Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands
Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine
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Show Notes
First this week, Lucia Melloni, a group leader in the department of neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, talks with host Sarah Crespi about making the hard problem of consciousness easier by getting advocates of opposing theories to collaborate and design experiments to rule in or rule out their competing theories.
Next, TC Chakraborty, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, shares his Science Advances paper on why it’s important to measure air temperature on the ground rather than from satellites when trying to understand urban heat islands—how cities heat up more than the surrounding countryside.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
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[Image: Joe Wolf/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Authors: Sarah Crespi
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