Finding Genius Podcast

By Richard Jacobs

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01.17.2021

How many stars in the sky? Gaia astronomer Timo Prusti is more qualified than most to posit an answer. He helps manage the project undertaken by the ESA mission space lab called Gaia—to measure the position of almost 2 million ...

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01.17.2021 Stellar Gaia Discoveries with Timo Prusti of the European Space Agency How many stars in the sky? Gaia astronomer Timo Prusti is more qualified than most to posit an answer. He helps manage the project undertaken by the ESA mission space lab called Gaia—to measure the position of almost 2 million ...
01.16.2021 Making Sense of Sequencing: Exome Sequencing Analysis and What's Next with Dr. Daniel Geschwind Dr. Daniel Geschwind Bio: Dr. Geschwind is the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at UCLA. In his capacity as Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor of Precision Health, he leads the Institute ...
01.15.2021 Hardwired for the Impossible: Human Performance Tools with Steven Kotler Do you think that intense, beneficial states of flow are only for extreme athletes? Not true, says Steven Kotler. In fact, we all have the tools for this process that leads to human performance optimization. He discusses his new book ...
01.14.2021 Judged by a Number: Living with Type 1 Diabetes with Amber Clour Diagnosed just a few weeks past her eight birthday, it wasn't until she was an adult that she realized how isolated she had always felt as a result of being a diabetic. She and another type 1 had befriended each ...
01.14.2021 Stopping Superbugs: Steffanie Strathdee Talks Phage Therapy Research "This is the worse superbug you can get," said her husband's doctors when diagnosing him with a life-threatening multidrug resistant bacterial infection. But Steffanie Strathdee put her research skills to work and eventually was able to convince doctors to treat ...
01.13.2021 Artificial Intelligence Meets Ultrasound: Caption Health's Kilian Koepsell Explains Imaging a heart is both crucial and challenging, but Caption Health has fine-tuned artificial intelligence healthcare to make ultrasound imaging more precise, more accessible, and more efficient. Listen in as their CTO describes What the biggest challenges are in achieving ...
01.12.2021 Science Unzipped: Dr. Kat Arney Talks Science Communication and Book on Cancer Research How many podcasters does it take to evaluate the modern science field? Well, this conversation presents an intriguing attempt by two to do just that. Richard and Dr. Kat Arney touch on everything from the tangle of the publication field ...
01.12.2021 The Death Rattle of Citrus Plants: Understanding a Unique RNA Plant Virus Over the past century, one virus has been responsible for the death of over 100 million trees in the world, posing an agricultural problem particularly in regions of Asia, South America, and South Africa; this virus is called Citrus tristeza ...
01.11.2021 Hopelessly Queenless: Adaptations in the Social Life of Western Honey Bees with Gene Robinson Honey bees are one of the most fascinating and complex social organisms on our planet. Scientists like Gene Robinson research how their genomics play a central role in this behavior and how their environment in turn affects their genes. Listen ...
01.11.2021 Not so in the Dark: A Glimpse Into the Experience of Blindness Find what you’re capable of doing, and double down on it until you do it well…and also, always try to get along with other people. These were the two primary lessons David Olney learned during his early childhood. These lessons ...
01.10.2021 High-Altitude Ants: The Evolutionary Biology of a Himalayan Species and More with Dr. Himender Bharti Even in the wind-swept, mountainous regions of Himalaya, ants move forward in their rugged life cycles. Dr. Himender Bharti shares how these ants survive in such areas, including the molecular phylogeny and the chemical ecology of ants that must reproduce ...
01.09.2021 Utilizing Mycoviruses for Healthy Plants: Shinyi Marzano Researches Fungal Viruses That grey fuzz you find on your strawberries after a day or two in the fridge has researchers busy in the lab. White and grey molds often harm crops and Shinyi Marzano is working to inhibit these pathogens that often ...
01.08.2021 Digitizing the Body for 3D Movement Analysis Twelve infrared cameras lining the perimeter of the ceiling, treadmills equipped with force plates, and high-speed video cameras: this is what you’d find upon walking into the Biomechanics Lab within the Sweere Clinic at Northwestern Health Sciences University. Today, we ...
01.07.2021 The Quantum Theory of Mayan Cosmology: Carl Johan Calleman Talks Evolution of the Mind Author Carl Johan Calleman talks about his most recent book, Quantum Science of Psychedelics: The Pineal Gland, Multidimensional Reality, and Mayan Cosmology. He explains How macrocosmic quantum theory differs from quantum mechanics and quantum physics, What quantum phenomena examples help ...
01.06.2021 Global Health Laws and Reform Amid COVID-19 Every continent on the planet has now been touched by the COVID-19 virus, launching the world into an unprecedented state of lockdowns and the many negative consequences that follow from it. Orders to wear masks, socially distance, and limit large ...
01.06.2021 Artificial Photosynthesis for Fuel: Solar Energy Conversion Technology with Amanda J. Morris What if we could produce an energy-dense carbon-neutral fuel that suits uses of fossil fuels? Researchers like Amanda Morris are working with different types of solar energy conversion to produce such a fuel, and the potential is promising, exiting, and ...
