Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Wade Troxell asking how do things connect beyond just the physical phenomena?
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People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:
- Student Senior design projects https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/senior-design/
- Agricultural (ag) sciences https://agsci.colostate.edu/department/
- 10,000 tons of bovine hair waste: https://agsci.colostate.edu/directory/bio/?user=1712
- Paradox of design as an ill-formed problem (design synthesis approach) - MECH 580B5 (Artificial Intelligence and Engr Design) course notes. Contact Wade Troxell.
- Roger L. Firestien. Solve the Real Problem: Because what you think is the problem is usually not the problem. 2024. https://www.amazon.com/Solve-Real-Problem-Because-problem/dp/183663191X
- Einstein’s quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/05/22/solve/
- Make-a-wish foundation: https://wish.org/
- Peter Kageyama: https://www.fortheloveofcities.com/
- City Give - City of Fort Collins: https://www.fcgov.com/citygive/
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Join Mayla as she interviews Kayla de la Haye!
How do we transform complex food and health systems for good?
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Citations:
Seung Hee Lee et al. Adults Meeting Fruit and Vegetable Intake - Recommendations — United States, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7101a1
Junxiu Liu et al. Trends in Diet Quality Among U.S. Adults From 1999 to 2020 by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Disadvantage. 2024. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7326/M24-0190
Ana Bulsa et al. Using nudges to improve food choices. 2024. https://tinyurl.com/anabalusa
Silvia Sapio et al.The effect of nudges on healthy food choices of individuals with a low socio-economic position: A systematic literature review. 2024. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224424001511
Alix Martichoux. Changes to SNAP benefits take effect in October: What to know. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/alixsnap
Incentive strategy to double your bucks if you purchase fruits and vegetables: https://marketmatch.org/ & https://doubleupamerica.org/
Bernardo García Bulle Bueno et al. Effect of mobile food environments on fast food visits. 2024. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46425-2
Australian Government research organization on nutritional sciences - CSIRO: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/health-medical/nutrition?start=0&count=12
Food Insecurity in LA County project: https://publicexchange.usc.edu/food-insecurity-in-la-county/
Surveys to monitor diet, food, and nutrition security: https://tinyurl.com/dietsur
Kayla de la Haye et al. Enough to Eat: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity and the Food Environment in L.A. County April 2020–September 2021. https://tinyurl.com/kayladlhfood
The Los Angeles County Food Equity Roundtable: https://foodequityroundtable.lacounty.gov/ & https://lacountyfoodequityroundtable.org/report/
LA County Office of Food Systems https://lacountyfoodsystems.org/
Marcia Brown. USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/marciausda
Matthew P. Rabbitt et al. Food Security in the U.S. - Key Statistics & Graphics. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/mattusda
Kayla de la Haye et al. Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Los Angeles County, October 2024. https://tinyurl.com/kaylafood
Kayla de la Haye class: SSCI 175g: Food, Health and Place. https://dornsife.usc.edu/spatial/ssci-175g-food-health-and-place/
Nick Chater. The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray. 2022. https://tinyurl.com/nickpolicy
Ji Lin et al. Projection of the future diabetes burden in the United States through 2060. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0166-4
Daniéla Oliveira Magro et al. Long-term weight regain after gastric bypass: a 5-year prospective study. 2008. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11695-007-9265-1
The Economic Times. McDonald’s downgraded amid Ozempic craze - investors worry fast food losing charm, stock under pressure. 2025. https://tinyurl.com/ozempicstock
Vince Martin. Analysis: Ozempic Likely to Impact Snack Manufacturers’ Bottom Line. 2024. https://tinyurl.com/ozempicsnack
Hannah Ritchie. Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. 2019. https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions
UCLA Dining. Fight Climate Change with Food. https://dining.ucla.edu/carbonfootprint/
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Julie Horvath who is asking How do our genetics and the microbes that live on our body impact our health and behavior?
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People, places, and/or citations mentioned in this episode with links to learn more:
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: https://naturalsciences.org
Jack Hanna: https://www.jackhanna.com
Karen Friderici: https://directory.natsci.msu.edu/Directory/Profiles/Person/101713
Citizen scientists (participate in research projects!): https://www.zooniverse.org and https://scistarter.org are portals that connect people to many different projects
Monkey health project: http://monkeyhealthexplorer.org and https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mbarrierz/monkey-health-explorer
Microbes and body odor study: https://www.the-scientist.com/how-are-earwax-and-body-odor-linked-72476
https://time.com/4207846/deodorant-antiperspirant-microorganisms/
Placental microbiome controversy: https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12866-023-02764-6
Team Science at RENCI: https://renci.org/team-science/
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest, David Brandman, who is asking “How does the brain work to help people with paralysis?”
