Dive into the minds of inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to learn about their inventions, the failures they overcame, and how they took their ideas to market.
Redefining Computer Science
Tony Barr has invented several computer programming languages, including the Statistical Analysis System, better known as SAS.
El Doctor y La Bebida (Spanish-language episode)
Alex De Quesada Sr.
Working Food
Our food is brought to us from ever-increasing distances, but is this best for us?
Inventive Ways to Use Lasers
Lasers aren’t just for sci-fi movies, it turns out they can be used for the treatment of tumors and ultra-fast communications networks.
Virtual Reality for Business?
Animator Chance Glasco is famous for his work on video games, most notably the Call of Duty Franchise.
Probiotics for Plants
Probiotics for plants?
The Art of Healthy Cows
How do ranchers know if their cows are healthy?
Running Shoe Revolution
Running shoe technology hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years.
Hedy Lamarr and Frequency Hopping
Once known as the “most beautiful woman in the world,” film star Hedy Lamarr also received a patent in 1942 for a “secret communications system” to safeguard U.
James Bates on Art and Football
James Bates is bursting with creativity.
Better MRI’s
Jeff Fitzsimmons, a professor of radiology at the University of Florida, invented a way to use RF antennas to capture detailed signals from body parts that are undergoing an MRI.
Using Sharkskin to Fight Bacterial Growth
One of nine children, Dr.
Meet The Hosts
Richard Miles
Richard Miles is a co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention. A career Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State, Miles’ assignments included serving with a provincial reconstruction team in Karbala, Iraq and on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House, along with postings in Argentina, Germany, and Barbados. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Miles served as a Latin America policy advisor to Governor Jeb Bush.
James Di Virgilio
James Di Virgilio is one of the country’s leading fiduciary investors and financial planners and is among the elite 1% of the finance industry to hold both CIMA® and the CFP® designations. He is the co-founder of Chacon Diaz & Di Virgilio Wealth Management and was named a Gator 100 Honoree for spearheading one of the fastest-growing companies founded by a University of Florida Alum.
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