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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Aug 8, 2011
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Podcast episode
Description
ENCORE Genes – what are they good for? Absolutely… something. But not everything. Your “genius” genes need to be turned on – and your environment determines that. Find out how to unleash your inner-Einstein, and what scientists learned from studying the famous physicist’s brain.
Also, the bizarre notion that your children inherit not just your genes, but also the consequences of your habits – smoking, stress, diet, and other behaviors that turn the genes on.
Plus Francis Collins on affordable personal genomes, and a man who decoded his own DNA in under a week.
Guests:
Francis Collins - Geneticist, Director of the National Institutes of Health
David Shenk - Journalist, and author of The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong
Stephen Quake - Biophysicist, Stanford University
Dean Falk - Anthropologist and Senior Scholar at the School For Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Descripción en español
Also, the bizarre notion that your children inherit not just your genes, but also the consequences of your habits – smoking, stress, diet, and other behaviors that turn the genes on.
Plus Francis Collins on affordable personal genomes, and a man who decoded his own DNA in under a week.
Guests:
Francis Collins - Geneticist, Director of the National Institutes of Health
David Shenk - Journalist, and author of The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong
Stephen Quake - Biophysicist, Stanford University
Dean Falk - Anthropologist and Senior Scholar at the School For Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Descripción en español
Released:
Aug 8, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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