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Radio Cade is a podcast brought to you by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. Radio Cade introduces listeners to inventors and their sources of motivation and inspiration. Learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
In the final episode in our Smart Home series, host James Di Virgilio sits down with Akshay Bhuva, the founder and CEO of Kitchenery, a pioneering company revolutionizing the kitchen appliance industry. Akshay shares his journey from the inception of Kitchenery in his own kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic, to the development of cutting-edge wireless power transfer technology. With a focus on embracing failure, persevering through challenges, and inspiring consumers, Akshay’s story highlights the importance of resilience and passion in the entrepreneurial journey. Join the conversation as they discuss the transformative potential of Kitchenery’s innovations and the vision to redefine the future of cooking experiences.
“Innovation is not just about creating something new; it’s about embracing failure, staying lean, and persevering through challenges. Every setback is a lesson in disguise, and resilience is the key to success in the journey of entrepreneurship. Success in innovation isn’t about what you do; it’s about why you do it. Your passion and belief in your mission inspire others to join you on the journey to change the world.” – Akshay Bhuva
Our Smart Home series dives deep into the brains behind the innovations, exploring how biometric data, wireless powerless technology, and AI are shaping the homes of tomorrow. Tune in and get ready to reimagine how you live!
This week on the show, host Richard Miles explores the possibilities of parenting technology with Sarah Ostadabbas, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. Sarah isn’t just talking theory – she’s built a revolutionary baby monitor called AI Wover. Tune in to hear how AI Wover goes beyond simple monitoring, the key distinctions between AI and augmented cognition, and why Sarah believes mentors are crucial for empowering female engineers. Tech enthusiasts and parents won’t want to miss this groundbreaking discussion on AI and child development.
“The thing that is very important for me as the lead founder of AI Wover is bringing equity to the hand of everybody, every household with an infant on their day watch. This baby monitoring system, without extra cost, can be equipped with advanced AI and watch out if the babies are going through every milestone on time. And if not, then that concern that they have can be brought up to the pediatrician, and then hopefully the chain of action could happen on time.” – Sarah Ostadabbas
Our Smart Home series dives deep into the brains behind the innovations, exploring how biometric data, wireless powerless technology, and AI are shaping the homes of tomorrow. Tune in and get ready to reimagine how you live!
Listen as host James Di Virgilio and Andrew Gebhart, Senior Analyst at PCMag, for the first episode in our Smart Home series! Listen as Andrew breaks down the must-know facts about smart home tech, from easy steps for equipping your home to a glimpse of the futuristic features on the horizon.
“In my dream world of, like, a smart home, I want Rosie the robot. I don’t want to do chores at all. And we’re getting there. I think we’re getting there. I think a lot of the pieces are there. But whether we’ll actually see it all come to fruition in a way that everybody’s really happy about in five to ten years, you know, I don’t know. Fingers crossed.” – Andrew Gebhart
Our Smart Home series dives deep into the brains behind the innovations, exploring how biometric data, wireless powerless technology, and AI are shaping the homes of tomorrow. Tune in and get ready to reimagine how you live!
Listen as host James Di Virgilio and Andrew Gebhart, Senior Analyst at PCMag, for the first episode in our Smart Home series! Listen as Andrew breaks down the must-know facts about smart home tech, from easy steps for equipping your home to a glimpse of the futuristic features on the horizon.
"In my dream world of, like, a smart home, I want Rosie the robot. I don't want to do chores at all. And we're getting there. I think we're getting there. I think a lot of the pieces are there. But whether we'll actually see it all come to fruition in a way that everybody's really happy about in five to ten years, you know, I don't know. Fingers crossed." - Andrew Gebhart
Our Smart Home series dives deep into the brains behind the innovations, exploring how biometric data, wireless powerless technology, and AI are shaping the homes of tomorrow. Tune in and get ready to reimagine how you live!
After just having wrapped up our animal health series, Beyond the Collar, the Inventivity Pod team has selected an inventivity highlight from each episode to share with you all.
The conversations with our amazing guests were informative, inspiring and fun. If you like what you hear, we encourage you to go back and listen to the full episodes for some great stories, tips, and tricks from our guests.
Be on the lookout for our upcoming smart home series where we talk about what a smart home is and what its future looks like. Join us as we chat with innovators and enthusiasts who are developing smart home technology that is safer, easier to use, and kinder to our world.
Join host James Di Virgilio and guest Scott Ijaz, Senior Product Manager at a veterinary health company offering diagnostic and therapeutic products for companion animals, for the third episode of our Animal Health series: Beyond the Collar!
After just having wrapped up our series on the Blue Economy the Inventivity Pod team has selected an inventivity highlight from each episode to share with you all.
With the amazing guests that joined us the conversations were informative, inspiring and fun. So while we could only pick one highlight, there is so much more to learn in the full episodes and we encourage you to go back and listen. Hope you enjoy.
Be sure to be on the lookout this year as we bring you series built around smart homes, automotive innovations and, of course, told through the lens of Inventivity!
Join host Richard Miles and guest Serg Albino, Co-founder and CEO of ecoSPEARS, for the third episode of our Blue Economy Series!
Our Blue Economy series is a look at what the Blue Economy is, who's involved, and what the future is going to look like thanks to dedicated innovators.
“People used to think that taking care of the environment was just philanthropic. It just was a nice thing to do. Now it's really showing that investing and the environment are actually more intertwined than you ever thought” - Katherine O’Fallon
Join host James Di Virgilio and guest Katherine O’Fallon, Executive Director of the Marine Research Hub, as they kick off the first episode of our Blue Economy Series!
Listen as Katherine gives an educational overview of the Blue Economy, the Marine Research Hub's impact on it, and how anyone can be a steward for our oceans.
Our Blue Economy series is a look at what the Blue Economy is, who's involved, and what the future is going to look like thanks to dedicated innovators. Listen as our hosts and guests cover topic areas of renewable energy, fisheries, maritime transport, tourism, climate change, and waste management.
After just having wrapped up our Hope for the Future series the Inventivity Pod team has selected an inventivity highlight from each episode to share with you all.
With the amazing guests that joined us the conversations were informative, inspiring and fun. So while we could only pick one highlight, there is so much more to learn in the full episodes and we encourage you to go back and listen. Hope you enjoy.
Join us next time for the beginning of our Blue Economy series!
“These women had never invented before and they did what women have a tendency, you know, to do what we have to do.” - Edith Tolchin
To celebrate the release of the new book Secrets of Successful Women Inventors by Edith G. Tolchin, from Square One Publishers, the Inventivity Pod has welcomed Edith G. Tolchin, Kenya Adams, and Angelique N. Warner to the show!
Listen as the author and two inventor contributors discuss with host, Richard Miles, their inspiration and journeys. Obstacles like patents, funding and support. And learn what to do when what you want doesn’t exist. Create it.
Be sure to purchase Secrets of Successful Women Inventors available now!
"It's not all the time, things you love, that you want to do, that you will succeed. It's figuring out something that you love, or you can love, and someone else really needs it. So when you find this intersection, I think you're going in the right direction." - Rodrigo Griesi
Listen as host Richard Miles and Rodrigo Griesi have an engrossing, encompassing conversation. From how winning the 2022 Cade Prize impacted Rodrigo’s business, NEPTUNYA, to insights into different business cultures, and what we can do with failure. Join us for the final episode in our Hope for the Future series.
The Hope For the Future series is an innovative look at sustainability. For this limited series, we talk to inventors contributing to the sustainability movement. Listen and see why they provide, Hope for the Future.
Today, Inventivity Pod Host Richard Miles brings us an Inventivity Update! Join him as he congratulates the finalists of the 2023 Cade Prize.
The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention hosts the annual Cade Prize for Innovation. Which, since 2010 has been Florida’s premier Innovation prize. And this year, 2023, has become a national prize with an overall purse of $100,000.
Join us next time for the continuation of our Hope for the Future series!
“You have to go from a bunch of original ideas, then you have to find ones that people want to do.” - Dr. John Cotter
Join host James Di Virgilio and guest Dr. John Cotter, of Cotter Research and Development, as they delve into the creation of John’s lumber alternative. A concrete that has nailability! In the continuation of our Hope for the Future series.
Listen as they discuss how John discovered the importance of customer discovery and the different avenues you can take to get your innovation out into the world.
The Hope For the Future series is an innovative look at sustainability. For this limited series, we talk to inventors contributing to the sustainability movement. Listen and see why they provide, Hope for the Future.
"It's important to make the most of what's in front of you at the time.” - Dr. Anthony Engler
Join host Richard Miles and guest Dr. Anthony Engler, of Polymer Solutions, as they kick off the first episode of the newly branded Inventivity Pod, with the first episode of our Hope for the Future Series!
Listen as they discuss Anthony’s journey from an inquisitive student to CTO of a company he co-founded! The company develops polymers and is focused on energy and material sustainability.
The Hope For the Future series is an innovative look at sustainability. For this limited series, we talk to inventors contributing to the sustainability movement. Listen and see why they provide, Hope for the Future.
