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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea Newstalk
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4.7 • 222 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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Moon Landing 55th Anniversary Special
This week, Jonathan was joined by Oliver Morton, Senior Editor at The Economist and author of The Moon: A History For The Future and by Sarah T. Stewart, Planetary Scientist and Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the UC Davis.
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Extra: Do I know you?
Sadie Dingfelder - Author of Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
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Why do some people always get lost?
Nora Newcombe - Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Temple University @NoraNewcombe
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Extra: Turbulence
Ivan Marusic is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Melbourne School of Engineering @engunimelb @unimelb
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What can we learn from whale ear wax?
Stephen J. Trumble - Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Baylor University & Affiliate Professor in the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks @stephenjtrumble
Michael Brecht - Professor for 'Systems Neurobiology and Neural Computation' at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt-University, Berlin @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni @NNCN_Germany -
Extra: Mapping the Cosmos
Dr Seshadri Nadathur, a co-author of the work and senior research fellow at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation @SeshNadathur @UoPCosmology
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