Episodes

  • Prof. Salikoko Mufwene of the U of Chicago on Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change
    Nov 22 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Salikoko Mufwene is professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. His research interests include Evolutionary Linguistics (including the emergence of Creoles, the Indigenization of European Colonial Languages, Language Vitality), Bantu Linguistics, Language Contact in Africa and the Caribbean Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    58 mins
  • Prof. Elizabeth Loftus of UC Irvine on misinformation, AI and LLM amplification of false memories
    Nov 17 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Elizabeth Loftus is Professor of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is an expert on memory. She has been an expert witness or consultant in hundreds of cases related to memory. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    55 mins
  • Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld of University of Pennsylvania on Statistics, Democracy and Choice
    Nov 12 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sophia Rosenfeld is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches European and American intellectual and cultural history with a special emphasis on the Enlightenment, the trans-Atlantic Age of Revolutions, and the legacy of the eighteenth century for modern democracy. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Prof. Jacqueline Gerson of Cornell on how anthropogenic activities changed nutrients in watersheds
    Nov 4 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Jacqueline Gerson is Assistant Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She studies how anthropogenic activities have altered the cycling of nutrients and contaminants through watersheds. She is particularly interested in linked biogeochemical cycles within complex socio environmental systems. She also evaluates the implications of contaminants for the people and animals that live in these landscapes. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    42 mins
  • Prof. Yotam Ophir of the University at Buffalo on disinformation, and conspiracy theories.
    Oct 16 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yotam Ophir is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. His work combines computational methods for text mining, network analysis, experiments and surveys to study media content and effects in the areas of political, science, and health communication. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    59 mins
  • Prof. Robert Sternberg of Cornell University on Intelligence and Wisdom
    Oct 5 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robert Sternberg is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. His research include intelligence, creativity and wisdom, Styles of thinking, Cognitive modifiability, Leadership, Love and hate

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    1 hr
  • Prof. Anita Allen of the University of Pennsylvania on Privacy
    Sep 26 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Anita Allen is Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is as an expert on philosophical and social justice dimensions of privacy and data protection law; ethics; bioethics; legal philosophy; women’s reproductive rights; and faculty advancement. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    59 mins
  • Dr. Anna Trindade Falcão of Harvard on Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
    Sep 21 2024

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Anna Trindade Falcão is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Astrophysics at the Smithsonian Institute of Harvard University. She is interested in multi wavelength studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN), their evolution, and connection to the interstellar medium. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    1 hr and 1 min