The Science and Cocktails Podcast

Polarization is spreading through the world wide web in the political arenas as well as in the rest of society. But is polarization a new thing or is it embedded in human nature as a part of a primitive survival instinct? When does polarization become a problem and what can we do to decrease the polarization forces embedded in social media platforms. This episode of the Science

The secrets of the mind have been investigated at all times, by most people and in most scientific disciplines from philosophy, social science and psychiatry to biology, chemistry and physics. What is it that makes us who we are? And how does the mind change as we learn and develop through life? This episode of the Science and Cocktails Podcast is a guided tour through the brain

Coral reefs occupy less than 1% of the ocean but are home to 25% of the ocean's species. Unfortunately, nowadays the corals are bleaching. This is because the corals, due to rising sea temperatures, have to expel the tiny algae that live in their outer tissues, which give them their brilliant colors and make their food. When the algae are expelled, the corals turn pale, and sooner

A while ago Simon Baron-Cohen filled up the big concert hall at the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation with curious and excited Science and Cocktails participants when he gave his talk on How Autime Drives Human Invention. And after the talk, there were more than a hundred questions from the audience. We picked out some of them and met Simon Baron-Cohen on zoom on Friday a

The amount of data we are leaving behind is expanding as apps, smartphones and general interaction with the internet have become more and more integrated into our daily lives and the monitoring and selling of our personal data are increasing as the development of machine-learning progress. The possible future scenarios this development will bring are many and consequences unknown.

This episode of the Science and Cocktails Podcast is about the biology behind violent and psychopathic behaviour. If homicide and other violence are caused by biological brain functions and dysfunction can we then, -firstly detect predisposition for violent behaviour, -secondly, can we treat it and at last - can we blame it all on the violent offender. Those are questions raised by

This episode of the Science and Cocktails Podcast is dicking deeply into philosophy searching for an answer to one of the big questions: “what is self” and to answer that question we have Professor in philosophy, Dan Zahavi. Dan Zahavi is a kind of rockstar within phenomenology and he has some very interesting perspectives on what is self. He gave a talk at a Science and Cockta

Gender inequality within academia and science is an issue all over the world. Even though more than half of the undergraduates and even more master students are women only 29% of the employees at the universities are and only 5% of the professors. These numbers are the global average. But gender equality is an issue in academia in all countries even those that er considered pioneer

The rainforest is a unique ecosystem in a delicate balance. If a larger part of the forest is destroyed the balance will be tipped resolving the whole forest area to turn into a savanna because the ecosystem won’t be able to cycle all the water it needs. The whole ecosystem will collapse. Global deforestation has been an issue of public concern for more than 50 years. Still, th

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting much faster than predicted due to several amplifying processes. Jason Box has seen the environmental changes with his own eyes as he has been investigating the Greenland Ice Sheet for decades. In this episode, he will tell us about how bad it is and what needs to be done to slow down the acceleration of climate disasters. Contributing scientist;