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OMNIA is a podcast dedicated to all things Penn Arts & Sciences. Listen to insights and perspectives from the home of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at The University of Pennsylvania.
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Podcast santai yang berbincang tentang dunia kreatif dari berbagai sudut pandang.
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Welcome to the Carpe Omnia 🦋 podcast, where topics about life and relationships are discussed.
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Learn about Doterra essential oils and products. Also about growing a network marketing business. Through my experiences, mistakes, heartaches and struggles, be a part of this journey.
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Healthcare is one of the most rapidly changing industries, with key advancements in technology, leadership and sustainability shaping future trends. Uncover the latest insights with Omnia Health Insights Podcast bringing you exclusive interviews and discussions with key leaders from the healthcare industry. Omnia Health Insights is one of the leading news and insights platform covering healthcare trends and updates in the Middle East, Africa and beyond. Keep your finger on the pulse of the h ...
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Your host Tom Velev interviews interesting people that do unordinary things. Some of them you may know and others will have you wondering how you haven't heard of them before. Fascinating stories, interesting topics, and in depth conversations are brought to you in each show from movie directors, entrepreneurs, world travelers, musicians, athletes, and so many more! Follow along the journey for a wild ride! New episodes every Monday. #alphaomnia
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The quest of the longing to know the "I" within "Me". That is what this podcast is all about. Explore yourself with Vishal Dwivedi - A renowned astrologer,spiritual healer who has been helping /guiding people not just to solve the problems on hand but also sharing the modes and methods of dissolving the issues which create problems. Shaping the path to discover the inner energy and hence leading to lead the life as you want.
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The results of last week’s presidential election are in and Donald Trump will have a second term after earning 312 Electoral College votes and some 75 million votes overall. Republicans also re-gained a majority in the Senate and are poised to maintain control of the House of Representatives. In the fifth episode of Democracy and Decision 2024, the…
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In this season of Democracy and Decision 2024, we take a close look at the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the 2024 election. The fourth episode, “The Gears of Democracy,” features Marc Meredith, Professor of Political Science, in conversation with podcast host Stephanie Perry, Executive Director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research an…
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In this season of Democracy and Decision 2024, we take a close look at the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the 2024 election. The third episode, “The Fight for Democracy,” features Matthew Levendusky, Professor of Political Science and Stephen and Mary Baran Chair in the Institutions of Democracy at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, in …
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In this season of Democracy and Decision 2024, we take a close look at the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the 2024 election. The second episode, “The Voice of Democracy,” features Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, in conversation with podcast host Stephanie Perry, Executive Director of the P…
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Our new season of Omnia, Democracy and Decision 2024, examines the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the upcoming presidential election. The first episode, “Truth and Democracy,“ features Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, in conversation with podcast host Stephanie Perry, Executive Director of the Penn Program on O…
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Many people know Philadelphia for the Declaration of Independence, Rocky, and cheesesteaks. Philly’s deep musical history is less familiar, but its influence continues to inspire audiences and artists across the globe. For Carol Muller’s graduate-level ethnomusicology field methods class, students focused on documenting the city’s Black music histo…
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After the enormous success of her translation of Homer’s The Odyssey, Emily Wilson spent another five years translating The Iliad. The book was released this fall, again to tremendous acclaim. Wilson is the College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies. She is the recipient of two prestigious fe…
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This July, global temperatures soared to the warmest ever recorded. Ocean surface temperatures hit record highs. Extreme weather-related events are becoming ever more common, seen this spring and summer with the wildfires in Canada and Hawaii, flooding in Vermont, and a tropical storm in Los Angeles dumping almost three inches of rain in one day. R…
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the Omnia Health Insights Podcast,Informa’s official content partner and one of the leading platforms dedicated to keeping global healthcare professionals informed and up to date. In recent years, Medtech’s been on healthcare’s mind. How can we truly harness it to provide best practices for both practitioners …
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In 2021, Dubai received 630,000 international health tourists, according to a DHA report, with spending of international patients reaching nearly Dh730 million [US$ 200 million]. In this podcast episode, we chat with Mohamed Al Mheiri, Director of Health Tourism Department at Dubai Health Authority (DHA), who shares insights into the emirate's attr…
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The 2022 midterm elections took place on Tuesday, November 8th in the United States, and are still being decided in many parts of the country. Historically, the president’s party loses in the midterms. And yet this year, Democrats – the party of President Joe Biden – maintained their control of the Senate and may only lose their majority in the Hou…
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The pandemic has had a pronounced impact on mental health. Participating in activities that benefit well-being is crucial, but Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski, experts in the field of positive psychology, say being conscious of these benefits, and optimizing participation, is the end goal. In this final episode of the season, we speak with both…
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In our latest roundup of healthcare news from Omnia Health Insights, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we unveil a monkeypox virus detection kit, the impact of Shanghai’s lockdown on medical manufacturing, blood donor shortages and rising allergies worldwide, among other stories. Our latest Omnia Health Magazine furthermore looks at health…
