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Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath
Audio file, also on Apple and Spotify
Tyler Cowen, Ph.D, is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author…
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 2 months 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 …
1 year, 2 months 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 leadi…
1 year, 2 months 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 immunom…
1 year, 3 months 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 cravi…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 5 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 lev…
1 year, 5 months 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 tha…
1 year, 5 months ago