Hear the semifinalists from the ARPA-H Dash talk about their bold ideas for health transformation and what drives them. In this episode, they explore the impact their ideas could have on health — from accelerated healing and customized cell tre

TalkPolymath Ep. 15 | Transforming Health: ARPA-H Dash to Accelerate Health Outcomes

Mar 31st, 2023 14m 51s

In this episode, we talk with Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)’s Inaugural Director, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn. ARPA-H, a new federal agency, accelerates accessible and equitable high-impact health solutions that cannot be readily

Talk Polymath Ep.14 | Human Behavior in a Time of Global Disruption

Dec 12th, 2022 38m 37s

In this episode, we talk with Colin Strong, Head of Behavioral Science at Ipsos. During our discussion, Colin differentiates behavioral science from traditional psychology and how the former can help us understand how to navigate the “liquid ch

Talk Polymath Ep.13 | Water Health: A Community-driven Approach to Data Science

Nov 21st, 2022 29m 48s

In this episode we speak with Dr. Stacy Woods, Senior Data Scientist at the Science Office of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). As the in-house expert in statistics and data visualization, her work primarily focuses on different asp

Talk Polymath Ep. 12 | Red Planet Rising: Organic and Other Matters

Aug 31st, 2022 29m 5s

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina, a Research Scientist and “Rock Enchantress” at Impossible Sensing. Anastasia’s work is rooted in applying what we know about the past to what we can learn about the future. Combining her s

Talk Polymath Ep. 11 | The Circular Economy Meets the Future of Composting

Aug 31st, 2022 37m 49s

In this episode, we talk with Eric Klingenberg, Materials Science Lead, at the Mars Advanced Research Institute, the research arm of Mars, Inc. Eric discusses how the development of new packaging for Mars products involves thinking beyond recyc

Ep. 10 | Solving Climate Change on Earth: Sensing Technologies, Ocean Exploration, and Scientific Collaboration

Jul 20th, 2022 31m 48s

Ep. 10 | Solving Climate Change on Earth: Sensing Technologies, Ocean Exploration, and Scientific Collaboration In this episode we talk with Pablo Sobron, Founder/Sensing Wizard at Impossible Sensing, and Research Scientist at the SETI Institut

Ep. 9 | Interdisciplinary Collaborations: How Research Benefits From a Little Bit of Chaos

Jun 29th, 2022 31m 3s

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Farshid Guilak, who was recently elected into the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions to regenerative medicine and mechanobiology. Dr. Guilak is both the Mildred B. Simon Professor of Orthoped

Ep. 8 | The Social Impact of Algorithmic Fairness

Dec 17th, 2021 54m 30s

In this episode, we talk with Peter Bergman and Sara Nadel of Learning Collider (https://www.learningcollider.org/), a research lab on a mission to accelerate socio-behavioral research to identify technology interventions that fight inequality.

Ep. 7 | Technological Convergence: A Historic Disruption in the Making

Oct 26th, 2021 52m 1s

In this episode, we talk with Jamie Arbib, who with Tony Seba co-founded RethinkX, an independent think tank dedicated to analyzing and forecasting technology-driven disruption. RethinkX recently released a report on climate change mitigation.

Ep. 6 | Eye-trackers: Novel Technology for Concussions & Brain Health Research

Jul 7th, 2021 1h 2m

This episode of Talk Polymath discusses novel technologies for brain health and how eye movement can be used to diagnose and treat concussions. The guests will share the science behind their concussion diagnostic tool, the data that drives it,

Ep. 5 | Innovation Engines and Emerging Research

Jun 4th, 2021 1h 5m

This episode of Talk Polymath welcomes the longest-serving DARPA Director, Dr. Tony Tether who is joined by Boston University’s Head of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Dr. David Bishop (formerly with Bell Labs). The discussio

Ep. 4 | Brains, Behavior, and Human Performance

May 3rd, 2021 1h

This episode of Talk Polymath focuses on the augmentation of human performance through scientific cognition and neuroscience programs. Our guests, Amy Kruse, Ph.D., Biologist & Partner at Prime Movers Lab, and Anna Skinner, Ph.D., Founder and P

Ep. 3 | COVID-19: The Cross-species Lifecycle of a Virus

Mar 30th, 2021 1h 6m

This episode of Talk Polymath focuses on the circle of life of infectious diseases like COVID-19 and how viruses spill back into the natural world through reverse zoonosis or anthroponosis. Our guests Krista Milich, Ph.D., biological anthropolo

Ep. 2 | Reinventing Drug Manufacturing

Mar 2nd, 2021 1h 2m

The second episode of the Talk Polymath podcast discusses the concept behind “Pharmacy on Demand” and how a distributed medicine manufacturing network could help create a safe and reliable supply of medicines for communities worldwide. Our gues

Ep. 1 | COVID19: The same as – and different than – previous pandemics

Feb 2nd, 2021 57m 8s

The first Talk Polymath episode focuses on COVID-19 and how this pandemic mirrors and differs from previous ones. Our guests are William Warren, Ph.D., Vice President and head of FluNXT at Sanofi Pasteur; and José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA,

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