“Inventivity. What does it mean? The state of being inventive, creating, or designing new things or thoughts”
Join hosts Richard Miles and James Di Virgilio as they discuss the future of the podcast! What was once known and loved as Radio Cade will now be known and loved as the Inventivity Pod! Want to find out more? Give this minisode a listen! And stay tuned for all new episodes of, The Inventivity Pod! Brought to you by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, in Gainesville, Florida.
DJ Schmitt and Michael Finkelstein join host James Di Virgilio for a limited series that explores stories of innovation, patent protection, and product commercialization in the state of Florida.
DJ Schmitt and Michael Finkelstein founded Neuro20 Efficient Health, a company that manufactures washable and wearable electrical muscle stimulation suits. Neuro20's mission is to be the leading provider of advanced wearable technology that specializes in the use of Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training and rehabilitation.
This series was made possible in partnership with the Cade Museum, Florida House on Capitol Hill, and the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Sylvia Wilson Thomas joins host James Di Virgilio for a limited series that explores stories of innovation, patent protection, and product commercialization in the state of Florida.
Dr. Sylvia Wilson Thomas leads the University of South Florida research enterprise and is the first African American female to lead an R1 university research program in Florida. Dr. Thomas also serves as President of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Engineering in Medicine and Biology Florida West Coast Section, advisor for Society of Women Engineers and National Society of Black Engineers, and member of the Board of Directors for Black Girls Code and Florida Senate Appointee to the Florida Education Fund Board of Directors.
This series was made possible in partnership with the Cade Museum, Florida House on Capitol Hill, and the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Paul Sohl, joins host James Di Virgilio for a limited series that explores stories of innovation, patent protection, and product commercialization in the state of Florida.
Paul Sohl is the CEO of the Florida High Tech Corridor Council, an economic development initiative of the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida, and the University of Florida.
This series was made possible in partnership with the Cade Museum, Florida House on Capitol Hill, and the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Stefano Alva, joins host Richard Miles to discuss how Farm to Flame Energy is providing affordable and renewable power in areas across the country.
“So, the fuel that we're using to power our generators is really where our patent is around, which is the way that we convert the biomass into a powderized fuel that is very uniform and it behaves in a very predictable way. So, what has been a challenge in the industry is really to be able to overcome the different types of biomass that are available and be able to find the system where you can create a uniform output out of this mixed biomass waste. And that's exactly what our patent focuses on and what our expertise really lies in.”
Stefano Alva is Chief Financial Officer of Farm to Flame Energy. Farm to Flame Energy was a Fibonacci Finalists in the 2021 Cade Prize Competition for Innovation.
To learn more about Farm to Flame Energy visit their website at ftfenergy.com or visit Wefunder.com/farmtoflameenergy2
Tready Smith, CEO of Bayshore Capital and Chairman of the Board for USA Rare Earth, joins host Richard Miles to discuss rare earth metals, what its like running an investment firm, and what she looks for in potential investment companies.
"We believe the team that is trying to bring an idea to market is crucial and having a, we call it a purpose-built team that has been rounded up. Having people on the team who have specific capability and experience in an area makes that team either successful or not successful. So having that purpose-built team where you look at it, you can say, oh, I see why every member of that team is critical to the success of this idea. People drive ideas, people have relationships, people are the critical part of investment success."
In this episode, Smith also shares advice for young entrepreneurs and what it was like growing up with an entrepreneur father.
Russell Donda, the Entrepreneur in Residence at Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise, joins host Richard Miles to discuss the secrets to startup success. "It is the beginning of an idea, [i]f the startup is going to be successful… that idea should be novel. Secondly, it takes generally a serious plan and then working that plan and working that plan includes the other important component of startups. And that is funding, bringing money in to move that startup along." In this episode, Donda discusses the five fundamentals for startup companies, and his own professional path that brought him to where he is today.
Santh Sathya joins host Richard Miles to discuss how his company, LuftCar LLC, is revolutionizing the realm of regional transportation, providing both sustainable and affordable multipurpose mobility vehicles.
Sathya and his company are in the process of developing hydrogen powered, modular, autonomous air and road mobility electric vehicles with vertical takeoff and landing: “A lot of people have to travel hundreds of miles to go to a large commercial airport to take an overseas trip or take a long-distance flight. So, what we are doing is promoting an alternative for those people to fly from their little hometowns, from the rural areas, from small cities to these bigger commercial airports and both those sides”.
In this episode, Sathya discusses how the movies he saw in his childhood inspired him to find a solution to the problems many face regarding regional transportation—only about 28% of the American population has access to air travel, because it is too tedious or expensive, but Sathya believes it does not have to continue to be this way. He believes inventors should collaborate and solve similar problems together.
Raha Saremi joins host James Di Virgilio to discuss how her company, EcoaTEX, is disrupting the highly pollutive textile industry by using natural materials to develop sustainable products for dyeing, coating, and finishing textiles. Saremi and her team developed fabric treatment methods that uses 90% less water and fewer harmful chemicals than traditional techniques: ""[T]he good thing about our method is, you don't need to have any specific type of equipment in order to use the method, we can just modify and adjust the existing textile manufacturing equipment and use it with our technology."
In this episode, Saremi shares the experiences that inspired her to change the textile industry. She discusses how aspiring entrepreneurs need resilience, even if it means exploring avenues that hadn't considered before. To learn more about EcoaTEX visit their website at www.ecoatex.com
Carlos Monero joins host James Di Virgilio to discuss his medical diagnostic company, ResonanceDX, and his unconventional journey to becoming a medical researcher. Like many innovators, Carlos started his career in a different field, yet those experiences have proven to be beneficial: "It's not the traditional path. Most people started either going to med school or biology as their undergraduate major. I guess sometimes I wish I had maybe not been so focused on aerospace...but as it turns out, it worked out very well for me." Carlos Monero is an Associate Professor at Emory University of Medicine, and the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at ResonanceDx, Inc. ResonanceDx placed in the Final Five for the Cade Prize Competition for Innovation in 2021. To learn more about ResonanceDx visit their website at resonancedx.com
In this episode, Dr. Christine Schmidt talks with host James Di Virgilio about her research in biochemically processed nerve grafts and what inspires her as an innovator: “When you think about innovation and invention, be open to the fact that what you're doing may have applications in different spaces and that you may take turns and enjoying those turns versus resisting. Those turns may lead you to some interesting pathways.”
Dr. Christine Schmidt is the Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. She is known for her work in biomaterials science and cellular tissue engineering. In 2020, Dr. Schmidt was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Mohit Patil and Parth Shah advise other future entrepreneurs on conceptualizing a company and its products: "Don't come up with a solution looking for a problem, that almost always never works out...what you need is a problem. A problem that the society has, a problem that people are desperate to get solved and then use your engineering mind to think, oh, how can I solve that problem?".
Mohit Patil and Parth Shah co-founded Abilitare, a company that provides hands-free access to computers and smartphones for people with hand disabilities. Their products include: the Abili headmouse, a head-wearable sensor that allows the user to control the mouse cursor using head motions instead of hands, an adaptive switch that can be used with feet, fists, or elbows, and Dwell toolbar, a mouse clicking software.
In this episode, Patil and Shah share the inspiration behind their ideas with host Richard Miles and recommend always having patience, especially when starting a new business. Click the links below to learn more:
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Dr. Jean-François Rossignol discusses the development behind a class of antiviral drugs, such as Nitazoxanide and Thiazolides, that stimulate immune cells, activating gene pathways that block viral transformation: "You're leading an entire population, and you give them a pill for treating their problems, and you cannot have any side effects, any toxicity, or any kind of things like that. You have to have a safe drug. And that's what we did." Dr. Jean-François Rossignol is the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Romark Laboratories in Tampa, as well as a professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease at the University of South Florida. He is a scientist, medical chemist, and physician who developed groundbreaking treatments for parasitic diseases. In this episode, Rossignol talks with host Richard Miles about his recent induction into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and shares his research on antiviral drug development.
Dr. Norma A. Alcantar discusses the mechanisms in cacti ecosystems and the personal inspiration behind her research: "There were many other things that I learned from my mother and my grandmother, very valuable. And so, I think transferring knowledge from one generation, of our parents and our grandparents to our children...I think that's very valuable. We should not lose that ever." Dr. Norma A. Alcantar is a Professor of Chemical, Biomedical & Materials Engineering at the University of South Florida. She is internationally known for her breakthroughs using plant-based technology to decontaminate water. Her research and applications are crucial to future global sustainability and advances in biomedical applications for Alzheimer’s and cancer. In this episode, Alcantar reflects on her recent induction into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and shares her research on biomaterial from cactus plants with host Richard Miles.
Susann Keohane discusses how she uses remote sensing to study behavior patterns in the aging population, a project she hopes will help the elderly thrive: "Overall, I really want us to make older adults feel like technology is for them...and it's theirs to be used to, and it should be marketed, advertised, and designed for everyone".
Susann Keohane is the IBM Watson Health Innovation Leader for Healthy Aging and Longevity. Her induction into the Florida Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2021 is amongst one of her achievements; another includes having 137 U.S. patents. She has become an expert in enabling human ability through emerging technologies with a focus on accessibility research, aging-in-place Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and cognitive systems to deliver personalized insights and adaptive interfaces.
