Episodes

  • Prof. Antoinette Schoar of MIT Sloan School of Management on cryptocurrencies
    Feb 8 2026

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Antoinette Schoar is Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research interests span from entrepreneurial finance to household finance, fintech, cryptocurrencies, and financial intermediation.


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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • : Mr. Nicolas Niarchos on the dirty supply chain.
    Feb 2 2026

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Nicolas Niarchos is a journalist whose work focuses on energy, war, and migration. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New York Times. He has testified on the effects of Congolese battery metal mining on Capitol Hill.Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    58 mins
  • Prof. Stephen Kritchevsky of Wake Forest on Geroscience
    Jan 27 2026

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Stephen Kritchevsky is Professor in Geroscience at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He co-directs the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention. He studies nutritional influences that affect trajectories of health and disability in older adults including vitamins, protein, energy balance, obesity and exercise.

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    58 mins
  • Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb of Columbia University on curiosity
    Jan 22 2026

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb is Professor of Neuroscience and Principal Investigator at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute. She studies the mechanisms that underlie the brain's higher cognitive functions, including decision making, memory, and attention. Her interest is in how the brain gathers the evidence it needs — and ignores what it doesn’t — during everyday tasks and during special states such as curiosity.

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    57 mins
  • Prof. Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School on Seeing Around Corners.
    Jan 10 2026

    Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Rita McGrath is professor of strategy and innovation at Columbia Business School. Her recent book is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen.


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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Dr. Nadine Dijkstra of UCL on reality and imagination
    Jan 8 2026

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Nadine Dijkstra is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL, specializing in cognitive neuroscience. Her research focuses on the computational and neural mechanisms of mental imagery, utilizing a combination of neuroimaging, psychophysics, machine learning, and computational modeling. Please subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    51 mins
  • Prof. Scott Anthony of Dartmouth on Eleven Innovations that Shaped Our Modern World
    Dec 22 2025

    Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Scott Anthony is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where his research and teaching focuses on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. Scott’s latest book is Epic Disruptions: 11 Innovations that Shaped Our Modern WorldPlease subscribe to this channel:https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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    59 mins
  • Prof. Kevin Gaston of Univ. of Exeter on night time ecology.
    Dec 13 2025

    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Kevin Gaston is a distinguished Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Exeter. He leads basic, strategic, and applied research in ecology and conservation biology, with a current focus on common ecology, nighttime ecology, and personalized ecology.


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    51 mins