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https://neuroprosthetics.science/
Citations mentioned in this episode:
BrainGate clinical trial: braingate.org
Paradromics: paradromics.com
https://www.massdevice.com/paradromics-launch-bci-study-2025-investigators/
Neuralink: https://neuralink.com/
All News and Journal Articles about Casey: https://neuroprosthetics.science/?news
People mentioned in this episode:
Casey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPhBDVSxz0
Neuroprosthetics Lab: 3 postdocs, faculty scientist, 4 PhD students, 3 staff
Sergey Stavisky
The patients
Garnnete Sutherland
Leigh Hochberg
P. Daniel McNeely
Gwynedd Pickett
Bob Gross
ASSFN: American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (https://newsletters.aans.org/assfn/)
Nicholas Boulis
Kia Shahlaie
Eric Leuthardt
Sarah Miller (wife)
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Bradley Shavit Artson who is asking: How do we unlock the capacity of religion to allow us to experience joy and connection?
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Citations mentioned:
Neff, Kristin D. "Self‐compassion, self‐esteem, and well‐being." Social and personality psychology compass 5.1 (2011): 1-12.
Artson, Bradley Shavit. “Wells of Wisdom”, in progress: What resources does Jewish wisdom bring to the conversation for people on how to organize their spiritual lives?
Hebrew Bible https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh
Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth J., et al. "Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility." Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2024).
Checketts, Levi. Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.
The Talmud: https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud
Terms mentioned:
Religio: "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods; conscientiousness, sense of right, moral obligation; fear of the gods; divine service, religious observance; a religion, a faith, a mode of worship, cult; sanctity, holiness," in Late Latin "monastic life" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/religio-)
Seder: “a Jewish home or community service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seder)
Planck Time: “the length of time at which no smaller meaningful length can be validly measured due to the indeterminacy expressed in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Theoretically, this is the shortest time measurement that is possible” (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time)
People mentioned :
Moses
My wife
My parents
My grandparents
People I run into who may offer a throwaway comment
Teachers, Rabbis
God
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Paul Lerner who is asking what did the world look like in different historical moments and how profoundly different the past was from the present but also how similar it was?
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Citations mentioned in this episode:
Plato. The Apology of Plato. The Clarendon press, 1867.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929). Freud took the concept of “oceanic feeling” from his friend Romain Rolland who described it in a 1927 letter to Freud.
Re:Thinking with Adam Grant: https://adamgrant.net/podcasts/rethinking/
Definition of fascism disagreement: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/what-was-the-fascism-debate/
Mayla R. Boguslav (2023). Revealing and Exploring the Literature’s Known Unknowns: Ignorance and How It Drives Science (Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus).
People:
Students
(Isadore) Jack Lerner (Paul’s Father), 1930-2024
Karl Joachim (Jock) Weintraub, 1924-2004. Thomas E. Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Chicago, also taught in the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the History of Culture, the Humanities Division and the College
Socrates (ca. 470 BCE - 399 BCE), foundational Greek philosopher.
Leora Auslander, Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in the Departments of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and History, The University of Chicago
Friedrich (Fred) Hacker (1914-1989), Vienna-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who practiced mostly in Los Angeles and specialized in the psychology of violence and terror.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French Historian and Philosopher of Science
Bruno Latour (1947-2022), French Philosopher, Anthropologist, and Sociologist
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996), Historian and Philosopher of Science
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Teri Hernandez who is asking what pregnant people should eat?
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Citations mentioned in this episode:
Low carb vs. high carb in gestational diabetes:
Hernandez TL, Mande A, Barbour LA. Nutrition therapy within and beyond gestational diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2018 Nov;145:39-50. doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2018.04.004. Epub 2018 Apr 19. PMID: 29679625; PMCID: PMC6195478.
Barbour LA, Hernandez TL. Maternal Lipids and Fetal Overgrowth: Making Fat from Fat. Clin Ther. 2018 Oct;40(10):1638-1647. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2018.08.007. Epub 2018 Sep 18. PMID: 30236792; PMCID: PMC6195465.
