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Science often starts with questions. Each question has a story. But most podcasts are about answers and their associated stories. In this series, I will talk to researchers about their research questions, methods, and how they ask their questions. There is a lot one can learn about asking questions. This is useful for students starting/learning to ask research questions. I am a grad student. Learn more about me from the link below. http://rvndrpn.wixsite.com/ravindra
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How do we stay free? Just asking questions. Each week, Reason’s Liz Wolfe and Zach Weissmueller scrutinize a current event, controversy, cultural phenomenon or idea with the help of special guests, media clips, visual aids, and data.
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A short and snappy listen if you want to improve your sporting performance, particularly in a sport with a bike. Each episode our experts answer 3 burning questions from listeners.
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At least 40 U.S. colleges still require a COVID vaccine, according to nocollegemandates.com, an initiative that tracks and opposes the mandates. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and biostatistician who lost his job at Harvard for refusing the vaccine even though he'd already survived a COVID infection, says such mandates are "unscientific"…
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"I discovered something remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence," wrote Ethan Mollick in his new book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, describing the "sleepless nights" he experienced upon first encountering ChatGPT 3.5 in November 2022. Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of th…
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Immigration ranks as the second-most important issue among registered U.S. voters and the top issue for Republican voters, according to a Marist Poll/PBS NewsHour/NPR poll released last month. Perhaps that's because of the 3.2 million border encounters documented by Border Patrol in 2023—a new record high that's so far being outpaced this year. Tex…
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Are American cities crime-ridden hellscapes right now? Have cities rebounded from pandemic-era homicide spikes? Why do subway shootings in New York and carjackings in D.C. keep making the news? "I think a lot of this has to be disaggregated: There is a public order problem, and there is a violent crime problem, and they're not necessarily the same …
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Writer and podcast host Coleman Hughes published a column in The Free Press in January entitled, "What Really Happened to George Floyd?" in which he analyzes a documentary called The Fall of Minneapolis, which has racked up more than 6 million views on YouTube and Rumble. The documentary makes the case that former Minneapolis police officer Derek C…
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In a special edition of Just Asking Questions recorded before a live audience on the Honduran island of Roatán, Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe talk with Mark Lutter, founder of the Charter Cities Institute, and Patri Friedman, founder and board member of Pronomos Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in charter cities. The conversa…
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Bryan Johnson made his fortune when he sold his company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million, netting about $300 million for himself. He spends about $2 million a year creating a system to reverse his "biological age." He's 46 years old, chronologically, but claims he's de-aged himself following a program he's branded "the Blueprint protocol." "I w…
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"One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure," said Tucker Carlson as he stood in front of a Moscow subway station in a video he posted after his two-hour interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In contrast to America's public transit, Moscow's "is perfectly clean and orderly," explained Carlson. "How do you expl…
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"The greatest risk of a Republican administration is a war with Iran, and the greatest risk of a Democratic administration is a war with Russia," says Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative, a magazine for the types of conservatives who are skeptical of foreign military intervention. Mills joined Reason's Zach Weissmueller and …
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"We're in dark and uncertain times, but we've made it through worse," writes Peter Meijer in a November 6 announcement that he's running for a Senate seat in Michigan soon to be vacated by Democrat Debbie Stabenow. Meijer is a former Republican representative for Michigan's third Congressional district—a position once held by Justin Amash, the Repu…
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A recently published document reveals "smoking gun" evidence of COVID-19's lab-based origin, according to Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers and one of the earliest proponents of the lab leak hypothesis. Ebright is referring to an invoice that shows an order for a particular enzyme that he believes scientists used to stitch together the g…
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Marcos Falcone, a political scientist, project manager at Argentina's Fundación Libertad, and podcast host, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to watch and analyze Argentine President Javier Milei's speech at the World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. They also disc…
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Matt Welch, editor-at-large for Reason and podcaster on The Reason Roundtable and The Fifth Column with Kmele Foster and Michael Moynihan, joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions to discuss the recent Iowa caucus results and talk about what it means for the 2024 election going forward. They also…
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"To be a sane and happy parent, you need to be counter-cultural in our family-unfriendly culture," writes Tim Carney in his forthcoming book Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be. Carney, senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the father of …
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When Russ Roberts, an economist and host of the podcast EconTalk, received a job offer to become president of Jerusalem's Shalem University, it seemed like "a no-brainer," he wrote in his 2022 book Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us. Giving up his ability to work from his home in America on whatever interested him intellectually…
