Featured image: a cargo ship, ferrying a pile of our everyday goods across the Pacific Ocean. Increases in ship traffic attracted the attention of Eric Stone, photographer. This week, Yann Koby of Princeton’s Department of Economics comes on the air, focusing on the economics of the US manufacturing sector. We examine economic modeling and prediction, especially concerning the … Continue reading 12/6/16 Show feat. Yann Koby on trade economics and the US election + Ingrid on trusting scientists
In this installment of These Vibes, Stevie speaks with Princeton University physics professors Steven Gubser and Frans Pretorius on their recently released Little Book of Black Holes (Princeton University Press, 2017). The discussion begins where the book ends, at the Epilogue, where the authors read their “Letter to Einstein.” From there we dive in to the … Continue reading 11/28/17 Show feat. Steven Gubser and Frans Pretorius on Black Holes and their “Little Book” of them
Featured image: A random number generator at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, purported to change behavior when you push it with your mind. (courtesy PEAR) In this Halloween show, we examine a question fundamental to science: what is rigorous enough to be real science? Pseudoscience, or fringe science, is difficult to pin down and … Continue reading 10/31/17 Show on Fringe Science: Paranormal TV and Parapsychology in Academia
Featured image: Neuroscience is enabling better education and more access for everyone to the world around us, as depicted here in a brain-machine interfaces article in Frontiers for Young Minds. Today, we are incredibly fortunate to re-feature Sabine Kastner of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Sabine helped us understand memory and learning in our live performance … Continue reading 5/9/17 Show feat. Sabine Kastner on the Developing Brain
Featured image: A 2015 graduating class of inmates from San Quentin, California, thanks to the Prison University Project (which inspired PTI Princeton). In today’s packed show, we start off fifteen minutes in with regular guest and History of Science expert Ingrid Ockert. Her review of Peter Kuznick’s Beyond the Laboratory covered scientists-turned-activists from the 1930s, who rose … Continue reading 2/28/17 Show feat. Jill Knapp on the Prison Teaching Initiative
Image of a Yellowstone wolf from the Grizzly Wolf and Discovery Center. In this installment of These Vibes we covered much ground. Our long form interview (one hour in to the recording) was with molecular ecologist and population biologist Bridgett vonHoldt, assistant professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Professor vonHoldt’s research centers around using the … Continue reading 10/4/16 Show feat. Bridgett vonHoldt on Epigenetics, Molecular Ecology, and Canine Domestication
Featured Image: An artificial neural network, one of our best computational tools for uncovering the circuitry of our brains. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. We’re jam packed with science on WRPB this week! Olga Lositsky, graduate student in Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute, graced our show with her thorough understanding of today’s biggest research questions on the brain. We broke down … Continue reading 8/30/16 Show feat. Olga Lositsky on computational neuroscience and forming memories
8/27/19 Show feat. Mihir Kshirsagar on the Big Issues in Technology Policy 7/23/19 Show feat. Dr. Haider Warraich on the State of the Heart and Dr. Ingrid Ockert on Mooniversary 7/16/19 Show feat. Dr. Robert Vanderbei on Astrophotography and DIY Science 7/9/19 Show feat. Kelsey Ockert on “Secrets from the Eating Lab” by Dr. Traci Mann 6/25/19 Show feat. … Continue reading Back Catalogue
Featured image: Adlinger Center at Princeton University. In this installment of These Vibes, graduate researcher in the Computation and Energy track in Princeton University’s School of Architecture, Dorit Aviv, joined us on the mic to discuss her work designing and optimizing buildings. In the image next to the stream you can see Dorit Aviv with … Continue reading 6/13/17 Show feat. Dorit Aviv on Building and Optimizing Buildings + the UN Nuclear Ban Treaty
In this show Stevie interviewed Cameron Ellis, cognitive neuroscience researcher at Princeton University. In the first part of the discussion Cameron explained the different theories of what is/isn’t conscious. Are animals conscious? Light switches? The Internet? How do we know that anything is conscious outside of our own selves? In part 2, they discussed sensory … Continue reading 3/14/17 Show feat. Cameron Ellis on Determining Consciousness, Sensory Substitution, and Uploading the Mind
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