Mnemonology (MEMORY) Part 2 with Michael Yassa
Remembering names! Preventing dementia! Photographic memories! Weed! Goldfish! It’s the thrilling conclusion of Mnemonology with Dr. Michael Yassa, the Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiol...
11 Joulu 20241h 3min
Mnemonology (MEMORY) Part 1 with Michael Yassa
How are memories made? Where are they stored? Where do they go? What was I just talking about? Neurobiologist, professor, researcher, and Director of UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learnin...
4 Joulu 20241h 15min
Surgical Angiology (VEINS & ARTERIES) with Sheila Blumberg
Vaping and vein health! Covid and clots! Easy bruising! Movie blood! Spider veins! Free socks! The heroic vascular surgeon Dr. Sheila Blumberg of NYU Langone Health let me ask her one million question...
27 Marras 20241h 18min
Field Trip: A Hawaiian Breadfruit Rev‘ULUtion
What even IS a breadfruit? How do you cook it? Why have Pacific Islanders grown it for so long? Can it solve world hunger? And what does it have to do with an infamous 18th century mutiny on the high ...
25 Marras 202437min
Canistrumology (BASKET WEAVING. YES, BASKET WEAVING) with James C. Bamba
Thorny leaves! Embarrassing imports! Basket gossip! Making cool stuff from invasive vines! Renowned weaver and teacher, James C. Bamba, connected more deeply with his Mariana Island heritage through w...
20 Marras 20241h 6min
Ergopathology (BURNOUT) with Kandi Wiens
Exhaustion! Numbness! Anger! You’re stressed out. I get it. Let’s fix it. I cornered one of the world’s experts on Ergopathology, scholar and author Dr. Kandi Wiens, to ask about the causes of burnout...
13 Marras 20241h 7min
Odonatology (DRAGONFLIES) with Jessica Ware
They’re acrobatic fliers with long bodies and veined wings and their babies breathe through their butts: dragonflies. Let’s get into the difference between a damselfly and dragonfly, how fast they dar...
6 Marras 20241h 14min
Field Trip: I Take You to the Making of a Mural
Folks, come with me. We’re hanging out under some train tracks late at night in Philadelphia doing street art. As the promised companion piece to our wonderful Modern Toichographology episode on mural...
30 Loka 202433min
