Innovating Scicomm for India
Mini podcast interviews with Scientists and Science Communicators of Indian origin
References: Parul on Google Scholar Neuroplasticity on Wikipedia Activity dependent plasticity of the brain on Wikipedia Parul on LinkedIn Intro
References: Srikanth’s homepage at the University of Utah Vertices, Faces and Edges Euler’s characteristic Cutting squares into equal area triangles
References: Manisit’s citations What is ComSciCon? ComSciCon Triangle Oncobites Manisit on Oncobites writing about Cancers and Immunotherapies Manisit on
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Dr. Laungani is the first ever Associate Professor to be featured in our series! Listed as we chat about Plant
Manan Gupta talks to us about how reading Richard Dawkins helped him change his interests, about how subject boundaries are artificially created and his work on Evolution and Niche construction. Tune in!
Can you feel somebody else’s emotions? Pain, frustration, relief and even happiness? Humans might be one of the very few species that can do this with remarkable fidelity! Reema Jayakar explains how understand this Universality of Human emotions was a turning point for her as a neuropsychologist.
Vijay Ramesh talks to us about why its important to learn from the past so that we can effectively predict our future – not just for global warming, but also for bird migrations!
Hummingbirds are some of the tiniest birds with one of the highest metabolism rates ever found in the animal kingdom. Listen to Anusha Shankar explain how they manage to sleep at night and not die of starvation!
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Starship IndSciComm. Its continuing mission – to explore strange new science.
