Scientific Sense ®

How does the brain work?   Prof. Patricia Churchland is Professor Emirita at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests span many areas including morality, neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Animal Liberation, Morality, Race, Religion, the Journal of Controversial Ideas and the Golden Ass. Prof. Peter Singer who is Professor of BioEthics at Princeton University.  He works mostly in practical ethics, and is best known for Animal Liberation and for his writings about global poverty.

Dissecting X-ray-Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy, AzTEC Survey of the Central Molecular Zone: Increasing Spectral Index of Dust with Density, and Chandra large-scale mapping of the Galactic Centre: probing high-energy structures around the central molecular zone. Prof. Daniel Wang is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests span examining various high-energy sources of the interstellar medium, characterizing the global structure as well as the physical and chemical states of hot gas in and around galaxies; investigating the interplay of high-energy radiation and gas with other galactic components and exploring the interaction of galaxies with their environment.

Chaotic dynamics of stellar spin in binaries and the production of misaligned hot Jupiters, Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Mergers in Triple Systems: Merger Fraction and Spin-Orbit Misalignment, Secular chaos in white-dwarf planetary systems, Giant planet scatterings and collisions: hydrodynamics, merger-ejection branching ratio, and properties of the remnants, and Jupiter's Dynamical Love Number.  Prof Dong Lai is professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. His research interests include Astrophysics of neutron stars, black holes, whited dwarfs, exoplanets, and astrophysical fluid dynamics. Prof Dong Lai is professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. His research interests include Astrophysics of neutron stars, black holes, white dwarfs, exoplanets, and astrophysical fluid dynamics.

Why clinical trials fail to validate efficacy of interventions predicted by observational studies of ‘risks’ for dementia-Alzheimer syndrome?, Bi-directional Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Immune Markers with Stage of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis, and Cerebrospinal fluid protein markers suggest a pathway toward symptomatic resilience to AD pathology Prof John Breitner is Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. He is also Director of the Centre for Studies on Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease at the Douglas Research Centre

Are Power Plant Closures a Breath of Fresh Air? Local Air Quality and School Absences, The Effect of Coal-Fired Power Plant Closures on Emergency Department Visits for Asthma-Related Conditions Among 0- to 4-Year-Old Children in Chicago, 2009–2017, Valuing the Environmental Costs of Local Development: Evidence From Households in Western Nepal, Does improved risk information increase the value of cholera prevention? An analysis of stated vaccine demand in slum areas of urban Bangladesh, Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism? and Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference? Prof. Sarah Komisarow is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Duke university and Prof. Emily Pakhtigian, Who is Assistant Professor of Public Policy Penn State University.

Global policies for the pandemic and India Covid Second Wave. Prof. Anup Malani who is a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Medical School. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Schaeffer Center and an editor at the Journal of Law and Economics.

American immigration and citizenship, Chinatown: Conflicting images and Contested terrain, and the 1903 Boston Chinatown raid. Prof. K. Scott Wong is Professor of History at Williams College where he teaches a variety of courses on Asian American history, American immigration history, History and Memory, War and Society, and the Sixties. He has written numerous articles and is the author of Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2005.)

Blindness and Human Brain Plasticity Prof. Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. Her lab studies the mechanisms of plasticity in the human brain by linking changes in function to changes in neuroanatomical structure, with a particular focus on the effects of early sensory loss and prosthetic vision.

Condensed matter’s image problem, Electron pairing in the pseudogap state revealed by shot noise in copper oxide junctions, and Thermoelectric response from grain boundaries and lattice distortions in crystalline gold devices Prof. Douglas Natelson is professor and chair of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. His research group focuses on the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of nanoscale structures.