Scientific Sense ®
Gill Eapen
Scientific Sense ® is an invigorating podcast that delves into the intricate tapestry of Science and Economics, serving as a nexus for intellectual exploration and fervor. This daily venture engages listeners by conversing with preeminent academics, unraveling their research, and unveiling emerging concepts across a diverse array of fields. Scientific Sense ® thoughtfully examines multifaceted themes such as the frameworks of worker rights and policy, the philosophical underpinnings of truth and its pursuit within academia, and constitutional discourse within divided societies.
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Mar 8, 2021 • 1h 12min
Prof. Philip Mauskopf, Prof of Physics at Arizona State University
Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond, NASA's near-infrared spectrophotometric all-sky survey, BLAST Mission, and Design of a W-band Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Qubit (Kineticon)
Prof. Philip Mauskopf has a joint appointments at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics. His background is in primarily experimental cosmology - in particular designing and building new types of instruments for measuring signals from the most distant objects in the universe.
Mar 5, 2021 • 1h 11min
Prof. Mark Wilson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh
Imitation of Rigor - Why philosophy needs mathematicians and vice versa.
Prof. Mark Wilson is Professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphysics and philosophy of language.
Mar 3, 2021 • 1h 7min
Prof. Vikram Gadagkar, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University.
Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds, and Dopamine neurons change their tuning according to courtship context in singing birds
Prof. Vikram Gadagkar is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His research focuses on learning, memory and computation.
Mar 1, 2021 • 1h 12min
Prof. Stephen Finlay, Prof of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia
Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language
Prof. Stephen Finlay is Director of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He works primarily in metaethics, especially on the meaning and use of normative and evaluative language.
Feb 26, 2021 • 58min
Prof. Igor Shovkovy, Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University.
The overdamped chiral magnetic wave, Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, and Ellipticity of photon emission from strongly magnetized hot QCD plasma
Prof. Igor Shovkovy is a professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His expertise includes theoretical physics, nuclear physics, high-energy physics and condensed matter physics.
Feb 24, 2021 • 44min
Prof. Lenn Goodman, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University
Science and Religion : Complementary or Substitutes
Prof. Lenn Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 2 dozen books in Jewish, Islamic and General philosophy, including books on truth and justice, political philosophy, bio-philosophy, and comparative philosophy.
Feb 22, 2021 • 49min
Prof. Anne C Hart, Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University.
Genetic modifiers ameliorate endocytic and neuromuscular defects in a model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and Single copy/knock-in models of ALS SOD1 in C. elegans suggest loss and gain of function have different contributions to neurodegeneration
Prof. Anne C Hart is Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological disease, sensory signaling, sleep, and fatigue.
Feb 19, 2021 • 1h 20min
Prof. Ellen Armour, Carpenter Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School
Philosophy, Photography, and the (Cosmo)Politics of Life and Death, and Religion, Sexuality, and Post modernity
Prof. Ellen Armour is the Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School and directs the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests are in feminist theology, theories of sex, race, gender, disability and embodiment, and visual culture as well as contemporary continental philosophy.
Feb 17, 2021 • 59min
Prof. Emery Brown, Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Computational Neuroscience at MIT
General Anesthesia and Altered States of Arousal: A Systems Neuroscience Analysis, Clinical Electroencephalography for Anesthesiologists, and Multimodal General Anesthesia: Theory and Practice.
Prof. Emery Brown is Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Medical Engineering and computational neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His lab develops statistical methods and signal-processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis.
Feb 15, 2021 • 40min
Prof. Jason Haffner, Prof of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University.
A Tunable Plasmon Resonance in Gold Nanobelts, Novel Plasmonic Structures Based on Gold Nanobelts, and Structural Analysis by Enhanced Raman Scattering
Prof. Jason Haffner is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. His lab at Rice studies nanophotonics and interfacial biology.