In this episode, Keohane shares with host Richard Miles the importance of building more intuitive design solutions for the aging population, alongside having them feel comfortable with the technology.
Craig Bandes discusses how to avoid the same pitfalls of companies he has worked with in the past and how to create a structurally sound order of operations through his experience in business and finances: "And you get to a point where you just realize that if I don't try it, I'll never know, and I'll always regret it. And then you jump into it . But jumping in with more experience, I think, really increases the odds of surviving".
Craig Bandes is the CEO and co-founder of Pixelligent Technologies. He has over 25 years of experience serving as a CEO, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Additionally, he is a member of the NanoBusiness Alliance Advisory Board.
In this episode, Bandes shares with host James Di Virgilio the importance of having a business background before entering the business world, how he's saved a company from bankruptcy, and the next steps for said company in terms of workplace diversity, globalization, and sustainability.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade -- a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. Starting in running your own company -- it's not for everyone. For those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. We decided to go out and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat, what they'll never do again, or hear stories from their first year, then from the period when they realized they're going to survive and how they intend to position their companies for the future. We'll find out what a CEO's normal day is like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is it time to move on? Join us for CEO101 -- a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss -- for better or for worse.
James Di Virgilio: 0:54
We're talking with Craig Bandes, the president and CEO of Pixelligent Technologies. It's a nanotechnology company that does a whole lot of fascinating things that Craig is going to tell us all about. But first, Craig, tell us about your background as a leader. You've done a lot of things -- both co-founding companies, as well as being brought in to be a CEO.
Craig Bandes: 1:14
Yeah. Well, great. Thanks for inviting me to join today. So, you know , I think it's , it's nothing that I think you can prepare for without being in the role. There's so much of it that you figure out as you go. There's definitely taking advantage of books on leadership or being mentored by others that have come before you, but there's nothing like being in it to really make all the mistakes, hopefully learn from them, and start to formulate what you think is a, a good compilation of strategies, right? There's not just one that I think makes a leader, or a CEO, successful.
James Di Virgilio: 1:45
Give us a little bit about your, just, biography, sort of the companies that you've led. Give us a CV here.
Craig Bandes: 1:51
So, very different companies, very different industries. The first company I co-founded with a partner was in IT staffing and consulting -- and that was an area where he had slightly more experience than I did in it. And we were big users of those, sort of resources and vendors when we're both working together as executives in a telecom company, which [inaudible] many back around the uh, circa 2000, didn't work out after raising lots and lots of money -- which was my main job when I was there. And so we started it together, and it was not my lifelong dream to do it, but I had more entrepreneurial background than he d
Weaver Gaines shares his experiences as the CEO of several startup companies in terms of the highs, the lows, the expected, and the unexpected: "So I think you can inculcate a culture from the top, from the beginning, that says, 'We don't lie. We don't cheat. We don't steal. And we're not going to tolerate people who do those things.' You can make that happen throughout your company, regardless of its size. But the other stuff, the commitment to the task, the belief in what you're doing, all of that stuff, has to be established when the company is small and then you hope it will permeate the company as it grows."
Gaines has served as the CEO of Evren Technologies, OBMedical Company and Ixion Biotechnology. Additionally he has been the chairman of several companies and non-profits, and is a member of the Keck Graduate Institute's Corporate Relations Board.
In this episode, Weaver shares with host Richard Miles the importance of a CEO's role to encourage teamwork, foster trust in a company, and grow -- in a way that's not just about the money.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. Starting in running your own company -- It's not for everyone. For those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. We decided to go out and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat, what they'll never do again, or hear stories from their first year, then from the period when they realized they're going to survive and how they intend to position their companies for the future. We'll find out what a CEO's normal day is like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is it time to move on? Join us for CEO 101, a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss -- for better or for worse. Welcome to another episode of CEO 101, a series of special episodes in which we talk to and about CEOs of startup companies. I'm your host, Richard Miles. Today my guest is Weaver Gaines , the CEO of several companies, including Evren Technologies, OBMedical, both of those are medical device companies, as well as Ixion Biotechnology. He's also served as a chairman of numerous companies and non-profits, among other things. Welcome to the show, Weaver.
Weaver Gaines: 1:18
"Well, thank you for having me here," I think is the formulaic response to--
Richard Miles: 1:22
That's right, there's only one right answer. You're not going to be here. Weaver, you've done a lot of stuff in your life and your career. So why don't we just start with a short overview of your career?
Weaver Gaines: 1:31
Okay. Well, one way of thinking about my career is, "here's a guy who obviously can't keep a job." I went to law school primarily because even though I was an ROTC commissioned officer, everybody else was trying to avoid being drafted into the war in Vietnam. And they were all going to law school and they were on the debate team at Dartmouth, so I went to law school too , with about that much forethought about it. And when I graduated from law school, I went on active duty and I spent two years in the army -- one year in Europe, in Heidelberg and Berlin. And one year in long been Vietnam -- an experience for which I will be always grateful. The whole experience was extraordinary. I'm glad I did it. I can't talk anybody into doing it now, but I think it's really one of the formative experiences of my life. And I'm glad I got involved in it.
Richard Miles: 2:17
As a first-time founder and CEO, guest Vinny Olmstead reflects on what it felt like to start something new: “The one word I would use is just excitement. If you were taking a picture, I think you would see wide eyes and a smile on my face... In my early days, as I was looking at opportunities, I was hyper focused on solving some type of problem and spending a good amount of time to figure out what the solution would be for that type of problem.”
Olmstead is the Co-Founder, Managing Director, and Partner at Vocap Investment Partners based in Vero Beach, Florida. Prior to Vocap, Olmstead was CEO of Bridgevine, an advertising technology company focused on customer acquisition.
In this episode, Olmstead talks with host James Di Virgilio about his experience as a CEO and investor, and to share his advice for entrepreneurs that are trying to rise above the crowd to get funding.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro : 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. Starting and running your own company. It's not for everyone for those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. We decided to go out and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat, what they'll never do again. We'll hear stories from their first year, then from the period, when they realize they're going to survive and how they intend to position their companies for the future, we'll find out what a CEO's normal day days like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is the time to move on, join us for CEO 101, a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss for better or for worse. This episode of Radio Cade, CEO101 features and interview Vinny Olmstead, Managing Director of the Florida based venture capital firm, Vocap Partners.
James Di Virgilio: 0:59
Vinny, take me back to a time that was a first time for you, either as a company, founder, CEO, whatever you feel like was kind of that first experience. And describe for me what it was like to start something.
Vinny Olmstead: 1:13
The one word I would use is just excitement. If you were taking a picture, I think you would see wide eyes and a smile on my face. And if you peel back the onion on that a little bit, in my early days, as I was looking at opportunities, I was hyper focused on solving some type of problem and spending a good amount of time trying to figure out what the solution would be for that type of problem. And I'm sure at one point it will get into learnings and how that evolves. But early on it's a lot of them spend time doing some research. I came up through the finance rings . So a lot of times finance people think about businesses through the lens of Excel and spreadsheets, a little different than engineers do sometimes a little different than sales folks do at times, but me personally, came up through the finance route. So a lot of what I did was think through business model think through pricing, think through the market and those types of things, and try to think about how that solution could grow into something very large. And without knowing it , trying to take a look at competition and find to look at where the needs here . So I answered the question in a couple of ways, which is facial expression. And then a little bit of experience probably on and through the prism of CEO, that has a finance background, which is sometimes good. And sometimes it needs to be complimented.
James Di Virgilio: 2:31
So you had mentioned very early on, I know
On what it’s like becoming the CEO of a startup and gradually having more and more employees taking over some of the day-to-day responsibilities, guest Ron Tarro says the following: “It’s almost better to view what you’re building as a machine; it’s a machine where, if you actually step back from it, the machine keeps running.”
Tarro is the former CEO of a telecommunications software and management services company founded in Boca Raton, Florida. His own experience of developing a startup led him to becoming the Vice President of the Board of Directors at New World Angels, a group of 78 accredited, private investors, operators and entrepreneurs dedicated to providing equity capital and guidance to early-stage entrepreneurial companies with a strong presence in Florida.
In this episode, Tarro sits down with host Richard Miles to talk about his own trials of creating a startup, as well as discussing the importance of intellectualizing business as one forges their own path within the marketplace.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro (00:01):
Starting and running your own company. It's not for everyone, but for those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. So we decided to go on and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat and what they'll never do again. We'll hear stories from their first year, then from the period when they realized they're going to survive and how they intend to position their companies for the future. We'll find out what a CEO's normal day is like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is it time to move on? Join us for CEO 101, a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss, for better or for worse.
Richard Miles (00:38):
Welcome to another episode of CEO 101, a series of special episodes in which we talk to, and about, CEOs of startup companies. I'm your host Richard Miles today. My guest is Ron Tarro, CEO of a number of companies, as well as an advisor and investor in many more. Welcome to the show, Ron.
Ron Tarro (00:55):
It's very nice to be here. Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles (00:57):
So why don't we start with an overview of your career. You've done a lot of things. We just were talking about your role in a number of companies at various stages and levels. So why don't you give a brief summary of where you started and what you're doing now?
