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Dr. Marcela Uliano-Silva of the Wellcome Sanger Institute on error-free genome assemblies
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, and Scientific excellence in sequencing all life on Earth depends on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion S
Prof. Monica Smith of UCLA on Resource Management in early Urban Centers and Complex Societies.
The origins of the sustainability concept: Risk perception and resource management in early urban centers, Linear Statecraft along the Nile: Landscapes and the Political Phenomenology of Ancient Egypt, and The process of complex societies: dynamic models
Dr. Iain McDonald of the Open University & Univ. of Manchester on Rogue exoplanets
The hunt for rogue planets just got tougher, No large population of unbound or wide-orbit Jupiter-mass planets, Kepler K2 Campaign 9: I. Candidate short-duration events from the first space-based survey for planetary microlensing, Kepler K2 Campaign
Prof. Timothy Cernak of the Univ of Michigan on supply chains, antivirals and molecular sonification
Reinforcing the supply chain of umifenovir and other antiviral drugs with retrosynthetic software, Ultrahigh-Throughput Experimentation for Information-Rich Chemical Synthesis, A map of the amine–carboxylic acid coupling system, Molecular Sonificati
Prof. Paul Novosad of Dartmouth College on Developing Country Policies.
COVID mortality in India: National survey data and health facility deaths, Intergenerational Mobility in India: New Methods and Estimates Across Time, Space, and Communities, The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evide
Prof. Dean Karlan of Northwestern University on Poverty, Mental Health, Borrowing and Interventions.
Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment, Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana, Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Ill
Prof. John Sullins of Sonoma State University on Artificial Intelligence
Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence, The AI Wars, 1950 - 2000, and their consequences, The Role of Consciousness and Artificial Phronēsis in AI Ethical Reasoning, and Robots, Love, and Sex: The Ethics of Building a Love Machine  
Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan of George Mason University on Socialistic Policies in India.
The 1991 Reforms and the Quest for Economic Freedom in India, and Battling COVID-19 with dysfunctional federalism: Lessons from India Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at Geo
Prof. Julie Adams of the Oregon State University on Human-Robot Teaming.
SAHRTA: A Supervisory-Based Adaptive Human-Robot Teaming Architecture and Human-Collective Collaborative Site Selection Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Julie Adams is Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University. Her research in
Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory
4 Part Series on String Theory : Part 4, Super String Theory Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string t