The Future of Everything
By Stanford Engineering
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Description
Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide to the latest science and engineering breakthroughs. Join Russ and his guests as they explore cutting-edge advances that are shaping the future of everything from AI to health and renewable energy. Along the way, “The Future of Everything” delves into ethical implications to give listeners a well-rounded understanding of how new technologies and discoveries will impact society. Whether you’re a researcher, a student, or simply curious about what’s on the horizon, tune in to stay up-to-date on the latest developments that are transforming our world.
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The future of wound healing | Clinician-scientist Jill Helms is an expert on healing. Until about age 30, people heal easily, she says, but later on, not so well. Regenerative medicine suggests avenues for improvement, she promises. Her research focuses on understanding the physical | 10/24/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of topical vaccines | Bioengineer Michael Fischbach studies alternative vaccine delivery methods, like self-administered creams with no needles, health professionals, or side effects. He teases a day when vaccines that don’t make you feel bad come in the mail in ketchup-st | 10/17/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of extreme climate events | As fall arrives, many regions experience dramatic weather shifts—think early frosts, storms, or unusual temperature swings. Last year, we sat down with Noah Diffenbaugh, an expert on climate change. We discussed the fact that extreme weather is becomi | 10/10/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of the built environment | Rishee Jain is an engineer and an expert in the built environment – the manmade structures of modern life. The future, Jain says, will be a place where everyone has a safe, comfortable place to live and work, and the built environment adapts in real t | 10/3/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of the innovation economy | In a special Future of Everything podcast episode recorded live before a studio audience in New York, host Russ Altman talks to three authorities on the innovation economy. His guests – Fei-Fei Li, professor of computer science and co-director of the | 9/26/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of ultrafast electronics | About a year ago we released an episode on the future of ultrafast electronics and it quickly became one of our most popular episodes on YouTube. We’re excited to re-share it with you today. Physicist Matthias Kling walks us through his study of photo | 9/19/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of allergies | Allergist Tina Sindher acknowledges that allergies may be affecting more people worldwide, influenced by a combination of factors such as environmental changes, modern lifestyles, urbanization, and evolving dietary habits. Prevention is playing catch-up | 9/12/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of bone health | Endocrinologist Joy Wu says that osteoporosis can affect more than half of women and a quarter of men over 50 – often without symptoms until a fracture changes everything, leading to a loss of mobility and independence. Wu explains why bones weaken wi | 9/5/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of reading | It’s still summer, but many children and teachers are back in school or preparing to return to the classroom. About a year ago, we sat down with Rebecca Silverman, a professor of education, to discuss the complex process of learning how to read. Profe | 8/29/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of inequality | Sociologist David Grusky argues that all the usual debilitating debates about inequality can be sidestepped if we focus on the worst forms – those rooted in cronyism, racism, and nepotism – that everyone can agree are nothing more than a pernicious | 8/22/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of cancer neuroscience | Neurologist Michelle Monje studies the close relationship between cancer and the nervous system, particularly in an aggressive brain cancer that often strikes in childhood. Her research shows that the cancer cells are electrically integrated into the br | 8/15/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of coastal erosion | It’s summertime, and for many of us that means a recreational trip to the beach or coast. Worldwide, billions of people live year-round near a coastline, and these settings can be responsible for everything from buffering storms and preventing sea-lev | 8/8/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of plant chemistry | Chemical engineer Beth Sattely studies the intricate chemistry of plant life. Plants are more than food, she says: They are living chemical factories churning out molecules that help plants do everything from adapting to climate change to fighting infec | 8/1/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of parent-child bonding | Biologist Lauren O’Connell studies poisonous frogs, but not just the toxins that make them dangerous. She also studies the neuroscience of their complex parenting. She’s learned that tadpoles recognize their mothers by smell and do a “begging danc | 7/25/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How the grid is becoming more human-centric | We’re in the midst of summer and we know that power outages can happen more frequently during this season due to higher temperatures and an increased demand for electricity. A couple years ago we sat down with Ram Rajagopal, an expert in the future of | 7/18/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of AI and the law | Law professor Daniel Ho says that the law is ripe for AI innovation, but a lot is at stake. Naive application of AI can lead to rampant hallucinations in over 80 percent of legal queries, so much research remains to be done in the field. Ho tells how Ca | 7/11/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of hoarding disorder | Psychiatrist Carolyn Rodriguez studies hoarding disorder and says that all of us have attachments to our possessions. But for many, these attachments can disrupt daily life and even pose health risks. For those with loved ones who struggle with hoarding | 7/4/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of skin longevity | Summer is in full swing and we hope you are enjoying it with family and friends. As we spend more time outdoors, it’s an opportune moment to revisit a conversation we had with Zakia Rahman, a dermatologist who shared a number of helpful measures we ca | 6/27/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of food security | Guest Lisa Goldman Rosas is an authority on public health who says that food insecurity goes deeper than hunger and can lead to chronic diabetes, heart disease, and even anxiety and depression. Rosas champions a concept she calls “nutrition security, | 6/20/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of motivation | Everyone has goals — some are monumental, others modest — but every goal matters. Join guest Szu-chi Huang, an expert in sustaining enthusiasm for individuals, customers, and employees across global corporations and organizations, as she delves into | 6/13/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Training the next generation of entrepreneurs | It’s graduation season here at Stanford and students are getting ready to collect their diplomas and take their education out into the real world. A couple years ago, we sat down with Tina Seelig, a professor in our Management Science and Engineering | 6/6/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of learning to read | Jason Yeatman is an expert in the neurobiology of literacy whose lab is fostering a virtuous research cycle between academia and school communities, aligning scientific inquiry with real-world needs of students, parents, and educators. His lab has devel | 5/30/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of sleep | Neurobiologist Jamie Zeitzer is an expert on sleep – or, more accurately, an expert on why so many can’t sleep. He notes that, ironically, it’s often anxiety about sleep that prevents good sleep. In short, we lose sleep over lost sleep. Wearables | 5/23/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of geriatric care | Deborah Kado is a geriatrician who believes her field is misunderstood. Her interest in the science of aging began with a childhood encounter in a nursing home but recently resulted in intriguing work in which Kado linked microbes in the gut to vitamin | 5/16/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of educational technology | It's teacher appreciation week and along with schools across the country, we here at The Future of Everything want to send out a heartfelt thank you to the teachers who make a difference every day in the lives of our children and in society as a whole. | 5/9/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of children’s health | Lisa Patel is a pediatrician and an expert in environmental health who says that pollution is taking an increasing toll on children’s health. Pollution from wildfires, fossil fuels, and plastics can cause asthma, pneumonia, and even dementia in childr | 5/2/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of wildfire management | The potential of society-wide action to overcome the barriers to smarter, safer wildfire solutions. | 4/25/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of pediatric development and disability | How our understanding of childhood disability care is changing. | 4/18/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of female athletic health | The critical—and often overlooked—science behind female athletic health. | 4/11/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of legal representation | The potential of AI and legal alternatives to address widespread lack of civil representation. | 4/4/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of hearing loss | New understandings and approaches have put hearing restoration within reach. | 3/28/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of live performance | How today’s technologies are reshaping what performers can do on stage. | 3/21/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of culture | How understanding the invisible forces of culture can help us better navigate the world. | 3/14/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of electronic materials | New materials may soon replace silicon and copper for faster, smaller, and more efficient electronics. | 3/7/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of liquid biopsy | DNA from the bloodstream could make it possible to look for disease without surgery. | 2/28/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of bioprinting | Motivated in part by the critical need for heart transplants, a Stanford research team is working to develop 3D printing methods for human tissues and organs. | 2/21/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Trailer: The Future of Everything | Welcome to Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything, the podcast that delves into groundbreaking research and innovations that are shaping the world and inventing the future. The University has a long history of doing work to positively impact the world and it's a joy to share about the people who are doing this work, what motivates them, and how their work is creating a better future for everybody. Join us every Friday for new episodes featuring insightful conversations with Stanford faculty and to discover how Stanford's research is transforming tomorrow's world. