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.
Raising Livestock Without Antibiotics
Antibiotics are used to keep cattle healthy and lower their feeding costs.
Making Ladders Safer
Each year in the U.
A Better Way to Learn New Languages
Despite the plethora of language learning tools, learning a new language is still very difficult for many people.
Detecting Heart Disease and Reducing Invasive Procedures
When is a heart attack not a heart attack?
The Making of a (Potentially) Breakthrough Cancer Treatment
Dr.
How Oceanic Waves Become Heroes
Millions of people each year face natural coastal disasters, leaving them without water, and electric power.
Tracking Fresh Produce
Adam Kinsey is the founder of Verigo, a technology that uses smart sensors to track and monitor fresh produce during its journey from farm to truck to warehouse to store to table.
Changing the Brain
How does the brain change itself, and can those changes be passed on to the next generation?
The Video Revolution
In 1999, Chris Malachowsky was on the team at NVIDIA that invented the Graphics Processing Unit, an invention that transformed the consumer electronics industry.
How the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Works
Beloved by corporate HR departments and government agencies alike, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measures personality types.
Miracle Drugs
Microbiologist Phillip Furman is the inventor of AZT, an anti-HIV drug, and other antiviral drugs for Herpes and Hepatitis B and C.
Online Games to Teach STEM Skills
Can video games be used for education?
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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