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University at Albany

Quick insights for busy people. We're helping you understand the world 15 minutes at a time. Recorded in Albany, New York, at the University at Albany, one of the most diverse public research institutions in the United States.

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32 episodes

  1. The mistakes that make us: How neurobiology is rewriting our understanding of cells — and evolution 21:48
  2. Oceans, on the record: What corals can tell us about our past and future climate 21:58
  3. Unnaturally clean: The environmental costs of the cleaning products we love 19:35
  4. Only murders in Draper Hall: How college students are helping crack real cold cases 19:58
  5. Skies 'wide open': Bringing UAP studies into the scientific mainstream 25:54
  6. Dawn of a new golden age: Living long vs. well — and what healthy aging really means 20:18
  7. Our 'evolving standards of decency': What's next for the death penalty in America 21:51
  8. Beep twice if you're alive: Why thinking about AI consciousness freaks us out 20:35
  9. The blind man and the algorithm: Why our sense of wonder makes humans different from AI 21:17
  10. Chasing losses: How America's gambling surge is impacting college students 22:17
  11. Terms of engagement: Our sometimes toxic relationship with social media (and who's responsible for fixing it) 19:34
  12. Motor oil & blood: AI, photography and how we lie to ourselves about what we see 19:01
  13. Grief tech: What AI, aura photos and 19th-century spirit photographs have in common 18:17
  14. A more sustainable U: Ditching fossil fuels one concrete dorm at a time 17:45
  15. The answers within us: Programmable DNA shapes and the future of biotech 16:03
  16. Transcending the gloom boom: How climate fiction can help us imagine a different future 19:44
  17. The power of possibility: Havidán Rodríguez on how higher ed can make its case for good 18:43
  18. Beyond Bad Bunny: Explaining the deeply entangled traditions of Puerto Rican music and politics 17:22
  19. Finding your fit: How to stay curious and launch a career from college 17:19
  20. Decoding dementia: Learning the brain’s electric language 16:00
  21. Transactional intelligence: Can banks help stop the spread of nuclear weapons? 17:59
  22. Chasing WIMPs: Inside the hunt for dark matter with astroparticle physicist Cecilia Levy 16:33
  23. Playing it safe: How turning disaster prep into a game can save lives 15:49
  24. Space to thrive: How colleges are cultivating belonging amid an epidemic of American loneliness 17:17
  25. What if we're wrong about money? Tally sticks, taxes and what archaeology can teach us about modern economics 16:26
  26. In the fly of the beholder: Brains, vision & AI with Max Turner 15:25
  27. The weather machine: Kara Sulia on what AI can (and can't) tell us about weather 13:53
  28. EXTRA SHORT: Taylor Philippi on how actors are helping train social workers 7:17
  29. Brain as blueprint: Morgan Sammons on what computers can learn from evolution 12:48
  30. Bad chips: Sanjay Goel on the insidious threat of hardware trojans 10:35
  31. EXTRA SHORT: To infinity, and beyond, with Michael Yeung's spicy molecules 5:24
  32. Inside Omar Yaghi's Nobel-winning chemical construction sites with Jeremy Feldblyum 10:23