Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

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Nov 19, 2024 • 15min

Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds

Peter Lynch - Lecturer in Computer Games in TUD 0868130745 @WeAreTUDublinAphra Kerr - Professor of Information & Communication Studies and a senior adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy 0872891531 @AphraK @DigitalPolicyIE
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Nov 17, 2024 • 33min

Futureproof Live Science Week Special

Collie Ennis - Science Officer with the Herpetological Society of Ireland, Zoology research associate at Trinity College and co-host of The Critter Shed Podcast Aedin McAdams - PhD student in Trinity College Dublin, researching habitat restoration
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Nov 12, 2024 • 19min

Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.
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Nov 10, 2024 • 44min

Landing the Paris Agreement

Todd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.
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Nov 5, 2024 • 16min

Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

Dr. Shovonlal Roy - Ecosystem modeller and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.
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Nov 4, 2024 • 14min

Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?

Now if you’re anything like me, it’s at around this time every four or so years when you once again find yourself wondering how it’s possible that the person who wins the vote to be the next US President can get less votes and still win.It doesn’t seem fair at all but of course there are many ways in which democracy can seem unfair.So just what is the fairset system?Elizabeth Maggie Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.
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Nov 3, 2024 • 39min

Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

Mike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.
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Oct 29, 2024 • 14min

Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly

Guest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin
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Oct 27, 2024 • 33min

The future of law enforcement

Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL
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Oct 22, 2024 • 17min

Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations

Guest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni

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