Ron Tarro (01:09):
Yeah, so I started as a nerd, software engineer, and I really came through a technical track. My background was in mathematics and the sciences. I ended up getting hired by IBM in IBM labs and so was on product teams, software engineering teams. Went through product marketing and product management jobs there, where I began to focus, not just on making the
Recalling his time in the radio business, guest Lew Dickey tells host James Di Virgilio that, as a CEO, it is important to recognize that you are often forced to take things as you go: “The landscape is changing—you might be able to see a little bit around the corner, but nobody has perfect vision into the future.” Currently, Dickey is the Co-Founder and Chairman of DM Luxury, America’s largest regional magazine company. However, this piece of advice rings especially true considering his background as the former CEO of Cumulus Media, the nation’s second largest radio company.
In this episode, Dickey remembers the quick and drastic shift into the digital realm, a time when somebody like Steve Jobs showed up to Stanford University with his latest Apple products and showed them to eager students, including Dickey, who took inspiration from those moments—as well his own father’s history in broadcasting—to create his own company.
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Intro: (00:01)
Starting and running your own company. It's not for everyone, but for those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. So we decided to go on and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat and what they'll never do again. We'll hear stories from their first year, then from the period when they realized they're going to survive and how they intend to position their companies for the future. We'll find out what a CEO's normal day is like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is it time to move on? Joining us for CEO 101, a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss, for better or for worse.
Intro: (00:40)
Today's guest CEO, Lew Dickey came to prominence as co-founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Cumulus Media, the nation's second largest radio company. He is also the co-founder and chairman of DM Luxury, America's largest regional magazine company.
James Di Virgilio: (00:56)
Lew, take us back to your first year, starting your venture. How did it feel to take on such a role and how did that necessitate some changes in your life?
Lew Dickey: (01:05)
It's interesting because I had a market research business that I was running and had started that when I got out of school back in 1985, and that business I was working for all the major television groups and radio groups across the country doing market research and strategy consulting. My sort of purview was nationwide. I was operating in dozens and dozens of markets from the largest to the smallest providing consulting services and market research, consumer insights. So I understood the landscape and I knew a lot of the owners and managers across the country. And I was doing some work for early stage venture capitalists that own some stations in the Caribbean, and they were a mess and I was down there helping this person try to get them figured out. And I was talking about the telco act, which had just passed. This was in 1996, the telco act that had passe
When Rick Carlson founded SharpSpring in 2012, he didn't think of himself as a CEO. “My co-founder and I were doing whatever it took to survive,” Carlson says, and they were responsible for everything from software development to buying office supplies. In the early days of the automated marketing software company, “there were so many failures it was hard to name them all,” according to Carlson. “There was an immense amount of wasted effort in figuring out what customers wanted. Over the years we think we’ve gotten smarter about how we make those decisions.” The company went public in 2014, after being acquired by SMTP, and is currently listed on the NASDAQ.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Starting and running your own company: it's not for everyone, but for those who have done it, it can be exhilarating, exhausting, and easily the hardest thing they've ever done. So we decided to go out and talk to some of those people and find out what they've learned, what they'd repeat, and what they'll never do again. We'll hear stories from their first year, then from the period when they realized they're going to survive, and how they intend to position their companies for the future. We'll find out what a CEO's normal day's like, how they build and manage their teams, what it's done to their personal lives. And finally, when is the time to move on? Join us for CEO 101, a limited series of deep looks at people who are their own boss for better or for worse. This episode's guest is Rick Carlson, CEO of SharpSpring, a comprehensive sales and marketing automation platform.
Richard Miles (01:25):
Rick, welcome to the show. Glad to have you on to get your experiences as CEO of SharpSpring. We're going to start by talking about the very beginning. So if you could take us back literally to your first year, really your first few days as CEO, and let's get a snapshot for people who've never done this before, what that is like. And obviously, you put in work before you probably became a CEO into the company, the idea, but let's start with the first 30 days. You've got your company, it started, maybe it's just you, maybe you have a handful of employees. What was that experience like?
Rick Carlson (01:56):
First off, thanks so much for having me, appreciate the opportunity and I'm glad to be here. So when I heard you pose the question, your first day as CEO, actually what immediately came to mind is during that first year or even two years, or maybe three years, I certainly did not think of myself as a CEO. CEO is what I am now managing a very large team with managers and a couple of hundred people. When I think about that first year, I think about struggling with a fledgling team where I am just another team member, and that's exactly what it was like. I was a founder of a business, much more than a
Medicine that talks to you. Eric Buffkin of eTectRx developed an “edible radio” powered by the chemicals in your stomach that tracks when you take every dose of your medication. Eric’s colleague, pharmacist Susan Baumgartner, says about 50% of people that are prescribed medication do not take it when they are supposed to. Over the last decade, the company has extensively tested the ID-Cap System and In December 2019 received FDA approval. The company has had several “near-death” experiences, but Buffkin said the real problem of tracking medication usage wasn’t going away, and therefore the opportunity for the company wouldn’t go away either. Susan said at each pivot point or setback the team and investors said: “let’s go forward.” This episode is a re-release.
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Inventors and their inventions Radio Cade, and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio (00:40):
Medicine that talks to you, or at least talks to your smartphone. That's no longer the stuff of science fiction. It will soon be available for patients everywhere. Welcome to another episode of Radio Cade, I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. And today my guests are Eric Buffkin and Susan Baumgartner the developers of a system called ID Cap and the co-founder of a company called eTectRx. Welcome to the show, Eric and Susan.
Eric Buffkin (01:03):
Thanks very much.
James Di Virgilio (01:04):
So let's dive right into your story. I spent a lot of time pre-show talking with you, Eric, about what you developed. It's very fascinating. I'm sitting here looking at it right now, in its simplest form you developed a medical breakthrough, this something that doesn't exist in its form. Tell us about what you've done, what you've created.
Eric Buffkin (01:19):
Probably the most important thing we invented James, is a way to communicate in an edible radio. And when you get right down to it, it's a tiny little radio that's small enough that you can swallow it and it can take power off of the chemicals in your stomach. And so you don't need a battery. You don't need much of anything. You can see it there it's really tiny. And once you swallow it, it essentially starts transmitting. There are a lot of folks that have tried to do different things like this. You can get ingestible cameras for doing endoscopy's and different things, but they're typically fairly large, fairly expensive and not somethin
Diabetes sometimes leads to loss of vision. What if there were a simple screening device to find out who is at risk? Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand, a Canadian ophthalmologist and founder of two start-up companies, invented a hand-held device that in minutes measures the eye’s electrical waves to detect patients who may be suffering from diabetic retinopathy. Hildebrand talks about the challenges in moving from academia to the start-up world. “It was hard to get somebody that understood what we were doing to fund the company and run it,” Hildebrand said, “so I drew the short straw.” This episode is a re-release.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles (00:40):
An EKG for the eye is helping people with diabetes to keep their eyesight. Welcome to radio Cade, I'm your host, Richard Miles. And today I'm talking to Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand and ophthalmologist and founder of two startup companies. Welcome to Radio Cade, Lloyd.
Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand (00:53):
Thank you very much. It's good to be here.
Richard Miles (00:55):
So Lloyd, I got to say you're the second Canadian I've interviewed in the last three days. And our listeners may begin to think I've fled to Manitoba, Saskatchewan or somewhere, but I promise from the beginning, no hockey jokes, no references to Molson or any of that nonsense.
Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand (01:08):
Okay. At least it's not February and 40 below zero.
Richard Miles (01:12):
Exactly. But I did want to comment on that. Actually, you were born in Canada and you grew up in Brazil. You came back to Canada for medical school, you practice in Iowa for a few years as a physician, then some training in Oklahoma, you worked in Portland, Oregon for a while. And now you're either in New York or Las Vegas. I can't remember where you are at the moment.
Dr. Lloyd Hildebrand (01:30):
I'm in Las Vegas now.
Richard Miles (
A big problem for most prosthetics is they don’t send sensory information back to the brain. Until now. Dr. Ranu Jung and her team at Florida International University (FIU) have developed a device that restores the sense of touch and hand grasp when someone is using their prosthetic hands. This technology could eventually be applied to other non-functioning parts of the body. A finalist for the 2020 Cade Prize for Innovation, Dr. Jung is head of the Biomedical Engineering Department at FIU, and the holder of multiple patents. Dr. Jung, who immigrated to the U.S. from India in 1983, credits the “can-do” spirit of her parents for her persistence and sense of discovery. This episode is a re-release.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles (00:40):
A neural enabled prosthesis. That is a hand that actually feels like a hand for people who have lost them. Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host Richard Miles. Today I'll be talking to Dr. Ranu Jung professor and chair of the biomedical engineering department at Florida International University. The holder of multiple patents and a finalist for this year's Cade Prize for Innovation. Congratulations and welcome to Radio Cade, Dr. Jung.
Dr. Ranu Jung (01:04):
Thank you, Richard, for giving me this opportunity to be on Radio Cade. I'm excited about talking to you.
Richard Miles (01:10):
So Ranu, if it's okay. If I call you Ranu, you've been at Florida International University for about 10 years now, but you've also spent time at Arizona State University, University of Kentucky and Case Western University in Cleveland. But you started life in New Delhi, India and came to the United States in 1983. So the first thing I'd like to ask, you've had a very illustrious career in academia, but I'm very curious about what was your first impression of the United States? What did you think when you stepped off the plane, were you excited to, do you think you'd made a really big mistake?