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything WebsiteConnect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / MastodonConnect with School of Engineering >>> Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 2/18/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of coronary arteries | The latest advances in research for the treatment of coronary blockages. | 2/14/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of transparent tissue | A new age of medical imaging could allow doctors see deep into the body - without surgery. | 2/7/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of science education | Tools for critically evaluating science news and information. | 1/31/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of seaweed | Seaweed and kelp as potential tools to combat climate change. | 1/24/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of kidney dialysis | Alternatives to dialysis that can help humans avoid kidney failure. | 1/17/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of robotic surgery | Millimeter-scale soft robots that navigate the bloodstream. | 1/10/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of exercise | The chemical connections between diet, exercise, and human health | 1/3/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of skin longevity | Healthy skin is about vitality, not vanity. | 12/27/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of depression care | Advancements in understanding depression’s mechanisms and treatments. | 12/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of Alzheimer’s treatment | New approaches that target proteins associated with the disease. | 12/13/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of AI and democracy | The intersection of artificial intelligence and democracy. | 12/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of underwater robotics | Transforming the way humans interact with machines. | 11/29/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of AI coaching | Optimizing technology for human and societal good. | 11/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of extreme climate events | Understanding the effects of climate change. | 11/15/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of climate projection | New data and techniques that are reshaping climate projection. | 11/8/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Computation cracks cold cases | Using math to catch criminals through their DNA. | 11/1/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of autonomous vehicles | The progress of autonomous robotic systems on Earth and in space. | 10/25/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of ultrafast electronics | How ultrafast pulses of X-rays could reshape multiple scientific fields. | 10/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: An innovative polling model can move us beyond political polarization | Creating spaces for thoughtful policy discussions. | 10/11/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of GPS | A new era of lunar exploration. | 10/4/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of female athletic health | How can we better support the health of female athletes? | 9/27/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How to fight climate change | It’s still possible to pave the way to a sustainable future. | 9/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of skin longevity | The science of healthy skin. | 9/13/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of AI at work | AI and the modern workplace. | 9/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Better ways to build an airplane | Recent developments are leading to a new era of airplanes. | 8/30/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of Russia and Ukraine | How the present conflict has implications on other former Soviet states and the future of the European Union. | 8/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of educational technology | A possible future where students learn by teaching AI chatbots key concepts. | 8/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: A more thoughtful approach to technology can improve medical care | New technologies that could improve integration within the healthcare system. | 8/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of cognitive tools | The physical world provides tools for learning and communicating. | 8/2/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of perceptual phenomena | How various cultures understand mysterious mental phenomena. | 7/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Russ’s Summer Playlist | A curated playlist of five episodes from our archive to accompany you through the summer. | 7/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of polymers | A new generation of organic polymers that could lead to flexible, biodegradable electronics. | 7/12/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How math makes markets fairer | Creating fair and efficient markets that prioritize community needs and social impact. | 7/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of exercise | How our body's biochemical responses to exercise could be harnessed to treat metabolic diseases. | 6/28/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of proteins | Proteins are the “workhorses” that make things in the body happen. | 6/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of computer-aided education | Computers and AI can be used to make learning more enjoyable and effective. | 6/14/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of effective communication | Recognize and respond to patterns in order to talk smart. | 6/7/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: What happens when computers can write like humans | How technologies impact the ways we communicate. | 5/31/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of the universe | Our understanding of the universe is changing as new technologies come online. | 5/24/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of robotics | Possible transformations in robotics brought on by advances in LLMs. | 5/17/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of brain science | Studying psychiatric and neurological illness in a dish instead of in living human beings. | 5/10/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of cybersecurity | The government has gotten better at fighting cyberthreats, but artificial intelligence is making things very complicated, very fast. | 5/3/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Regenerating and rejuvenating human tissues | Developing a better understanding of how we might effectively replace damaged tissues and alleviate a number of health concerns. | 4/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How do you build a better robot? By understanding people. | The critical need for robots to understand and predict human behaviour effectively. | 4/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Why AI must embody the values of its users | The development of trust between humans and machines. | 4/12/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of addiction | All forms of addiction are tied to dopamine, a biochemical that is key to human senses of pleasure, reward, and motivation. | 4/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of computer music | Humans and computers making music together, it’s the best of both worlds. | 3/29/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of pediatric pain | Better treatment begins with a better understanding of the science of pain | 3/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of measuring cancer | New methods in the new science of “spatial transcriptomics” are able to predict how cancer cells present spatially will behave in the future. | 3/15/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of reading | How humans learn to read: it’s a complex process. | 3/8/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of culture | Culture is complicated, but understanding its nuances is key to understanding the world. | 3/1/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: What makes a surgeon great? | Studying the movements of skilled surgeons to better understand what makes them successful, which can in turn help to improve training for new surgeons. | 2/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of bioprinting | The potential of using bioprinting to produce human tissues and hopefully one day organs, on demand. | 2/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of language learning | Differences in how children and AI learn language. | 2/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Computational modeling can help us understand Alzheimer’s disease | Interdisciplinary collaboration in tackling complex health challenges. | 2/2/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of immigration | A remarkable story that often diverges from conventional wisdom. Not all streets were paved with gold. | 1/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: The future of art | The positive impact art has on individual and societal health. | 1/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of digital health | The many ways digital technologies will impact all of medicine. Guest Eleni Linos believes the future of digital health is the future of health, period. | 1/12/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: New life for old muscles | A stem cell biologist tells us all about how she’s recruiting stem cells to regenerate youthful muscle in older people. | 1/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Russ's Holiday Episode Playlist | A curated playlist of six episodes from our archive to accompany you through the holiday season & into the new year. Links in show notes. | 12/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Making sense of the gut biome | The complex community of bacteria that lives in our gastrointestinal tract is what makes digesting and extracting nutrients possible. Tune in for a fascinating conversation about the important role bacteria plays in the human digestive system. | 12/15/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health? | Stephen Quake's research has helped countless patients avoid the pain and suffering that can come with invasive diagnostic testing. | 12/8/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of AI Chat: Foundation models and responsible innovation | How foundation models are built, how to evaluate them, and the growing concerns with lack of openness and transparency. | 12/1/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of ecohydrology | Links between the global cycle of water percolating into the ground and evaporating into the skies, and a similar cycle of carbon moving through the world, shapes ecosystems, droughts, and fires. | 11/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Bendable electronics | Artificial skin: Possible applications of a material that could replicate properties of human skin range from restoring a sense of touch for amputees to creating bendable electronics. | 11/10/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Developing electronics for the extremes of space | Tiny, tough electronics that could help augment our abilities to further explore extreme environments, such as those found in space. | 11/3/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of computational imaging | Using math to improve photographs. | 10/27/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: Guided missiles target cancer | Localize therapies directly to the site of cancer tumors for more efficient and effective treatment. | 10/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of neuroscience: Karl Deisseroth sheds light on the inner workings of the brain | Two transformational research techniques shaping our understanding of how the brain works. | 10/13/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How do we educate a new kind of engineer? | A perspective on the need for diversity and empathy in the engineering profession. | 10/6/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of quantum mechanics: Unraveling entanglement's secrets | Discover how quantum mechanics is reshaping our understanding of time, reestablishing computational capabilities, and ensuring the security of sensitive data transmission. | 9/29/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of the gut microbiome | Discover the astonishing intricacies of microbial ecosystems and their potential to improve healthcare. | 9/22/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of coastal erosion | Measurement is only one part of the equation. We must now think about erosion’s impact on humans. | 9/15/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of Muslim mental health | Guest Rania Awaad is a psychiatrist who studies mental health in the U.S. Muslim community. There are promising approaches, like talk therapy