Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea Newstalk
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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show.
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The Nocebo Effect
Charlotte Blease is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and co-author of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick
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Extra: The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
Francis Halzen is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Principle Investigator at the Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory
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Who Owns The Moon?
Professor AC Grayling is a Philosopher and Author of Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space
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Extra: Brain Fog
It’s almost exactly 4 years since the Covid 19 pandemic came to these shores and although thankfully the pandemic is over, there is still a lot to learn about the disease and its after effects.
Long Covid is particularly perplexing but Irish scientists from the FutureNeuro Centre may have shed some light on one specific aspect of it; Brain Fog
So what exactly is brain fog and how does a Covid infection bring it about?
Dr. Matthew Campbell is a Professor in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and Principal Investigator at the FutureNeuro Centre -
Why We Humans Can Get Used To Just About Anything
Jonathan speaks to Cass Sunstein - Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and Co-Author of "Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There" about habituation and his new book.
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Futureproof Extra: A New Habitat in the Pacific Garbage Patch
Jonathan is joined by Jim Carlton - Professor of Marine Sciences, Emeritus, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Customer Reviews
My only go to podcast!
I absolutely love the Futureproof podcast series. I have a lengthy commute to work daily and often listen to Jonathan’s latest episodes en route!The show has something for everyone….science, psychology, evolution it’s just brilliant.
If like me you are a bit of an existentialist or even a deep thinker you will devour this podcast.
Thanks a million. Love the fact that you can scroll down to find an episode that appeals to you too.
Only suggestion for improvement would be if you could listen to some of the older episodes deeper in the archive….some of the later ones won’t play unfortunately and their subject matter seems really interesting.
Fantastic Show
Jonathan has a great way of explaining the intricacies of Science to the layperson. I have loved the shows on a wide variety of topics from the program on moondust to vomitting bumblebees. Very entertaining, educating and stimulating. Thanks for all the hard work. MJB.
Re Paco Calvo on plant intelligence
I think Paco was making the case for investigating whether or not plants had some self-adjusting mechanisms rather than having human type intellect. Might be interesting to compare with an animal which has a distributed nervous system such as the Octopus.
Catherine