Sound BiteThe Rooneycast rides again for one final mission — to discuss Sally Rooney’s newest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You. What have Anna and Josh been up to? What do they think of Alice, Eileen, Felix, and Simon? Where will this book fall in their overall Rooney Ranking? Listen on to find out!
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On this episode, Oskar, Sanjana, and Hayden interview David Juergens and Joe Watson from David Baker’s lab about their recent publication “Broadly applicable and accurate protein design by integrating structure prediction networks and diffusion generative models.” Using the same principles underlying the image-generating software DALL-E, the Baker lab has been able to create software that will generate functional proteins for tasks ranging from therapeutics to materials science.
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Daily Discoveries is starting off this quarter with an episode about a recent article that discusses how the structure of capsular polysaccharides on bacteria allow them to bind to human cells and cause infection.
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Join us this week as we respond to some of your questions with our favorite love expert, Ph.D. student Ben Compton. Are labels helping or harming us? What’s the secret behind sexual compatibility? And what is a sneaky link? Listen as we dive into how to deal with the trickiest problems we face within our relationships.
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In this episode, Hayden and Sanjana discuss recent advancements in CRISPR-Cas technology that allows for the specific enrichment or depletion of a single bacterial strain in a complex microbial community.
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This week Sanjana, Oskar, and Hayden discuss a study where an imaging technology was created in order to observe a mouse brain implant over time without disturbing the mouse or the implant.
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We’re back after the break and ready to talk about the ultimate comfort movies: romantic comedies, also known as rom-coms. How are rom-coms different from other movies? What do they say about the way our society views love? And most importantly, how did Meg Ryan get her hair to look like that? We dive into all of these questions and more with special guest UW Film Club Podcast Lead Drew Favors.
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New York City. Even just that name sparked an idea in your head, didn’t it? Freshly back from her short trip in Manhattan, Deb sits with Abi to talk all about the position and meaning of New York in the public consciousness — and, naturally, they talk some about the dating app experiences in New York vs. Seattle (one has more rizz, you could say).
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It’s the holiday of giving, so in this episode we have 2 acts for you! In the first act, we interview a Livewell representative about an incredible resource that lives right here on our campus. In the second act, we interview a seasoned yogi about her practice and how showing up to classes for yourself can possibly help our (love) lives go from complicated to a little more simple.
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In this episode, Hayden, Sanjana, and Oskar discuss a paper that explores potential alopecia treatments using machine learning.
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