Scientific Sense ®

Gill Eapen
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Sep 17, 2025 • 58min

Prof. Dani Bassett of UPenn and Prof. Perry Zurn of American University on curiosity.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dani Bassett is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. Prof. Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and has collaborated in psychology and network neuroscience. He is especially interested in the politics of inquiry and voice, material histories of resistance, poetics, and ecologies. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Sep 12, 2025 • 52min

Prof. Itay Goldstein of UPenn on financial institutions,.AI-Powered Trading, and Collusion

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Itay Goldstein is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include feedback effects between financial markets and real economy, financial fragility and crises, financial institutions, and marketPlease subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Sep 7, 2025 • 59min

Prof. Angus Fletcher of Ohio State on Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative for the study of how stories work. His most recent book is Primal Intelligence, you are smarter than you know.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Sep 3, 2025 • 55min

Prof. Alison Galloway of UC Santa Cruz on bone color changes due to fire, wild fires and victims

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alison Galloway is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a forensic anthropologist with research interests in skeletal biology and aging in addition to anthropology. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 29, 2025 • 50min

Prof. Kanaka Rajan of Harvard on Deep RL, Deep Behavior Analysis and Scalable Neural Forecasting

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kanaka Rajan is Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and a founding faculty member of the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Her research seeks to understand how important cognitive functions—such as learning, remembering, and deciding—emerge from the cooperative activity of multi-scale neural processes. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 25, 2025 • 1h 1min

Prof. Madeleine Beekman of the University of Sydney on the Origin of Language

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Madeleine Beekman is a professor of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her latest book is the ORIGIN of LANGUAGE: How We Learned to Speak and WhyPlease subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 21, 2025 • 1h 4min

Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein of Cambridge on sleep, alertness, breathwork, and cognitive digital therapy

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Tristan Bekinschtein is an EU Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at the MRC-Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK. His lab is primarily interested in the complexity of thought and what makes us human.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 17, 2025 • 59min

Prof. Missy Cummings of George Mason University on autonomous vehicles, LLM and AI hazards

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Missy Cummings is Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at George Mason University. She is also the director of Mason's Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC).Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 13, 2025 • 1h 3min

Prof. Paco Calvo, Professor at the University of Murcia on plant cognition and consciousness

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Paco Calvo is a professor at the University of Murcia in Spain, where he leads the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab), focusing on the study of minimal cognition in plants. His interdisciplinary work combines insights from biology, philosophy, and cognitive science to explore the fascinating world of plant behavior, decision-making, and problem solving. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1
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Aug 9, 2025 • 56min

Prof. Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan on addiction and Incentive-Sensitization Theory

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kent Berridge is professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. His research includes Addiction, Psychology, Emotion and Brain & Behavior. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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