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Prof Annamaria Lusardi of Stanford University on the importance of financial literacy Mar 22, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof Annamaria Lusardi is Professor of Finance at Stanford University. She is also Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Director of the Financial Freedom Initiative, a collaboration between SIEPR, the Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Economics Department at Stanford University. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Priyanca Ford on the promises and challenges of fusion energy Mar 19, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Priyanca Ford is the Founder and Executive Board Member of Kronos Fusion Energy. Priyanca has dedicated her career to developing algorithms and machine learning simulations for fusion energy generators. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Moran Cerf of Columbia Business School on humanity, AI and decision-making Mar 15, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Moran Cerf is professor of business at Columbia business school. His academic research uses methods from neuroscience to understand the underlying mechanisms of our psychology, behavior changes, emotion, decisions, and dreams. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. György Buzsáki of NYU on the Cognition from the Body-Brain Partnership Mar 11, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: György Buzsáki is Professor of Neuroscience and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. His research focuses on brain networks, especially those serving cognitive functions and the packaging and segmentation of neural information. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Ilana Redstone of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the Certainty Trap. Mar 08, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also co-director of the Mill Institute at UATX. She is the creator of the “Beyond Bigots and Snowflakes” video series and the author of the Certainty Trap (coming out in summer 2024) Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker of the University of Cape Town on the prevalence of HIV and other diseases Mar 04, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is a Past President of the International AIDS Society. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Cass Sunstein of Harvard University on the power of noticing what was always there Feb 27, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Cass Sunstein is University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2020, the World Health Organization appointed him as Chair of its technical advisory group on Behavioral Insights and Sciences for Health. From 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and after that, he served on the President’s Review Board on Intelligence and Communications Technologies and on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Monica L. Smith of UCLA on the Fundamentals of the State Feb 23, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Monica L. Smith is Professor of Anthropology and the institute of environmental sustainability at UCLA. She is a historian who utilizes archaeological data to analyze the collective effects of routine activities through the study of food, ordinary goods, and architecture. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Claudia de Rham of Imperial College on Gravity. Feb 21, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia de Rham is professor is a Theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. She develops and tests cosmological theories dealing with a wide variety of concepts, from the early universe and dark energy to the behavior of gravity. She has been particularly involved in developing a new theory of massive gravity concerning gravitons, which are hypothetical particles responsible for transmitting gravitational forces. This work has profound implications for the area of research now dubbed ‘beyond Einstein gravity’, which includes exploring new types of particles in the universe and connecting the theories of gravity with current and next-generation astrophysics experiments. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow of the University of Chicago on gestures and language Feb 15, 2024

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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow is Professor of Psychology and Comparative Human Development. Her research focuses on the most basic building blocks of language and thought as they are developed in early childhood. Her research has also generated more broadly applicable insights into how the spontaneous gestures that learners produce can reveal their readiness to learn language, math, and scientific concepts. Please subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientificSense?sub_confirmation=1

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