Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Dec 10 2024 312 ep. 28 mins 4.7k
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Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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Extra: Private speech in twins

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Nancy Segal - Professor of Psychology, Director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University and author of 9 books about twins @nlsegal.

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Extra: The Prosthetic Memory System

Dec 03 2024 13 mins  
Dr. Robert Hampson - Professor of Physiology/Pharmacology and Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and lead author of this paper @wakehealth

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Extra: Regeneration - The Internal World

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Caroline Curtin - Senior lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland @CarolineCurtin8 @AnatRcsiGarry Duffy - Professor of Anatomy and Regenerative Therapies at University of Galway @gduffy00 @uniofgalway

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Nov 24 2024 52 mins  
Jeremy Kahn - AI Editor at Fortune Magazine and author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future @jeremyakahn @FortuneMagazine

Extra: Regeneration - Virtual Worlds

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Nov 17 2024 33 mins  
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Nov 12 2024 18 mins  
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Landing the Paris Agreement

Nov 10 2024 43 mins  
Todd Stern - Chief US negotiator on climate change for President Barack Obama and author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement: How It Happened, Why It Matters, and What Comes Next @tsterndc.