Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

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  • Duration: 183:31:48
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Synopsis

Jonathan McCrea brings you the latest developments from the world of Science and Technology from robotics in warfare to artificial lifeforms and beyond

Episodes

  • Extra: The Wallace Line

    14/01/2025 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Ian McFadden, Lecturer in Computational Ecology, Queen Mary University of London

  • What Trees Can Tell Us

    12/01/2025 Duration: 33min

    Guest: Tristan Gooley, author of 'How to Read a Tree'

  • Extra: Bird Flu Epidemic in American Cattle

    07/01/2025 Duration: 15min

    Guest: Maryn McKenna, Author and Journalist.

  • What connects cancer & Alzheimer's disease?

    05/01/2025 Duration: 42min

    Guest: Erin Abner, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Kentucky.

  • The Best of 2024

    29/12/2024 Duration: 47min

    Guests:Les Johnson - Author & Chief Technologist with NASA @LesAuthor @IRG_Space.Robin Tanamachi - Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University @tornatrix @PurdueEAPS @LifeAtPurdue.Sam Parnia - Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine and author of Lucid Dying: The New Science Revolutionizing How We Understand Life and Death @nyugsom_ccrs @nyulangone.

  • Extra: What Animals Understand About Death

    24/12/2024 Duration: 20min

    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.

  • Into the Unknown

    22/12/2024 Duration: 30min

    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.

  • Extra: Mushroom Robots

    17/12/2024 Duration: 13min

    Rob Shepherd - Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University @CornellMAE @Cornell.

  • How quantum computing works

    17/12/2024 Duration: 34min

    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.

  • Extra: Private speech in twins

    10/12/2024 Duration: 13min

    Nancy Segal - Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University and author of 9 books about twins @nlsegal.

  • Can death be abolished?

    08/12/2024 Duration: 47min

    Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - Neuroscientist and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death @ariel_zj.

  • Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System

    03/12/2024 Duration: 13min

    Dr. Robert Hampson - Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and lead author of this paper @wakehealth

  • Evolution's Bite and the Synthetic Age

    01/12/2024 Duration: 32min

    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

  • Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World

    26/11/2024 Duration: 16min

    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

  • What 'mastering' AI looks like

    24/11/2024 Duration: 52min

    Jeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine

  • Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds

    19/11/2024 Duration: 15min

    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

  • Futureproof Live Science Week Special

    17/11/2024 Duration: 33min

    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

  • Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

    12/11/2024 Duration: 18min

    Professor David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.

  • Landing the Paris Agreement

    10/11/2024 Duration: 43min

    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.

  • Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

    05/11/2024 Duration: 16min

    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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