Hurricane Florence
There is not a new episode of SparkDialog Podcast this week due to Hurricane Florence. We’ll be back in two weeks with […]
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Ep 50: Keep on Moving, Stop Climate Change- with guest Dr. Ryan Allard
“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from […]
Ep 49: Ice Cream and Nazis: The Origin of Moral Choices – with guest Dr. P. Kyle Stanford
If someone on the other side of the world uses a different type of spoon to eat their soup than you do, […]
Ep 48: Let There be Light: First Stars and Cosmic Dawn – with guest Dr. Harish Vedantham
The Universe was not always like it is today. Before the Universe was filled with light, it was a dark and lifeless […]
Ep 47: Crowdsensing the Noise – with guest Julia Buwaya
From the pleasant crunch of gravel under your feet to traffic of a nearby highway, noise is all around us. At high […]
Ep 46: The Geology of Us: The Anthropocene – with guest Dr. David Grinspoon
When we think of geology, we may think of the Grand Canyon. We imagine layers upon layers of geological strata containing rocks […]
Ep 45: Can Science Help Us Live Forever? – with guest Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Can science help us live forever? Or maybe for just a really long time? Death has always been with us, our last […]
Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons – with guest Anja Rutishauser
Far beneath the Canadian ice cap, isolated from the sun and the wind, lies two entire lakes. These subglacial lakes, recently discovered […]
Ep 43: Is there Bias in Machine Learning Algorithms? – with guest Dr. Joshua Kroll
The world today generates an immense amount of data. Companies gather data on our buying habits, our location, and how we spend […]
Ep 42: Space Junk, Trash on the Moon, and the Earth’s Copper Ring – with guest Dr. Lisa Ruth Rand
What happens to old satellites? Or to astronauts’ trash? It turns out that the Earth is surrounded by a sphere of garbage […]