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University of Oxford

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Sep 22, 2026

Nicola LudinGUEST
6:10
There are lots that is sort of missing and we'd really like to address that with sleep solutions and that's what the project's all about.
Jesse MulliganHOST
6:20
I understand you're collaborating, University of Auckland, along with National University of Samoa and University of Oxford.
Jesse MulliganHOST
6:26
Is that correct?
Nicola LudinGUEST
6:27
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
0:03
I'm your host, Sebastian Hassiar.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
0:05
[heartbeat] My guest today is Tim Palmer, Royal Society Research Professor Emeritus in Climate Physics at the University of Oxford, senior fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute, and a member of the Oxford Quantum Institute.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
0:43
He is a fellow of the Royal Society, a CBE, a recipient of the Institute of Physics Dirac Gold Medal, and a lead author of the IPCC.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
0:52
He did his PhD in general relativity at Oxford, partly under Roger Penrose.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
0:57
He then spent most of his career at the UK Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, where he pioneered the probabilistic ensemble forecasting methods that are now standard in operational weather prediction worldwide.
Sebastian HassingerHOST
1:11
That is a lot of biography, and I mention it very much on purpose because I think it's particularly relevant here.

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Tim PalmerGUEST
6:29
Um, you know, maybe I should just take a few seconds to just talk a little bit about my background.
Tim PalmerGUEST
6:35
Um, I, you know, you can probably tell from my accent I'm from the UK.
speaker_0HOST
3:13
Right.
speaker_1HOST
3:14
And he was the Regis Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.
speaker_0HOST
3:18
Which is a huge deal.
speaker_1HOST
3:19
Oh, to hold that chair is to be at the absolute pinnacle of the historical profession.
Hector MintoGUEST
52:15
So does whoever we want to put a curb cut in.
Hector MintoGUEST
52:18
So does the Oxford University.
Hector MintoGUEST
52:20
Essentially, they get their data about what conversations are happening around disability and technology.
Hector MintoGUEST
52:26
which means that we can have guided, targeted responses to what we're learning about what works and what doesn't work.
Carl Hayden SmithGUEST
8:03
And so my sort of inclination was to get people together in groups.
Carl Hayden SmithGUEST
8:08
And at Oxford University, we got people to come and shut their eyes for five, six hours and just dive into sound and see how much sound could really transform consciousness.
Carl Hayden SmithGUEST
8:19
And that's been an amazing journey with 40 shows so far across the world in very weird and wonderful contexts, including Antarctica and the Amazon, and getting briefs like, can you do a museum of consciousness, just playing sound transmissions to the trees and the plants and the animals and no human audience.
Carl Hayden SmithGUEST
8:39
And just getting these sort of weird and wonderful briefs So it's been, yeah, a real pleasure to get to know artists.
Stuart BruceGUEST
29:44
But we didn't really do anything externally because I wasn't 100% convinced I was onto something.
Stuart BruceGUEST
29:49
And then in April that year, Rupert Younger, who's head of the Center for Corporate Reputation at Oxford SAID, University of Oxford, he published a paper on AI as a stakeholder.
Stuart BruceGUEST
30:00
And I'm thinking, ah, I might
Tony GarnerHOST
30:02
be onto something here.
Mary IrwinGUEST
17:03
A British author, an award-winning author named Catherine Bruton, she writes children's books for ages 8 to 12.
Mary IrwinGUEST
17:11
And she went to Oxford University and a professor there suggested that She was looking for a disease to focus on in a book of hers for children that supported children who'd lost siblings to a terrible disease.
Mary IrwinGUEST
17:31
And she was pointed in the direction of SMA-PME.
Mary IrwinGUEST
17:35
And she found our website, smapme.org. And she came to me and also to Dr. Jeffrey Medin, who is one of our two front-running researchers, along with Dr. Michelle Allen Sharpley in the U.S. We worked together on her book, Tadpole Summer is the name of it.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
8:04
Joe et al.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
8:06
University of Oxford plus geodesic, constitutional mid-training.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
8:10
End quote.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
8:12
We therefore design a controlled synthetic setting to test whether mid-trained motivations hold under these failures of downstream supervision.
Charles FosterGUEST
54:26
So edges are where it all happens, and we're better off acknowledging that we're edge people in an edge world.
Dan KieranHOST
54:37
And I can't help but draw a comparison with you because you're like a lawyer, veterinary surgeon, you're an academic at Oxford University, and yet, Charles, your stuff is pretty edgy, right? You're quite out there, but you must be pretty out there in the context you're hanging out.
Charles FosterGUEST
54:58
I don't think I'm any edgier than almost all the people here at this apparently centrist place, the University of Oxford.
Charles FosterGUEST
55:06
Okay,
Brandon JulianHOST
63:54
Women who have this body type are at greater risk of having a heart attack than men.
Brandon JulianHOST
63:59
The researchers from Oxford University found that having bigger waist and higher waist-to-hip and waist-to-height ratios left women 10-20% more at risk of a heart attack.
Brandon JulianHOST
64:14
Having more fat around the waist has also been linked to a raised risk of cancer and diabetes.
Brandon JulianHOST
64:21
Jacqui Fenner, a body form expert working with DiLeo, added, "...apple-shaped people are often overweight in the center and above the waist.

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