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NRTGE | No Reason to Get Excited
No Reason to Get Excited is a curiosity-driven podcast built around one simple idea: smart people talking about interesting things.
Hosted by Dr. Aaron Winkler, the show features thoughtful, unscripted conversations with researchers, clinicians, scientists, and creators exploring the ideas that shape how the world works.
It’s a space for real conversations, where people can think out loud, follow ideas wherever they go, and occasionally stumble into something genuinely fascinating.
If you enjoy learning, asking better questions, and hearing how people actually think, you’ll feel at home here.
NRTGE | No Reason to Get Excited
Latest Episodes
Periodic Table as a Playground: Quantum Materials, Molecular Intercalation, and the Chemistry of Crystals That Change Color | Lilia Xie
What if the technologies of the future are built from materials we haven't even made yet? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Lilia Xie, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materi...
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Between Bonds and Forces: Building Monolayers, Twisting Bilayers, and Watching Lattices Move at Trillionths of a Second | Fang Liu
What if the most powerful materials of the future are only one atom thick? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Fang Liu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, to explore the c...
Living Drug Factories: Bioelectronics, Wireless Power, and the Implantable Future of Medicine | Siddharth Krishnan
What if curing a chronic disease looked less like a daily pill and more like a tiny, wireless implant of living cells that quietly produces your medicine on demand? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits dow...
Building Brains on Chips: Carbon Nanotubes, Lipid Nanoparticles, and Engineering the Frontier of Neurodegeneration | Rebecca Pinals
What if the most powerful tools for understanding the human brain are the very tiny particles we're learning to build, atom by atom? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Rebecca Pinals, Assistant...
Life at the Edge of Equilibrium: Non-Equilibrium Physics, Machine Learning, and the Molecular Machinery of Life | Grant Rotskoff
What if the secret to understanding life lies in the mathematics of systems that can never sit still? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Grant Rotskoff, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Stan...