Brain Train Podcast
Every week in Brain Train, an expert is asked about their specialist subject - then the following week, the expert becomes the novice, asking an expert in a totally different subject what they've always wanted to know. This process repeats in a glorious Brain Train!
- Website
- http://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast
- Description
- Podcast by Brain Train Podcast
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-07-28 20:50
- last episode published
- 2016-04-28 20:41
- publication frequency
- 77.31 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Martin Zaltz Austwick and Alice Bell
- Owner Author
- Brain Train Podcast
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 18
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Social Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2016-04-28 |
Brain Train #18 - James Coglan gets inside the mind of Bees with Elli Leadbeater This episode, killer robot designer James Coglan wants to know whether he can harness the power of insect intelligence to carry out his evil plans. Elli Leadbeater from Royal Holloway University stalls for time until the cops arrive. |
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| 2015-11-04 |
Brain Train #17 - Rachel Souhami asks James Coglan about Killer Robots Brain Train driver Alice Bell steps aside and hands her whistle over, as our new co-host, museums polymath Rachel Souhami, steps up to the plate. It’s like when The Doctor regenerates. In her inaugural episode, Rachel asks programmer James Coglan whet... |
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| 2014-09-12 |
Brain Train Podcast #16 - Charlotte Riley talks voting and fairness with Chris Good On the eve of the Scottish Referendum, (thoroughly) modern historian Charlotte Riley ask pure mathematician Chris Good about the fairness of voting systems, host Alice Bell steers them onto sewage, badgers and her aunts, and Chris wonders aloud whether... |
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| 2014-07-24 | This episode, tenancy lawyer Justin Bates asks Charlotte Riley why cold war USA and USSR came together to condemn Britain in 1956 over an Egyptian canal. What happened next may surprise you*. Alice Bell hosts and writes clickbait tweets. *she provide... |
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| 2014-06-10 | Caitjan Gainty is guided by housing lawyer Justin Bates through the tangled wreckage that once was tenants' rights in England and Wales. Brain train engineer Martin Zaltz Austwick cracks his knuckles loudly on-mic and nibbles bourbons despondently. |
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| 2014-05-06 |
Brain Train Podcast #13 - Camilla Sutherland and Caitjan Gainty This episode artist Camilla Sutherland diagnoses the state of American health insurance with medical historian Caitjan Gainty, in a touching and personal story of baby scans and economics. |
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| 2014-03-31 |
Brain Train Podcast #12 - Martin Zaltz Austwick and Camilla Sutherland This episode sociable physicist Martin Zaltz Austwick asks art historian Camilla Sutherland why people get so excited about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Alice Bell hosts and brings jaffa cakes, the quietest of all recording snacks. |
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| 2013-11-14 |
Brain Train Podcast #11 - Alexandra Lamont and Jonathan Williams This episode Alexandra Lamont asks NPL standards expert Jonathan Williams "where are you going with that massive silicon ball?" and other pressing questions about kilograms, seconds, mols and candelas. Martin Zaltz Austwick is this week's biscuit sourc... |
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| 2013-08-29 | Sociologist Emily Dawson asks Music Psychologist Alexandra Lamont why Bourdieu, Jolene and Natalie Merchant make her cry. Extra long episode of Brain Train this time, as host and editor Martin Zaltz Austwick could not bring himself to cut out any more ... |
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| 2013-07-12 | Back after a lengthy hiatus, Brain Train returns as whizz physicist Jo Cole asks Science Education expert Emily Dawson why there aren’t more women whizz physicists. Martin Zaltz Austwick provides the experimental control as a stereotypical white male p... |
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