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Reporting from the trenches of science
Update frequency:
every 40 days
Average audio length:
22 minutes
English
United States
44 episodes
since Nov. 4, 2015
episodic
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GLiMPSE returns with an archived interview from 2019 with physicist and author Alan Lightman, the John E. Burchard professor in MIT’s department of Media Studies and Writing. Lightman held posts in astrophysics at Cornell, Harvard, and MIT before turning to a lifelong love of words and an explorati…
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This episode was recorded live in collaboration with Harvard University’s Science In The News for their Science by the Pint series. Together we hosted MIT professor Angelika Amon at Saloon Davis Square, where she shared her lab’s work on chromosome imbalance and cancer. She gave an over…
In this episode Tim chats with Phil Sharp, Nobel laureate, Institute Investigator at MIT and member of the Biology Department as well as the Koch Institute. Phil confronted the question of how large protein complexes assemble inside of cells nearly 30 years ago, but had no way to address it at that…
Cells: A Genetic Blueprint or Molecular Machines?
In this episode, Tim and Max interview two MIT professors for a live event with Taste of Science Boston. Taste of Science is a nationwide science communication festival that brings scientists into bars and cafes to talk about their research with th…
In the previous episode (“Better Questions”), we sat down with MIT Institute Professor Bob Langer and explored his story through the lens of revolutionary questions. But that’s just one side of the innovation coin. Asking better questions, that points a researcher in the right direction, but to d…
Bob Langer is one of ten Institute Professors at MIT. His numerous innovations in materials used in medicine have had a significant positive impact on the world. In the first of a two-part series, we examine Bob’s story through the context of the revolutionary questions he has asked.
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This episode is with Dr Rozzeta Dolah, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof Rohit Karnik’s Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research Laboratory at MIT. Her work revolves around process optimization in renewable energy field focusing on converting waste from palm oil production into biofuels using the…
In the previous episode (“Getting the Data”), we learned about the many neuroscience tools Prof. Ed Boyden (MIT Media Lab, McGovern Institute) and his team have invented and disseminated to control, map, and observe the brain. In this second episode, join GLiMPSE for a discussion of th…
Ed Boyden is a professor in the MIT Media Lab (Synthetic Neurobiology) and McGovern Institute. He’s developed several revolutionary tools for researchers, including optogenetics — for controlling neurons — and expansion microscopy — for generating molecular models of brain circuits. Furthermore, …
GLiMPSE joined forces with the MIT Postdoctoral Association for their Postdoc Homecoming on March 15, 2019. Our own founder Alex moderated a discussion with a distinguished panel of former MIT postdocs about their experiences. As the event wound down, Tim sat down with panelist Brent Grocholski, wh…
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