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Ideas Roadshow Podcast

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Conversations with today's greatest minds about their work

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Pandemic Perspectives 15: The Dynamic Nature of Science

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Moder...

76:31Jul 2, 2024

Pandemic Perspectives 14: A Classical Approach to Improving Communication

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Christopher Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of th...

120:20Jun 30, 2024

Pandemic Perspectives 13: The Need for Genuine Communication

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Elizabeth Anderson, Max Shaye Professor of Pub...

48:12Jun 9, 2024

David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

The Physics of Banjos is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and David Politzer, 2004 Nobel Laureate and the Rich...

172:59Aug 14, 2023

Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for...

62:13May 25, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 11: The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kossly...

51:45May 18, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 10: Covid and the Art of Science Communication

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory i...

56:16May 11, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 9: Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford la...

59:10May 4, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 8: Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned UC San Diego neurophilosopher Patrici...

56:36Apr 27, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 7: Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Portuguese Member of Parliament and internatio...

54:53Apr 20, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 6: COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political the...

51:16Apr 13, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 5: Necessarily Global--How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy Hoffman, the dynamic and innovative busin...

43:22Apr 6, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 4: History, Morality and the Pandemic

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Lorraine Daston, director emerita of the Max P...

62:50Mar 30, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 3: Neoliberalism, Human Rights and Our Collective Response to COVID

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisp...

65:40Mar 23, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 2: COVID-19 through the Eyes of a Geneticist

In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Stephen Scherer, Chief of Research at Toronto'...

43:48Mar 16, 2022

Pandemic Perspectives 1: The Urgent Need for Effective International Cooperation

In this first Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Ni...

63:46Mar 9, 2022

Edie Widder, “Ocean Enlightenment” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Ocean Enlightenment is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Edie Widder, Founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at...

67:59Dec 31, 2021

Janko Tipsarevic, “The Mind-Body Problem” (Open Agenda, 2021)

The Mind-Body Problem is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Janko Tipsarevic, who is a former professional t...

78:19Dec 30, 2021

From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity

In this episode, Howard Burton talks with Ester Salgarella, Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Cambridge, about her...

112:28Dec 29, 2021

Paul Steinhardt, "Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale" (Open Agenda, 2021)

We have developed two distinct books, Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals, and Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale, ba...

107:45Dec 28, 2021