24 | Eric Topol on thinking big about AI in medicine
Eric Topol is a cardiologist, scientist, and author. Many twitter users will know Eric from his voice-of-reason tweets related to the covid pandemic. While Eric’s exceptionally broad scientific work i...
21 Marras 202239min
23 | Aviv Regev on how to be generous with your ideas
Aviv Regev is what anyone would call a true science hero. She is not only a pioneer of single-cell genomics and systems biology, but also a great mentor. In 2020, she moved from her professorship at M...
31 Loka 202235min
22 | Cassandra Extavour and the language of creativity
Cassandra Extavour is a Professor of developmental and evolutionary biology at Harvard University, and she is an Investigator at the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Cassandra’s pioneering...
10 Loka 202223min
21 | Daniel Kahneman and the sunk-cost fallacy
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for Economics – as a psychologist. His fundamental work in behavioral economics revealed our cognitive biases, such as loss aversion – the fact that we react much m...
22 Syys 202243min
20 | Peer Bork and the scientific candy shop
Peer Bork is a legendary scientist, and these days he’s also the Director of Scientific Activities at the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Heidelberg. Among his many accolades, Peer was recent...
2 Syys 202228min
19 | Edward Tufte and the Thinking Eye
Edward Tufte (ET) is widely-considered as the guru of data visualisation. He has taught the world about how data is to be communicated. He is best known for his 5 books on data visualisation, which ha...
23 Elo 202239min
18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke
Shafi Goldwasser received the Turing Award – the “Nobel Prize of Computing” – in 2012. She needs no introduction to anyone working in computer science or cryptology, a field she essentially founded as...
18 Heinä 202224min
17 | Uri Alon and our internal tuning fork
Uri Alon, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, is best known for his contributions to systems biology. But Uri is also famous for his very joyful and playful attitude to science...
31 Touko 202239min
