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Science Magazine Podcast

Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Joe Wolf/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Welcome to the science podcast for May 28, 2021.

1:22.8

I'm Sarah Cresby.

1:24.2

Each week we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the

1:28.1

sister journals. First up, neuroscientist Lucia Maloney talks about a group effort to make the hard

1:33.7

problem of consciousness easier while shaking up the practice of science at the same time.

1:39.5

Next up, researcher T.C. Chacoborty tells us about why it's important to measure air temperature on the ground in cities rather than from satellites when trying to understand urban heat islands.

1:55.1

One of the toughest problems in science may be how consciousness works. What exactly is consciousness? And how do we determine

2:04.9

if someone is conscious or something is conscious or not? This week, Lucia Maloney and her

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