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Life Sciences, Mind & Health

36 episodes

Life Sciences, Mind & Health COMPLEXITY

Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 5: How do we assess intelligence?

Nov 20, 2024 • 48 min

Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought

Oct 9, 2024 • 38 min

Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

Jan 11, 2023 • 1 h 08 min

Ricard Solé on Liquid and Solid Brains and Terraforming The Biosphere

Dec 22, 2022 • 1 h 13 min

John Krakauer Part 2: Learning, Curiosity, and Consciousness

Nov 23, 2022 • 49 min

John Krakauer Part 1: Taking Multiple Perspectives on The Brain

Nov 11, 2022 • 51 min

Kate Adamala on Synthetic Biology, Origins of Life, and Bioethics

Oct 1, 2022 • 1 h 10 min

Daniel Lieberman on Evolution and Exercise: The Science of Human Endurace

Aug 3, 2022 • 53 min

Aviv Bergman on The Evolution of Robustness and Integrating The Disciplines

Jul 18, 2022 • 1 h 15 min

Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling

Mar 26, 2022 • 54 min

Elizabeth Hobson on Animal Dominance Hierarchies

Feb 25, 2022 • 1 h 14 min

Multiscale Crisis Response: Melanie Moses & Kathy Powers, Part 2

Jan 27, 2022 • 46 min

Reflections on COVID-19 with David Krakauer & Geoffrey West

Dec 22, 2021 • 1 h 11 min

Deborah Gordon on Ant Colonies as Distributed Computers

Jul 30, 2021 • 54 min

Reconstructing Ancient Superhighways with Stefani Crabtree and Devin White

Jul 16, 2021 • 1 h 06 min

Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 2

Jul 1, 2021 • 46 min

Mark Ritchie on A New Thermodynamics of Biochemistry, Part 1

Jun 17, 2021 • 41 min

Andrea Wulf on The Invention of Nature, Part 1: Humboldt's Naturegemälde

May 21, 2021 • 51 min

Mark Moffett on Canopy Biology & The Human Swarm

Jan 29, 2021 • 1 h 12 min

Science in The Time of COVID: Michael Lachmann & Sam Scarpino on Lessons from The Pandemic

Dec 23, 2020 • 59 min

Helena Miton on Cultural Evolution in Music and Writing Systems

Oct 29, 2020 • 1 h 02 min

Natalie Grefenstette on Agnostic Biosignature Detection

Sep 2, 2020 • 57 min

The Information Theory of Biology & Origins of Life with Sara Imari Walker (Big Biology Podcast Crossover)

Aug 12, 2020 • 1 h 07 min

The Art & Science of Resilience in the Wake of Trauma with Laurence Gonzales

Jul 6, 2020 • 59 min

Scaling Laws & Social Networks in The Time of COVID-19 with Geoffrey West (Part 1)

Jun 17, 2020 • 50 min

Exponentials, Economics, and Ecology with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 6)

May 11, 2020 • 47 min

Embracing Complexity for Systemic Interventions with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 5)

May 4, 2020 • 45 min

Rethinking Our Assumptions During the COVID-19 Crisis with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 4)

Apr 27, 2020 • 51 min

On Coronavirus, Crisis, and Creative Opportunity with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 3)

Apr 20, 2020 • 44 min

Caroline Buckee on Improving COVID-19 Surveillance & Response

Apr 17, 2020 • 45 min

COVID-19 & Complex Time in Biology & Economics with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 2)

Apr 13, 2020 • 42 min

Rigorous Uncertainty: Science During COVID-19 with David Krakauer (Transmission Series Ep. 1)

Apr 6, 2020 • 47 min

Sam Scarpino on Modeling Disease Transmission & Interventions

Apr 1, 2020 • 29 min

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne on Halting the Spread of COVID-19

Mar 26, 2020 • 49 min

Andy Dobson on Epidemic Modeling for COVID-19

Mar 19, 2020 • 36 min

Nicole Creanza on Cultural Evolution in Humans & Songbirds

Mar 12, 2020 • 1 h 06 min