Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds
A podcast by Dr Waseem Akhtar
84 Episodes
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“From Sensing to Sentience: How Feeling Emerges from the Brain” with Professor Todd Feinberg
Published: 09/02/2025 -
“Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour” with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published: 28/12/2024 -
“The Evolution of Biological Information” with Professor Christoph Adami
Published: 21/12/2024 -
“The Painful Truth about Hunger in America” with Professor Mariana Chilton
Published: 17/11/2024 -
“The Network of Life: A New View of Evolution” with Professor David Mindell
Published: 19/10/2024 -
“Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough” with Professor Paula Bialski
Published: 06/10/2024 -
“Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal Arora
Published: 03/10/2024 -
“The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience” with Professor Adam Frank
Published: 22/09/2024 -
“The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty” with Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert
Published: 20/05/2024 -
“Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space” with Dr Erika Nesvold
Published: 28/04/2024 -
“Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter” with Professor W. Russell Neuman
Published: 31/03/2024 -
“Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered” with Professor Don Norman
Published: 06/03/2024 -
“The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment” with Eric Siegel
Published: 11/02/2024 -
“Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM” with Professor Brandon Brown
Published: 07/02/2024 -
“The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert
Published: 02/09/2023 -
“Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness” with Professor Nicholas Humphrey
Published: 15/07/2023 -
“The Smartness Mandate” with Professor Orit Halpern
Published: 06/06/2023 -
“Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion” with Richard Conniff
Published: 28/05/2023 -
“Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub” with Robert Buderi
Published: 20/05/2023 -
“Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity” with Prof. Chris Impey
Published: 16/04/2023
In-depth conversations with researchers, explorers and thought leaders from around the world, on cutting edge research and original ideas.