Xapiens at MIT
The Xapiens Podcast, hosted by two MIT Nuclear Physics PhD students, explores the bleeding edge ideas spanning biology, physics, chemistry, and computer science that mark our road to the future. Hear from experts in the field about the fundamental particles that make up the universe, revolutionary interfaces to the brain, and new technology that can change the way we interact with our futures. Listen to visionaries and Nobel prize winners, see what their hopes for the future look like, and how you can be a part of it.
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 95 minutes
- Episodes
- 22
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Pandemics, Gene Drives, Existential Threats
Today I interview Prof. Kevin Esvelt of the MIT media lab. Coming from George Church's lab, Kevin was part of the discovery of Crispr, and the inventor of the Crispr based gene drive. He has become d…
Lupe Fiasco's MIT: Academic Rap
Wasalu Jaco p.k.a. Lupe Fiasco is a rapper, producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, (martial) artist, (and more), and is spending the 2022-2023 school year at MIT as an MLK Visiting Scholar. He was k…
XPC #19: Brad Stanfield, A Doctor and Youtuber Fighting Aging
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 19:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Dr. Brad Stanfield, a 30 year old medical doctor trained in New Zealand who is trying to see if we are a…
XPC #18: "Give me a tanker of Iron, I'll give you an Ice Age," interview with David Emerson
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 18:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Dr. David Emerson from the Bigelow Institute. Dr. Emerson. His research focuses on mitigating climate ch…
XPC #19: Brad Stanfield, A Doctor and Youtuber Fighting Aging
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 18:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Dr. Brad Stanfield, a 30 year old medical doctor trained in New Zealand who is trying to see if we are a…
XPC 17: Jose Alonso, Soviets Competition, Finding New Elements, And the Cowboys of Physics
he Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 7:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion Former Director of Accelerators at Lawrence Berkley National Lab Jose Alsonso. See some of his current work her…
XPC #16: Fitbit for your Feet
Nurvv Run is a smart insole which uses 32 pressure sensors to quantify your running form, allowing users to measure their pronation, stride length, running economy, and running economy, and get recom…
XPC #15: Ending Biological Warfare, COVID, Henry Kissinger, mRNA, Meselson-Stahl, Mathew Meselson
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 15:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion Mathew Meselon, the leader of the international bioweapons treaty, as well as being deeply involved in the Me…
XPC #14: Eleanor Sheekey- Longevity at Cambridge, and the Sheeky Science Show
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 16:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion special guest Eleanor Sheeky from Cambridge university and the Sheeky Science Show!
You can see her channel he…
XPC #13: Monetize Your Exercise with Parsl.Run
Parsl.run is a new company in the Boston - Cambridge area, co-founded by two recently graduated MIT students, Angel & Ruben. Almost all delivery products struggle with the "last mile problem" - getti…
XPC #12: Don Ingber- Predicting COVID Variants and Replacing Animal Testing
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Harvard Professor Donald Ingber. Founder of the Wyss Institute. You can learn more about him here:
https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/core-faculty/…
XPC #11: Fei Chen - Expansion Microscopy, Spatial Transcriptomics, Spatial Genomics
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 11:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Fei Chen. Fei is a core institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and an assistant p…
XPC #10: "We have the Largest Blockchain in the World." Helium and Practical Crypto Currencies
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 10:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Mark Phillips, VP of Business Development at Helium. We discuss the hardware and software behind the …
XPC #9: Hugh Herr, The Real Life Bionic Man
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 8:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with MIT professor Hugh Herr. After his own double amputation, Herr was driven to make some of the most advanc…
XPC #8: Ed Boyden. "Invent, Discover, Design"
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 8:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with MIT professor Ed Boyden. Founder of the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group, The K. Lisa Yang Center for Bio…
XPC #7: From Nazis to Nobel Prize: Rai Weiss, How to get $1 billion dollars to Study Space and Time
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 7:
After fleeing the Nazis with his family as a child, Rai Weiss went on to fix radios outside of Harlem. He went to MIT, later flunking out after a rough love story,…
XPC #6: Adam Marblestone and Anastasia Gamick: FROs, the future of research
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 6:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Adam Marblestone and Anastasia Gammick. You can learn more about convergent research and their other effo…
XPC#1: Work like a Giant, Live like a Saint, Play like a Child - Deblina Sarkar
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 1:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Deblina Sarkar about low temperature electronics as tools for human enhancement. Deblina is an MIT Media …
XPC#5 - Sandy Pentland: "This is the Dominant Effect. Period."
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 5:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Alex (Sandy) Pentland. Sandy is a professor at the MIT Media lab, is on the advisory board for the U…
XPC#3: Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek "The Most Beautiful Equation is One We Haven't Discovered Yet."
The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 3:
Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek about his wide ranging work in particle physics and technology. Frank is a M…