derived in historic Muslim settings, that can also apply to other faith communities. The deeper lesson, she say | 9/8/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of science education: Cultivating critical thinkers | Bad science is a big problem for society, but we don’t have to surrender to it. Beating bad science requires young people to learn three skills. | 9/1/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of: How computer chips get speedier through specialization | The Future of computer chip design: delve into a revolutionary approach to chip design | 8/25/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - AI and safety critical systems | Explore the intricate challenges faced in building trustworthy autonomous systems for aviation safety. | 8/18/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of longevity | Where we live is one of the strongest influences on how long we live. | 8/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of health outcomes | An expert in health policy explains how new approaches in communities and health systems are improving care delivery for traditionally underserved populations. | 8/4/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - How misinformation spreads | We’re on the cusp of another election season. As people across the country educate themselves on the issues and candidates on this year’s ballot, one question they will have to ask themselves is, how do I tell fact from fiction? In this episode, Joh | 7/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - How light can power higher speed computing | Delve into the possibilities of silicon photonics as a game-changer in chip manufacturing. Uncover the challenges of bridging the gap between optics and electronics, and explore the concept of deep optics and its potential applications. | 7/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of antibiotic synthesis | The world’s most advanced drug factories are not behemoths of the industrial age, but microscopic bacteria. These tiny creatures have evolved enzymatic assembly lines that ingest raw materials and churn out valuable other molecules, like life-saving a | 7/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - How 3D printing is changing medicine | Explore the frontiers of 3D printing in healthcare and its potential to revolutionize personalized medicine, reshape prosthetics, and reimagine drug delivery systems. | 7/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of human vision | Unraveling how the brain “computes” visual information: rapid advances in computational modeling are revolutionizing our understanding of how the human brain sees. | 6/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of trauma therapy | Debra Kaysen, a psychologist specializing in treatment of PTSD, talks about promising new cognitive and behavioral therapies that are giving people “their lives back.” These therapies work without drugs to help patients manage their disease and its | 6/23/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - The future of robot simulations | This best-of episode is with Karen Liu, an associate professor of computer science at Stanford Engineering. The conversation is relevant today because, as we all know, AI is having a moment, and robotics is an important part of that. | 6/16/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of wastewater | Guest Bill Mitch says it’s no secret the world is running short of fresh water. As a civil and environmental engineer, he sees wastewater as a potential solution, if only we can eliminate the impurities. Mitch designs systems to remove toxic chemicals from wastewater to enable its reuse as a drinking water supply. It’s not easy, but it costs half as much as desalinating seawater, Mitch tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast. Show Notes & Chapters: The future of Wastewater (00:00:05) Introduction Russ introduces the podcast and guest, William Mitch, who discusses the future of wastewater treatment. (00:00:38) Nitrogen in Wastewater Treatment Russ and William kick off the conversation with an insightful discussion on the issues surrounding the nitrogen cycle in wastewater treatment. They discuss the nitrogen cycle, the role of nitrogen in wastewater treatment, and the challenges of removing it from wastewater, including the current technologies being used. (00:02:28) The Basics of Wastewater Treatment Mitch explains the fundamental process of wastewater treatment, highlighting the initial step of removing solids and the biological process of removing organic matter. (00:07:35) Understanding Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) Mitch explains the concept of BOD, its importance in water treatment, and how technology has evolved to measure it. (00:10:19) The Challenge of Nitrogen Removal Discussion about the difficulties and processes involved in removing nitrogen from wastewater, focusing on the traditional and newer approaches. (00:14:02) Energy Consumption in Wastewater Treatment Mitch talks about the substantial energy demand involved in wastewater treatment, especially in the nitrogen removal process. (00:17:32) Research on Nitrogen Removal Mitch discusses his lab's research on a more energy-efficient process for nitrogen removal from wastewater, explaining the concept of anammox bacteria and their role in this process. (00:20:49) Phosphate Removal and Regulation Mitch talks about the lack of regulatory pressure for phosphorus removal from water and its potential future implications. (00:21:30) Public Acceptance of Wastewater Treatment Technologies Russ probes into the public acceptance of wastewater technologies, specifically potable reuse of wastewater. William discusses the changes in public attitudes towards recycled water over the past decades, the importance of public relations campaigns and community education in shaping these attitudes, and the future of potable reuse facilities. (00:24:39) The Quality of Potable Reuse Waters vs. Conventional Water Supplies William discusses a recent study comparing the quality of water from potable reuse plants to conventional water supplies. He reveals that the treated waters were found to be of higher quality than surface waters and comparable in quality to groundwater supplies. (00:27:00) Chlorinated Taste in Drinking Water Russ asks William about the common chlorinated taste in drinking water. William explains the chemical reactions that lead to this taste and why it isn't necessarily a red flag for consumers. (00:28:00) Future of Separate Infrastructures for Potable and Non-Potable Water They wrap up the conversation discussing the possibility and implications of having separate infrastructures for potable water and water used for other purposes. William explains the logistical challenges and why many utilities are moving towards potable reuse. (00:29:08) Conclusion Russ concludes the episode, thanking William for his insights into the future of wastewater, and invites listeners to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast for future episodes. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 6/9/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of greenhouse gases | Guest Matteo Cargnello approaches the challenge of greenhouse gases from a different perspective. He doesn’t study how harmful chemicals got in the skies, or even the consequences. Instead, Cargnello is using his skills as a chemical engineer to turn them into other benign or useful chemicals. So far, he’s turned greenhouse gases into valuable industrial chemicals, polymers, renewable fuels, and even ethanol. Useful products from greenhouse gases, that's the dream, Cargnello tells host Russ Altman on this episode of Stanford Engineering’sThe Future of Everything. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 6/2/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - New forms of semiconductors are key to the future | This episode of The Future of Everything podcast with Srabanti Chowdhury first ran in 2022. We’re sharing it again to offer a glimpse into research being done to identify new materials for semiconductors that could lead to smaller, faster, more powerful and more energy efficient electronics. Since we recorded this episode, the CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law, creating a $280 billion dollar investment in the field over the next 10 years, and in light of the renewed commitment to this technology, we’re excited to share this conversation on the future of semiconductor materials. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 5/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of art | Deborah Cullinan’s job is to integrate arts of every form across campus. She says art has the power to heal and may be the answer to many of our present-day societal problems, such as growing political polarization and social isolation borne by the pa | 5/19/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of movement disorders | An expert in Parkinson’s disease discusses how new technologies and new techniques have revolutionized how we track and treat movement disorders. | 5/12/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of computational linguistics | An expert in understanding language using machine learning explains why even he was surprised by the linguistic capabilities of ChatGPT. | 5/5/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Best of - The future of computer science education | This episode of The Future of Everything podcast with Mehran Sahami first ran in 2019. We’re sharing it again to offer a glimpse into the ways our faculty are thinking about computer science education, an increasingly popular and impactful field of study. Earlier this week, Sahami and another of his colleagues, Chris Piech, launched the third offering of Code In Place, a free online course that offers coding education to people all over the world. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 4/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of simple rules | An expert in corporate decision making explains why companies that follow fewer and simpler rules are often the best innovators. | 4/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of proteins | An expert in protein structure and function explains how rapidly evolving study of these complex molecules is revealing ever-greater understanding of human life. | 4/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of mosquito-borne diseases | A biologist and expert in infectious diseases explains why warmer and wetter weather will mean more tropical illnesses far beyond the tropics. | 4/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of infectious disease immunology | An expert in computational immunology details how his field is tapping into the secrets of the immune system to identify pathogens faster and serious illness sooner. | 3/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The future of computational health economics | A health policy expert explains why our system of medical reimbursements is badly broken and how she and others are using AI to right the ship. | 3/10/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Snyder: Insights from medicine’s most-measured man | A geneticist explains why he collects vast stores of his own biodata and what all that information might reveal about our personal health. | 3/3/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Barbara van Schewick: Net neutrality and the future of the internet | An internet policy expert explains how the companies we pay to access the internet want control over what we do online and to charge more for data we are already paying for. | 2/24/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Beatriz Magaloni: Data illuminate the cycle of police violence in Latin America | A professor of political science explains why police violence is so acute in Latin America and how societies might reverse the inequalities at the heart of it all. | 2/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nicholas Bloom: Home is where the work is | An economist and expert on productivity says that once-rare work-from-home arrangements are now the norm and improved tools for telecommuting will keep it that way. | 2/10/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mac Schwager: How engineers are putting the ‘auto’ in autonomous | An expert in autonomous vehicles explains