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Julian Assange was arrested outside England's Ecuadorian embassy after Ecuador's president revoked his political asylum. The U.S. unsealed an extradition request outlining Espionage Act charges, and U.K. authorities moved him to London's Belmarsh Prison in April 2019, a maximum security facility where inmates are held in small single cells. Amnesty…
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"I have a history of being the only vote that was a 'no,'" says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). "I've developed some trust with my constituents on those lone votes." In the second episode of Just Asking Questions, Massie joins Reason's Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe to talk about his recent votes against aid to Ukraine and Israel, as well as a controv…
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In this inaugural episode of Just Asking Questions, podcaster Dave Smith joins the show to tackle a fundamental question: "What is a libertarian?" Smith spearheaded the Mises Caucus takeover of the Libertarian Party (L.P.), telling Reason's Nick Gillespie at the party convention in 2022 that the new L.P. needs "a game changer," someone capable of "…
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For the past several months, Reason Associate Editor Liz Wolfe and Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller have co-hosted a show on Reason's YouTube channel and on The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie podcast feed called The Reason Livestream. The show has featured discussions with economist Russ Roberts about life in Israel after October 7, Rand Pau…
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Episode 2: Just 3 Questions. This podcast has it's roots in a project that Voxwomen.com launched called the Vox Performance Project. Currently 18 women are a part of this project, which aims to provide them with the performance tools they need to become the best versions of themselves and to achieve a specific sporting challenge that involves cycli…
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Episode 1: Just 3 Questions. This podcast has it's roots in a project that Voxwomen.com launched called the Vox Performance Project. Currently 18 women are a part of this project, which aims to provide them with the performance tools they need to become the best versions of themselves and to achieve a specific sporting challenge that involves cycli…
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We conducted a school outreach as a part of the ESA and NSW OEH outreach award in 2016. This is an interview with 3 of the school children involved in the outreach. You can read about the project here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aec.12836Por Just-Questions
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For this last episode I spoke to Lauren of Penn state University. It is a PhD student's perspective of asking research questions. I hope to make a different podcast series. Hope you liked this series.Links:https://twitter.com/laurenquevillonMusic credits: Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive.org)…
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This episode, I talk to an evolutionary biologist and a famous myrmecologist, Jack Longino. We talk about his initial questions and research projects, natural history, and some good advice on asking research questions.Music credits: Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive.org)Linkshttps://sites.google.com/site/longinoantlab/https://www.biology.u…
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This episode, I talk to an exceptional science communicator and a bug scientist, James O' Hanlon. We talk about science communication, fieldwork, and some good advice on asking research questions.Check out his podcast, videos and other cool stuff from the links below.https://insituscience.com https://jamesohanlonresearch.wordpress.com Music credits…
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This episode we have Andrew Suarez, a very friendly ant biologist. We talk about his Master’s research question, different approaches to science, and all about questions. Linkshttp://www.life.illinois.edu/suarez/CreditsMusic credits:Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive.org)Andy’s profile pic from his website…
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This episode we have Simon, one of the interesting ant biologists down under!We talk about his questions, what makes a good question, how there is no one way to succeed in science and more…Linkshttps://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/simon.robson/CreditsMusic credits:Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive.org)Sound effects from soundbible.comSimo…
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MarcThis episode, we have Marc Seid, a funny neuroethologist. We talk about how his research interests changed over time, his favourite ideas and, as usual, what makes a good question.Links:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marc_SeidCredits:Summary voice-over: Franne, Brian, and Jenny Music credits:Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive.org)…
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This episode we have Neil Tsutsui, a chemical ecologist who studies how ants ‘talk’ using chemicals. We talk about his initial research question, varied interests, invasive ant chemical communication and advice for asking research questions.Links:http://scheckek.wixsite.com/tsutsuilab/contact-meCredits:Summary voice-over: Brian, Theo, Anika, and Je…
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This episode we have Phil ward, one of the ant-lords!We talk about what makes a good research question, his opinion about natural history and exploratory method to observe and ask questions.Links:https://wardlab.wordpress.com/phil-ward/Credits:Summary voice-over: Phillip, Tanja, Tim, and JennyMusic credits:Escapism by Eva Schlegel (freemusicarchive…
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This episode we have Corrie Moreau, a jovial scientist with many cool insect tattoos! We talk about her research questions from the beginning of her career, what makes a good research question, and why you should learn to communicate to general audience.Links:Moreaulab.orgCredits:Summary voice-over: Susie, Brian, Theo, Eloise, and Jenny (Big thanks…
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This episode, we have Christian Peeters, a French scientist with an interesting beard. We talk about why ants are the most successful social insects, what morphology can tell us about the biology of ants, and why he does not like writing grants!Links:Website:https://iees-paris.ufr918.upmc.fr/index.php?page=fiche&id=64Researchgate profile:https://ww…
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Science often starts with questions. Each question has a story. But most podcasts are about answers and their associated stories. In this series, I will talk to researchers about their research questions, methods, and how they ask their questions. There is a lot one can learn about asking questions. Why not learn some by listening to Just-questions…
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