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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.

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General History May 27, 2022

This Mortal Coil

A History of Death

Andrew Doig

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone …
World Affairs May 25, 2022

Tomorrow's People

The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers

Paul Morland

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers …
General History May 24, 2022

The Next Apocalypse

The Art and Science of Survival

Chris Begley

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of dreadful, abandoned cities and …
Military History May 23, 2022

Maladies of Empire

How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

Jim Downs

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence …
Technology May 18, 2022

Artificial Communication

How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence

Elena Esposito

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Algorithms that work with deep learning and big data are getting so much better at doing so many things that it makes us uncomfortable. How can a device know what …
Physics and Chemistry May 16, 2022

An Infinity of Worlds

Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe

Will Kinney

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In the beginning was the Big Bang: an unimaginably hot fire almost fourteen billion years ago in which the first elements were forged. The physical theory of the hot nascent …
Education May 11, 2022

A Brief Guide to Academic Bullying

Morteza Mahmoudi

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Targets of bullying are often the most vulnerable members of the scientific workforce-they may be low-paid graduate students or postdocs, living in a foreign country, navigating a foreign language and …
Psychology May 9, 2022

So-Called Normal

A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience

Mark Henick

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
When Mark Henick was a teenager in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, he was overwhelmed by depression and anxiety that led to a series of increasingly dangerous suicide attempts. One night …
Psychology May 4, 2022

Mental Health in Academia 6

Beyond Ideas of Illness: Mental, Physical, and Social Determinants of Wellbeing

Mark Henick

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All talks …
Neuroscience April 8, 2022

Changing Connectomes

Evolution, Development, and Dynamics in Network Neuroscience

Marcus Kaiser

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The human brain undergoes massive changes during its development, from early childhood and the teenage years to adulthood and old age. Across a wide range of species, from C. elegans …
Science, Technology, and Society April 5, 2022

Where Futures Converge

Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub

Robert Buderi

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet.” It's a life science hub, hosting Biogen, Moderna, Pfizer, Takeda, and others. It's a …
Psychology March 30, 2022

Mental Health in Academia 5

Harnessing the Power of Good Anxiety

Wendy Suzuki

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All talks …
Russian and Eurasian Studies March 25, 2022

The Empress and the English Doctor

How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

Lucy Ward

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Within living memory, smallpox was a dreaded disease. Over human history, it has killed untold millions. In the eighteenth century, as epidemics swept Europe, the first rumours emerged of effective …
Psychology March 3, 2022

Mental Health in Academia 4

The Science of Managing “Stress”

Stuart Farrimond

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
We are delighted to present All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All talks …
Language March 2, 2022

Index, a History of The

A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in Index, a History of …
Psychology March 2, 2022

Four Thousand Weeks

Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed …
Literature March 1, 2022

A Brush with Love

A Novel

Mazey Eddings

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Nine out of ten dentists agree, Mazey Eddings's rom-com A Brush with Love (St. Martin's Griffin, 2022) makes your smile brighter!**not scientifically provenHarper is anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral …
Business, Management, and Marketing March 1, 2022

Cultures of Belonging

Building Inclusive Organizations That Last

Alida Miranda-Wolff

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Bypass the faulty processes and communication styles that make change impossible in so many other organizations; access these practical tools and ideas for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in …
Neuroscience February 18, 2022

A Molecule Away from Madness

Tales of the Hijacked Brain

Sara Manning Peskin

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here …
Science, Technology, and Society February 16, 2022

Your Wit Is My Command

Building AIs with a Sense of Humor

Tony Veale

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command (MIT Press, 2021), machines …
Psychology February 11, 2022

Mental Health in Academia 3

Students’ Health and Health Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland

Julia Dratva and Hilal Lashuel

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Welcome to All for One and One for All: Public Seminar Series on Mental Health in Academia and Society. All for One and One for All talks shine the light …
Mathematics February 10, 2022

Bernoulli's Fallacy

Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

Aubrey Clayton

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines …
Science February 4, 2022

The Last Stargazers

The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

Emily Levesque

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Humans from the earliest civilizations through today have craned their necks each night, using the stars to orient themselves in the large, strange world around them. Stargazing is a pursuit …
Science February 3, 2022

The Other Dark Matter

The Science and Business of Turning Waste Into Wealth and Health

Lina Zeldovich

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of the diseases it spreads, we …