Finding Genius Podcast

Gina Bria is an anthropologist and founder of the Hydration Foundation. She joins the show to discuss an incredibly valuable, newly discovered form of concentrated water.

In this episode, you’ll lear…

Professor Forest Rohwer's lab invented many of the methods to look at the virome, particularly the uncultured methods utilizing metagenomics. In this podcast, he shares some interesting observations…

Professor Sarah Ennis has been in the field of genetic epidemiology for over 20 years. In this conversation, she explains

• What a dry lab does specifically in terms of understanding disease through …

Kellye Eversole has been involved with agricultural research and development since the early 1990s and is currently directing two international research consortia.

She explains these projects to list…

Award-winning author and journalist David Quammen revisits his book Spillover in the wake of our current pandemic. He talks about 

• How the covid-19 pandemic was predicted stage by stage exactly as…

Aquatic ecotoxicologist Marco Vighi is studying the water cycle in agriculture and presence of plastics. He shares vital information with listeners such has

• The different sizes and sources of plast…

Todd Adams is a professor of physics at Florida State University, and a member of the High Energy Physics Group that is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the European Organizat…

Prevalent Architecture has created a solar panel that collects solar energy and illuminates interior spaces. Founder and director Ben Berwick describes the technology and company goals regarding ren…

Dr. Nicolas Laos is a philosopher, religious visionary, mathematician, noopolitics expert, and author of many books including The Meaning of Being Illuminati.

He dives deep into his philosophical per…

CEO and co-founder of Coapt, Blair Lock, discusses the focus of his work in the field of prosthetic control.

Tune in to learn the following:

• How the Coapt control system is different than and super…

Phillip D. Zamore Bio: Phillip D. Zamore, Ph.D. has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 2008. In 2016, he became the Chair of the RNA Therapeutics Institute, which was …

UC Davis's One Health Institute (OHI) focuses on problem-solving for emerging infectious diseases and conservation challenges to address global health issues. Executive Director Jonna Mazet shares t…

Sonja Schrepfer Bio: Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Surgery, founded the Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab in 2009 in Germany. In 2015, she joined the faculty of the Depart…

Gary Bolles discusses work concerns and opportunities, especially with the work-from-home dynamic that's grown from virus precautions. He addresses

• Ways the pace of change is accelerating in terms …

Beverly and Dereck Joubert are National Geographic explorers-at-large. They are featured in National Geographic's Earth Day commemorative special, Born Wild: the Next Generation. They share with li…

Gregory D. Gorgas, President and  CEO, explains what pharmaceuticals his company is developing to work with the body's endocannabinoid system. He touches on

• How our endocannabinoid system was dis…

After several friends were diagnosed with cancer, Marcus Freudenmann went on an intense research journey to try and help them fight the diagnoses. He shares his journey with listeners by describing

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Author Dr. Tom O'Bryan shares his thoughts on how to boost immune systems as the coronavirus spreads. He touches on the following issues:

• Why testing for the Covid-19 antibodies is a beneficial too…

Professor James Shapiro shares his thoughts with listeners on all things viral. In this exploration of molecular biology, he touches on 

• Some of the intricacies and differences in how retroviruses v…

Erica Hartmann's Bio: Dr. Erica Marie Hartmann is an environmental microbiologist interested in the interaction between human-made chemicals and microbes. Her career began at the Johns Hopkins Bloom…