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

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

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