Science (Audio)
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 112
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
CARTA: Toward a Smart Architecture of Habitats in the Age of Human-AI Symbiosis in an Eco-Aware World with Michael Fox
The symbolic tools we use to design and construct our environments have been transformed by the so-called Cybernetic revolution and the innovations in materials technology that have accompanied them.…
00:22:54 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
CARTA: The Architecture of Informality with Kristine Stiphany
This talk explores the needs of the poor and homeless around the world, charting the interplay between formal and informal settlements. The key example for this talk will be the favelas of Saõ Paulo …
00:20:15 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Harnessing My Daughter's Diagnosis to Drive Novel Treatments for Neurodevelopmental Disorders with Madeleine Oudin - Autism Tree Annual Neurodiversity Conference 2024
Madeline Oudin, Ph.D., is a scientist and mother on a groundbreaking mission to help her daughter, Margot, who has two de novo mutations in the SCN8A gene, which causes epilepsy. Margot's condition c…
01:09:36 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
Restoration of T Cell Development in CD3δ SCID Through Adenine Base-Editing with Gloria Yiu - Sanford Stem Cell Symposium 2024
Gloria Yiu, M.D., Ph.D., delves into the transformative potential of genetic editing technologies in addressing rare immune disorders, with a focus on CD3δ severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)—a c…
00:28:12 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
CARTA: Göbekli Tepe with Ricarda Braun
The site of Göbekli Tepe is well known as a settlement of the transitional phase in SW-Asia, in which the greater mobility of the Palaeolithic increasingly gave way to the more permanent settlement o…
00:17:55 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
Infectious Disease Breakthroughs - Medicine Informing Novel Discoveries (MIND)
The infections disease landscape is constantly changing - challenging our standard treatments. Can new - as well as ancient - therapies be the answer? Hear from experts on the cutting edge of phage t…
00:56:10 |
Sat 30 Nov 2024
What Makes a Stem Cell a Stem Cell and How Does it Go Bad? with John Dick - Sanford Stem Cell Symposium 2024
John Dick, Ph.D., F.R.S., explores the role of CD83, a molecule found in blood stem cells, in how these cells respond to inflammation. His team demonstrates that CD83 becomes highly active during inf…
00:45:32 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
CARTA: Deep Time Evolution of the Indigenous Peoples and Architectures of Australia with Paul Memmott
This presentation will briefly trace 70,000 years of cultural evolution from the ancient crossing from Sunda to Sahul, via the swift continental colonization during the Ice Age, through the severe im…
00:18:22 |
Wed 20 Nov 2024
CARTA: How People Learned to Live in Cities with Michael Smith
The transition from Neolithic villages to early cities marked the greatest social transformation faced by our species before the Industrial Revolution. Our ancestors had to learn how to live in new s…
00:18:58 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. Bill McKibben is the Schu…
01:27:32 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
CARTA: Evolving the Construction-Ready Brain with Michael Arbib
Humans construct their physical worlds in part by designing and constructing new tools, habitations, and in due course diverse buildings and, in some cases, towns and cities and construct their symbo…
00:20:02 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Explorations of Telomere Biology in the Context of Human Aging with Elizabeth Blackburn - Sanford Stem Cell Symposium 2024
Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., examines the relationship between telomeres, cellular aging, and metabolic health, highlighting how telomere regulation differs between insulin-sensitive and insulin-resis…
00:45:17 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
CARTA: Combinatorial Technology and the Emergence of the Built Environment with Larry Barham
This talk provides a deep time perspective for assessing the behavioural implications of the creation of the earliest known structure and the technologies used in its making. Evidence for the earlies…
00:20:33 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
Found in Translation: Development of a Cellular Therapy for Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Dennis O. Clegg, Ph.D., discusses treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that causes vision loss. Clegg explains that while patients often report improved vision after rec…
01:12:41 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
CARTA: Bird Nests: Adaptive Variation on Innate Bauplans with Susan Healy
As distinct from the buildings of termites (interesting though these are), bird nests offer a more apropos point of comparison for human buildings – they are conducted by single vertebrate (or a few)…
00:18:21 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
CARTA: How Humans Came to Construct Their Worlds - Welcome and Opening Remarks
At a global level, Homo sapiens have reshaped the planet Earth to such an extent that we now talk of a new geological age, the Anthropocene. But each of us shapes our own worlds, physically, symbolic…
00:09:17 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Unlocking the Secrets of Aging and Longevity with Stem Cells
Curious about the secret to staying young? Rob Signer shares insights into how our bodies age, focusing on the role of stem cells and a critical protein called HSF1 that helps them cope with stress. …
00:20:48 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
From Ground To Space: Studying Wicking Aboard The International Space Station
Our respiratory system provides oxygen to and removes carbon dioxide from the body. To function properly, the lungs need to fill up with fresh air upon inhalation. Unfortunately, for a variety of med…
00:31:04 |
Sun 27 Oct 2024
CARTA: Energy in the Balance with Barnabas Calder
Every building – from the Parthenon to the Great Mosque of Damascus to a typical Georgian house – was influenced by the energy available to its architects. This talk offers a historical perspective o…
00:20:32 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Al for Security Security for Al
How secure are computers and how does artificial intelligence impact security? In this program, Christopher Kruegel, professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara, explores two key questions rela…
00:29:05 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
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