Dr. Ranu Jung (01:42):
That's a long time ago, but I was excited because I was going to be able to follow a dream and I had come specifically to follow biomedical engineering. So I came into New York and I actually drove with a family friend from New York to Cleveland. And so what a way to get welcomed to the United States going across the whole of the East coast to the Midwest. It was just absolutely, absolutely fantas
“I remember early in my career,” says Gary Miller, “attending orthopedic conferences just listening to the surgeons talking to each other. You build a vocabulary of what they’re talking about.” Miller is the co-founder of Exactech, a Florida company which develops and manufactures orthopedic implants, and the holder of 14 US patents. He talks with James Di Virgilio about his first invention, the innovative process, and the need for inventors and end-users to speak a common language. This episode is a re-release.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio (00:39):
Innovation. Does it follow a specific path? Is it spontaneous? Is it something that we can plan for ahead of time? My guest today is Gary Miller, the co founder, and executive VP of research and development at Exactech. Gary, you've done so many things in your career. Your first let's call official, right? Patented innovation was called the cemented hip. Yes?
Gary Miller (01:05):
No.
James Di Virgilio (01:06):
Not your first?
Gary Miller (01:07):
No, no. That was years later, but it did involve cement. My first invention, I was actually, by that time on the faculty, in the college of medicine, I was a researcher there as an engineer working in orthopedics and at the time, and still today, they have a very active bone tumor group. It's really one of the foundational elements of that department. And we treated a lot of folks with metastatic disease. And when you have tumors in your bone, it's very, very painful. And one of the things that we were trying to figure out is how to reduce the pain. And it turns out if you could reinforce that bone, it didn't hurt as much. And my first invention was taking a metal rod, which was used for trauma or fractures and perforating the sides of that rod and using it as a long cannula to inject cement through. And that's cement. So very liquidy viscous kind of material that hardens inside the body and leave the rod with the cement there, take the nozzle off and remove it. And that was the first foray for me into seeking an invention. I hadn't even thought about patenting it and somebody suggested that's a good idea. Why don't you think about patenting it? And that led to that first patent for me.
James Di Virgilio (
When Carolyn Yarina, today's guest, walked into her university's Center for Entrepreneurship one day as an undergraduate, she was convinced that she would never become an entrepreneur herself. "I remember tapping my foot, being impatient," she recalls, laughing, "I couldn't wait to get out of there, thinking that entrepreneurship wasn't for me." Fast forward to a few years later, and she is now the co-founder and CEO of Sisu Global, a company that is committed to providing medical technology which enables healthcare for each person in their own community.
In this episode, host Richard Miles sits down with Yarina to learn more about Sisu Global and more specifically, Hemafuse, the company's handheld, mechanical device for intraoperative autotransfusions, designed to replace or augment donor blood in emergency situations.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio (00:39):
Innovation. Does it follow a specific path? Is it spontaneous? Is it something that we can plan for ahead of time? My guest today is Gary Miller, the co founder, and executive VP of research and development at Exactech. Gary, you've done so many things in your career. Your first let's call official, right? Patented innovation was called the cemented hip. Yes?
Gary Miller (01:05):
No.
James Di Virgilio (01:06):
Not your first?
Gary Miller (01:07):
No, no. That was years later, but it did involve cement. My first invention, I was actually, by that time on the faculty, in the college of medicine, I was a researcher there as an engineer working in orthopedics and at the time, and still today, they have a very active bone tumor group. It's really one of the foundational elements of that department. And we treated a lot of folks with metastatic disease. And when you have tumors in your bone, it's very, very painful. And one of the things that we were trying to figure out is how to reduce the pain. And it turns out if you could reinforce that bone, it didn't hurt as much. And my first invention was taking a metal rod, which was used for trauma or fractures and perforating the sides of that rod and using it as a long cannula to inject cement through. And that's cement. So very liquidy viscous kind of material that hardens inside the body and leave the rod with the cement there, take the nozzle off and remove it. And that was the first foray for me into seeking an invention. I hadn't even t
The fight for a cure to Parkinson's Disease has been a decades-long battle, with several treatments evolving alongside the evolution of medicine as a practice. In this episode, host Richard Miles sits down with Dr. Michael Okun, the Chair of Neurology, and Professor and Executive Director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is an expert on deep brain stimulation, and author of over 400 peer reviewed articles as well as the book Parkinson’s Treatment: 10 Secrets to a Happier Life.
Here, Dr. Okun dispels myths surrounding Parkinson's, talks about his research and clinical work, and discusses his involvement with several non-profits raising awareness on other conditions and diseases. "Every day that I practice medicine, I know less," says Dr. Okun. "It's a profession where you have to have a lot of humility. You have to have an open mind and things change over time."
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Parkinson's Disease. What do we know about it? Why does it seem to be more common and how do we treat it? Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles today. I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Michael Okun the Chair of Neurology and Professor and Executive Director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Okun's also an expert on deep brain stimulation and author of over 400 peer-reviewed articles, as well as the book "Parkinson's Treatment: 10 Secrets to a Happier Life." Welcome to Radio Cade, Dr. Okun.
Dr. Michael Okun (01:11):
My pleasure to be here, Richard.
Richard Miles (01:12):
So before we start, I have to mention you're also a poet and that caught my eye mostly because I find myself in middle age becoming very interested in poetry, but only as a reader, not an actual poet. So I have to start, is this something you've always done or is it because being a brain doctor wasn't challenging enough for you? What got you into poetry?
Dr. Michael Okun (01:28):
My original bent was in humanities, and I have a degree in history. And so, I love to write, and I love to try to express myself in different ways. I love poetry, because there's a new precision towards, and I think that through poetry, you can express concepts using emotions and other modalities to reach your readers. And so, over the years I've done a number of poems, and I have an old book called "Lessons From the Bedside" and have done some writings in said time as well.
Richard Miles (
How do you measure the performance of people whose achievements are hard to measure? Building on the work of Harold Fethe, Jeff Lyons founded MindSolve, a company that developed a technology which made employee evaluations more accurate and more reliable. The company did well and was sold, and Jeff made the challenging transition from founder to employee. A self-described “nerd,” Jeff as a kid used to secretly reprogram Tandy computers at the Radio Shack in the Jacksonville mall. He said “not a lot of planning was involved” in his career, “it was more “just being open to stuff and people who say, ‘come solve this problem for me." This episode was originally released on August 14, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles (00:38):
I'm going to call HR if you work for any size company, that sentence has the appeal of I'm going to tell your mom, but it turns out HR has a fun, sexy side. I'm your host, Richard Miles and today we will be talking about how much fun it is with Jeff Lyons, founder of a company called MindSolve and currently the Senior Vice President of Global Professional Services at Sum Total, welcome to the show, Jeff.
Jeff Lyons (01:00):
Thanks, Richard. Excited to be here.
Richard Miles (01:02):
So Jeff, when I look up fun and sexy in the dictionary, there's a picture of you, right?
Jeff Lyons (01:05):
Definitely. And HR as well.
Richard Miles (01:08):
I also forgot to mention actually the pinnacle of your professional career has been serving as a board member on the Cade Museum, right? It's pretty much downhill from here.
Jeff Lyons (01:16):
Yes, thank you.
Richard Miles (01:17):
And normally we're talking about topics that are unfamiliar to a lot of people, advanced medical technologies, engineering marvels, that sort of stuff. Toda
Nina Kraus, a professor of communication sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, has done a lot of research on the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development. She explains the “musician’s advantage,” which includes better reading skills, and how music training can be a tool to improve the performance of students from low socio-economic backgrounds. This episode was originally released on June 10, 2020.
Intro (00:01):
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles (00:39):
The sound of music, not just a movie about seeing Austrians, but also a fertile field of research, specifically the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development. I'm your host Richard Miles. Today my guest is Nina Kraus, a professor of communication, sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago. Welcome to Radio Cade, Nina.
Nina Kraus (01:02):
I'm so glad to be here.
Richard Miles (01:03):
So Nina, you're one of those difficult guests that you have done so much, and we could talk a lot, but then this would not be a 30 minute podcast, it would be like a 30 hour podcast, but I have heard you speak before, and I know you were actually quite good about summarizing your research so I know you're up to the challenge, but I'd like to start out by focusing on one particular area of your work. You've done a lot in sound processing and how the brain processes sound, but why don't we start with some basic definitions for our listeners. So from a scientific perspective or researchers perspective, what is the relationship or the difference, I guess, between music, noise, and language. What's the relationship between those three things?
Nina Kraus (01:41):
What a great starting question. So sound is the common denominator for all the things that you mentioned and sound is a very under-recognized force in our society. It is very, very powerful, and yet we don't pay very much attention to it because it's invisible, first of all, like a lot of powerful forces like gravity. So you don't think about it. And we live in a very visually biased world. And even scientifically there was a National Institute for Vision 13 years before there was one for hearing. And that was the National Institute for Deafness and Communication. We share that with smell and taste, but all of the things that you mentioned, language, and,
Is Bitcoin a store of value during a financial crisis? What role does it play in a portfolio? Scott Melker, a successful trader and one of the leading voices of Cryptos discusses the origins of bitcoin, its uses, and what the future may look like. This episode was originally released on March 25, 2020.
