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Prof. Monica Smith of UCLA on Resource Management in early Urban Centers and Complex Societies.
April 06, 2022

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

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Grand Unification Theories in Physics
April 03, 2022

Early attempts at the Grand Unification Theories in Physics   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 th

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on the Theory of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
March 27, 2022

4 Part Series on String Theory: Part 2, Theory of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics   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

Prof. Emil Martinec of the University of Chicago on String Theory: Part I, The 4 Fundamental forces
March 25, 2022

4 Part Series on String Theory: Part I, The Four Fundamental Forces 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

Prof. Rita Goldstein of the Icahn School of Medicine on neuropsychological studies in addiction
March 21, 2022

Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex, Neuroimaging Impaired Response Inhibition and Salience Attribution in Human Drug Addiction: A Systematic Review, The neurobiology of

Prof. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo of Williams College on Religion, Migration and Politics
March 16, 2022

The Bible as a Text of Migration. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo is Professor of Latina Studies and of Religion as well as Associate Dean for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Williams College.    J

Prof. Anusha Chari of the University of North Carolina on shocks and capital flows in emerging markets
March 11, 2022

Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows, Global Fund Flows and Emerging Market Tail Risk,  Distress Risk in emerging markets, The Macro-prudential stance and the Vulnerability to Global Financial Cycles, Regulatory Forbe

Prof. James Shapiro of the University of Chicago on Evolution, a View from the 21st Century.
February 28, 2022

Evolutionary Change is Naturally Biological and Teleological, Engines of Innovation: Biological Origins of Genome Evolution, What We Have Learned About Evolutionary Genome Change in the Past 7 Decades, What prevents mainstream evolutionists teaching the w

Prof. Susan Alberts of Duke University on social behavior of baboons and other mammals
February 26, 2022

Intergenerational effects of early adversity on survival in wild baboons, Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes, Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions, Maternal death

Prof. Gisela Kaplan of the University of New England, Armidale, Australia on Birds and Primates
February 24, 2022

Pointing gesture in a bird- merely instrumental or a cognitively complex behavior?, Play behaviour, not tool using, relates to brain mass in a sample of birds, Long-Term Attachments and Complex Cognition in Birds and Humans are Linked to Pre-Reproductive