01.05.2021 Turning on Happy Genes Adjusting Gene Expression with Dr. J. Dunn's Genetic Testing Program Like a lot of health practitioners, Dr. J. Dunn's quest to heal from her own lifelong conditions of depression and chronic fatigue brought her to a foundational response to genetic testing. Listen and learn How, while genes and inheritance produce ...
01.04.2021 Evidence of Ant Cooperation: Interdependent Ant Habitats with Aniek Ivens Did you know that ants actually keep and "milk" livestock? Evolutionary ecologist Aniek Ivens shares this tidbit and more alluring ant facts in this episode. Listen and learn How ants practice agriculture by raising a specific fungus species, even weeding ...
01.04.2021 The Jaws of an Ant’s Life The snapping of the trap-jaw ant’s jaw is one of the fastest animal movements known to man—approximately three times as fast as the fastest cheetah. This mechanism is not only used for catching prey, but for moving away from potential ...
01.03.2021 Portugal’s Cave: Piecing Together a Narrative, Illuminating the Lives of Modern Human Ancestors Stupid, brutish, and primitive: that’s the “caveman” stereotype that’s been applied to Neanderthals time after time. But it’s the same stereotype that a growing body of evidence is showing to be flat-out wrong. In fact, there’s an ongoing debate about ...
01.02.2021 Ant Associations with Professor David Richard Nash What does an ant have in common with a human? Probably a whole lot more than you would expect. Tune in for a compelling conversation with David Richard Nash, a professor of ecology & evolution at the University of Copenhagen ...
01.01.2021 A Fully Functional, Bioartificial Kidney In the Near Future The kidney may be one of the most underestimated organs: it’s incredibly complex, and responsible for five to seven key functions in the body. In addition to producing urine and removing toxins from the blood, it regulates blood pressure, produces ...
01.01.2021 Performance Herbalism with Logan Christopher Struggling to sleep? Want more energy? Want to focus for longer periods of time? Interested in natural ways of improving your life, but unsure where to begin? This is the episode for you. Press play to learn: What drawbacks and ...
12.31.2020 Ant Invasion: Understanding and Examining Invasive Ant Species Bees as ant trackers? Turning off a species’ immune or motor neuron system? Drones used for precision delivery of products? These are just a couple of the topics explored by ant specialist and researcher Dr. Ben Hoffman. Press play to ...
12.30.2020 Diving Into Lipid Droplets, Exploring Early Viral Infections Can the immune response to viral infection be strengthened to the point that the impact of the infection is greatly reduced, and later or latent infection is prevented? This is the question at the crux of Ebony Monson’s research in ...
12.30.2020 The Bee’s Needs and Behavior: A Conversation with a Honey Bee Expert “…Their society and community is so complicated, that in fact you cannot really have a straight answer for why something is happening. You need to see it from a global perspective, and look at it from different angles…it’s the complexity ...
12.29.2020 From a Vision to a Prototype: Understanding the First Human Bionic Eye The world’s first human bionic eye is here, which means several conditions leading to blindness might (eventually) not be. What does it look like? How does a bionic eye work? What will the patient experience? Press play for the answers ...
12.29.2020 An Ant's Life: Amazing Ant Habitats and Ecology with Tom Fayle It's easy to overlook an ant, but look again. As one not-so-small part of the ecological role of insects, ants have a profound impact, from their mutualistic relationship with plants to their ability to farm and grow fungus for food. ...
12.28.2020 Busy Bee Stressors: Tracking Bee Hive Data with William G. Meikle Bees can generate five pounds of honey a day under prime nectar-gathering conditions. Numerous factors make that possible and researchers like William Meikle work on modeling honey bee populations, keeping track of how different stressors might affect honey bee colony ...
12.28.2020 The Four Ps and the Plights Affecting Bees Pesticides, poor nutrition, pests, and parasites: these are the four factors influencing bee health around the world, and the amount of information we have about each—how exactly they impact bees, whether each relates to the others, and what can be ...
12.27.2020 Targeting Rhabdoviruses and Related Pathogens with Yves Gaudin The rabies virus kills at least 60,000 people a year, worldwide. Because it is far more prevalent in lower economic status countries, it doesn't receive adequate funding for better vaccines or treatment. Researchers like Yves Gaudin are trying to change ...
12.26.2020 Bee Happy: Maximizing Honey Bee Characteristics for Healthy Bees with Juliana Rangel Posada The queen bee has to get it right when she mates, because she only has one intense mating session for the duration of her life. The queen bee's anatomy and basic honey bee biology work together for success and Julian ...
12.24.2020 Minding Your Bees with Expert Qs and As From smelly footprints and dances to furry coats and long tongues, Professor Dave Goulson from the University of Sussex talks about it all. We often refer to “bees” as though there’s only one kind, but in fact, over 20,000 species ...
