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The Convergent Science Network (CSN) Podcast began in 2010 at the Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology (BCBT) Summer School, where hosts Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott sat down with leading scientists right after their lectures. BCBT turned into a series of annual schools on neuroscience, robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and biology and is led by Anna Mura. Recordings were done at the Fundació Phonos in Barcelona. What started as informal post-lecture conversations has grown into an archive of 120+ episodes, featuring Nobel laureates, pioneering neuroscientists, roboticists, and interdisciplinary thinkers from around the world. In 2021, the podcast expanded with a new Collaboration series — produced in partnership with the Ernst Strüngmann Forum — exploring how collaboration arises, and why it fails, across business, government, science, art, health, and sustainability. This series
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Convergent Science Network (CSN) Podcast began in 2010 at the Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology (BCBT) Summer School, where hosts Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott sat down with leading scientists right after their lectures. BCBT turned into a series of annual schools on neuroscience, robotics, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and biology and is led by Anna Mura.
Recent episodes include "Podcast with Jonathan Whitlock on markerless motion capture and posterior parietal cortex" (5 May 2026, 57 minutes), "Podcast with Luis Puelles on neuroanatomy and prosomeric model" (5 May 2026, 65 minutes), and "Podcast with Zoltan Molnar on subplate neurons and cortical development" (5 May 2026, 70 minutes).
The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 120 episodes.
Booking probability for The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology's contact route on record: verified email.
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The Convergent Science Podcasts on Mind, Brain and Technology is a science show with 120 episodes published.
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Episode #1
How do you track what an animal's brain is doing when the animal itself is moving through space in complex ways? Neuroscientist Jonathan Whitlock from NTNU Trondheim describes the technical odyssey of building a...
Episode #2
What if the standard anatomical maps of the brain have been wrong for over a century, and the molecular evidence was there all along? Neuroanatomist Luis Puelles from the University of Murcia explains how developmental...
Episode #3
What happens to the temporary scaffolding cells that help build the brain during development, and could their remnants explain cognitive disorders? Neuroscientist Zoltan Molnar from the University of Oxford returns to...
Episode #1
How do adversarial lawyers, disagreeing judges, and competing branches of government collaborate to produce justice? Ernst Numann, recently retired Vice President of the Dutch Supreme Court, reveals the hidden...
Episode #24
From a hut on the Arabian Sea to building a 1,500-bed hospital and 100,000 houses for the underserved , Swami Shantamritananda Puri's journey through monastic life, disaster relief, and humanitarian collaboration across...
Episode #23
What if everything we think we know about collaboration is based on only 5% of the world's population? Developmental psychologist Heidi Keller challenges Western assumptions about teamwork, parenting, and collective...
Episode #22
How do you push 27 EU member states toward a single climate target when every country has different interests? Former EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard reveals the invisible mechanics of political collaboration...
Episode #21
Can mathematics compose music? Can robots create art that is genuinely good for people? Brazilian mathematician and composer Jonatas Manzolli explores the collision between understanding and interpretation , and why...
Episode #20
What does it take to make a thousand full professors, each king of their own empire, work together as equals? Sijbrand de Jong, former president of the CERN Council, reveals how the world's largest scientific...
Episode #19
Why do some people sacrifice their income, freedom, or even their lives for strangers who can never repay them? Political scientist Margaret Levi unpacks the concept of "communities of fate" and reveals how...
Episode #18
What happens when a global religious organization operating in 90 countries tries to practice genuine collaboration instead of top-down mission work? Rafael Malpica-Padilla, executive director of the Evangelical...
Episode #17
What can Indian family dynamics teach us about collaboration at every scale? Developmental psychologist Nandita Chaudhary reveals why affection, trust, and empathic leadership are the invisible infrastructure behind...
Episode #16
Why did ancient civilizations bury 20% of their GDP in tombs and turn half their grain into beer? Edward Slingerland, scholar of Chinese philosophy and cognitive science of religion, argues that religion and alcohol are...
Episode #15
On an island in eastern Congo, 200,000 people live with a life expectancy of 26 years and half a dozen doctors. Pediatrician and public health scholar Annie Sparrow works in places like this, and in conflict zones from...
Episode #14
From Doctors Without Borders to the United Nations to Fairtrade International , what does a career spent inside the world's largest collaborative institutions reveal about why global cooperation works and when it fails...
Episode #13
Europe's greatest collaborative achievement , transforming a war-devastated continent into one of the world's richest regions , is now at risk because cooperation has replaced genuine collaboration. Heritage scholar Rob...
Episode #12
What if the missing ingredient in every failed development project, broken institution, and dysfunctional team is not better rules but love? Deepa Narayan, who spent 35 years working on global poverty, including 20...
Episode #11
A foundation giving away $600 million a year still cannot solve climate change alone. Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation, explains why philanthropy's greatest challenge is not funding but collaboration...
Episode #10
How does a decentralized youth movement with 500 local hubs coordinate climate action at the national level without losing its grassroots soul? Naina Agrawal-Hardin, organizer with the Sunrise Movement and the US Youth...
Episode #9
What do cancer cells, cyber warfare, and the prisoner's dilemma have in common? They all reveal how collaboration really works , and why it breaks down. Listen to political scientist Robert Axelrod explain the hidden...
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