249 episodes
Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea Newstalk
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4.7 • 221 Ratings
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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show.
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Space Elevators
Professor Arun Misra is a Thomas Workman Emeritus Professor in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.
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Extra: Why Don't Woodpeckers Get Concussed?
Sam Van Wessenbergh is a Research Professor in the Laboratory for Functional Morphology of the Department of Biology at the University of Antwerp
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The Interstellar Workshop
Joseph Meany is a Science consultant and board member of the IRG (Interstellar Research Group)
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Extra: Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
Mike Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at University of Bristol and author of Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
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The Purpose of the Universe
Philip Goff is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and author of Why? The Purpose of the Universe
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Extra: Could We Cure Brain Tumours?
Bryan Choi - Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Centre for Brain Tumour Immunology and Immunotherapy at Mass General (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Customer Reviews
My only go to podcast!
I absolutely love the Futureproof podcast series. I have a lengthy commute to work daily and often listen to Jonathan’s latest episodes en route!The show has something for everyone….science, psychology, evolution it’s just brilliant.
If like me you are a bit of an existentialist or even a deep thinker you will devour this podcast.
Thanks a million. Love the fact that you can scroll down to find an episode that appeals to you too.
Only suggestion for improvement would be if you could listen to some of the older episodes deeper in the archive….some of the later ones won’t play unfortunately and their subject matter seems really interesting.
Fantastic Show
Jonathan has a great way of explaining the intricacies of Science to the layperson. I have loved the shows on a wide variety of topics from the program on moondust to vomitting bumblebees. Very entertaining, educating and stimulating. Thanks for all the hard work. MJB.
Re Paco Calvo on plant intelligence
I think Paco was making the case for investigating whether or not plants had some self-adjusting mechanisms rather than having human type intellect. Might be interesting to compare with an animal which has a distributed nervous system such as the Octopus.
Catherine