how engineers are ensuring tomorrow’s pilotless planes, trains and automobiles will be safer than today’s human-controlled counterparts. | 1/27/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ilan Kroo: Better ways to build an airplane | An expert in aeronautics discusses how recent developments in fuels, engines, materials, and computer controls are leading to an era of airplanes unlike any that have gone before. | 1/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Helen Blau: New life for old muscles | An expert in stem cell biology explains why our muscles weaken with age and what she and her colleagues are doing to bring strength back to tired muscles. | 12/16/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lawrence Wein: Computation cracks cold cases | An expert in the fast-emerging field of forensic genetic genealogy reveals how mathematics can help catch criminals through traces of their DNA. | 12/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Doug James: Computer-generated sound catches its graphical sibling | A professor of computer science and of music uses principles of real-world physics to create synthetic sounds that match computer-generated graphics. | 11/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Melissa Valentine: The rise of the flash organization | The latest variation of our rapidly evolving workplace gathers teams of freelance experts online to solve specific problems. And then, just as fast, they are gone. | 11/11/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elaine Treharne: Why physical books will always be with us | An expert on historical texts explains why studying ancient writings is the key to understanding humans and human civilization … yesterday, today and forever. | 11/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Oussama Khatib: What if Aquaman were a robot? | On this episode of Stanford Engineering's The Future of Everything podcast, robotics expert Oussama Khatib takes us on a deep dive into the vagaries of creating robots that swim. His most recent project is OceanOneK, a 200-pound, humanoid robot with stereoscopic vision and opposable thumbs that can travel nearly a thousand meters below the surface. When the pressure was on, Khatib had to redesign everything he thought he knew about robots, he says, beginning with a new glass-like shell good to 6,000 PSI. Listen as Khatib and host Russ Altman plumb the depths of underwater robots on this installment of The Future of Everything. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 10/28/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Desiree LaBeaud: The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease | Discarded, undegradable plastic trash is a global breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. | 10/21/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alexandria Boehm: Wastewater helps reveal COVID’s real reach | Municipal wastewater is proving to be one of the best ways to measure the true scale of diseases in our communities. | 10/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is a good diagnosis possible without revealing your medical secrets? | New cryptographic techniques allow patients to get personalized health care yet never divulge their medical secrets to anyone—even their doctors. | 10/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The water problem that’s still unresolved in schools across the country | Access to clean drinking water should be a given and there are health consequences for children when it’s not | 9/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A scientist uses radar technology to map the insides of ice sheets | The technique helps us understand ice sheets right here on Earth -- and whether there could be life far, far beyond. | 9/19/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How un-syncing the brain can help Parkinson’s patients | Abnormal levels of neuronal synchronicity is a hallmark of many neurological conditions. A Stanford professor discusses how to alleviate their symptoms. | 9/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to put AI tools into the hands of primary care physicians | Artificial intelligence tools can improve patient care. But health care AI innovations are mostly in specialized areas. A Stanford physician explains why that needs to change. | 8/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A mobile app can be the gateway for helping communities improve their health and well-being | A Stanford professor explains how a relatively simple tool can empower individuals to identify and advocate for meaningful changes in their neighborhoods. | 8/16/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to design algorithms with fairness in mind | Algorithms are behind many serious decisions in mortgages, medicine, and a range of other areas. A computer scientist explains how we can build notions of fairness into algorithms. | 8/8/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Using technologies from the gaming industry to improve medicine | A Stanford professor explains how augmented and virtual reality, body tracking, and other technologies from the gaming industry could be used in medicine. | 7/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to make quieter airplanes | A Stanford professor explains how fluid mechanics can help decrease the sound generated by airplanes. | 7/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A cardiologist says embracing diversity will catalyze medical research | Diversity in medicine boosts innovation and has even improved physicians’ ability to prevent transplant rejection. | 7/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An innovative polling model can move us past political polarization | A Stanford professor explains how the deliberative polling model can get people to listen to one another and even compromise on some of society’s most complex policy issues. | 6/24/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How cryptography and Web3 can fight misinformation and help restore trust in digital media | A group of researchers explore how the tools of cryptography can be used to verify the veracity of the images and videos you see online. | 6/17/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Computational modeling can help understand Alzheimer’s disease | A professor of mechanical engineering explains how computational models of Alzheimer’s spread in the brain are providing new information about the disease. | 6/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Data is transforming our understanding of natural disasters | A Stanford professor explains how new types of data collection and advanced computers are improving our knowledge of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes – and how we might prepare for them. | 6/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to develop ever better computer chips | The pandemic accelerated society’s digital transformation by years, requiring more and better computer chips. A Stanford electrical engineer explains how to make that happen. | 5/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Training the next generation of entrepreneurs | Are entrepreneurs born or made? A Stanford professor explains how understanding and practicing a set of skills can make entrepreneurs of us all. | 5/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to Fight Climate Change | An environmental scientist explains why taking on climate change will require that we continue to reduce emissions and adapt to the effects of increasing temperatures. | 5/17/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The physics of gel-like substances | Most things aren’t liquid, solid, or gas. They’re gel-like — and understanding how they work can improve our understanding of biology and human health. | 5/5/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What makes a surgeon great? | A professor of surgery discusses what we can learn by using sensors and video to examine and quantify every moment of a surgery. | 4/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How social media can help gauge societal health | Hundreds of millions of people use social media in the U.S. A computational social scientist explains how to harness the technology to measure mental and physical well-being. | 4/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What happens when computers can write like humans | An increasing amount of written communication is being created by artificial intelligence. A professor of communication discusses the implications. | 4/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The impact of income gaps on children’s health | A pediatrics professor explains how COVID-19 put a spotlight on how income disparities affect health — and how innovations in telehealth might help overcome some of the challenges. | 3/23/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The crucial role of data compression | The total size of digital file types is expanding exponentially. So are the challenges of storing them. An electrical engineer discusses new approaches to tackling the issue. | 3/13/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Regenerating and rejuvenating human tissues | A bioengineer discusses how biomaterials created in a lab can help the human body regenerate or rejuvenate tissues, or provide 3D disease models to inform drug discovery. | 3/11/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why AI must embody the values of its users | Artificial intelligence has become increasingly important in our daily lives. A computer scientist explains what he’s doing to help ensure it’s working with us, not against us. | 2/22/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A more thoughtful approach to technology can improve medical care | A professor of medicine and expert on organizational behavior explores how innovation and an integrated approach to healthcare can help tame some of its complexities. | 2/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How do you build a better robot? By understanding people. | A computer scientist discusses the growing field of human-robot interaction. | 2/10/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care | AI can reveal remarkable medical insights, but only if patients and doctors have faith in it. Thus, trust has become AI’s singular goal, says this expert in the field. | 1/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth | An expert in the spread of misinformation talks about how we might at last conquer falsehood and the surprising new direction his work is taking him. | 1/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better | Harnessing the latest tools of computer science, an engineer hopes to reshape one of the oldest fields of human endeavor — construction. | 1/6/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy | Uniting computer science, mathematics and genomics, one professor hopes to expand access to DNA while keeping it secret. | 1/5/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science | A lecturer in Stanford School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science says that change must come to the classroom from the top and the bottom. | 12/13/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chelsea Finn: How to make artificial intelligence more meta | An expert on AI and robotics says that the latest trend in her field is teaching AI to look inward to improve itself. | 11/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world | An expert in computer graphics tells how the rapid shift online brought on by COVID-19 has inspired a revolution in the tools of his trade. | 11/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kuang Xu: How to make (and keep) genetic data private | An expert in genetic privacy says there’s a fine line between one’s right to know and another’s right to not know. | 10/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eric Appel: Gels are changing the face of engineering ... and medicine | An expert in gels explains why these “Goldilocks” materials are the among the most promising areas of research today. | 10/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lianne Kurina: How controlling confounders makes better epidemiology | Public health studies are among the most challenging to get right, says this expert in epidemiology. But better design can yield greater confidence. | 10/1/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Priyanka Raina: How computer chips get speedier through specialization | Increasingly, the path to faster, more efficient computers is in chips that excel at specific tasks, says this expert in chip design. | 9/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Biondo Biondi: How to measure an earthquake through the internet | New technologies that detect motion in the Earth’s crust are emerging in surprising places and reshaping our understanding of earthquakes … and much more. | 8/24/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emmanuel Candès: How to increase certainty in predictive modeling | Today’s predictive algorithms carry too much uncertainty says one mathematician, who is working to bring confidence to the models that, increasingly, rule our lives. | 8/23/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Srabanti Chowdhury: New forms of semiconductors are key to the future | An electrical engineer discusses how new materials for semiconductors could lead to smaller, faster, more powerful, more energy efficient, and more versatile electronics. | 7/19/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future? | An expert in energy resources engineering says “battery biopsies” are key to a tomorrow filled with electric vehicles.` | 6/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Irene Lo: How math makes markets fairer | An expert in algorithms discusses how the changing meaning of the word “market” is being leveraged to achieve important social goals. | 6/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joseph DeSimone: How 3D printing is changing medicine | With growing precision and new materials, 3D printing stands to reshape health care. | 6/13/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tina Hernandez-Boussard: How data improves the quality of health care | A specialist in bioinformatics explains that the tools of data science are delivering insights into health care outcomes and improving care as never before. | 6/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nate Persily: How to restore faith in America’s elections | Our recent election focused attention on the mechanics of democracy as never before. An expert in election law sizes things up and suggests ways to regain trust in the institution. | 6/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis | By listening into the chatter among a handful of brain cells, an expert in brain-computer interfaces says a future in which people with paralysis control computers with their thoughts is within reach. | 6/2/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sam Wineburg: How to improve American students’ fact-checking skills | A cognitive psychologist explains why, with so much information at their disposal, American students struggle to tell fact from fiction … and how he thinks we might fix it. | 5/16/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julie Parsonnet: How faith in herd immunity may be misplaced | An expert in infectious diseases says that an undue focus on herd immunity could actually be doing more harm than good in the fight against COVID-19. | 5/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maneesh Agrawala: How AI is changing video editing | Technology is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in video editing. Society must consider the creative possibilities as well as the misinformation risks. | 5/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Noah Rosenberg: How biology is becoming more mathematical | A geneticist explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science. | 5/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric | An expert in the future of electrical power says that today’s big “dumb” grid is becoming a thing of the past and what’s replacing it is something much smarter and more personal. | 4/21/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular | An expert in freshwater systems says the world’s pending water crisis is only just beginning, but it’s not too late to make the course correction necessary to right the ship. | 4/21/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Catherine Gorle: How cityscapes catch the wind | A civil and environmental engineer describes how engineering is designing better built environments that shape rather than bend to the will of the wind. | 4/7/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide | An engineer and clean-energy entrepreneur discusses the troubling socio-economic gap in access to sustainable energy and the things we can do now to narrow and, perhaps, close it. | 4/6/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic | A chip designer talks about how advances in hardware will be needed to make the much-hyped artificially intelligent future a reality. | 3/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julie Owono: How local voices will shape the global internet | An expert in international law and digital content explains why she thinks the future of the worldwide internet is very much in local hands. | 3/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language | A linguist and computer scientist explores how AI is expanding from capturing individual words and sentences to modeling the social nature of language. | 3/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation | An expert in entrepreneurship argues that greater diversity is the key to corporate creativity. | 2/19/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Miller: How light could transform computing | An expert in photonics explains the remarkable potential of using light instead of electricity in computation. | 2/10/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jin Hyung Lee: How can we systematically cure brain diseases? | Lee uses artificial intelligence to determine what healthy and diseased brain circuits look like in order to better diagnose Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other brain disorders. | 2/5/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mark Schnitzer: How to better understand the brain | Midway through the 12-year, $5 billion nationwide “Brain Initiative,” a brain scientist explains how technology is producing profound insights into how the brain works—or doesn’t. | 1/29/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mutale Nkonde: How to get more truth from social media | A sociologist and former journalist warns that the artificial intelligence behind much of today’s social media is inherently biased, but it’s not too late to do something about it. | 1/22/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world | A specialist in computer animation expounds upon her rapidly evolving specialty, known as physics-based simulation, and how it is helping robots become more physically aware of the world around them. | 1/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jef Caers: How better mineral exploration makes better batteries | A geoscientist explains why the use of artificial intelligence in the exploration of rare metals could be the key to America’s environmental and energy future. | 1/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Evan Reed: How to discover a magic material | Want to build a better battery, a stronger airplane, or a faster computer? A materials science expert says your success starts in the atomic structure of the materials you choose. | 12/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Renée DiResta: How to beat bad information | Inadvertent misinformation and outright disinformation have become a scourge on American discourse, but those committed to the truth are keeping pace. | 11/18/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Will Tarpeh: How to take the waste out of wastewater | The very notion of wastewater, and what we choose to do with it, could change dramatically if this Stanford chemical engineer has his way. | 11/12/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kwabena Boahen: How to build a super-efficient super-computer | Could new-age computer chips, modeled on the how the human brain works, empower a watershed for artificial intelligence? At least one expert has staked his career on it. | 11/9/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Daphne Koller: How machine learning is transforming drug discovery | A veteran of the age of artificial intelligence explains why she left academia for a chance to change the pharmaceutical industry. | 11/2/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Markus Covert: How to build a computer model of a cell | A bioengineer sets out to create a computer simulation of a single living cell and comes to grips with the remarkable complexity that is life. | 10/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rafael Pelayo: How to get a good night’s sleep | A sleep expert offers insight into why so many of us are not getting enough zzz’s, what the consequences are and, above all, how we can sleep better. | 9/22/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marietje Schaake: Can democracy survive in a digital world? | A former Member of the European Parliament sizes up the state of democracy in the digital age and finds much to fret about, but also ways to fight back. | 9/21/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andrew Huberman: How stress affects the mind — and how to relieve it | The year has unleashed stresses few would have imagined just months ago, but the science of stress — and of stress relief — is keeping pace. A Stanford neurobiologist explains. | 9/18/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Manu Prakash: How to beat a pandemic on a budget | A prolific inventor of low-cost, high-impact healthcare devices recently set his sights on COVID-19 | 8/26/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Byron Reeves: What our screens tell us about us | A professor of communication recorded long stretches of screen time in the lives of his test subjects and turned to artificial intelligence to paint a remarkable portrait of modern life | 8/14/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Newsha Ajami: How engineers restored hope for our water supplies | An authority on water sustainability says that just as engineering once brought water to distant, desert cities, the field is now uniting to make sure the well never runs dry. | 8/11/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Susan Holmes: How statistics are reshaping our understanding of biology | A leading statistician discusses her discipline’s growing influence on biology and why she thinks the most important skill for the biostatistician may be communication, not analysis. | 8/3/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sheri Sheppard: How do we educate a new kind of engineer? | A veteran educator takes aim at diversity in engineering and finds that the solution begins by bringing a breadth of life experiences to the classroom. | 7/17/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jonathan Chen: Can algorithms make doctors better? | An expert in bioinformatics says that empowering clinicians with artificial intelligence that combs medical data will deliver better health care than either could do alone. | 7/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mykel Kochenderfer: AI and Safety-Critical Systems | Advances in artificial intelligence are leading to greater autonomy and improved safety in systems ranging from air traffic control to automated driving. | 6/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pamela Chen: How meme culture and algorithms are reshaping photography | A former senior photo editor for National Geographic and creative director at Instagram, and now HAI-JSK Fellow at Stanford, discusses the changing face of photography in the age of algorithmic personalization. | 6/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael O'Sullivan: Data leads New Zealand’s COVID-19 response | A native New Zealander and engineer versed in data modeling shifts focus from business to public health and contributes to his nation’s response to a dangerous pandemic. | 6/11/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Megan Palmer: COVID-19’s scientific silver lining | An expert in biopolicy offers insight on today's COVID-19 crisis and hope that leaders in policy, science and security can unite to prevent the next