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Research at Chicago offers a listen into the research enterprise, innovations, and discoveries being made at the University of Chicago. Login to Add this to your PlaylistPrimary Format : Education Language : English Also Listed as: City : Chicago State/Province : IL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Research at Chicago Podcasts Methings.com listings of Research at Chicago Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Research at Chicago Color Binding in the Brain Steven Shevell, Professor of Psychology, Ophthalmology, Visual Science, discusses new research about how our brains process information about the color of objects. The research shows that the brain processes the shape of an object and its color in two separate pathways and, though the objects shape and color normally are linked, the neural representation of the color can survive alone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Human Sized Dinosaur Early Ancestor of T-Rex A 9-foot dinosaur from northeastern China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least 125 million years ago. University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno and five co-authors describe the newly discovered dinosaur in the Sept. 17 Science Express, advanced online edition of the journal Science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discovery at the University of Chicago Medical Center Scientists and clinicians at the University of Chicago Medical Center are always seeking new ways to enhance patient care through research. In this video, researchers Neil Shubin, Funmi Olopade and Kevin White describe how their scholarship on topics ranging from breast cancer to evolutionary biology advances knowledge while benefitting patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Urban farm research investigates sustainable agricultural practices Pamela Martin, Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences, and her students discuss her Feeding the City research project, which investigates small-scale sustainable agriculture. The goal of the project, now in its pilot year, is to collect data on the direct and indirect energy inputs and outputs. Martin and her team will analyze this data to determine the energy efficiency and environmental impact of food production on urban and rural farms that practice sustainable methods. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Empathy Switch: How Doctors Regulate Pain Perception Jean Decety, Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, explains his research into pain responses and how physicians learn to turn off the part of the brain that activates feelings of empathy. Decety co-authored "Expertise Modulates the Perception of Pain in Others," published in October 2007, which discusses the necessary ability of a doctor to regulate pain perception in order to better treat patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: The Final Chapter Martha Roth, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology and Dean of Humanities, discusses the final volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive lexicon of ancient Akkadian dialects 86 years in the making. Roth has served as Editor-in-Charge of the project for the past 11 years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thai Family Research Project: How entrepreneurship shapes economies Robert Townsend, co-director of the Thai Family Research Project, discusses the importance of individual entrepreneurs in shaping local and regional economies and reducing poverty. His findings draw on over 10 years of data collected from nearly 3,000 households throughout Thailand. This research contributed to the creation of The Enterprise Initiative, a new project funded by the John Templeton Foundation which focuses on wealth creation and poverty reduction in developing countries. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory: Overview and Tour Olaf Schneewind, M.D., Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, and Joe Kanabrocki, Ph.D, Biosafety Officer for the Ricketts Biocontainment Laboratory, talk about a new state-of-the-art facility designed to develop new treatments, diagnostic tests and vaccines for emerging infectious diseases. The Howard T. Ricketts Laboratory (HTRL) will house research on microbial agents that are considered either Risk Group 2 (agents that cause mild to moderate symptoms in humans, but ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Know What I'm Thinking? Much of everyday behavior is directed toward understanding, responding to, or attempting to change how we are seen by the people around us. We can be easily led astray, however, by common errors in these perceptions. New research shows us that when we want to better understand how others see us, we should start by changing the way we look at ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Bird, One Stone How do we choose the means--that is, the actions, objects, or other resources--with which we attempt to achieve our goals? New research suggests that these choices are partly determined by the extent to which available means are only good for the specific goal we hope to accomplish. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blowing the Whistle New research suggests that the best way to promote fraud detection is to extend the Federal Civic False Claims Act to corporate fraud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Collegial Connections Mutual fund managers tend to invest more heavily in companies headed by senior officers who attend the same universities as the fund mangers. Futhermore, those investments tend to be more fruitful than their holdings in firms with which they have no connection. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reading the Fine Print One of the key questions in corporate finance is how a firm's reliance on external finance affects its investment policy. New research suggests that creditors play a much more direct role in firm investment policy than has been previously recognized. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rational Revolutions The widespread adoption of new technologies-from the automobile to the internet-tends to be accompanied by stock market booms and busts. Why do the stock prices of innovative firms tend to exhibit apparent "bubbles" during technological revolutions? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Discretion Meets Disclosure It has long been suspected that fear of competition spurs managers to hide better-than-average business unit profit performance. However, a new study instead finds evidence that fear of increased oversight leads managers to hide less-than-average business unit performance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Insider Trading and Future Earnings Even though insider trading laws have become stricter over time, insiders are still trading their company's stock and making money from trades. New research examines how insiders limit trading their company's stock for fear of legal repercussions when future earnings reports are likely to become extremely positive or negative. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Economics of Pricing: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? The current practice of charging money for life-saving health products in developing countries is a source of controversy among policymakers. Opponents argue that the practice is unfair and that fees will result in goods only reaching the richest of the poor. Advocates of pricing, including non-governmental organizations, argue that free products will not be valued or used. New research suggests charging money for these products could lead to more intensive product use, and thus greater hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency and Political Relationships Since the 1990s, foreign capital has become an increasingly important source of financing for emerging market firms. Because companies that access global capital markets receive substantial benefits, it is difficult to understand why so few firms take advantage of foreign capital markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Long-Term Consumption: A Microeconomic Approach to Studying Asset Pricing A fundamental economic question is the tradeoff between investment and consumption and how it determines asset prices in the macroeconomy. New research studies the relationship between consumption and asset prices using microeconomic data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nudge: An Overview University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Professor Richard Thaler gives an overview of his new book: "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." He explains what nudges are and gives a few examples of how they can be useful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website