Longitudinal studies:
Barbour LA, Farabi SS, Friedman JE, Hirsch NM, Reece MS, Van Pelt RE, Hernandez TL. Postprandial Triglycerides Predict Newborn Fat More Strongly than Glucose in Women with Obesity in Early Pregnancy. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Aug;26(8):1347-1356. doi: 10.1002/oby.22246. Epub 2018 Jun 22. PMID: 29931812; PMCID: PMC6107410.
Banteen and Bess - insulin discovery 1923:
Bliss, Michael. The Discovery of Insulin: University of Chicago Press, 2021. University of Chicago Press
CHOICE study:
Hernandez TL, Farabi SS, Fosdick BK, Hirsch N, Dunn EZ, Rolloff K, Corbett JP, Haugen E, Marden T, Higgins J, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. Randomization to a Provided Higher-Complex-Carbohydrate Versus Conventional Diet in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Results in Similar Newborn Adiposity. Diabetes Care. 2023 Nov 1;46(11):1931-1940. doi: 10.2337/dc23-0617. PMID: 37643311; PMCID: PMC10620537.
Free fatty acid finding (replication): first study:
Hernandez TL, Van Pelt RE, Anderson MA, Daniels LJ, West NA, Donahoo WT, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. A higher-complex carbohydrate diet in gestational diabetes mellitus achieves glucose targets and lowers postprandial lipids: a randomized crossover study. Diabetes Care. 2014;37(5):1254-62. doi: 10.2337/dc13-2411. Epub 2014 Mar 4. PMID: 24595632; PMCID: PMC3994935.
Hernandez TL, Farabi SS, Fosdick BK, Hirsch N, Dunn EZ, Rolloff K, Corbett JP, Haugen E, Marden T, Higgins J, Friedman JE, Barbour LA. Randomization to a Provided Higher-Complex-Carbohydrate Versus Conventional Diet in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Results in Similar Newborn Adiposity. Diabetes Care. 2023 Nov 1;46(11):1931-1940. doi: 10.2337/dc23-0617. PMID: 37643311; PMCID: PMC10620537.
Low carb saga:
Hernandez TL. Carbohydrate Content in the GDM Diet: Two Views: View 1: Nutrition Therapy in Gestational Diabetes: The Case for Complex Carbohydrates. Diabetes Spectr. 2016 May;29(2):82-8. doi: 10.2337/diaspect.29.2.82. PMID: 27182176; PMCID: PMC4865387.
Largest cohort study of pregnancy (early 2000s) - 25,000 people:
HAPO Study Cooperative Research Group; Metzger BE, Lowe LP, Dyer AR, Trimble ER, Chaovarindr U, Coustan DR, Hadden DR, McCance DR, Hod M, McIntyre HD, Oats JJ, Persson B, Rogers MS, Sacks DA. Hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2008 May 8;358(19):1991-2002. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0707943. PMID: 18463375.
People:
Dr. Robert Eckel: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/endocrinology/about-us/endo-bios/Eckel-Robert-UCD12770
Dr. Linda Barbour: https://som.cuanschutz.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/12537
Dr. Richard Feynman: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.pdf
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest Larry Hunter who is asking about our desires including where do they come from? What are desires? Who or what can desire? Listen to learn about the fundamental nature of these questions and the many different fields that touch on these questions.
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People, research, & citations mentioned in this episode:
Citations:
Artemy Kolchinsky and David H. Wolpert “Semantic information, autonomous agency and non-equilibrium statistical physics.” Interface FocusVolume 8, Issue 6. 19 October 2018 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2018.0041
Barrett, Lisa Feldman. “How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.” Pan Macmillan, 2017.
Ram, Ashwin, and Lawrence Hunter. "The use of explicit goals for knowledge to guide inference and learning." Applied Intelligence 2 (1992): 47-73.
David Silver, Satinder Singh, Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, “Reward is enough,” Artificial Intelligence,
Volume 299, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103535.
Prat, Chantel. “The neuroscience of you: how every brain is different and how to understand yours”. Penguin, 2022.
People:
Artemy Kolchinsky
David Wolpert
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Ashwin Ram
Larry’s Mother
Larry’s Partner
Unnamed philosopher
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Join Mayla Boguslav as she interviews this episode’s guest James Wilson, who is asking questions about computation and its energy cost, discussing being there for his students through dialogue, and appreciating the small wins in life.
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