pandemic | 5/11/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Catherine Blish: Immunology is on the trail of a killer | A globally recognized expert in infectious disease and immunology discusses how her lab quickly remade itself to study the virus behind COVID-19. | 4/27/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seema Yasmin: How to conquer a pandemic with communication | A specialist in reporting on epidemics — and a medical doctor to boot — explains why bad information is an enemy of public health. | 4/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Victor Carrion: How to beat stress in a pandemic | An expert on trauma unmasks the sometimes hidden hallmarks of stress and discusses techniques to recognize and lessen its effects at every age. | 4/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sanjay Basu: The power of healthy eating | When humans roamed as hunters and gatherers, the ability to retain calories likely determined who lived and who died in times of famine. Today, that evolutionary advantage may make us prone to diabetes. Join host Russ Altman, professor of bioengineering, and guest Sanjay Basu, a foremost expert in disease prevention, for a broad-ranging discussion of what works, what doesn’t and what new approaches—including an emphasis on community gardens and healthier diets—are on the horizon as society battles this deadly disease. Connect With Us: Episode Transcripts >>> The Future of Everything Website Connect with Russ >>> Threads / Bluesky / Mastodon Connect with School of Engineering >>>Twitter/X / Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook | 4/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alison Marsden: Computer models could transform cardiovascular surgery | Deeper mathematical understanding of the heart and greater computing power have joined forces to reshape possibilities in pediatric heart surgery. | 4/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jayodita Sanghvi and Grace Tang: Big data meets big business | The last decade has seen an explosion in the collection and processing of data. Now, the era of big data is making its way into the business world, with important implications. | 4/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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William Chueh: How to build a better battery | The renewable energy future is riding on the advent of better energy storage options that challenge the very definition of the word “battery. | 4/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Russ Altman: Artificial intelligence takes on COVID-19 | In this special COVID-19 edition, host becomes guest to discuss the ways artificial intelligence is tackling the biggest threat to public health in 100 years. | 4/9/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Etchemendy: How can we get the most from artificial intelligence? | The co-director of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence discusses how AI can reach its potential to enhance human capabilities and enrich human lives. | 4/8/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nigam Shah: A researcher turns to data to fight the COVID-19 virus | An expert in bioinformatics describes how better information and modeling can help caregivers stay a step ahead of the new virus. | 4/8/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alex Dunn: When cells communicate by nudging one another | New research explores how physical pushing and pulling between cells helps them differentiate into the myriad cell types in the body. Have you ever pondered how the cells in your hand knew to become a hand and not, say, a foot or a heart or an ear? Ale | 4/3/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fiorenza Micheli: The race to save the ocean | A marine scientist travels the world to understand whether and how the ocean will respond to climate change, overfishing and other challenges. Fiorenza “Fio” Micheli grew up on the Mediterranean Sea, where she fell in love with the ocean and made i | 3/17/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nick Ouellette: What flocks of birds can tell us about engineering | A civil engineer explains how new insights gleaned from the flight of birds may one day be applied to fields as far-ranging as autonomous cars and crowd control. Anyone who has ever observed a large flock of starlings in flight – darting and swirling | 3/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shaili Jain: Treatments for PTSD are more effective than ever | How a revealing father-daughter conversation led to a career dedicated to studying and treating severe trauma and stress-related disorders. Shaili Jain first got interested in studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on an East Coast road trip li | 2/28/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michelle Mello: Patient privacy and the law are on a collision course | A rapidly shifting legal debate is raging in healthcare over patient data and privacy. One legal expert says that even though regulations have lagged, a reckoning is due. How much control should patients have over who sees their medical records? How re | 2/24/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bonnie Maldonado: The science is clear. Vaccinations save lives. | An expert in infectious diseases says that vaccinations are more powerful than ever, but better communication by the medical community is needed to combat misinformation. Stanford professor Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado is a medical doctor and an exper | 2/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Simone D’Amico: “The Swarm” is coming to an orbit near you | A professor of astronautics foresees a new space age in which distributed space systems made of small satellites work in tandem to replace or augment their monolithic ancestors. | 2/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jelena Vuckovic: Photonics — a light on the computing horizon | Photonics engineers are working toward a day when fast, energy efficient computers do their mathematics using photons — packets of light — instead of electrons. Experts estimate that computers gobble up as much as 10% of global electricity. They pr | 1/24/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sharon Chinthrajah: The air is making us sick | The connection between bad air and bad health is growing clearer by the day. One allergy specialist says that real change starts at home, but ends on a much larger scale. Air quality affects our health far more than many would suspect. It’s closely r | 1/21/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emma Brunskill: Amped-up education with AI | Computer programs that purport to help humans learn have been around almost as long as there have been computer programs, but their track record for success has been less than impressive. Emma Brunskill, an expert on artificial intelligence and machine | 1/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Scott Delp: Better gait, better life | A biomechanical engineer explains how new diagnostics and improved understanding of human movement are yielding great leaps forward in the treatment of motor dysfunction. Engineer Scott Delp first got interested in the details of human movement when he | 12/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stephen Quake: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health? | In our 100th episode, we meet the scientist who answered this question and revolutionized everything from detecting Down syndrome to cancer. In The Future of Everything’s 100th episode, bioengineer, physicist and inventor Stephen Quake recounts a per | 11/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elizabeth Sattely: Plants are the ultimate chemists | They make a remarkable array of chemicals to survive the world around them. One engineer is using that knowledge to help people live better. When things aren’t going well for humans and other ambulatory creatures, they simply move on to a new locatio | 11/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ross Shachter: Can AI improve mammography? | Radiologists have the difficult job of detecting and diagnosing malignant tumors. A new computer model could improve their accuracy. In breast cancer pathology, a 2 percent chance of malignancy is the accepted threshold at which a radiologist refers th | 10/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ash Alizadeh: A New Age in Oncology | In cancer detection, could a blood test replace a biopsy? Once, when a cancer was suspected, the next move often involved a biopsy – literally cutting out human tissue to ascertain malignancy. But that highly invasive model is now being overshadowed | 10/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Margot Gerritsen: How to get more women into data science | Women face many roadblocks to careers in data science and other STEM disciplines. One Stanford professor is out to change perceptions and realities for women in these fields. It was in 2015 when Margot Gerritsen was asked to speak at a data conference | 10/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mildred Cho: Ethics in the age of easy gene editing | How do new technologies and techniques for altering DNA get used? And who gets to use them? In recent years, the development of inexpensive genetic sequencing and easy gene editing technologies has given rise to a community of non-academic, amateur re | 10/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lynn Hildemann: What pollutants are lurking in our indoor spaces? | An expert on air quality talks about the hidden dangers inside our homes and offers some helpful tips on what you can do to reduce your exposure. We all know about the decades-long battle to improve air quality outdoors, but Stanford environmental engi | 9/27/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Steven Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing | A mechanical engineer explains how more and better data is helping to create new prosthetics unlike any before. For years prosthetic limbs were merely functional devices, but recent advances in robotics and neuroscience are transforming the very meanin | 9/20/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ami Bhatt: Lessons from the microbial world living within us | An expert on the gut microbiome says it’s important to stop seeing bacteria as an enemy and instead as a partner in our good health. The vast majority of bacteria that live inside us are not invasive, but rather quite the opposite. They are partners | 9/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mehran Sahami: The evolution of computer science education | Once the core American curriculum meant reading, writing and arithmetic, but Stanford professor Mehran Sahami says we might soon have to add a fourth skill to that list, “coding.” Sahami thinks deeply about such matters. He’s the leading force be | 8/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Markoff: The past, present and future of Silicon Valley | John Markoff is perhaps best known as a science and technology writer for the New York Times, but he is also a fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford. In both roles he is a keen observer and chronicler of the rise | 8/16/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James Landay: What’s next in human-computer interaction? | With a user-centered mindset, engineers are exploring new ways to develop technology that more effectively serves people's needs. | 7/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sylvia Plevritis: Better cancer treatment through data | Big data is reshaping how doctors — and patients — understand cancer and, in the process, is providing clearer guidance as to the best approaches to care. | 7/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeremy Weinstein: Technology in the public interest | In a computer science classroom, an interdisciplinary team of professors is teaching budding technologists to consider the societal impacts of their work. | 7/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kari Nadeau: Science takes on food allergies | Once avoidance was the only answer, but a leading allergist says that advances in desensitizing allergies are challenging common convention. Food allergy expert Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, says that as many as one