Podcast Episodes

Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

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Tyler Cowen, Ph.D, is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of 17 books, most recently Talent.: How to Identi…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Bob Bordone and Joel Salinas: How to Deal With Conflict

In our divided world we face or avoid conflicts on a frequent basis. I turned to Bob Bordone and Joel Salinas to find out the best strategies to deal with these, including having them take on a mock …

Published on 4 months ago

Steve Quake and Charlotte Bunne: The Holy Grail of Biology

“Eventually, my dream would be to simulate a virtual cell.”—Demis Hassabis

The aspiration to build the virtual cell is considered to be equivalent to a moonshot for digital biology. Recently, 42 leadi…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Katelyn Jetelina: Public health in the US

Thank you Katelyn Jetelina, Andy Meyers, Tracy Paeschke, MD, FACC, Bruce Lanphear, Tay MacIntyre, and many others for tuning into my live video with Katelyn Jetelina! Join me for my next live video i…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Anna Greka: Molecular Sleuthing for Rare Diseases

Funding for the NIH and US biomedical research is imperiled at a momentous time of progress. Exemplifying this is the work of Dr. Anna Greka, a leading physician-scientist at the Broad Institute who …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Carl Zimmer: Air-Borne and the Big Miss With Covid

Before getting into this new podcast, have you checked out the recent newsletter editions and podcasts of Ground Truths?

—the first diagnostic immunome

—a Covid nasal vaccine update

—medical storytellin…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Emily Silverman: Storytelling, Uncertainty, and Humanity in Medicine

Before getting into this new podcast, have you checked out the recent newsletter editions of Ground Truths?

—how are gut microbiome drives sugar cravings

—the influence of sleep on brain waste clearanc…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: The Scientist Who Drove GLP-1 Drugs For Obesity and Alzheimer's

The Chief Scientific Advisor at Novo Nordisk, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, was the key force who pushed hard to develop GLP-1 drugs for treating obesity and subsequently for Alzheimer’s. She was recently re…

Published on 8 months ago

Ardem Patapoutian: The Pervasive PIEZO Channels

Piezo touch and pressure-sensing ion channels are showing up everywhere as the explanation for physiologic phenomena, both at the macro and micro levels. Ardem Patapoutian, my friend and colleague at…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Mark Cuban: A Master Disrupter for American Healthcare

American healthcare is well known for its extreme cost and worst outcomes among industrialized (such as the 38 OECD member) countries, and beyond that to be remarkably opaque. The high cost of prescr…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago