It's Award Season
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin, Bob Hope
2y ago
Click HERE to vote   Inside the Breakthrough has been nominated for a Webby! We are in the category of “Best Branded Podcast.”   If you enjoy this show, please support us with your vote. https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2022/podcasts/features/best-branded-podcast-or-segment   ..read more
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Double Blind
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dallas Legare, Dan Riskin
2y ago
Join us for a wild ride through Vienna and Paris. We will hang out with Mozart, Marie Antoinette, and the incredible Dr Mesmer. We will drink cocktails and stay up way too late. All in an effort to answer the question: Is it possible that being blinded could help you see new things? I’m not talking about literal blindness here, I mean when you intentionally deny yourself some key piece of information. If you are hiring someone and are conducting interviews, would you make better decisions if the candidates were sitting behind a screen? Is a psychological study less valid if the participants al ..read more
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Tools for Testing
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin, Dr Wayne Lautt
2y ago
Sometimes great discoveries have to wait for the creation of the perfect tool. What is the best screw ever invented? If you said the Phillips, you are wrong. The Phillips is the most popular screw type, but not the best. The standard slot screw is also very popular, but it isn’t the best either. The best screw type ever invented is the Robertson, and the story behind why it never became the biggest selling screw in the world is one you have to hear. What is the difference between Latitude and Longitude? Why is one of them so easy to determine and the other virtually impossible? Well, it was im ..read more
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The Trouble With Trials
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin, Krista Coventry
2y ago
Ten years ago, in a hospital in London England a drug company conducted a clinical trial. That trial went horribly wrong. The lessons learned from that event have informed every pharmaceutical trial since then. We will hear from one of the men who took that experimental drug. We will also look to history -- and uncover the origin of the first ever clinical trial. It was conducted on a sailing ship in the middle of the ocean. The lessons learned from that experiment saved thousands of lives over the next century. And lastly we will look at what SciMar is currently testing and consider the long ..read more
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What's in a Name?
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin, John West
2y ago
Kick back and enjoy a cold Corona beer as we tell stories about the importance of names. From cameras to resumes to hormones, names matter. George Eastman decided to name his company Kodak after playing a game of Anagrams with his mother. But the choice wasn’t an accident. It was a deliberately constructed name with a very clear intent. Similarly the brewers of Corona beer didn’t pull that name from the top of their head, They had a very clear idea of who they were speaking to when they wrote that on the label. But did the outbreak of Coronavirus undo all that brand building? And what would yo ..read more
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Bonus Episode – How We Got Here
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dr Wayne Lautt, Mick Lautt, Dan Riskin, Krista Coventry, Dr Victoria Sid
2y ago
SciMar does more than produce a podcast. They are a real medical research company doing really amazing work in the field of type 2 diabetes. This episode tells the story of how they got here. ‘Here’ being: on the verge of a transformational breakthrough in metabolic health. It starts with a Eureka moment in a lab… travels to a biological science conference in Minnesota… and then spends a quiet week relaxing beside the lake in Jasper, Alberta. How does all that lead to a breakthrough in the way we diagnose and treat type 2 diabetes, AND an award-winning podcast? This is their story. www.scimar ..read more
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Seeing It With Your Own Eyes
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dr Wayne Lautt, Dan Riskin, Dr Victoria Sid
3y ago
We made it! This is the final episode in season one… and it is a huge day for the medical research group SciMar. Some scientific discoveries are exciting because they reveal something that was previously unknown. But a lot of ‘discoveries’ are actually visual confirmation of a proven fact. Roald Amundsen already knew the South Pole was in the middle of Antarctica. He already knew it was covered in ice and would be very, very cold. But he still risked his life to go see it. Oceanographers already knew that colossal squids were prowling the dark recesses of the seas, but it was still a landmark ..read more
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Going Back to Square One
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin
3y ago
Starting a story at the beginning makes sense… but what if there is a mistake in that first sentence? Does it invalidate the rest of the story? What if your experiment is based on an assumption that later turns out to be false? And how can you protect your tower of discoveries from tumbling down? We start with an unbelievable story about New York City being buried in horse manure, and discover the solution is in Detroit. Then we witness how British doctors thought they had solved polio, but actually hadn’t. Finally Dr Wayne Lautt explains Looping Theory… and how that can mistake proof your exp ..read more
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Generations: What Newton taught Einstein
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin
3y ago
How many astronomers does it take to discover a planet that doesn’t exist? The Answer: Generations. Depending on where you live, (and a thousand other variables) your life expectancy is probably between 75 and 85 years. Even at the high end, that’s not enough to solve all the world’s problems. That’s why most big questions can only be answered by multiple generations. We follow the story of a Roman temple that became an British Castle, and then an English jail. Then we follow the story of Neptune and Vulcan… two planets that were discovered by a dozen people over the course of two hundred year ..read more
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When Snake Oil Enters the Courtroom
Inside the Breakthrough | How Science Comes to Life
by Dan Riskin
3y ago
What do you think of when you hear the term Snake Oil? Do you think of miracle vitamins with outlandish claims? Do you think of sneaky sales people trying to separate you from your money? Or do you think of actual snakes? The truth is, those are all true. Snake Oil is a complicated concept that includes shiffy profiteers, and an audience that is, if not ‘gullible,’ at least ‘susceptible.’ Joseph Sledge spent three decades in prison because of bad forensics, and when you learn how it played out in the courtroom… you’ll see that what he really fell victim to, was “Snake Oil.” The best defence ag ..read more
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