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Intro (00:01):
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio (00:38):
Today, we are joined by Scott Melker. He is a leading voice in cryptocurrency. He's a trader he's an advisor. He formerly was a DJ and at times like these discussing cryptocurrency is more than just whether or not Bitcoin is an investment. It's actually an indictment on where we are as a society, monetarily, fiscally. What does all of this mean? Scott, welcome to the program. It's great to have you.
Scott Melker (01:04):
Thank you so much for having me. I'm truly honored.
James Di Virgilio (01:06):
Now, Scott, I know your background really for the first 15, 20 years of your career was as a DJ. In fact, you gained a significant amount of fame doing that. Then at some point in time, you got into dealing with the cryptos. Tell us about that transition and how that happened.
Scott Melker (01:20):
As you said, it was about two decades of DJ and music with a million other projects. On the side, I was always superficially interested in trading and investing. My parents gave me a pretty good base and understanding of money and finances and how to save. But as a trader, I was pretty much an amateur and actually pretty terrible at it, especially riding through the recession of 2008 and all of those things. But as I began to feel like I was aging out of music, I'm in my forties. Now I was deejaying to kids that were twenty, just became very awkward. I started to look for other things, but at the time when, if you were trading anything, crypto became just absolutely huge. You couldn't stop hearing about it. It was at the end of 2016, beginning of 2017 and so I put a little money into it. I started trading it and just by virtue of being in the right place at the right time, it quickly became something that could sustain and become a career. So I sort of fell into it to some degree. And then interestingly, at the same time, my daughter who's now five was born and alongside, already feeling like I was too old for a music production and deejaying having her really took me off the road and put me back in front of my screens to trading. So she was born and I had to go to South by Southw
The weather; everyone talks about it, so the old joke goes, no one does anything about it. Dr. Leela Watson, founder and CEO of InitWeather, says that by using advanced algorithms and machine learning, we can make faster and more reliable predictions about the weather that can help a wide range of industries, including agriculture, energy, and aerospace. "When I started this," said Dr. Watson, "it was, oh , let's just do this. And then when you dive into it, you realize why not so many people have been using machine learning within weather, because it is such a big problem. And just sorting through all the different ways that it can be done is a challenge."
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace,
Richard Miles: 0:40
The weather: everyone talks about it, but so the old joke goes, no one does anything about it. However, using advanced algorithms and machine learning, we can make faster and better predictions about the weather that can help a wide range of industries. Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host, Richard Miles. Today I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Leela Watson, a former NASA meteorologist, and the co-founder and CEO of InitWeather. Welcome to Radio Cade, Leela.
Dr. Leela Watson: 1:05
Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 1:06
So Leela, I'm guessing that as a meteorologist, you have probably heard lots of jokes about the weather. Are there any good ones out there, because it's not exactly comedy gold, right?
Dr. Leela Watson: 1:15
No, it's definitely not. I mean, I've heard them all, so I'm waiting for that really great one. That real zinger, that--
Richard Miles: 1:20
That actually makes you laugh, right? Yeah. There are a lot of lame weather jokes, but none that I've heard that are really good. So that's a tragedy for your profession, but anyway, why don't we start out by explaining for the listener exactly what it is that InitWeather does. And as I understand it, you crunch a lot of existing data to come up with faster and more reliable forecast. Something that is very particularly useful for things like the agricultural industry. And of course, utility companies, as we saw in Texas a few weeks ago, actually. So, how does it weather differ from other weather forecasts?
Dr. Leela Watson: 1:51
So, at a really basic level, what we do is we use machine learning to create better weather forecasts. So, the way that we're different is that weather forecasts are generally made from computer weather models that are out there and forecasters take that information and make their weather forecast . So what we do in our product takes that weather data that's available. We run it through our machine learning algorithm, and then we do create better weather forecasts than what are currently out there now.
Richard Miles: 2:20
But you're taking obviously, from more than one data set, when you see a weather forecast on the TV or in the newspaper, are they all drawing from the same pool of data or do they all have different data sources that go into that forecast?
Nasal swabs, something many people had never heard of until COVID, suddenly became very hard to get just two weeks into the pandemic. Dr. Summer Decker and her team at the University of South Florida quickly determined they could make the swabs on a 3D printer. After making the printed swabs FDA compliant, Decker was able to share the design for free with the world. Since then more than 60 million such swabs have been used in global COVID testing. "One of our emergency room physicians told me," said Dr. Decker, "we are fighting a war and you gave us the bullets."
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to radio K to podcast from the Cade museum for creativity and invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
3D nasal swab, a phrase that doesn't roll off the tongue quickly and not the name of an indie band, but it has helped tremendously in COVID testing since the beginning of the pandemic. Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles. And today I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Summer Decker , Vice Chair for Research and Director, the 3D clinical applications at the University of South Florida's Morsani College of Medicine. Welcome to Radio Cade, Dr. Decker .
Dr. Summer Decker: 1:05
Thank you so much for having me I'm looking forward to this.
Richard Miles: 1:07
Well , the first thing I got to ask is what's up with Tampa. You guys are hitting it out of the park. Down there you're one yourself, and now you have world-class research institutions. There's something in the water. What is it about.
Dr. Summer Decker: 1:18
Beautiful Tampa Bay, we attract some top sports talent as you will have seen in the last few months here with our Lightening and the Buccaneers and even our soccer team and our baseball team. And , uh , yeah, it's been an exciting year for us here in Tampa, especially during COVID when things have been so tough, we all needed a little bit of cheer. So I think it's the Tampa Bay water.
Richard Miles: 1:38
I've got to say since we've started the Cade Museum project right away, USF University of South Florida came to our attention as just being this very innovative forward thinking research university that kind of started with humble origins, but man, you guys are doing pretty amazing things now.
Dr. Summer Decker: 1:52
Well, I appreciate that. I was lucky enough actually, to do my doctorate here. And one of the things they really do train us on here at the medical school is to think differently about solutions to problems that maybe have been occurring for some time. And so I like to say we're young and scrappy because we realized we're up and coming university or up and coming medical school. And so we have that liberty of not having to been, Oh, this is the way we've always done it. That we can actually look at things differently and use technology in different ways. And so that's really what we train. And even as a student here as , okay, you have the way it's always been done, but how would you do it differently? And it lends that intellectual freedom if you will. So that's actually what attracted me here to come to USF. I had heard that too, and I'm proud to been able to stay here and hopefu
Making virus testing easy, or at least easier, will enable companies and organizations to reopen faster as we enter the beginning of the post-corona era. Dr. Timothy Garrett, the Chief of Experimental Pathology at the University of Florida, has developed a test that can detect multiple viruses, including variants, from a single sample. Better yet, this can be done in a portable lab for remote testing, potentially making it widely available in many communities.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles : 0:39
Making virus testing easy, or at least easier will enable companies and organizations to reopen faster. As we enter the beginning of the post Corona era. Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host, Richard Miles. And today I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Timothy Garrett an Associate Professor and the Chief of Experimental Pathology at the University of Florida, as well as the founder of three companies, including Juno Metabolomics where he remains the Chief Scientific Officer. And he's also a friend. So welcome to Radio Cade Tim .
Dr. Timothy Garrett: 1:06
I'm glad to be here. Thanks.
Richard Miles : 1:07
So Tim, I usually save the toughest question for last, but I'm going to cut straight to the chase. How does a guy who did his undergrad, the University of Georgia and up at the University of Florida? Cause I thought we had rules preventing that from happening.
Dr. Timothy Garrett: 1:18
There are a lot of social roles involved in that. But the short answer is that at the University of Georgia, I got introduced to a technique that allowed me the new area of study. And when I came to Florida and one of the top people in my field was here. And so I decided once I got in and this was a great place to go and we liked the warm weather and living in Florida, was attracted to that. So somehow they let a Georgia bulldog and to the University of Florida. And now I guess you can call me a true bull gator because I am a bulldog and a gator.
Richard Miles : 1:46
Well, I hope I haven't blown your secret and they rescind your tenure or something. Anyway, we'll talk a little bit about your background later, but let's start out by talking about what it is that you have actually developed and why we invited you on the show. And so you're an analytical chemist and you basically specialize in finding stuff and by stuff, I mean small molecules and where they come from. And if I understand correctly, you have developed a test that can detect multiple viruses, including variants from a single sample and better yet. This can be done in a portable lab for remote testing. So has obvious implications for the era that we're in right now, which is sort of coming out of the coronavirus . But first of all, did I get that completely wrong? Cause you know, I got my degrees in international relations, which should scare you. So tell us what this test does, how it works and why it matters.
Dr. Timothy Garrett: 2:30
You got it almost a hundred percent correct. So good job. It's a test that basically allows you to look at saliva, right? Isolate out instead of small molec
It's been a year since we last spoke with our vaccine expert, Dr. Peter Khoury. We discuss the different types of vaccines available, if there is a best one to take, if there are side effects or dangers to be worried about, and whether or not Covid 19 will be here for the long run.