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Music is undeniably one of oldest and most essential art forms. The power of song and dance has been the pulse of social movements throughout the world and a source of collective and individual healing during difficult times for millennia. In this episode we speak with ethnomusicologist Carol Muller about the power of song and dance during the apar…
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For as long as humans have had voices, trauma has been told and processed through stories, poetry, and music. In this episode, we speak with author Lorene Cary, Senior Lecturer in English, and poet Fatemeh Shams, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, on the ability of words to move people, create a community, and help us …
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In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal our healthcare coverage of recent events including Ramadan, and its benefits for diabetic patients, and World Haemophilia Day. We also look at longevity in the UAE and aphasia – a disorder that hit the headlines recently beca…
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The legacy of trauma resulting from more than 200 years of slavery in North America, and colonialism abroad, has yet to be fully comprehended. In this episode, Breanna Moore discusses her engagement with fellow student collaborators to recreate the history of Penn’s connections to slavery, which began with a memory book and a journey through her ow…
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In this episode, we chat with Dr Mohammed Al Redha, Director of Health Information and Smart Health Development at Dubai Health Authority (DHA), who shares insights on a cutting-edge project named NABIDH. NABIDH, as he explains, is a world-class health information exchange that securely integrates or unifies patient data from all public and private…
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In coping with the stresses of recent times, many people are finding respite in connecting with nature. Writers extolling the virtues of wellness travel, ecotherapy, and going for a long walk are just one spin on a long tradition of reflections on how to find health, happiness, and wisdom through nature in any of its manifestations, from herbs and …
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In Mary Shelley’s novel, The Last Man, the protagonist—one of the few survivors of a plague—searches for meaning in a world of loss, concluding that, “there is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.” In 2022, as COVID-19 lingers on, the climate threat looms larger, and war …
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In 1346, bubonic plague began to spread through northern Africa and Eurasia. In seven years, it had become the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, killing between 75 and 200 million people. In this episode, we hear from a specialist in medieval literature about the bubonic plague and how artists like Boccaccio and Chaucer documented the …
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How spritely are you feeling this today? In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights you might have missed, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal common sleep disorders in the UAE. We also look at new cancer treatments, while leading female voices in healthcare shared their perspective on breaking the bias …
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In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights you might have missed, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal how prostate cancer diagnostics and treatments have changed through innovation how new technologies can help with effective HIV care and preventative activities; and how foreign suppliers will now get eq…
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This is an episode about big things. Big like the ocean, which, thanks to its size, absorbs about 30% of all CO2 emissions. Big like the scale of our Earth’s 4.6 billion history, and big like our responsibility to future generations. Can an understanding of and appreciation for the size of our world and the scope of its history, from the beginning …
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In These Times, Season 3 | The Large Hadron Collider and the End of the World (Ep. 6) (Ep. 4)
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This episode addresses early concerns in the public sphere, the media, and even the scientific community, surrounding high-energy particle collision experiments at particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider. These concerns culminated in lawsuits accusing researchers of conducting experiments that could cause the creation of mini black hol…
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In our latest roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed, curated by our Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal a "flawed" approach to Type 1 diabetes care and how complications could be avoided; how men's mental health is impacted; and highlights from our recent Patient Safety virtual event. Reports from Omnia Health furthermore reveal…
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In this Patient Talk podcast episode, recorded in partnership with UCLA Health, paediatric neurosurgeon Dr Aria Fallah discusses the latest advancements in paediatric epilepsy surgery, including deep brain stimulation, and how patients are responding. Dr Aria Fallah practices at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center …
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The phrase “better things for better living through chemistry” began life in 1935 as a DuPont advertising slogan–an enthusiastic expression of optimism about science, and its potential to solve virtually any human problem. It’s clear that without chemistry, the world would be a very different place. So why, out of all the sciences, is chemistry so …
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New medications, treatments, and implants that affect our brains have helped thousands overcome ADD, ended seizures, and even show promise for restoring memory lost to brain trauma. But these enhancements have implications for individuals and society. How far can we go? Who gets the enhancements? In this episode, we'll hear from a psychology profes…
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Healthcare experts during Africa Health and Medlab Asia & Asia Health virtual events revealed the latest thinking on COVID-19 testing, mental health and more, 18 months after the onset of the pandemic. New reports from Omnia Health additionally show how the pandemic has affected every member of the healthcare community, and how its impacted cancer …
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If you were writing a book about the history of science denial, the chapter on Darwin would have to be one of the longest. But why? You can argue that we see evolution all the time – it is, after all, why we’re worrying today about the emergence of new variants of COVID-19. Does it boil down to a divide between religion and science that just can’t …
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This episode is about the science of how people talk. We'll get into some of the nitty gritty science, like prosody and intonational variation, but we're really interested in why people resist changes to language. Why did France try to ban "le weekend," and why do some people, like, get so, like, upset when people use the word "like"? An expert in …
