Futureproof With Jonathan Mccrea

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  • Duration: 142:43:56
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Synopsis

Jonathan McCrea brings you the latest developments from the world of Science and Technology from robotics in warfare to artificial lifeforms and beyond

Episodes

  • Extra: A new blood pressure diagnostic device

    12/11/2024 Duration: 18min

    Professor David Connolly - Cardiovascular Research Programme Manager - College of Medicine, Nursing Health Sciences at National University of Ireland, Galway.

  • Landing the Paris Agreement

    10/11/2024 Duration: 43min

    Todd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.

  • Extra: Why are animals the size they are?

    05/11/2024 Duration: 16min

    Dr. Shovonlal Roy - Ecosystem modeller and Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Reading.

  • Extra: What Is The Fairest Electoral System?

    04/11/2024 Duration: 13min

    Now if you’re anything like me, it’s at around this time every four or so years when you once again find yourself wondering how it’s possible that the person who wins the vote to be the next US President can get less votes and still win.It doesn’t seem fair at all but of course there are many ways in which democracy can seem unfair.So just what is the fairset system?Elizabeth Maggie Penn is Professor of Political Science and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University.

  • Was ancient Greece's Antikythera mechanism the world's first computer?

    03/11/2024 Duration: 39min

    Mike Edmunds - Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University & Founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project @cardiffPHYSX.

  • Extra: Mapping the brain of a fly

    29/10/2024 Duration: 13min

    Guest: Tamara Boto - Assistant Professor of Physiology in Trinity College Dublin @TamaraBoto @TCDPhysiology @tcddublin

  • The future of law enforcement

    27/10/2024 Duration: 33min

    Guest: Martin Mullins - Director of Transgero and Professor of Risk Manangement at the University of Limerick @mjamullins @transgero @UL

  • Extra: Estimating Ireland's ancient populations

    22/10/2024 Duration: 17min

    Guest: Rowan McLaughlin - Researcher in the Hamilton Institute at Maynooth University @MU_Hamilton @MaynoothUni

  • Replicating the moon

    20/10/2024 Duration: 35min

    Guest: Aidan Cowley - Science Officer at European Space Agency @esa @esaspaceflight

  • Extra: Incredible new heart-imaging technology

    15/10/2024 Duration: 15min

    Guest: Dr. Christoph Hennersperger, Co-Founder and CTO, Luma Vision.

  • How drugs are discovered

    13/10/2024 Duration: 30min

    Guest: Dr William Pao, former Chief Development Officer at Pfizer and Head of Research at Roche and author of 'Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines'.

  • Extra: The Myths of Evolution

    08/10/2024 Duration: 18min

    Simon Conway Morris - Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology at Cambridge University and Author of From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution @EarthSciCam @Cambridge_Uni

  • The Search for Male Contraception

    06/10/2024 Duration: 43min

    Logan Nickels - Chief Research Officer with the Male Contraceptive Initiative @MaleBCNow

  • Extra: Inflammatory Bowel Disease - What Causes It?

    01/10/2024 Duration: 14min

    Guest: Colm Collins, Assistant Professor at the School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences in UCD, and Conway Investigator.

  • A brief history of UFOs

    29/09/2024 Duration: 34min

    Guest: Greg Eghigian, Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University, Visiting Research Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University, and author of ‘After the Flying Saucers Came’.

  • Extra: Lucid Dreaming

    24/09/2024 Duration: 16min

    Emma Peters, a PhD student in the Lucid Lab at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

  • How AI will change your life

    22/09/2024 Duration: 38min

    Patrick Dixon, Futurist Keynote Speaker and author of ‘How AI Will Change Your Life: A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World’.

  • Extra: When can we have lab grown meat?

    17/09/2024 Duration: 18min

    Seren Kell - Head of science and technology at the Good Food Institute Europe @SerenLaurelKell @GoodFoodEurope

  • What happens to your data after you die?

    15/09/2024 Duration: 42min

    Carl Öhman - Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Uppsala University and author of The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care @CJ_Ohman @UU_PoliSci 

  • Extra: What is Psilocybin and how does it work?

    10/09/2024 Duration: 18min

    Joshua Siegel - Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

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