Dr. Peter Khoury, is the President and CEO of Ology Bioservices Inc. He is an expert on vaccines and biologics and during his 30-year career, he has worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, and Baxter International. Dr. Khoury has involved in international forums on vaccines, pandemic planning, and biodefense preparation, including working with the Olympic Committee.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. And today we are bringing you a special episode. It is part two of the, everything you need to know about vaccinations and COVID-19, it's been almost a year since I last spoke with Dr. Peter Khoury, you can catch that episode anywhere you listen to this podcast. Dr. Peter Khoury is the president and CEO of Ology, Bioservices, he's an expert on vaccines and biologics. And during his 30 year career, he's worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Merck and Baxter International. Dr. Khoury has been involved in international forums on vaccines, pandemic planning, biodefense prep, including working with the Olympic Committee. Dr. Khoury, welcome back to the show.
Dr. Peter Khoury: 1:20
Thank you, James. And it's unfortunate. We can't do it in person. Certainly. I'm sure you, myself and others are so used to doing teleconferences and Zoom calls. So we'll see how this goes. And hopefully you can hear me well.
James Di Virgilio: 1:35
Yes, we can. We'll make this work last time. In our first episode, of course we were together. We were in a large room sitting far apart, but it is always great to have, of course, the person you're talking with in front of you, like all of the listeners know and understand as well. So since the last time we spoke, a lot of things have changed, but really a lot of things that you had talked about on the first episode have essentially come to pass. You mentioned there'd be a potential small wave of infections followed later on by a much larger wave of illness that certainly happened. And then we got into the discussion, which is really going to be the crux of our discussion today of essentially game theory and viruses, which again, viruses are smart. They react, they change, they have different strands. I think a lot of the public across the world has learned about these things. And how do you deal with them? How do you stay one step ahead. So let's open up now with that in the background and ask you sort of this big question, looking back now, what happened that maybe you didn't foresee the first time we spoke?
Dr. Peter Khoury: 2:29
There's a couple of things and they, I guess aren't really biology related, but they really did make an impression on me and were something I did not foresee. The first really was the amount of compassion and caring that people show when they're in uncertain circumstances. It did once again,
The current COVID-19 tests are not perfectly accurate, which causes several issues with managing the viral spread. Epidemiological data suggests that 1/4 of all COVID-19 transmission occurs through asymptomatic carriers, up to 14 days before any symptoms are shown. Dr. Vanaja Ragavan, Founder, President, and CEO of Aviana Molecular Technologies, LLC has developed a more accurate test that can lead to earlier detection as well as providing information on the viral load. Wide-scale testing and earlier detection can make a significant difference in achieving positive outcomes and saving lives.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to another edition of Radio Cade . I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. And today we're going to talk about detecting Corona virus . All of us are familiar with the variety of tests that are being done right now, but none of them are able to detect very important things like viral load, which makes them less accurate than we'd like to see. My guest today is Dr. Vanaja Ragavan. She is the founder, president and CEO of Aviana Molecular technologies, and she's working on something that could be very impactful for the world's fight against coronavirus . Dr. Ragavan welcome to the show.
Vanaja Ragavan: 1:13
Thank you, James.
James Di Virgilio: 1:14
Now tell us what it is you're working on and how it's going to help us in the fight against curving Corona virus .
Vanaja Ragavan: 1:20
Thank you so much for having us on. We are developing a chip based diagnostic system to be able to detect Corona virus so we can detect a lot of different biomarkers and viruses and bacteria. However, at this point, we've pivoted to be able to use our technology to detect COVID-19. And the nature of our technology is based on a radio frequency chip, and it works like a radar system, really in a small little space. One of the advantages of our system is it's called a mass detector it detects the amount of mass that's sitting on top of the chip. And because of that, we have the unique ability to be able to actually distinguish the presence of the whole virus or would be called the infectious virus in a clinical sample. So most of the other diagnostic tests detect either the internal makeup of the virus called the RNA, the genetic makeup of the virus, or it detects one of the many proteins that are found in the virus. Most of them actually detect a protein that's found inside the virus called a nuclear capsid protein. And we know a couple of tests that look at the spike protein as a detection, but those are small proteins compared to the whole virus. And although they can be good surrogates, they don't give you a direct analysis of the infectious nature of the virus in a particular person or in a group of people or in a population. So we can do that. We can do that at an individual level and because our system is based on cellular communication, it's in our DNA, so to speak. To be part of the cellular communication internet, we can actually add further data on tracing and population-based studies. So we're hoping that this technology can help us at this time in detecting the whole virus, the infectious virus, and give us
Dr. Bill Petty is the co-founder, former CEO and Chairman of Exactech, a company that makes orthopedic implants. Petty, an orthopedic surgeon and his co-founder Gary Miller, a biomechanics engineer, realized in 1985 that replacing shoulders, hips and knees would be a lot more effective if manufacturers talked more to surgeons to figure out what they really needed. Petty, along with his wife Betty, built up Exactech from a small Gainesville, Florida startup to a global company with 900 employees in 7 countries.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to radio Cade and podcast from the cave museum for creativity and invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace,
Speaker 2: 0:38
Shoulders, hips, and knees. Maybe you saying that as a kid and maybe you're getting ready to replace them all. Welcome to radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles. And today I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Bill petty, the former CEO and chairman of Zack tech, a company that makes orthopedic implants. Welcome to radio Cade bill. Thank you . So bill, usually I save the personal questions for last, but I have to ask and only cause you look in great shape. Have you had any joints replaced yet? Are you still all original bill petty?
Speaker 3: 1:04
I am all original, but Betty Petty, my wife has had two exact technium plant , so we do have it in .
Speaker 2: 1:11
Okay, good. So you're living the brand, you're using your own product. So that's good. What I want to do. I think most of our listeners are probably fairly familiar with orthopedic implants and what they do. But I do know that probably some particularly on the younger side are not exactly sure what that even means. It occurred to me that they're probably not tracking this technology. Like guys say who were in their late fifties, purely hypothetical example. So why don't we start by you explaining what an orthopedic implant actually is and what it does.
Speaker 3: 1:37
There are many different kinds of orthopedic implants. Perhaps the ones people are most familiar with are the ones that are used for fixing fractures or torn ligaments in actuates , but that's not our business. Our business is orthopedic implants for treating arthritis and basically arthritis is a disease, hugely degenerative or osteoarthritis that the joint gets damaged. The cartilage is damaged, that comes painful, limitation of motion, those sorts of things. So what our orthopedic implants do, what the surgeons do with them rather is we go in and shave off a part of the bone and replace that part of the bone with on one side , usually a metal, a very high tech metal, such as cobalt, Chrome, or titanium. And the other side with ultra high molecular weight polyethylene makes a very low friction artificial joint , not quite as low friction is our normal cartilage that God gave us, but still very good. Now the implants or the ExacTech currently makes include total hip replacement, total knee replacement, total shoulder replacement and total ankle replacement. So basically that's what they are. Uh , results are excellent. I would say in general, 95% are better. Good results. That's not to say there aren't potential complications as there can be with any surgery, but overall the results are very good. And in fact, it's been stated rather kind of people have studied this sort of thing is
One of four girls, Cara Negri’s favorite book growing up was about an amputee named Michelle who went on to do everything. Cara has helped develop video motion analysis to analyze how people move and how to help them walk. Her company, PnO Data Solutions has developed tools that are widely used in the rehab and physical therapy market. This episode was originally released on October 24, 2018.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Video motion analysis of disabilities or anyone in motion. That's what we're going to talk about this morning on Radio Cade. I have with me Cara Negri, who is involved in a company that is taking this to market or is already in the market. So welcome Cara.
Cara Negri: 0:52
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:52
So before we begin talking about you and about the company, why don't you tell me exactly what the underlying technology is and what it does. We'll come back and talk later about the applications and so on.
Cara Negri: 1:06
Sure. Basically video is becoming the ultimate medium for us to communicate with people. It tells a story much broader than a image or a paragraph. And so with 2D motion analysis or video analysis, we can take our smartphone and take a video of someone moving and then we can actually measure some of the progress that a person is making. So let's say you hurt your shoulder and you're not able to lift it 100 percent up, we can take a video of you now doing the best that you can and we can measure that angle and then we can go through some rehab, maybe provide some intervention with a brace, and afterwards we can measure that intervention in the same way that we did by measuring that angle again and measure how well you're doing. And that also gives you the person that is going through this process, the feedback to see how you're doing in your progress of rehabilitation versus me just shouting feedback to you or you're not doing good enough or that you need to lift higher. When you can actually see it, it actually connects to your brain a lot faster and you can actually improve your function through that bio feedback. Little to no response by me, I don't have to intervene as much
Richard Miles: 2:20
I see. And so Cara, just so I understand, is the technology here, do you use, for instance multiple cameras or is it a software solution which you're taking video in theory from anywhere, like a smartphone and you'd simply analyzing it with that software?
Cara Negri: 2:34
Yes. So you can take video in any way you want. So if you want to use a really high fancy camera, high definition camera, then you can or you can use your smartphone because smartphone cameras are actually pretty good these days. So it's about the practicality of it.
Richard Miles: 2:51
I see.
