32min
Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age
Peter Ungar - Paleoanthropologist and Author of Evolution’s Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins @PeterSUngarChristopher Preston - Professor of Philosophy at the University Of Montana and Author of The Synthetic Age: Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World @SyntheticAge
Nov 26, 2024 • 16min
Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World
Caroline Curtin - Senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland @CarolineCurtin8 @AnatRcsiGarry Duffy - Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Therapies at University of Galway @gduffy00 @uniofgalway
Nov 24, 2024 • 53min
What 'mastering' AI looks like
Jeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine
