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  • Medical Mentor

    PMOS: A New Name for a Common Endocrine Disorder

    PMOS is more than a reproductive disorder, and primary care clinicians must learn to recognize its cardiometabolic, psychological, and other health risks. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Today · 11 min
  • Curious Machines

    How PhD Programs Can Add Real-World Innovation Skills: A Practical Guide

    Your PhD might be preparing you for a career that barely exists anymore. Only 15% of STEM PhD graduates actually become professors, yet most programs still train students like it's 1975. In this episode, Alex Romano breaks down Krisztina Holly's game-changing approach to fixing graduate education by teaching real-world innovation skills that actually matter. 🎯 What You'll Learn: • Why universities with innovation-focused PhD tracks see 40% higher job placement rates • The specific collaboration skills that matter when research projects now involve 50-200 scientists • How open access publishing exploded 400% in a decade (and what PhD students still don't know about it) • The practical roadmap both students and institutions can use to bridge the academia-industry gap 👤 Perfect for: lifelong learners and anyone passionate about personal growth, especially if you're wondering how higher education needs to evolve for the modern world. 📍 Chapters: [00:00] Alex Romano introduces the PhD career crisis nobody talks about [01:45] Why 85% of STEM PhDs won't become professors (and what they're doing instead) [03:30] The innovation skills gap that's killing job prospects [05:15] Real examples of universities getting this right [07:00] How open access publishing changed everything [08:30] Building collaboration skills for massive research teams [10:15] The practical steps students can take right now [11:45] What institutions need to change (and how to make it happen) This isn't about dumbing down PhD programs. It's about making them relevant again. Holly's research shows exactly what works and what doesn't when preparing graduate students for careers that actually exist. 🔔 Never miss an episode: Follow Curious Machines on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and turn on notifications. New episodes drop daily - your next favorite insight is one tap away. 🔍 Topics: PhD programs, graduate education, innovation skills, academic careers, research collaboration ------- Keywords: human nature, science podcast, science communication, psychology podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Today · 17 min
  • PBS Space Time

    Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

    Thanks to Brilliant for supporting PBS. Learn more at: https://brilliant.org/spacetime PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE What if every single black hole that formed in our universe sparked the big bang of a new universe? Cosmological natural selection proposes exactly this - but even better, it claims to be able to test the hypothesis. Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://pbsspacetime.com/ Physicists have been struggling for some time to figure out why our universe is so comfy. Why, for example, are the fundamental constants - like the mass of the electron or the strength of the forces - just right for the emergence of life? Tweak them too much and life, stars, galaxies, the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist. In recent episodes we explored one possible explanation for this - the anthropic principle and the idea of the multiverse. If there are countless universes with different fundamental constants, then it’s not surprising that a few exist with the right numbers for life - and certainly not surprising that we find ourselves in one of those good ones. But if you don’t like the anthropic principle - and many scientists don’t - then rest assured, there’s an alternative. You only need to accept two things: that our universe formed inside a black hole, and that universes can evolve. Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Matt O'Dowd Graphics by Leonardo Scholzer & Adriano Leal Directed by: Andrew Kornhaber Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRl6-nb4iOnsij-vnpAjp0Q Special Thanks to our Patreon Sponsors: Big Bang Andrew & Brenna Alexander Tamas Craig Stonaha David Barnholdt David Nicklas Fabrice Eap John S Juan Benet Morgan Hough Quasar Mark Heising Vinnie Falco Hypernova Chuck Zegar Danton Spivey Donal Botkin Edmund Fokschaner Hank S John Hofmann John Pollock John R. Slavik Jordan Young Joseph Salomone Julian Tyacke Justin Ash Mathew Matthew O'Connor Syed Ansar Timothy McCulloch Gamma Ray Burst A G Adrian Hatch Adrien Molyneux AlecZero Andreas Nautsch Angela Prigge Bradley Jenkins Brandon labonte Dan Warren Daniel Lyons David Bethala DFaulk Eric Kiebler Frederic Simon Geoffrey Short Graydon Goss Greg Smith James Flowers Jamie Frederick John Funai John Griffith John Robinson Jonathan Nesfeder Joseph Dillman Josh Thomas Kevin Lee Kevin Warne Kyle Hofer Malte Ubl Michael Conroy Nick Virtue Nick Wright Patrick Sutton Paul Rose Robert Ilardi Scott Gossett Sean Warniaha Sipke Schoorstra Steve Bradshaw Tatiana Vorovchenko Tim Stephani Tonyface Yurii Konovaliuk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Today · 24 min
  • Cool Worlds

    Bayesian Worlds

    One branch of statistics, called Bayesian statistics, is becoming increasingly important in detecting new planets. Emily Sandford, a second-year graduate student with the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia, explains our new paper and the concept of Bayesian priors, hopefully providing astronomers the tools we need to analyze new discoveries! ::More about this Video:: ► Kipping & Sandford (2016), "Observational biases for transiting planets": http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05662 ► Outro music by Taylor Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9kI1yQKZk ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Today · 5 min

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