Imagine a world where we could uncover the past by listening to music. Well, imagine no more, because sonic heritage does just that. Dr. Angela Bellia, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science, explains how listening to music from different time periods contributes to experiencing places with all of our senses. As well as this, she discusses how technology such as computer-aided modelling is widening the scope of what was once thought possible. Hosted on Acast. See...

We are excited to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Mina Sami and Wael Abdallah about the impact that cryptocurrencies have on African firms. We discuss, not the ups and downs of crypto value, but rather the real world impact that cryptocurrencies have beyond their value. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This year for Peer Review Week 2022 we were delighted to have an opportunity to sit down the Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica), co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee. In this fascinating and at-times meta conversation, Stefan Tochev and Unai Vicario ask questions about our guests, the state of peer review, and where things might be heading. Hosted on Acast....

We catch up with Nick King and Professor Aled Jones from the Global Sustainability Institute to think about some of the consequences of pushing our planet and societies beyond their limits, how the world might look when the dust settles, and whether we can prevent the collapse of our increasingly complex systems. As we discuss their 2020 article in Sustainability, An Analysis of the Potential for Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity’. You can find the link here and I really encourage...

Today on Insight Faster we’re back at the afterparty for the 2021 Global Sustainability Awards. This time it’s with Professor John Elkington. Creator of the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ and now founder and leader of thinktank sustainability thinktank Volans, Professor Elkington has been leading the sustainability for decades. We’ll dive deep into his work with both Volans and the brand new Green Swans Observatory and we’ll discuss his new book Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism....

In Episode 3 of Insight Faster, we welcome Chris Rhodes from the University of Manchester, who is redefining our relationship with computers, composition and music using gestural interfaces for musical composition. In our discussion we’ll explore exactly what that means, why it matters, and listen to some of the music he’s created during his research. It’s technology with wide-ranging and exciting implications, and its potential is only just beginning to be realized.   Here’s a link to some...

To kick off our World Sustainability Awards afterparty, we’ve been speaking to Emerging Sustainability Leader Dr Lela Mélon. Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Project at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Dr Mélon has already begun to transform higher education and is setting her sights on business. We’ll talk about the Planetary Wellbeing Project, what it’s doing, why, as well as touching on some of the people and organisations who are leading the way in sustainability...

Welcome to Insight Faster, a Podcast by MDPI. This is Episode 1—Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis with Dr Panu Pihkala. Sustainability will be the theme of the rest of our lives; it should’ve been the theme of our lives so far. It affects every single one of us in profoundly different ways. One of the more often inconspicuous and yet equally damaging impacts is the way that it affects everyone’s mental health. Anxiety regarding the ecological crisis is natural, it is after all a serious,...

Introducing Insight Faster—a podcast by MDPI where we'll be putting the researcher on speaker! We spoke to some of our authors to understand what motivates their research and their experience of conducting it! Join host Jasper Clow as we consider the progress made in the recent years and uncover some worrying future perspectives, but some exciting ones as well! Series 1 is mostly centred around sustainability, including interviews with authors from the Sustainability journal alongside chats...