Finding Genius Podcast

Albert Presto, Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, provides an overview of the ways our air quality is changing and what is being done to improve air qua…

If you want to establish a routine of getting up early, but are faced with the difficult task of first getting to sleep on time, Jeff Sanders offers this advice: for three days, get up early, work ou…

“Your home is your castle and it’s the place you’re going to heal from the ravages of the day, and you want to have a clean environment for yourself,” says Lawrence Gust, who has a long history of he…

In this special podcast, Josh Sanchez of “Swoop Radio With Josh Sanchez” and “Behavior Vortex” discusses mental health, performance, and the power of setting goals. From life advice to sports, Swoop …

Did you know that E. coli—that feared and detested bacterium blamed for many illnesses and death—can actually be beneficial in some forms and when used in certain ways? Did you know that there’s a na…

As human activity and emissions continue to change the types of particles in the air, there is consequently a change in the particles that act as cloud precursors in our atmosphere. Some of these pre…

Cassie Bjork, nutrition and weight loss expert, founder of Cassie.Net, provides a wealth of information that we can all use to live healthier lives.

Bjork has a passion for helping others feel grea…

Arthur Caplan is head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City, and he has a long history of studying a variety of topics in bioethics. On toda…

Most of us are aware that we’re in the midst of an energy and environmental crisis, two problems for which a number of efforts are being deployed in an attempt to find a solution. For example, solar …

Giving up the foods you’ve grown up with can be hard enough, you shouldn’t have to give up the activities you love too. But how do you cope when those foods and activities coincide? As a woman who lo…

If you’ve ever driven through thick fog in the evening, you are likely familiar with the feeling of futile attempts at improving visibility through the use of headlights. Light that should be guiding…

“Bypass surgery became a metaphor for an incomplete approach; we’re literally bypassing the problem without also treating the cause, and I wondered what would happen if we treated the cause, which to…

Margaret Mc-Fall Ngai, Ph.D., is director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center and professor in the Kewalo Marine Lab at the University of Hawaii. Her research is focused on animal-bacteria sym…

In this informative podcast, Robert K. Logan, the noted author of The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture, talks about human intelligence, language, and communicatio…

Leah Segedie, author of Green Enough: Eat Better, Live Cleaner, Be Happier (All Without Driving Your Family Crazy!), delivers a wealth of important information that we can all use to make smarter cho…

In Greek mythology, the Pierian Spring was a sacred source of knowledge believed to inspire those who drank from it. Driven to create a similar collective source of information in the quickly evolvin…

Quinn Burlingame, Ph.D., is an organic photovoltaic researcher and postdoctoral fellow in chemical sciences with the Loo Group at Princeton University. He joins us today to discuss recent advances in…

David Edelman, Ph.D., is a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and former lecturer at the Department of Psychology University of California, Sa…

In this episode, we hear from John Harte, Ph.D. and professor at University of California, Berkeley. Harte has studied the effects of climate change on our lives and our ecosystems in various habitat…

Nessa Carey, author of Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance, discusses the interesting field of epigenetics.

Carey talks abou…