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Finding Genius Podcast

Podcast interviews with genius-level (top .1%) practitioners, scientists, researchers, clinicians an

Episodes

Total: 4021

A lot of the technologies that we use today were first imagined in Star Trek: cell phones, flash dri

The Human Genome Project took 13 years and cost 3 billion dollars. That was for just one human genom

300 events. 40,000 audience members. 500,000 social media followers. This is SciFest Dubai, co-found

As a teenager, Robin Farmanfarmaian was mis-diagnosed with an auto-immune disease. All told, she end

How do you feed 7 billion people? How do you grow that much food? That’s the question that confronts

Imagine this: you’re out with friends, and you’re contemplating another glass of wine despite the fa

Fundamentally, the role of the BlockChain’s open ledger is to provide transparency. “Because of the

People love plastic. Despite the advantages of digital currency, people still love their credit card

Statistics show that crime, especially violent crime, is hyper concentrated within certain times, pl

To paraphrase the sci-fi writer William Gibson, “The future is already here. It’s just unevenly dist

RealWear, as the name might suggest, is a wearables company. “Wearable whats?” you may be wondering.

What if was possible to turn your body’s cells into mini computers and then program them to kill can

As you may already know, Bitcoin requires an ever increasing amount of proof of work, as more and mo

Let’s start with the most salacious bit of news. Legend has it that Timothy Draper once won 33,000 B

Imagine you’re sitting at a perfectly organized desk. All your important papers are arranged in fron

In today's world, cybersecurity's at the top of everyone's mind. But the DarkWeb seems beneath every

On the day of the interview, Patrick Dugan had been having a good day. He'd been coding, and had got

Radia Perlman has been designing network and routing protocols for a long time. In the early days, t

Gasoline gets a pretty low rating on the “green scale” and several companies like Uber and Lyft are

People don’t like to be sold—especially online. From spam filters to pop-up blockers, people do thei