Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?

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News Commentary, News, Science

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The latest in our series on global equity in science, and how better memory helps chickadees live longer First up this week, as part of our series on global equity in science, Contributing Correspondent Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about an initiative in India intended to increase education about early “Indian knowledge systems” amid concerns about homogenization and misinformation. Next, producer Kevin McLean climbs a mountain to visit a test bed for intelligence. He met up with Joe Welklin and Vladimir Pravosudov of the University of Nevada, Reno to talk about their research on how memory helps mountain chickadees survive. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zbfmymg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.8	This is a science podcast for September 6, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week as part of our
1:25.7	series on global equity and science, contributing
1:28.1	correspondent Vaishnavi Chandr Chakar joins me to talk about a government initiative in India,
1:34.0	intended to increase knowledge about the scientific successes of the country's past.
1:39.0	Next, we're linking long life with smart brains in Chickadees. Producer Kevin McLean climbs a mountain to talk with Joe Welkin and Vladimir Pravisudov
1:48.4	about their research on how good memory helps chickadees survive harsh winters.
1:57.5	Now we have Vaishnavi Chandushkar.
1:59.7	She's a contributing correspondent for the news team.
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