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Finding Genius Podcast

On the Future of Digital Storage and Synthetic DNA—Thomas Coughlin—Coughlin Associates

Jul 22, 2019

As the president of Coughlin Associates, Thomas Coughlin is a widely-respected digital storage analyst and business and tech consultant with over 35 years’ worth of experience in the data storage engineering industry. He also has six patents under his name and is the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics:...


Jul 22, 2019

There’s a lot of research being done on the human genome, but less so on the genome of parasites. For a number of reasons, including their surprising and impressive ability to avoid attack by the human immune system, understanding more about how parasites function and behave could prove useful in preventing and...


Jul 19, 2019

Nicole Hynson, Associate Professor, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, delivers an impressive overview of the fascinating research she and her team are conducting at Hynson Lab.

 

Hynson heads the Hynson Lab for Community Ecology that is located in the Department of Botany at the...


Jul 17, 2019

As both a gastroenterologist and internist, Dr. Samantha Nazareth has become an expert and go-to resource for anything that has to do with our gut and the bugs that live within it. On today’s episode, she talks about a number of interesting topics, including the most common complaints she receives from her patients,...


Jul 17, 2019

Plants: they add color and oxygen to our world, they release self-protective chemicals in response to the presence of pathogens, and they grow toward the sun. We know that plants are intelligent in the sense that they can adapt to their environment, but in what other ways might we be able to say that they are...