28 | Caroline Bartman and the flash(cards) of inspiration
Caroline Bartman is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Princeton’s Chemistry Department, and she is about to start her own lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Caroline’s research focuses on how our metabolis...
13 Feb 202328min
27 | Albert-László Barabási is not afraid to break things
Albert-László Barabási is a distinguished professor at Northeastern University in Boston. In this episode, he tells us how he established the field of network science. He explains the expert’s fallacy...
22 Jan 202339min
26 | Stuart Firestein on artful ignorance, failure, and neglect
Doing science reminds Stuart Firestein of an old saying: “It’s very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room. Especially when there is no cat.” Before studying biology and becoming a professor at ...
2 Jan 202333min
25 | Galit Lahav and the Night Science Tuesday
Professor Galit Lahav is the Chair of the Systems Biology Department at Harvard Medical School, where she creates an environment that is collaborative, stimulating, and interdisciplinary. In this epis...
10 Des 202238min
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 Nov 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Sep 202243min
