The amount of data we are leaving behind is expanding as apps, smartphones and general interaction with the internet have become more and more integrated into our daily lives and the monitoring and selling of our personal data are increasing as the development of machine-learning progress. The possible future scenarios this development will bring are many and consequences unknown. It all depends on the context.

This episode of the Science and Cocktails Podcast is about the biology behind violent and psychopathic behaviour.  If homicide and other violence are caused by biological brain functions and dysfunction can we then, -firstly detect predisposition for violent behaviour, -secondly, can we treat it and at last - can we blame it all on the violent offender. Those are questions raised by Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology, Adrian Raine.

This episode of the Science and Cocktails Podcast is dicking deeply into philosophy searching for an answer to one of the big questions: “what is self” and to answer that question we have Professor in philosophy, Dan Zahavi. Dan Zahavi is a kind of rockstar within phenomenology and he has some very interesting perspectives on what is self. He gave a talk at a Science and Cocktails event this summer about the self going from Buddhist philosophy to modern neuroscience and you can see the whole talk on the science and cocktail youtube channel. In this podcast episode, we will go deeper into Dan Zahavi's own perspectives.

Gender inequality within academia and science is an issue all over the world. Even though more than half of the undergraduates and even more master students are women only 29% of the employees at the universities are and only 5% of the professors. These numbers are the global average. But gender equality is an issue in academia in all countries even those that er considered pioneers within gender equality. This episode of the science and cocktails podcast will dive into the gender equality issues in science and academia and look at why science is so far behind in combating gender inequalities in a supposedly gender-equal country like Denmark.