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Tom Lawry Microsoft AI For Good in healthcare Credit: Microsoft

Tom Lawry Talks of Machine Learning and Microsoft AI For Good in Healthcare

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence – Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft. Ira Pastor comments: A set of tools that we have been hearing quite a bit about (and discussed a bit on the show) in recent years is the triad of […]

Dr Rudolph Tanzi, Professor of Neurology Harvard University. Alzheimer's research specialist.

Alzheimer’s and the Brain Health Rockstar

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy, Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit, and Co-Director of the Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ira Pastor comments: […]

Credit: University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Mark Wolff: A hidden pandemic in our mouths

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Mark Wolff, Morton Amsterdam Dean, and Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry, at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine. Ira Pastor comments: So as frequent listeners of the ideaXme show know, we spend a lot of time talking about the theme of […]

The History Machine Credit: Joe Neary

The History Machine: Filtering History’s Bias with Neural Networks

Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest contributor, deepfake and fake news researcher and Marketing Manager at Cubaka, interviews Niall Donnellan, co-founder (with Cathal O’Gorman) of The History Machine Podcast, a project which uses a neural network to answer some of the “what ifs” of military history. Amanda Christensen comments: Fake news and media bias have been some […]

Credit: Professor Heylighen

People, Systems and Technologies: Expect the Unexpected!

Dr. Shima Beigi, Founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D. Resilience Scientist, Author, Yogi and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Francis Heylighen, Cyberneticist and Research Professor at the Free University of Brussels where he directs the trans-disciplinary research group on “Evolution, Complexity and Cognition” and the Global Brain Institute. Francis Paul Heylighen is a Belgian cyberneticist investigating […]

Professor Hildebrandt saving the northern white rhino. Credit: Leibniz Institute For Zoo and Wildlife Research

Saving the World’s Rarest Large Mammal: Professor Hildebrandt Talks of Saving the Northern White Rhino

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernd Hildebrandt, Head of the Department of Reproduction Management at Leibniz-IZW and Professor of Wildlife Reproduction Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin. Ira Pastor comments: The “Sixth Mass Extinction” is a term for an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene […]

Credit: Dr. Randy Cron

Cytokine Storm in Covid-19 Patients: Possible Solutions

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Randy Cron, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Arthritis Foundation, Alabama chapter endowed chair in Pediatric Rheumatology. Ira Pastor comments: As we are a few months into the Covid-19 pandemic, a medical term […]

Credit: Dr. Stanley Plotkin

Dr. Stanley Plotkin: The Godfather of Vaccines

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at both Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania and consultant to the vaccine industry. Ira Pastor comments: So as we sit here a few months into the global Covid-19 pandemic, one big question on everyone’s mind is when will […]

Sridhar Solur, Ai, IoT and Smart Homes

Sridhar Solur: Life on the Edge – Ai, IoT and Smart Homes

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sridhar Solur, Executive Vice President, General Manager and Chief Product Engineer at the Shark Ninja Operating Company. Ira Pastor comments: So as we continue upon the themes of healthy aging and human enhancement, a principle that we’ve touched on of “Aging in Place”, a concept whereby […]

Credit: The Pontifical Academy for Life

The Vatican and Humanity 2.0

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand Chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences. Ira Pastor comments: Vatican City is an independent city-state, enclaved within Rome, Italy, established with the Lateran Treaty (in […]