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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:

Physics and Chemistry April 3, 2023

The Evolution of Everything

The Patterns and Causes of Big History

Brian Villmoare

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Big History seeks to retell the human story in light of scientific advances by such methods as radiocarbon dating and genetic analysis. Brian Villmoare's book The Evolution of Everything: The Patterns …
Science, Technology, and Society November 18, 2022

The Leak

Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a world-class, Nobel Prize-winning lab, and its reactor was the …
Medicine November 15, 2022

Methuselah's Zoo

What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives

Steven N. Austad

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 …
Biology and Evolution November 7, 2022

A World in a Shell

Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

Thom van Dooren

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 Shell: Snail Stories …
Medicine November 4, 2022

Drugs and the FDA

Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust

Mikkael A. Sekeres

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 Avastin. Food and Drug Administration …
Neuroscience November 4, 2022

A Stethoscope for the Brain

Preventive Approaches to Protect the Mind

Ayan S. Mandal

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 can check your blood pressure to predict …
Technology November 3, 2022

How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms

Gerd Gigerenzer

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world …
Neuroscience November 3, 2022

Curious Minds

The Power of Connection

Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding …
History of Science November 2, 2022

Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus

A Morbid Guide

Joanna Ebenstein

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons and other human remains, that flicker …
Politics & Polemics November 2, 2022

Chingona

Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice

Alma Zaragoza-Petty

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice (Broadleaf Books, 2022), Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish …
Technology November 1, 2022

Sensing Machines

How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life

Chris Salter

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of …
Medicine November 1, 2022

Care-Centered Politics

From the Home to the Planet

Robert Gottlieb

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of …
Medicine October 31, 2022

The Exquisite Machine

The New Science of the Heart

Sian E. Harding

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 live to 100, that would …
Sociology October 31, 2022

Behind Their Screens

What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)

Emily Weinstein and Carrie James

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults' assumptions, they are not simply "addicted" to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or …
Medicine July 22, 2022

Tornado of Life

A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER

Jay Baruch

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 doctor’s most critical …
Higher Education July 22, 2022

The Real World of College

What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be

Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 interviews with more than 2,00 …
Film July 20, 2022

Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image

Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg's edited volume Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image (MIT Press, 2022) offers intersectional, intergenerational, and international perspectives on nonfiction film- and videomaking by and about women …
Medicine July 15, 2022

Genomics

How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare

Rachael Pells

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 developing?In Genomics: How Genome Sequencing …
History of Science July 6, 2022

Elusive

How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

Frank Close

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
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 understanding why particles have mass …
Geography June 30, 2022

Atlas of the Invisible

Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World

James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal …
Biology and Evolution June 28, 2022

Extinctions

Living and Dying in the Margin of Error

Michael Hannah

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Today I talked to Michael Hannah about his book Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error (Cambridge UP, 2021). Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass …
Science, Technology, and Society June 27, 2022

How to Take Over the World

Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

Ryan North

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What's the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund …
Biology and Evolution June 27, 2022

Different

Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Frans de Waal

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (W. W. Norton, 2022), world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal …
Science, Technology, and Society June 24, 2022

Inequality

A Genetic History

Carles Lalueza-Fox

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality: A Genetic History (MIT Press, 2022), Carles Lalueza-Fox …