The Point Podcast

The Point Podcast

On this podcast, Richard Hausman will interview scientists, artists, dreamers, and doers from all walks of life and all parts of the world to learn about what they do and learn about points of passion, points of meaning, and points of happiness in their lives. Send feedback, suggestions, and ideas to richard.hausman@yale.edu

Episodes

February 13, 2024 54 mins
In this episode, Richard and Jake interview Tony Wang, a senior at Yale studying Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages, and History. Tony is an exceptionally adventurous archeologist who focuses his sharp intellect on the ancient history of the Silk Road, particularly in western China and Central and western Asia. In this episode, we address many topics, from Tony’s extensive travels in archaeologically important locations in co...
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In this episode, Richard and Jake interview Bilal Moin, a senior at Yale University, expert photographer, and economist. Bilal is a true scholar, and has an incredibly deep understanding of the historical and modern challenges facing Mumbai (his hometown) and India as a whole. In this episode, we primarily focus on Bilal's experience growing up in Mumbai, his understanding of modern Indian problems and some economics-informed poten...
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December 7, 2023 94 mins
This Episode of The Point Podcast is in fact the 2nd episode of Campus Creatures, a Yale College Radio Show run by Richard Hausman and Jake Garza Seymour. The episode was recorded live and uploaded here after cutting out some music breaks.

In this episode, we interview the amazing return guest Justin Souriau-Levine about his upbringing, how he fell in love of film, and about his rapidly growing award-nominated film production compan...
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The Past and Future of Addiction and Medicine - Exploring the great successes and tragic failures of industry in healthcare with Drew Gupta

Drew is currently a student at Harvard Medical School, and graduated from Yale University in 2020. His experience includes Research on Genetics, aging, and Alzheimer's disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and he has multiple publications in influential Neuroscience journals such as eNe...
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Looking is Not Seeing, Listening is not Hearing - Using Art and Music to train better diagnosticians with Dr. Linda Honan and Dr. Thomas Duffy

Dr. Linda Honan is an innovative and ingenious proffessor at the Yale school of nursing, where she is Associate Director for Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience (ILCE) and is responsible for several programs. She obtained her PhD from the University of connecticut, and is well ...
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March 6, 2021 52 mins
What Nerve! - The Past, Present, and Future of Neurology and Pain Treatment with Dr. David Simpson

Dr. Simpson is a world-renowned and endlessly creative Neurologist, and a graduate of the Yeshiva schooling system. In this episode, we explore how Dr. Simpson's background and Jewish schooling have influenced how he practices and learns about medicine, about some of the terrifying but lesser-known neurological effects of HIV and how D...
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February 27, 2021 73 mins
The Beauty of Life - Building Communities, Overcoming Adversity, Finding Beauty, and Defying Reality with Justin Souriau-Levine

Justin SL is an extraordinary movie director, cinematographer, ballet dancer, performer, soccer player, entrepreneur, and a very dear friend of mine. He has repeatedly used his entrepreneurial spirit and relentlessly positive outlook on life to create tight-knit communities around projects or ventures, suc...
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February 21, 2021 64 mins
When Machines Fly - AI, Aerospace, and The Future of Food with Aadit Patel

Aadit Patel is an incredibly smart, talented, driven, and kind person - a pilot, an Aerospace Engineer, a Software Engineer, and a leader in the field of Machine Learning. In this episode, we discuss Aadit's Aerospace background and his experience at NASA and Boeing, his pivot to Computer Science and Machine Learning, how Aadit is using Machine Learning to sh...
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Akshay Swaminathan is a distinguished Public Health Researcher, a future Physician, and an impressive polyglot who speaks 11 languages! In this episode, we discuss various strategies and paradigms for learning languages more efficiently, the implications of Akshay's public health research, and what the future of healthcare might look like in the United States in terms of our healthcare system's structure, the patient experience, an...
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