in ten adults in the U.S. has a food allergy | 6/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Monica Lam: Privacy in the age of virtual assistants | Can we reap the benefits of artificial intelligence while also protecting our personal information? From scheduling appointments to setting the thermostat to ordering pizza, virtual assistants are growing more commonplace by the day. Stanford professor | 6/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sharad Goel: How hidden bias affects the criminal justice system | In-depth statistical analyses show time and again that subtle, unconscious bias is pervasive in the American justice system. The bigger question, however, is what to do about it? Sharad Goel is an expert in computational social science – that is, us | 5/31/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Yock: Innovation in medical technology | A physician and inventor talks about making medical device innovation more disciplined, more consistent and less reliant on chance. | 5/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Margaret Brandeau: Math and computers help reshape health policy | An expert in mathematical modeling describes how models are helping to solve public health challenges ranging from the opioid crisis to measles outbreaks. | 5/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tony Oro: Stem cell therapies for incurable diseases | A new class of gatekeeper physicians is helping make scientific and ethical sense of stem cell and gene therapies that offer hope to many patients who once had none. | 4/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michelle Monje: New therapies for brain cancer | A deepening understanding of how the healthy brain grows and functions is leading to exciting new brain cancer therapies that are both more effective and easier on patients. | 4/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dennis Wall: The changing face of autism diagnosis and treatment | AI is reshaping diagnosis of autism, making it quicker, less expensive and more accurate. As a result, interventions are coming earlier in life, a key to more effective treatment. | 4/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Xiaolin Zheng: New benefits of combustion revealed | Humankind has prospered greatly from fire, but that doesn’t mean we know all its secrets. | 3/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Londa Schiebinger: Why does gender matter? | From designing research to setting priorities for funding decisions and drafting policy, understanding gender differences enhances all phases of scientific research. | 3/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Billy Loo: “FLASH” radiation therapy brings hope to cancer patients | This technology aims to eliminate cancer while minimizing collateral damage to surrounding healthy organs. | 3/5/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carlos Bustamante: Genomics has a diversity problem | A geneticist explains how the relatively young science of genomics has the potential to reveal the mysteries of the living world, but first it has to be more inclusive. | 2/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robert Reich: Is it time to rethink philanthropy? | Philanthropy is often driven by the idiosyncratic pet notions of the very rich. It is an exercise of power that deserves our scrutiny, not our automatic gratitude. | 2/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Toomas Ilves: Lessons in digital democracy from Estonia | The former president of Estonia discusses how a small Baltic state became a world leader in digitization of everything from voting to medicine. | 2/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nigam Shah: Artificial Intelligence transforms health care | Data analytics is revolutionizing health care – quietly, pervasively and in some surprising ways. | 12/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Oyer: Where, exactly, is the gig economy taking us? | In a search for answers, an economist embedded himself as an Uber driver. | 12/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alex Stamos: How do we preserve free speech in the era of fake news? | Social media platforms have democratized the spread of information, but questions about tech regulation pose potential challenges to basic human rights. | 12/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adina Sterling: How will artificial intelligence change hiring? | New technologies help bring increased efficiency to the hiring process, but also pose significant challenges. | 12/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Greg Beroza: Data helps prepare us for ‘The Big One’ | Data is reshaping our knowledge about many things, including earthquakes: how we measure them, what causes them and how we can better prepare for them. | 11/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster | Wind, water and quakes can destroy years of valuable development in an instant, but there are ways to build more resilient cities. | 11/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Annelise Barron: The battle against Alzheimer’s is reinvigorated | Fresh insights into Alzheimer’s are giving researchers renewed confidence that better treatments are just around the corner. | 10/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Riana Pfefferkorn: How are the boundaries of digital privacy shifting? | The growing power and prevalence of smart devices are reshaping the definition of personal privacy in the digital age. Originally aired on SiriusXM on September 22, 2018. | 9/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marshall Burke: The impact of climate change on human behavior | Obscured behind the better-known impacts of climate change are a host of potentially more serious effects global leaders have yet to reckon with. Originally aired on SiriusXM on September 22, 2018. | 9/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Magnus: How will artificial intelligence impact medical ethics? | In recent years, the explosion of artificial intelligence in medicine has yielded an increase in hope for patient outcomes, balanced by an equal concern for ethical implications. Originally aired on SiriusXM on September 8, 2018. | 9/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Balaji Prabhakar: Can digital incentives help alleviate traffic? | Researchers are reducing traffic congestion and commute times using networks that gently nudge people toward better travel habits. Originally aired on SiriusXM on September 8, 2018. | 9/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dan Boneh: Still in early days, Blockchain is rich with possibility | Digital security expert Dan Boneh offers a primer on blockchain, the much-talked-about foundation for Bitcoin and other next-gen apps. Originally aired on SiriusXM on July 28, 2018. | 7/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gopi Shah Goda: You’re probably not saving enough for retirement | On the Future of Everything radio show, economist Gopi Shah Goda says few Americans are, and fewer still know what to do about it. Originally aired on SiriusXM on July 28, 2018. | 7/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeffrey Pfeffer: Your job is killing you | On the Future of Everything radio show, a professor of organizational behavior discusses what's gone wrong at the workplace … and what we can do about it. Originally aired on SiriusXM on July 14, 2018. | 7/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sarah Billington: How we shape our buildings — and how they shape us | A professor of civil and environmental engineering discusses the relationship between built spaces and human well-being. Originally aired on SiriusXM on July 14, 2018. | 7/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anna Grzymala-Busse: Lessons from the rise of global populism | Russ Altman and political scientist Anna Grzymala-Busse examine populism’s roots — and how to prevent its worst tendencies. Originally aired on SiriusXM on June 30, 2018. | 6/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anna Lembke: How do we fight the disease of addiction? | Stanford medical doctors Russ Altman and Anna Lembke discuss the rise of the opioid crisis and new ways the medical profession is fighting all forms of addiction. Originally aired June 16, 2018. | 6/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andrew Grotto: Combating cyberthreats in the age of the cloud | Host Russ Altman and security expert Andrew Grotto explore the growing risks and responses to international cyberattack. Originally aired on SiriusXM on June 16, 2018. | 6/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Martha Crenshaw: Fighting terrorism in the age of social media | A look at the evolution of extremism in the era of instantaneous global communication. Originally aired on Jun 2, 2018. | 6/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fred Turner: The 60s counterculture roots of today’s social networks | A Stanford professor of communication, Turner explains how the Utopian ideals born in 1960s communes made today’s Silicon Valley possible. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 19, 2018. | 5/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maya Rossin-Slater: Health policy and its impact on families | On ‘The Future of Everything’ radio show and podcast, two Stanford professors discuss how public policy decisions affect families and how the poor may be especially vulnerable. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 19, 2018. | 5/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeremy Bailenson: Taking a grand tour of the latest in virtual reality | What’s next in VR? Jeremy Bailenson and Russ Altman discuss the fast-growing field in this episode of the Future of Everything radio show. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 5, 2018. | 5/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michal Kosinski: Living in a post-privacy world | Algorithms that dig into our digital lives to predict behavior have become a hot topic. Michal Kosinski talks about the pros and cons of life in a hyper-connected world. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 21, 2018. | 4/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Roz Naylor: Changing how — and what — the world eats | The challenge of feeding a growing planet is on the table as food security expert Roz Naylor and host Russ Altman discuss the rapidly changing landscape of agriculture. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 21, 2018. | 4/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Craig Criddle: Redefining waste treatment | An environmental engineer looks at our aging waste-treatment infrastructure and explores how engineers are taking a different tack to the future of managing waste. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 7, 20181. | 4/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Fischbach: Making sense of the gut biome | Two bioengineers talk about why a better understanding of the relationship between humans and bacteria could be the future of medicine. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 7, 2018. | 4/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Wise: Saving the children, on the frontlines of war | Stanford’s Paul Wise and Russ Altman discuss the challenges of bringing medical care to children in some of the world’s most war-torn regions. Originally aired on SiriusXM on March 24, 2018. | 3/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Bernstein: Welcome to the future of crowdsourcing | On The Future of Everything radio show, a computer scientist explores the rise of automation, crowdsourcing communities and the ethical implications of the gig economy. Originally aired on SiriusXM on March 24, 2018. | 3/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maneesh Agrawala: Artificial intelligence comes to multimedia | Stanford professors Russ Altman and Maneesh Agrawala explore advances in media where AI handles the rough cut, and editing becomes like using word processors for images and sound. Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 24, 2018. | 2/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sarah Heilshorn: Building replacement parts for the human body | Stanford professors Russ Altman and Sarah Heilshorn discuss the promise and the complexities of engineering new tissues to replace damaged parts of the human body. Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 24, 2018. | 2/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Cochran: Guided missiles target cancer | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Jennifer Cochran examine the “renaissance” in cancer treatment that uses biochemical “guided missiles” to target malignant cells in the body. Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 10, 2018. | 2/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Manu Prakash: The physics of biology | In this episode of The Future of Everything radio show, bioengineer Manu Prakash discusses how he uses physics to explore the way life functions at the microscopic level. Originally aired on SiriusXM on February 10, 2018. | 2/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Relman: What dolphins can teach us about our own health | On the Future of Everything radio show, an infectious disease expert discusses how the microbes in the sea mammal’s mouths help us understand our own relationship with bacteria. Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 27, 2018. | 1/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Megan Palmer: How do we solve the security challenges in biotech? | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Megan Palmer explore the complex challenge of ensuring that our ever-growing ability to engineer biology is used only for positive purposes. Originally aired on November 11, 2017. | 11/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marco Pavone: How autonomy is shaping the future of space exploration | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Marco Pavone discuss how we can apply what we’ve learned about autonomous vehicles here on Earth to the mysterious reaches of space. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 28, 2017. | 10/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Audrey Shafer: Why Frankenstein still holds a mirror to modern science | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Audrey Shafer reflect on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and how it illuminates the moral and ethical challenges of modern science. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 28, 2017. | 10/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jenny Suckale: A Better Plan B for Managing Disasters | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Jenny Suckale explore how society can better prepare for a future with more frequent and more dangerous storms. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 21, 2017. | 10/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Allison Okamura: Exploring the next big thing in modern robotics | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Allison Okamura discuss how touch, long one of the most overlooked of the five senses in engineering, is the next frontier in robotics. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 21, 2017. | 10/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Lentink: What small birds teach us about the physics of flight | Stanford’s Russ Altman and David Lentink discuss what engineers can learn about small aircraft design by studying the flight efficiency of birds. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 7, 2017. | 10/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Debbie Senesky: Developing electronics for the extremes of space | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Debbie Senesky discuss why silicon, the bedrock of terrestrial electronics, doesn't have the right stuff to help us explore hot spots like Venus. Originally aired on SiriusXM on October 7, 2017. | 10/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Euan Ashley: Exploring a new age of medical diagnostics | Stanford’s Russ Altman and Euan Ashley discuss wearable technology, data and the extraordinary challenges of undiagnosed disease. Originally aired on SiriusXM on September 9, 2017. | 9/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kwabena Boahen: What does the next generation of computers look like? | A professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering discusses the “neuromorphic computer” — the computer that acts a lot like the human brain. Originally aired on SiriusXM on August 26, 2017. | 8/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Per Enge: How safe and secure is GPS? | Getting lost seems to be a thing of the past. But who controls the satellite system the world relies on, what are the threats to the system and what can we do about it?Originally aired on SiriusXM on August 26, 2017. | 8/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Zegart: How vulnerable are we to cyber attacks? | An international security expert assesses the growing risks at home and abroad. Originally aired on SiriusXM on August 19, 2017. | 8/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emmanuel Mignot: Sleep impacts our lives in ways we might not even recognize | Getting a good night’s rest can be a struggle for many, yet it is critical to health. Bioengineer Russ Altman and psychiatrist Emmanuel Mignot discuss. Originally aired on SiriusXM on August 19, 2017. | 8/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jure Leskovec: The power of social networks | What’s most likely to go viral? Where do online trolls come from? How do recommendation engines work? What do fitness apps tell us about the world? A computer scientist explains. Originally aired on SiriusXM on August 5, 2017. | 8/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pamela Hinds: How do you get the most out of a global team? | The professor of management science & engineering explains how employees at multinational companies can best work across borders and time zones. Originally aired on SiriuxSM on August 5, 2017. | 8/5/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Dabiri: Technology inspired by nature | In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford’s Russ Altman and John Dabiri discuss what fish, birds, and other creatures have to teach us about renewable energy. Originally aired on SiriusXM on June 17, 2017. | 6/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pat Brown: Where’s the beef? How plants could be used to build a better burger. | In the Future of Everything radio show, bioengineer Russ Altman and biochemist Pat Brown discuss how plants might be used to engineer a tasty, environmentally friendly meat. Originally aired on June 17, 2017, on SiriusXM. | 6/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Dionne: The power of light | A materials scientist discusses how light could be used for less invasive medical procedures, improving solar cells, and cloaks of invisibility. Originally aired on June 3, 2017, on SiriusXM. | 6/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Eagleman: Adding to the senses | The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Adding to the Senses with guest David Eagleman" David Eagleman, an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, discusses sensory addition through wearable technology. O | 6/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Drew Endy: Exploring the biotechnology revolution | On the Future of Everything radio show, the Stanford bioengineering professor says the bio-economy already exists. Here's where it’s headed next. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 20, 2017. | 5/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fei-Fei Li and Chris Gerdes: The future of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars | Stanford professors discuss their innovative research and the new technologies that will transform lives in the 21st century. Recorded live in front of an audience on May 2, 2017, at Cubberly Auditorium. Originally aired on SiriusXM on May 6, 2017. | 5/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Christina Smolke: How to grow better painkillers and other medications | In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford bioengineers Russ Altman and Christina Smolke discuss advances in synthetic biology and the rise of opioids made from yeast. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 29, 2017 | 4/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Oussama Khatib: “Bringing a new revolution in robotics” | In the Future of Everything radio show, the computer scientist discusses a future in which robots and humans work together to solve some of humanity’s most difficult challenges. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 29, 2017 | 4/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carolyn Bertozzi: How the sugars on the surface of human cells affect our health | In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford’s Russ Altman and Carolyn Bertozzi discuss the sugars on human cells and how understanding them can yield new medical treatments. Originally aired on SiriusXM on April 08, 2017. | 4/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Audrey Bowden: What is the future of medical diagnostics? | On the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford’s Russ Altman and electrical engineering Audrey Bowden discuss at-home urinalysis, bladder cancer diagnosis, and how hearing works. Originally aired on March 25, 2017 on SiriusXM. | 3/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Camarillo: What can we do to protect ourselves from concussions? | In the Future of Everything radio show, Russ Altman talks to bioengineer David Camarillo about head injuries and what we can do protect our brains. Originally aired March 25, 2017 on SiriusXM. | 3/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Zhenan Bao: Bendable Electronics | The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Bendable Electronics with Zhenan Bao" Stanford Chemical Engineering Professor Zhenan Bao discusses innovations in bendable electronics, and how they will be used in the next generation of cell phones and even | 3/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Janine Zacharia: What is the future of media? | In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford’s Russ Altman and Janine Zacharia discuss journalism, fake news, and how to become an informed media consumer. | 3/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andrea Goldsmith: What is the future of wireless networking and communications? | In the Future of Everything radio show, two engineers discuss the high-powered wireless networks we need for widespread autonomous vehicles, smart garbage pick-up, and much more.Aired originally on SiriusXM on February 25, 2017. | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hank Greely: How babies (will) get made | On the Future of Everything radio show, a bioengineer and law professor discuss the future of human reproduction and its significant implications for society. Aired originally on SiriusXM on February 25, 2017. | 2/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Granick: Our digital fingerprints are everywhere. How do we protect ourselves? | In the Future of Everything radio show, Stanford’s Russ Altman and Jennifer Granick discuss cyber surveillance, hacking, security, and American civil liberties. Aired originally on SiriusXM on February 11, 2017. | 2/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marc Salit: What is the future of genome measurement? | In the Future of Everything radio show, Russ Altman and Marc Salit show how measuring biology is critical to the advancement of human health and the bio-economy. Aired originally on SiriusXM on February 11, 2017. | 2/10/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
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I have been listening to and enjoying The Future of Everything for a couple of years now. The premise of the podcast, interviewing world-class researchers on their work by an engaging and deeply informed host is fantastic. Russ does his homework by reading the interviewees’ papers ahead of the time, ask strategic questions to steer the conversations, and inject humour to lighten up the subject. I learned new things each time I listen to a podcast and would recommend it to everyone.
Shallow
Not a lot of critical thinking or balanced analysis in the episode I listened to. It seemed more like cheerleading.
Don’t interrupt the guest!
Just listened the episode with Jelena Vučković, she’s a great guest but the host kept interrupting her. Geez please stop