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In Episode 1: Facts vs. Feelings, Mark Trodden commented that most of what we would call modern cosmology is a very recent vintage, including many discoveries from just the past few decades. In this bonus segment, Professor Trodden discusses what this recent research has to say about the Big Bang, gravitational waves, and the expanding universe. Ma…
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On this season of the Omnia podcast, we talk to scientists and other scholars about scientific ideas that cause big reactions. We’ll look at stories of science getting knocked around, and standing back up again, in a world full of polarization, politics, misrepresentation, and simple misunderstanding. Welcome to In These Times: Fear and Loathing an…
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In this month’s news roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed, ProColombia US Director Ricardo Pedroza explains why Colombian healthcare is so appealing (including medical travel and emerging tech hub Medellin), while new technologies such as AI are explored in managing pre-diabetes today as a form of preventative care. Also we explain m…
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This month we offer a news roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed. Caren Busen (Director of International Clinical Support, OBIX) and Maria Mesa (COO, Alternova) reveal how they are addressing mental health challenges from a nursing leadership and digital health perspective, respectively. We also reveal research from Cleveland Clinic, …
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In 2020 the UAE became the first country worldwide in which the number of Covid-19 tests exceeded the population count, with local health authorities performing in excess of 10 million tests. Mubadala Healthcare's National Reference Laboratory (NRL), focused on increasing the quality, spectrum, coverage and efficiency of lab testing in the UAE and …
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In our final episode, we're continuing the conversation about how institutions can perpetuate racial inequalities and the work that remains. We talk to a graduate student whose family has been touched by Penn and slavery across generations, a philosopher who weighs the past and future when it comes to the case for reparations, and a political scien…
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This season, we’ve spoken to experts about how institutions have perpetuated racial hierarchies. Higher education is no exception. In our final two episodes, we’re talking to students and faculty about the work that comes next. This episode features an undergraduate student whose research with the Penn and Slavery Project reveals truths about the r…
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When Covid-19 delivered a disproportionate blow to communities of color, environmental hazards like air pollution, that are all too frequently present in these communities, was one of the contributing factors cited by experts. The idea that race is a factor in determining who has access to resources that allow a community to thrive is not so much n…
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Harel Gadot is a visionary entrepreneur who prioritises patient-centric approaches in everything he does. His robotics ventures, including XACT Robotics, aim to revolutionise healthcare through treating patients earlier, from detection to diagnostics to intervention, ensuring that further complications are avoided. In this latest Patient Talk episo…
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During the worldwide protests that followed the death of George Floyd, demonstrators mobilized to challenge the representations of history presented by some of the monuments and memorials that occupy our public squares. In this episode we hear from an anthropologist, a sociologist, and an art historian, who reflect on why there has been such a focu…
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Racism and discrimination are more than individual problems—they are part of institutions that have far-reaching impact. In this episode we hear from a professor of sociology, education, and Africana Studies who delves into discusses discrimination in higher education and explores how modern racial attitudes shape and are shaped by the places in wh…
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As we worked on our third episode, the news broke about the shooting in Atlanta that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent. This tragic event comes after more than a year of rising violence against members of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities. In this special episode, we talk to Josephine Park, Professor…
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Robots are making their way into the operating theatre, ensuring greater precision and patient safety. In this latest Patient Talk podcast episode we chat with David Fischel, Chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis, a US-based robotic technologies company in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, to learn about robotic surgery and how the physician’s role is…
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The enslavement of Black people was supported by a legal system that including everything from laws preventing legal marriage to those restricting movement and access to education. When slavery was abolished, this system did not go away. Instead, it evolved to include Jim Crow laws and 20th centuries policies including redlining and urban renewal. …
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Last fall we launched our podcast, “In These Times” with an examination of COVID-19 and its far-reaching impacts. We spoke with students and faculty who shared their personal experiences with the epidemic, along with perspectives drawn from history, science, politics and beyond. A recurring theme of our first season was the crisis within the COVID …
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As a UChicago Medicine patient story confirms, with the right treatment head and neck cancer sufferers can not only survive but thrive. In this latest Patient Talk podcast, recorded soon after World Cancer Day, Dr Nishant Agrawal reveals to Omnia Health Insights the provider’s approach to treating head and neck cancer patients. He also shares updat…
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Despite having only 1.8 million people, small but nimble Northern Ireland punches well above its weight when it comes to innovation in healthcare, among other sectors. Recently in the Middle East, for example, Northern Irish company Randox Laboratories was chosen by laboratory network Pure Health to screen airline passengers arriving in the UAE for…
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On Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as legislators counted and confirmed the votes in the Electoral College, rioters breached the Capitol building, forcing an evacuation of the House floor, including Vice President Pence. The events unfolded amidst President Trump having urged his supporters to fight against the ceremonial counting of the votes. The rio…
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