Month: February 2017
Pulse of the Planet Daily Audio
Cajun Mardi Gras – Biggest Day
“When you’re part of this Mardi Gras, you’re forgetting about your job, your worries, your bills..”
February 27, 2017Cajun Mardi Gras – In Disguise
This week, in the bayous of Louisiana, costumed revelers beg for food and money from their neighbors, to support a communal gumbo.
February 24, 2017Predicting Disease Tracking Probabilities
A newly developed algorithm is telling scientists where disease outbreaks may occur in the future.
February 23, 2017Predicting Disease Making the Leap
How are diseases passed from animals to humans?
February 22, 2017Predicting Disease Which Animal, Which Country
Why is it that diseases emerge from some species and not from others?
February 21, 2017Innovation – At What Price
Does the search for new ideas mean abandoning the old ones?
February 20, 2017Innovation – Fostering
Bell Labs vs Silicon Valley – what are the best conditions to encourage innovation?
February 17, 2017Entrepreneurship – Practice
“There’s an entrepreneur inside all of us, and the lab is the world.”
February 16, 2017Entrepreneurship – Scale
How the “Network Effect” can lead to “Winner Take All.”
February 15, 2017Entrepreneurship – First Movers
The first company to come up with a new idea isn’t always the most successful.
February 14, 2017Entrepreneurship – Startups
Got a great idea but no funds to support it? No worries!
February 13, 2017Drugs in Our Waters – Solutions
What we can do to keep drugs out of our water supply.
February 10, 2017Drugs in Our Waters – Effects
Everything from antibiotics to antihistamines is showing up in our water supply, effecting local ecosystems.
February 9, 2017Drugs in Our Waters – Artificial Streams
What happens to all the pharmaceuticals we use and dispose of?
February 8, 2017Helmet Safety – Star System
What popular sport currently has the least effective helmet?
February 7, 2017Helmet Safety – G Force in the Lab
It takes a well designed football helmet to lower the risk of concussion.
February 6, 2017Helmet Safety – Minimizing the Risk
The key to injury is acceleration, not speed.
February 3, 2017Drosophila – Cancer
Using fruit fly genes to test different forms of cancer treatment.
February 2, 2017Drosophila -Humanizing Flies
Human genes in fruit flies?
February 1, 2017Drosophila – Making History
In the history of genetics, no species has played a more important role than a humble fly.