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About Howard Burton

Host of Ideas Roadshow

Howard Burton is the founder of Ideas Roadshow and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.

NBN Episodes hosted by Howard:

Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 25, 2022

Politicizing the COVID Pandemic

Pandemic Perspectives 12

Michael Berry

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies on American scapegoating, Chinese censorship and …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 18, 2022

The Covid Pandemic and Learning about Learning

Pandemic Perspectives 11

Stephen Kosslyn

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned cognitive psychologist Stephen Kosslyn about how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced, or didn't influence, our understanding …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 11, 2022

Covid and the Art of Science Communication

Pandemic Perspectives 10

John Tregoning

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to John Tregoning, Imperial College respiratory infections researcher and author of the acclaimed book Infectious: Pathogens and …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast May 4, 2022

Covid, 'Scientism,' and the Betrayal of the Enlightenment

Pandemic Perspectives 9

Charles Foster

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to bestselling author and University of Oxford law professor Charles Foster on how the coronavirus pandemic reveals …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 27, 2022

Covid and the Embrace of the Biological World

Pandemic Perspectives 8

Patricia Churchland

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned UC San Diego neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland about the importance of communicating science, the wonders of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 20, 2022

Covid 19 Political Lessons from Portugal

Pandemic Perspectives 7

Alexandre Quintanilha

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Portuguese Member of Parliament and internationally renowned biologist Alexandre Quintanilha about the many valuable lessons Portugal's …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 13, 2022

COVID and the Importance of Political Understanding

Pandemic Perspectives 6

John Dunn

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to renowned University of Cambridge political theorist John Dunn about what the COVID-19 pandemic reveals about our …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast April 6, 2022

Necessarily Global: How the Pandemic Forces Us To Think Bigger

Pandemic Perspectives 5

Andy Hoffman

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Andy Hoffman, the dynamic and innovative business professor at the University of Michigan, about what the …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast March 30, 2022

History, Morality and the Pandemic

Pandemic Perspectives 4

Lorraine Daston

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Lorraine Daston, director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast March 23, 2022

Neoliberalism, Human Rights and Our Collective Response to COVID

Pandemic Perspectives 3

Samuel Moyn

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University, about …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast March 16, 2022

COVID-19 Through the Eyes of a Geneticist

Pandemic Perspectives 2

Stephen Scherer

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Stephen Scherer, Chief of Research at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, about how lessons learned from …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast March 9, 2022

The Urgent Need for Effective International Cooperation

Pandemic Perspectives 1

Miguel Nicolelis

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this first Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis who became trapped in his native Brazil when the pandemic …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 31, 2021

Ocean Enlightenment

Edie Widder

Hosted by Howard Burton
Ocean Enlightenment is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Edie Widder, Founder, CEO and Senior Scientist at Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA). After an inspiring …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 30, 2021

The Mind-Body Problem

Janko Tipsarevic

Hosted by Howard Burton
The Mind-Body Problem is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Janko Tipsarevic, who is a former professional tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of world …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 29, 2021

From Linear A to Linear B

Suggestive Continuity

Ester Salgarella

Hosted by Howard Burton
In this episode, Howard Burton talks with Ester Salgarella, Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Cambridge, about her groundbreaking work on the intriguing relationship between Linear A …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 28, 2021

Inflated Expectations

A Cosmological Tale

Paul Steinhardt

Hosted by Howard Burton
We have developed two distinct books, Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals, and Inflated Expectations: A Cosmological Tale, based on Howard Burton’s in-depth, filmed conversations with Paul Steinhardt, the …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 27, 2021

Coral Reefs

Science and Survival

Charles Sheppard

Hosted by Howard Burton
Coral Reefs: Science and Survival is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Charles Sheppard, Professor of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. Charles Sheppard has …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 24, 2021

The Pull of the Stars

Claudia de Rham

Hosted by Howard Burton
The Pull of the Stars is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Claudia de Rham, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London. After inspiring insights …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 23, 2021

The Physics of Banjos

David Politzer

Hosted by Howard Burton
The Physics of Banjos is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and David Politzer, 2004 Nobel Laureate and the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics at …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 21, 2021

Minds and Machines

Miguel Nicolelis

Hosted by Howard Burton
Minds and Machines is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Miguel Nicolelis, Professor of Neurobiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience and Orthopaedic Surgery and …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 20, 2021

Free Will

An Investigation

Alfred Mele

Hosted by Howard Burton
Free Will: An Investigation is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Alfred Mele, the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 17, 2021

For the Love of History

Margaret MacMillan

Hosted by Howard Burton
For the Love of History is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Margaret MacMillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 16, 2021

A Universe of Particles

Cosmological Reflections

Rocky Kolb

Hosted by Howard Burton
A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Rocky Kolb, the Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics …
Ideas Roadshow Podcast December 14, 2021

Enlightened Entrepreneurialism

Margaret Jacob

Hosted by Howard Burton
Enlightened Entrepreneurialism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Margaret Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA. Topics examined during this extensive conversation include Margaret Jacob’s …