Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea
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Episodes
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Oct 20, 2024 • 36min
Replicating the moon
Guest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight
Oct 15, 2024 • 16min
Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology
Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.
Oct 13, 2024 • 31min
How drugs are discovered
Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.
Oct 8, 2024 • 18min
Extra: The Myths of Evolution
Simon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni
Oct 6, 2024 • 43min
The Search for Male Contraception
Logan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow
Oct 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.
Sep 29, 2024 • 34min
A brief history of UFOs
Guest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.
Sep 24, 2024 • 17min
Extra: Lucid Dreaming
Emma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.
Sep 22, 2024 • 39min
How AI will change your life
Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.
Sep 17, 2024 • 19min
Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?
Seren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope
