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Keeping patients safe and warm during surgery
Adam Hauke, global director of product strategy and innovation at Gentherm Medical, discusses how innovations in patient warming technology...
Can virtual reality solve the skilled labor shortage?
Doug Donovan, CEO of Interplay Learning, discusses how virtual reality and immersive simulations are transforming workforce training for dat...
How AI, robotics, biotech reshape humanity
Bestselling author Steven Kotler explores how advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology are reshaping humanity and wha...
Robotics, leadership and the future of human potential
Foundation Future Industries co-founder Mike LeBlanc discusses the future of humanoid robotics, emerging technologies and the leadership pri...
Future of biomedical research beyond animal testing
Lauren Stein, director of science and research programs at the National Anti-Vivisection Society, discusses emerging technologies that could...
How we disappear: managing digital legacies with intention
In this episode, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney explores why memories, photographs and digital records disappear, and what we can do to...
How GPS shaped the modern world
In this episode, journalist Katherine Dunn explores the surprising history of GPS and how a military navigation tool became an essential par...
How speed shapes the modern world
Acclaimed scientist Vaclav Smil explores humanity’s pursuit of speed and how it has influenced evolution, technology, transportation and mod...
Can you really trust what you see?
Digital illusionist and author Keelan Leyser reveals how the hidden blind spots in our perception shape everything from everyday decisions a...
Sneak peek at NASA's newest space telescope
NASA Scientist Dominic Benford takes a behind the scenes look at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before it launches in September. L...
Shaping the future of AI in Utah, the United States
From advising the White House on science and technology policy to leading AI strategy at the University of Utah, Dr. Manish Parashar discuss...
Can AI help save democracy?
Beth Simone Noveck discusses how artificial intelligence could strengthen democracy, improve government services and help rebuild public tru...
Musical daydreams and the science of getting lost in sound
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores how music can transport us into vivid inner worlds and what those musical daydreams reveal about the mi...
Listening to the universe: Radio astronomy and the invisible cosmos
Astrophysicist Emma Chapman explores how radio waves reveal the hidden universe and what they can teach us about everything from distant pla...
How AI is accelerating drug discovery
University of Utah chemist Matthew Sigman explains how machine learning is transforming drug discovery. By predicting how molecules form, es...
What AI really means for businesses
Kevin Williams, founder and CEO of Ascend AI Labs, explores how AI has evolved from a future possibility into a powerful opportunity and how...
Google search data paints a hopeful picture of society
Simon Rogers of Google discusses his book, “What We Ask Google,” and what two decades of search data reveal about human curiosity, behavior...
A strange discovery that challenges how galaxies form
Astrophysicist and journalist Maria Luísa Buzzo discusses her Scientific American article on unusual galaxies that appear to lack dark matte...
Why huge numbers matter more than you think
Mathematician Richard Elwes discusses his book, “Huge Numbers,” and how the pursuit of ever-larger numbers has shaped math, science and huma...