Category : science

Informed consent, El Nino, Gravitational Waves, Cloud cover

Informed consent Facebook has been under fire for running a controversial 'emotion manipulation' study on 689,003 Facebook users. The experiment, to find out whether emotions were contagious on the social network, involved minor changes to users' new...

Informed consent, El Nino, Gravitational Waves, Cloud cover

Informed consentFacebook has been under fire for running a controversial 'emotion manipulation' study on 689,003 Facebook users. The experiment, to find out whether emotions were contagious on the social network, involved minor changes to us...

282: Dr. Sara Gottfried | Decoding Female Hormones

When you understand these hormonal changes, it creates grace in a relationship. - Dr. Sara Gottfried Are you tired of not knowing how to cope with your woman's hormonal cycles? Of not knowing when she'll go from zero to crazy in .002 seconds? And wha...

281: Vanessa Van Edwards | How to Read People Like a Book

Imagine what you could do if you could always know what someone else was really thinking - no matter what they were saying to you. How would that change your work life, your life at home and your relationships? Here to help you do just that is Vaness...

Longitude Prize Winner; Solar cells; New species; Fiji fisherwomen; Physics questions

Longitude Prize 2014 Winning Challenge Antibiotics resistance has been selected as the focus for the £10m prize. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a "post-antibiotic era" where key drugs no longer work and people die from previously t...

Longitude Prize Winner; Solar cells; New species; Fiji fisherwomen; Physics questions

Longitude Prize 2014 Winning ChallengeAntibiotics resistance has been selected as the focus for the £10m prize. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of a "post-antibiotic era" where key drugs no longer work and people die from prev...

277: Charlie Tips | Raising Young Millionaires

"Nobody ever got rich working for a living." -Grandpa Tips If the 'World's Most Interesting Man' were a dad, he'd be Charlie Tips. Charlie gives parenting and life advice to those of us shooting for the stars, including: -How to educate your kids t...

Antarctic Invaders; Patents; Longitude Challenges for Water and Antibiotics

Antarctic Invasion Antarctica is the most pristine place on Earth, having only been visited by humans in the last 200 years, and being tens of thousands of miles from the nearest land. But these days, around 40,000 tourists and hundreds of scientists...

275: James Swanwick | Fake It 'til You Make It on ESPN

"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time." -Marian Wright Edelman James Swanwick of Alpha Male Club swings by to discuss: -Why fear of success is just as real as fe...

Turing test; World Cup exo-skeleton; Plant cyborgs; Music hooks

The first ball kick of the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup is taken by a young paraplegic Brazilian, wearing a robotic exo-skeleton, controlled using his mind. Adam hears from Miguel Nicolelis, the neurophysiologist behind the high profile sci...

271: Steven Kotler | The Rise of Superman

“You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”—Robert Louis Stevenson We've all heard of 'flow'. That mysterious in-the-zone state that athletes, performers and o...

Moving Mountains; Invasive Species; Football Stickers

Moving Mountains Removing the tops off mountains was common practice in the eastern United States to strip mine for coal. Critics have previously called for it to be banned because of the health risks. But in China, the same thing is now happening bu...

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