12.23.2020 Is List N Safe? List of Disinfectants for COVID-19 May Cause Long-Term Harm Disinfectant compounds are touted as virus killing but what else can they do to our health? Are disinfectants and COVID-19 both cause for concern? An exposure scientist helps listeners untangle some of these issues. Listen and learn What are disinfectants ...
12.23.2020 Honey Bee Sperm and Reproductive Bee Anatomy with Brandon Hopkins One in every three bites you take are made possible by honey bee pollination. Keeping bees healthy and productive is essential. Honey bee reproduction depends on a queen's ability to have one mating session, store sperm for years, and lay ...
12.22.2020 Closer to Closed-Loop Diabetes Care: Today's Endocrinology with Dr. Sandra Indacochea Sobel Better diabetes care includes more than nutrition and fitness facts or discussions on the relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes. "If we empower people with their own data, how do they take and use it?" asks Dr. Sandra Indacochea ...
12.22.2020 Bee Space: Honey Bee Social Behavior with Cameron Jack Bee keeping is an ancient practice: even prehistoric cave paintings in Spain depict a keeper reaching for a hive to collect honey while holding a smoker to calm the bees. Cameron Jack shares some of the more interesting details of ...
12.21.2020 Down to Your Bones: Bone Health Tips with Margie Bissinger We think about heart disease prevention, but what about bone health? Margie Bissinger brings listeners numerous bone health boosters and facts, keeping listeners flexible and stronger. Listen and learn What two components designate porous bones as well as the mechanics ...
12.21.2020 Ketogenic Curiosity: Keto Diet Explained by Kevin Davis He set out to prove his wife wrong. That's what lead Physician Assistant Kevin Davis to first research keto diet plans and efficacy. But the more he researched, the more he found she might be on to something. Listen and ...
12.20.2020 Look Up! Arboreal Tropical Ant Habitats with Petr Klimes They're everywhere, even the trees. Petr Klimes researches the ecological roles of insects, especially ants in Papa New Guinea, where many species are less accessible for research. He shares interesting ant facts and tales along with questions he's pursing. Listen ...
12.19.2020 Show Your True Colors with Juganu's New Light Energy Products All light is not the same, and Eran Ben-Shmuel has produced a technology that will make that clearer than ever. They've remade how light is produced, resulting in a high-quality, high-functioning, and versatile smart light. Listen and learn How they ...
12.18.2020 March of the Ants: Laurent Keller Talks Ant Facts and Behaviors Those tiny ants are actually heavy weights. In terms of biomass, ants make up about 10% of all animal weight on earth. That means if humans are on one side of the scale, ants can balance us out on the ...
12.18.2020 Sweet Talk: All about Honey Bees with Jamie Ellis It's estimated that 20% of our food is dependent on honey bee pollination. Meanwhile, recent news has highlighted concerns like viral diseases of the honey bee to mites to invading "killer" bees. It's hard to keep straight where honey bee ...
12.17.2020 Early Cancer Detection Test for with GRAIL's Dr. Josh Ofman Cancer prevention and early detection programs hold a major place in today's research, and one company is releasing an assay that takes a major step forward with an early cancer detection test for multiple cancers. Listen and learn How numerous ...
12.17.2020 Memory's Neuronal Networks Incorporate Ancient Virus: Jason Shepherd Explains We know how artificial intelligence "remembers," utilizing data encoding techniques to translate information into a complex pattern of 1s and 0s. But human memory storage continues to pose many fascinating mysteries. Researchers like Jason Shepherd are tackling these neuroscience puzzles ...
12.16.2020 Invisible Disease: Type 2 Diabetes Psychologist William Polonsky Shines a Light The Behavioral Diabetes Institute brings clinicians, researchers, and resources together to address diabetes. President William Polonsky drops the listener in the midst of this informative team, providing a helpful image of what it means to manage type 2 diabetes. Listen ...
12.16.2020 Transplanting Insulin-Producing Cells: Type 1 Diabetes Therapies & Cure with Juan Domínguez-Bendala It's hard to mimic the pancreas, despite the stellar treatment technology available to type 1 diabetics. Researchers like Juan Domínguez-Bendala are working hard on a cure for type 1 diabetes pathogenesis and, simultaneously, for even more hands-off treatment options. Listen ...
12.15.2020 Female Health Tips: How to Balance Hormones with Dr. Beth Westie What a week! You hit your best times for each run. But the following week, it's as if you are jogging with weights tied to your ankles. What's going on? Well, hormones and functions can have an impact in your ...
12.15.2020 Foundational Nerve Damage Regeneration Therapy with NervGen's Dr. Jerry Silver Nerve injury types have multiple causes, from physical trauma to diseases like multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders. Nerve damage repair has been an elusive science, but Dr. Silver shares an exciting therapy on the verge of phase one clinical ...
12.14.2020 Protection to the Moon and Back: Sarah Baatout Discusses Space Radiation Protection Methods The excitement of space travel can obscure the dangers, and radiation exposure is one such forgotten factor. Sarah Baatout is a radiobiologist who helps protect astronauts in space and minimize space radiation effects on the human body. Listen and learn ...

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