Oct 27, 202622 min
The longer version In this episode, Sujata walked us through what coral cores can reveal about past climate and how they can help us forecast future conditions. She also went further, explaining what natural climate...
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The Short Version
Hosted by University at Albany · science · EN
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Quick insights for busy people. We're helping you understand the world 15 minutes at a time. Recorded in Albany, New York, at the University at Albany, one of the most diverse public research institutions in the United States.
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What is The Short Version about?
Quick insights for busy people. We're helping you understand the world 15 minutes at a time. Recorded in Albany, New York, at the University at Albany, one of the most diverse public research institutions in the United States.
What has The Short Version covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Oceans, on the record: What corals can tell us about our past and future climate" (27 October 2026, 22 minutes), "Only murders in Draper Hall: How college students are helping crack real cold cases" (14 October 2026, 20 minutes), and "Skies 'wide open': Bringing UAP studies into the scientific mainstream" (5 October 2026, 26 minutes).
How often does The Short Version publish?
The Short Version publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 30 episodes.
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Booking probability for The Short Version is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Short Version requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Short Version's contact route on record: verified email.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 14, 202620 minThe longer version Cold case analysis is difficult, complicated work, and even explaining what it entails comes with its own set of challenges. Investigators often have to dig through old stores of evidence that may be...
Oct 5, 202626 minThe longer version: During our conversation with Kevin, there was a question that kept bugging us. Assuming that it would require extraordinarily advanced technology to travel the enormous distances between stars, why...
Episode #25
Making the golden years glitter: Living long vs. well — and what healthy aging really means
Sep 30, 202620 minThe Long(er) Version: Part of our conversation covered practical ways that AI-enabled technologies could support healthy aging in a variety of contexts — from preventing falls and providing companionship to facilitating...
Sep 23, 202622 minThe Longer Version: In addition to capital punishment, Jim Acker has extensively studied wrongful convictions — that is, those moments when our justice system fails the accused in the worst imaginable way. It’s a...
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Sep 15, 202621 minThe Longer Version Over the last few weeks, the news cycle has once again been boiling with AI anxiety after revelations that lots of OpenAI agents teamed up on a hacking spree and warnings from a former Anthropic...
Sep 9, 202621 minThe Longer Version: In part of our interview that didn’t make the final edit, we spoke to Prabha in greater depth about a word that comes up a lot when talking about AI: reasoning . It’s a word with very human...
Sep 2, 202622 minThe Longer Version: One of the most interesting gambling debates happening in New York right now is not about casinos (New York has long since legalized and licensed them ), or mobile sports betting ( also...
Aug 26, 202620 minThe longer version: In our interview, Sarah spoke about the role that social media platforms can play in making their spaces safer for users. Some of these options can be controlled by changing app settings, but Sarah...
May 6, 202619 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>In this episode, Danny recounts his experience as an expert witness in a murder trial evaluating two competing sets of crime scene photographs of blood stains. What the photos showed (or...
Apr 29, 202618 minS0<h2>The longer version:</h2> <p>There were so many interesting threads to this conversation that we couldn't include in the final edit, including Erica's take on whether folks in the 19th century knew William Mumler...
Apr 22, 202618 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>Sustainability conversations aren't just about high-minded principles of environmental stewardship. At their core, they are conversations about the mundane, largely unseen building...
Apr 15, 202616 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>In this week’s episode, Arun discussed how DNA nanostructures can be used for biotech as well as data storage. We asked about other applications being explored in the broader field of...
Apr 8, 202620 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>On his syllabus for a course called Realism and Climate Fiction, Mike Hill includes two texts that don’t — on their face —seem like obvious choices for a class exploring the emergence of...
Apr 1, 202619 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>If you’ve heard Havidán Rodríguez speak publicly, odds are you’ve heard him say the phrase, “it’s always a great day to be a Great Dane.” It’s his thing.</p> <p>But there’s another...
Episode #14
Beyond Bad Bunny: Explaining the deeply entangled traditions of Puerto Rican music and politics
Mar 25, 202617 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>If you’ve found your way to a podcast inspired partly by Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show and haven’t yet seen it, be sure to check it out so you can understand the full context of...
Mar 11, 202617 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2> <p>We couldn’t interview the director of UAlbany’s Career Center without asking him for his top tips on how to approach career exploration — or re-exploration if you find yourself at a...
Mar 4, 202616 minS0<h3> </h3> <h2>The longer version </h2> <p>Annalisa’s lab is working to understand how the brain processes spatial awareness — both to inform medical advances for dementia research and to advance technologies seeking to...
Feb 25, 202618 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2><p>The title of Bryan Early and Togzhan Kassenova’s forthcoming book on the financing and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is evocative: Banks and The Bomb.</p><p>The bomb. As...
Feb 18, 202617 minS0<h2>The longer version: </h2><p>Lately, Cecilia Levy’s contributions to LUX-ZEPLIN’s hunt for direct evidence of dark matter come in the form of computational physics — that is, the extraordinarily complex analysis of...
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Togzhan Kassenova
Senior Fellow, Center for Policy Research
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Michael Christakis
University at Albany
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Max Turner
University at Albany
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Morgan Sammons
UAlbany
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