The Escaped Sapiens Podcast

Iain Kerr: Saving the whales by collecting their snot with Drones | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #8

Iain Kerr discusses the new threats facing whales, including boat strikes, bycatch, resource depletion, environment destruction, plastics, and pollution. He also discusses the possible solutions, including the use of remote controlled drones to do non-invasive sampling of whale health. Find out more about Iain's work at Ocean Alliance here: https://whale.org/

Robert Zubrin: Finding life on mars | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #7

Robert Zubrin discusses the prospects of finding life on mars. Find out more about Robert's work at the Mars Society here: https://www.marssociety.org/news/2020/12/14/an-important-request-from-dr-robert-zubrin/

Lee Cronin: Creating artificial life | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #6

Lee Cronin discusses his work generating life in the laboratory, and the kind of processes that may have led to the origins of life on earth. Lee is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in the UK. You can find out more about the work being done in the Cronin Lab here: https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/

Robert Zubrin: A blueprint for mars colonization | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #5

Robert Zubrin discusses establishing a new branch of human civilization on the Red Planet.

Find out more about Robert's work at the Mars Society here:
https://www.marssociety.org/news/2020/12/14/an-important-request-from-dr-robert-zubrin/

Find out more about mars direct here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/009457659290130B

Kelly Lambert: Enhancing cognitive function through behavior | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #4

Kelly Lambert Discusses the impacts that our experiences and environment might have on our mental resilience, stress, anxiety, and general cognitive function. 

Find out more about Kelly's work at the University of Richmond:
https://www.kellylambertlab.com/

Dave Goulson: The worrying plight of the bumblebee | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #3

Dave Goulson discusses the reasons for the decline in insect populations.

Find out more about Dave Goulson's work at the University of Sussex at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/goulsonlab/

In 2006 Dave founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust,  which is a charity that aims to reverse the decline in the bumblebee population and can be found at https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/

Dave's Youtube can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbnBys2Hl1T26dzO_nbgbiw

Dave is also the Author of a number of popular books which can be found at https://www.amazon.de/Dave-Goulson/e/B001HPXIWY%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Ben Novak: Reviving extinct species | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #2

Ben Novak discusses his work bringing back extinct species.

Find out more about Ben's work in de-extinction with revive and restore at
https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/

Some of Ben's research can be found here:
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/11/548/htm
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3260s35t

Gregg Suaning: Curing blindness with bionic eyes | Escaped Sapiens Podcast #1

Gregg Suaning discusses his work on bionic eyes and cochlear implants.

Find out more about Gregg's work in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney: https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/schools/school-of-biomedical-engineering.html