Episodes

  • Prof. Christopher Bae of the Univ. of Hawaii on Asian hominin variability and the Chibanian puzzle
    Oct 10 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Christopher Bae is professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. His research interests include hominin fossils, vertebrate taphonomy, and lithics.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    55 mins
  • Prof. Carmen Reinhart of Harvard on Sovereign Debt
    Oct 1 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carmen Reinhart is Professor of the International Financial System at Harvard Kennedy School. From 2020-2022 she served as Chief Economist at The World Bank Group. She was also Policy Advisor and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund, a member of the Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Prof. Tanya Luhrmann of Stanford on Porosity is the Heart of Religion
    Sep 27 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Psychology. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    51 mins
  • Prof. Shelly Flagel and Prof. Jacinta Beehner of the University of Michigan on goal/sign tracking
    Sep 21 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Shelly Flagel is Prof. Shelly Flagel is Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor at the Michigan Neuroscience Institute. Her research focuses on understanding the biological and psychological factors that contribute to individual differences in vulnerability to mental illness, particularly addiction.. Her research focuses on understanding the biological and psychological factors that contribute to individual differences in vulnerability to mental illness, particularly addiction.


    Prof. Jacinta Beehner is an associate professor of psychology and biological anthropology at the University of Michigan. She co-directs the Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project in Ethiopia, and the Capuchins at Taboga Project in Costa Rica.


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    57 mins
  • Prof. Dani Bassett of UPenn and Prof. Perry Zurn of American University on curiosity.
    Sep 17 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dani Bassett is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks.

    Prof. Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and has collaborated in psychology and network neuroscience. He is especially interested in the politics of inquiry and voice, material histories of resistance, poetics, and ecologies.


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    58 mins
  • Prof. Itay Goldstein of UPenn on financial institutions,.AI-Powered Trading, and Collusion
    Sep 12 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Itay Goldstein is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include feedback effects between financial markets and real economy, financial fragility and crises, financial institutions, and market


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    52 mins
  • Prof. Angus Fletcher of Ohio State on Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature
    Sep 7 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State’s Project Narrative for the study of how stories work. His most recent book is Primal Intelligence, you are smarter than you know.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    59 mins
  • Prof. Alison Galloway of UC Santa Cruz on bone color changes due to fire, wild fires and victims
    Sep 3 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alison Galloway is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a forensic anthropologist with research interests in skeletal biology and aging in addition to anthropology.

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    55 mins