Understanding Obesity and Alzheimer’s via Epigenomics
Manolis Kellis is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works in computational biology, taking giant datasets relating to genetics and health outcomes and tr...
28 Dec 202324min
Reinventing the Restaurant
After working as a chef for decades, Anthony Strong’s dream came true: He opened his own restaurant. His problem was a classic one: Restaurants are bad businesses. So he set out to open a new kind of ...
21 Dec 202324min
The Giant Torch That May Help Save the World
Selling hydrogen to make fertilizer is a huge business. It also drives tons of carbon emissions. Rob Hanson, the co-founder and CEO of a company called Monolith is trying to create hydrogen without em...
14 Dec 202324min
Fixing Uber’s Broken Culture
Frances Frei and Anne Morriss are the co-founders of a training and consulting company called The Leadership Consortium. Together they specialize in helping leaders build trust within their companies....
7 Dec 202324min
Murder Brokers from Hot Money: The New Narcos
When a Dutch crime reporter makes an unbelievable discovery, a small-town murder case begins to look like an international assassination plot. Enjoy this episode from Hot Money: The New Narcos, a podc...
5 Dec 202329min
Using AI for Creative Work
A few weeks ago, Jacob Goldstein sat down with a writer and a composer on a stage in Chicago to talk about artificial intelligence. The conversation, which was part of the Chicago Humanities Festival,...
30 Nov 202335min
The Little-Known Office With $400 Billion to Fight Climate Change
Jigar Shah is the director of the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy. Last year, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress allocated hundreds of billions of dollars for Jigar...
23 Nov 202324min
How AI Solved a Biological Mystery
Pushmeet Kohli is vice president of research at DeepMind, an AI research group that is part of Google. Every protein has a unique shape. And understanding a protein’s shape is key to understanding how...
16 Nov 202321min
