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Prof. Ryan Ogliore of Washington University in St. Louis on comets, meteorites, and Earth's water Nov 06, 2021

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Incorporation of a late-forming chondrule into comet wild 2, Earth’s water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites, and Cosmic symplectite recorded irradiation by nearby massive stars in the solar system’s parent molecular cloud

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ryan Ogliore is Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research group uses microanalytical techniques to study extraterrestrial materials in order to better understand the formation and evolution of our Solar System, as well as other stars.

Prof. Lance Dixon of Stanford University on the connection between gravity and subnuclear forces Nov 04, 2021

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How the fundamental force of gravity is essentially the “square” of the subnuclear forces underlying the Standard Model of particle physics (gauge theory), and how this idea can be used for gravitational wave physics.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Lance Dixon is Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University. He is interested in novel descriptions of how relativistic particles scattering, and how those insights can be applied to a variety of problems.

Prof. Claudia Goldin of Harvard on Career & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward Equity Nov 02, 2021

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Career & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward Equity

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia Goldin is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group.

Prof. Matteo Maggiori of Stanford University on investor beliefs, trading, and global capital flows Oct 30, 2021

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Five facts about beliefs and portfolios, The joint dynamics of investor beliefs and trading during the covid-19 crash, A model of the international monetary system, International Currencies and Capital Allocation, Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens, and Climate change and long-run discount rates: evidence from real estate

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Matteo Maggiori is a Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on international macroeconomics and finance.

Prof. Keith Riles of the University of Michigan on Continuous Gravitational Waves Oct 28, 2021

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All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars LIGO Data

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Keith Riles, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. He carries out research into the fundamental forces of nature, working in both gravitational wave and elementary particle physics.

Dr. Carol Gould and Dr. Ian Williams on the history of Pink Floyd ® Oct 23, 2021

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Pink Floyd ®: A look back

Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely.

Dr. Ian Williams wis a biochemist at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford and received an MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. He worked for Pfizer for twenty years heading the Molecular Sciences Department and serving in the Research strategy group.

Mr. Steve Hoffman of Founders Space on how technology is shaping our future Oct 18, 2021

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The five forces that change everything: How technology is shaping our future

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Steve Hoffman who is the CEO of Founders Space, a Silicon Valley based Incubator and Accelerator. He is also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several books.

Prof. Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago on the tension on Hubble Constant measurements Oct 15, 2021

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Answering the Most Important Problem in Cosmology Today: Is the Tension in the Hubble Constant Real?

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Wendy Freedman is Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her current projects involve measurements of the Hubble constant -- the current expansion rate, as well as the past expansion rate, providing constraints on the acceleration of the universe and dark energy.

Prof. Vardit Ravitsky of the University of Montreal on the ethics of genetic testing & communication Oct 13, 2021

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Conceived and Deceived: The Medical Interests of Donor-Conceived Individuals, Autonomous Choice and the Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins, Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Identifying key clinical, ethical, social, legal and policy issues, The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Public Health, and Let’s Do Better: Public Representations of COVID-19 Science

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Vardit Ravitsky is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal. Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and reproduction.

Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci of ESMT Berlin on Innovation Oct 11, 2021

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Knowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains, The Ecology of Technological Progress: How Symbiosis and Competition Affect the Growth of Technology Domains, Where do firms’ recombinant capabilities come from? intra-organizational networks, knowledge, and firms’ ability to innovate through technological recombination, Social networks, cognitive style, and innovative performance: a contingency perspective, Risky Recombinations: Institutional Gatekeeping in the Innovation Process, and Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci is a professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin. Gianluca's research interests revolve around the analysis of inter- and intra-organizational networks, with particular regard to the generation and recombination of technological knowledge.

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