Hosted by Valor Engels · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 35 episodes
Established thought leaders with verified media credentials.
Research verified across multiple sources. Every claim synthesized from academic papers, technical analysis, policy frameworks, and real-time data—then cross-checked for contradictions. Topics span science, health, technology, education, and policy.
Valor Engels hosts Yudame Research Podcast, a science show with 35 episodes published.
Gene Kranz didn't care what the hose was designed to do — he cared what it could do. That Apollo 13 moment launches a deep dive into constraint relaxation and strategic randomness, two computer science strategies that ex
What can computer networking protocols teach us about human communication? Discover how your brain's 10-bit-per-second bottleneck shapes every conversation, why exponential backoff is "the algorithm of forgiveness" for f
A mathematician proposes to the statistically optimal woman — and gets rejected. That story launches a deep dive into the 37% rule, the explore/exploit tradeoff, and multi-armed bandits as frameworks for life's biggest d
82% of hiring managers admitted they saw the warning signs during interviews—and hired anyway. Within 18 months, 46% of those new hires failed. The shocking part: 89% of failures were attitudinal, not technical. This epi
Circle pays Coinbase $908 million annually—not for technology, but for distribution. That single line from Circle's S-1 filing reveals more about running a stablecoin than any whitepaper: it's not a software business, it
Children who received social-emotional learning (SEL) at age 7 were 23% more likely to complete high school and 26% more likely to attend university—not from higher test scores, but from better self-regulation and reduce
A 2025 meta-analysis of 10,116 children found excessive screen time associated with poorer development (OR 1.24). Yet one month of coding produced Cohen's d of 1.62 for executive function—equivalent to seven months of st
Meta-analyses show mastery learning produces effect sizes of d=0.94 at elementary level, scaffolding yields g=0.46, and cross-age tutoring benefits both tutors (g=0.39) and tutees (g=0.33). Yet when RAND Corporation eval
Alpha School promises "top 2% test scores" and "2.6x faster learning" in just two hours daily using AI tutors—yet when Pennsylvania evaluated their charter application in January 2025, they rejected it unanimously as "un
Explore the operational realities, financial constraints, and evidence base for starting and running a micro-school kindergarten. We confront the central challenge: 750,000-2M children are in micro-schools, yet there's v
The same brain architecture that enables breakthrough strategic vision systematically undermines sustained execution. A 2024 meta-analysis in Nature Human Behaviour found human-AI collaboration often performs worse than
On Saturday morning, March 11, 2023, Circle disclosed $3.3 billion frozen at collapsed Silicon Valley Bank—8% of USDC reserves. USDC fell to $0.86. MakerDAO's emergency vote passed with 88,767 MKR in 2 hours, but the 48-
The Federal Reserve found that Tether (USDT) has only 6 active monthly arbitrageurs maintaining its peg, while Circle's USDC has 521—an 87-fold disparity in access to the core redemption mechanism. This isn't just a stat
In January 2022, Meta sold off Libra/Diem for $182 million—the company connecting 3 billion people couldn't launch a digital currency. David Marcus called it "100% a political kill." Three years later, Visa settled stabl
In May 2022, forty-five billion dollars vanished in seventy-two hours. Terra's UST collapse demonstrated that algorithmic elegance cannot substitute for actual reserves. MIT researchers confirmed sophisticated investors
On Friday, March 10, 2023, Circle disclosed that $3.3 billion of USDC reserves—8% of total backing and 34% of cash holdings—sat frozen at the failed Silicon Valley Bank. USDC crashed to $0.87 as the Bank for Internationa
The Nomad Bridge was drained of $190 million in August 2022—not by sophisticated hackers, but by hundreds of copycats who simply copied a transaction and changed the recipient address. The vulnerability had been flagged
Poor sleep quality increases coronary heart disease risk by 44%—rivaling traditional risk factors like hypertension and high cholesterol. That's why the American Heart Association added sleep as the 8th component of thei
Finnish men who sauna 4-7 times weekly have 63% lower sudden cardiac death risk—numbers rivaling aggressive pharmaceutical intervention. Meanwhile, social isolation increases cardiovascular mortality by 61% in men, makin
When Italian researchers examined arterial plaques from 257 patients in early 2024, they found microplastics embedded in diseased tissue—patients with detectable plastics experienced cardiovascular events at 4.5x the rat
Sponsor detection runs nightly. Check back soon.
No public pitch examples yet for this show.
Generate your own personalised pitchBased on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:
Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.
Shows with the most semantically similar episode content. Pitch one, pitch all; producers cluster.
Yudame Research Podcast has a verified contact on file. Create a free PitchCentric account to access it and generate a personalised pitch in seconds. Research at least 3 recent episodes first and lead with a specific angle that serves their science audience.
Yudame Research Podcast is hosted by Valor Engels. The show is categorised under science (education) and has published 35 episodes.
Yudame Research Podcast has published 35 episodes.
Yudame Research Podcast regularly covers science, education, technology. It sits in the science category, with a education focus.
Yudame Research Podcast is accessible for guests with genuine science expertise. A personalised, episode-aware pitch will still outperform a generic one every time.
Yudame Research Podcast hasn't explicitly signalled guest openness in recent episodes. That doesn't rule out pitching. your hook just needs to be especially compelling and relevant to their recent content.
Episodes of Yudame Research Podcast average 37 minutes. a focused format where a clear narrative arc and tight preparation matter most.
Our data rates Yudame Research Podcast's guest bar at 80/100 (Premium tier). Established thought leaders with verified media credentials. Sign in to PitchCentric to see how your own Pod Score compares against this show.
Methodology. Booking Probability™ blends Listen Score, 30-day Virality, open-to-guests detection, and Apple ratings. Data refreshed every 60 minutes. Listen Score and Booking Probability are calculated by PitchCentric. Last enriched 2 days ago.
