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About Galina Limorenko
Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland.
NBN Episodes hosted by Galina:
August 24, 2025
Dark and Magical Places
Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have―…
August 9, 2025
Bots and Beasts
Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favori…
December 29, 2024
Being a Human
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and natura…
September 2, 2024
Ten Patterns That Explain the Universe
Our universe might appear chaotic, but deep down it's simply a myriad of rules working independently to create patterns of action, force, and conseque…
April 3, 2023
The Evolution of Everything
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoar…
November 18, 2022
The Leak
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a w…
November 15, 2022
Methuselah's Zoo
Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most…
November 7, 2022
A World in a Shell
In this time of extinctions, the humble snail rarely gets a mention. And yet snails are disappearing faster than any other species. In A World in a Sh…
November 4, 2022
A Stethoscope for the Brain
A taken-for-granted miracle occurs in doctors’ offices across the world every single day. With only a stethoscope and an inflatable cuff, a physician …
November 4, 2022
Drugs and the FDA
How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug A…
November 3, 2022
Curious Minds
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-ben…
November 3, 2022
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacin…
November 2, 2022
Chingona
In Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zarag…
November 2, 2022
Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, craf…
November 1, 2022
Care-Centered Politics
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic ra…
November 1, 2022
Sensing Machines
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, …
October 31, 2022
The Exquisite Machine
Your heart is a miracle in motion, a marvel of construction unsurpassed by any human-made creation. It beats 100,000 times every day--if you were to l…
October 31, 2022
Behind Their Screens
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults' assumptions, they are not simply "addicted" to their screens, oblivious t…
July 22, 2022
Tornado of Life
To be an emergency room doctor is to be a professional listener to stories. Each patient presents a story; finding the heart of that story is the doct…
July 22, 2022
The Real World of College
For The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be (MIT Press, 2022), Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth inte…
July 20, 2022
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg's edited volume Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press, 2022) offers intersectional, intergenerational, and …
July 15, 2022
Genomics
Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it deve…
July 6, 2022
Elusive
On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in und…
June 30, 2022
Atlas of the Invisible
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In…