Cara Negri: 2:52
Um, we all may have seen how Avatar is made with lots of pinpoints on the person and we're tracking their motion and we can do lots of animation with it. And that is the 3D motion analysis that some people may have seen. And that's great for research and for higher capture of what we need to find out about a person. But for the practical uses of physical therapy or prosthetics and orthotics, we don't need that much information. We need one dimensional or two dimension
Cars that can talk to traffic signs. It’s not science fiction, it’s a company. Dr. Enes Karaaslan is a civil engineering scientist and the co-founder of Connected Wise, a 2020 Cade Prize Finalist. The Orlando start-up is developing technology that connects autonomous vehicles to safety infrastructure, especially in rural areas. Initial data shows that such devices can prevent thousands of accidents per year and save many lives.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Cars that can talk to traffic signs. It's not science fiction, it's a company . Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host Richard Miles. Today, I'm pleased to welcome Dr. Enes Karaaslan a civil engineering scientists and the co-founder of Connected Wise an Orlando startup . That is developing technology that connects autonomous vehicles with traffic signs. The company was also a 2020 Cade Prize finalist. Welcome to Radio Cade Enes.
Enes Karaaslan: 1:01
Thank you very much, Richard beautiful introduction.
Richard Miles: 1:04
So let's start by defining terms. I think probably most of our listeners are pretty familiar with the notion of driverless cars and network vehicles, but just so we're sure. What do you mean when you say connected and autonomous vehicle?
Enes Karaaslan: 1:17
Absolutely. We hear a lot about self-driving cars. There are a lot of companies who are actually commercializing marketing very well. The self-driving technology, but more accurate term will be, I guess, for autonomous vehicles. The objective is to give some automated features to the vehicle, to provide safety of the drivers initially. And hopefully in the future, maybe we can replace the driver. There are five levels of automation. What we see currently in the traffic Tesla is one of the pioneer companies and marketing the self-driving. We actually define those vehicles as level two, level three automation. When we reached a level five, we don't need driver on the driver's seat. There are companies who are testing, even doing pilot projects in certain areas in California. In the other States, we have a company who's doing autonomous shuttles in Florida as well. One of the important technologies that will support these vehicles is the connectivity connected vehicle technology, simply aims to provide communication between vehicles and between the vehicle and the traffic infrastructure. They call these technologies V2, I and V2V if it is communicating with the pedestrian, they name it B2X. Now we have a more broader term, which is connected and autonomous vehicle. We would like to provide some connectivity and some autonomous functionality is in the vehicle. So that's how we define it. We are solving a unique problem about these connected and autonomous vehicles.
Richard Miles: 2:58
So just so clear on this Enes, an autonomous vehicle that is not connected is something that has, you know, I've , I've noticed recently when I have a rental car, there are these features now where for instance, on the cruise control function, I can set a certain trailing distance, right? When it'll break automatically, as it gets to a certain distance that I can
What can we learn from the brain about learning itself? Based on the latest findings of neuroscience about how the brain learns best, Noel Foy offers training to teachers, parents, students, athletes, and coaches. For instance, improving executive function helps master impulsive behavior and reduce anxiety, both valuable traits for students and athletes. Noel also talks about how her son’s experience with concussions influenced her journey from school teacher to “neuro-educator." This episode was originally released on May 20, 2020.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
What can we learn from the brain about learning itself? I'm your host, Richard Miles. Today my guest Noel Foy, founder of a company called Ammpe - A M M P E, which offers training to teachers, parents, students, athletes, and coaches based on neuroscience findings about how the brain learns best. She's also the author of a children's book called "ABC Worry Free". Welcome to Radio Cade, Noel.
Noel Foy: 1:03
Thank you Richard , for having me.
Richard Miles: 1:04
Noel, one of the reasons you wrote your book "ABC Free" was to help students, teachers, and parents manage anxiety. So this has gotta be a golden moment for you, right? I mean, now we have an entire country of anxious households, and so I'm guessing for you, an opportunity.
Noel Foy: 1:18
Well, I am not responsible for the pandemic. Let me just put that out there, I certainly am seeing an increase in anxiety. I'm hearing from more students and parents about a little uptick. Certainly something like this would trigger more anxiety and I'm working with more teachers remotely doing some lessons in their classrooms to help their students manage their anxiety. So, I think it's a timely experience for folks to take a closer look at what kind of coping skills they have in their pocket. And if they don't, this is a great opportunity to develop some coping skills, not just for a pandemic, but for just how to manage anxiety-provoking moments in our lives. Anxiety pops up all the time. Something that is to be expected, it's normal from time to time. When we're worrying too much, then it's something that we want to really have some strategies for. So I think really helping kids develop into adults have some strategies that they can rely on in these times is really important.
Richard Miles: 2:20
Right. So were chatting before the show, you're from Boston but you're actually in Martha's vineyard right now. So I assume that meant nothing but Netflix and Chardonnay.
Noel Foy: 2:27
Believe it or not, it's been a great opportunity for me to get some things done that I haven't had much time to do. So, for example, I made some videos, I figured if ever a time to help parents and teachers and coaches and students with anxiety and coping skills, It's now. So I have been working on some videos I put up on YouTube and writing a lot of articles on how to cope in parenting. What are some things we can do in our parenting that can help bring the anxiety down, can we do in our parenting language in our modeling that can help these stressful times go a little bit better.
Richard Miles: 3:04
So as I mentioned, the top of the show, your model is based on findings of neuroscience a
Where does creativity live in the brain, and why does it matter? We talk to Rex Jung, a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, a research scientist at the Mind Research Network, and a practicing clinical neuropsychologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jung talks about how standard measurements of creativity correlate with the structure of the brain, and how the brain can “rewire” itself to take on challenging or unfamiliar tasks. This is especially important in our early years, but still effective as we grow older.
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Intro: 0:02
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
Where does creativity live in the brain and why does it matter? Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles today, I'm talking to Rex Jung, a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico, a research scientist at the Mind Research Network and a practicing clinical neuropsychologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Jung studies, both brain disease and what the brain does well, a field of research known as positive neuroscience. Welcome to Radio Cade , Rex .
Rex Jung: 1:09
Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 1:10
So you have done a lot of fascinating research and a lot of very interesting areas, including traumatic brain injury, lupus, schizophrenia, intelligence, and creativity. So Rex, we can either make this the first of 18 episodes on your work, or we can pick one. So I say, let's talk about creativity if that's okay with you.
Rex Jung: 1:27
Sounds good.
Richard Miles: 1:29
So I took a look at some of your recent research on creativity. And one thing that jumped out to me as a layman, I don't have any special expertise in the background was your use of tests to determine baseline levels of creativity. I noticed that you mentioned something called the creative achievement questionnaire, and you also use something called a musical creativity questionnaire. So we can start with what your working definition of creativity is, which I assume these things measure these tests measure, and then tell us, how were those tests developed? How do you know they're accurate? And then how do they differ from other tests that have been around for instance, to test on divergent thinking?
Rex Jung: 2:07
So at the onset, I should say that as a neuropsychologist, I'm very keenly aware of test reliability and validity. And the tests in creative cognition are universally somewhat crappy. That's not a technical term, but it is a term that kind of captures the fact that we've only been trying to capture this construct in the last 50, 70 years, and only really aggressively trying to study this in the last 10 or 15. So we inherited measures that came to us from the past and the creative achievement questionnaire, as you mentioned, first is perhaps one of the better of these that it just measures your achievements in 10 different domains. It was a test created by Dr. Carson at Harvard, I believe and it really quantifies or attempts to quantify creative cognition across things from most generally in the sciences and the arts more s
Contact tracing for COVID. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Is there a better way? Serial entrepreneur Richard Allen is the co-founder of Alert Trace, a wearable electronic contact tracing system. Operating via Bluetooth, the device doesn’t need GPS, meaning fewer privacy concerns and less battery power. The system will soon be implemented by the US Navy, US Air Force, and NASA. One-time electrician, mechanic, sound director, record store owner and accountant, Allen has done a bit of everything. He also has launched four companies onto the NASDAQ, and with his wife runs a non-profit that helps rural villages in Cambodia “create a sustainable quality of life."
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Contact tracing for COVID. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Is there a better way? Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host Richard Miles. And today I'm talking to Richard Allen entrepreneur par excellent. And Co - Founder of Alert, Trace a wearable electronic contract contact tracing system . Sorry, welcome to the show, Richard.
Richard Allen: 0:58
Thanks. Great to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:59
So first things first, have you always gone by Richard? Cause as one Richard to another, you know, people always want a short it into Rich, Rick or even worse, but this is a family show, but you've always gone by Richard.
Richard Allen: 1:09
Yeah. I've gone by a lot of names, but yeah, Richard's fine.
Richard Miles: 1:13
Good and full disclosure for our listeners. Richard is on the board of the Cade Museum and his company is also a tenant in a commercial property. My wife and I own. And that's what it's like to live in a small college town. You just can't get away from each other. So just putting that out there for everyone. So Richard, like a lot of entrepreneurs, it seems you've done a little bit of everything and we'll talk about that in detail later on. But before we get into that, let's focus on Alert Trace your current endeavor. If I understand it, it's specifically for COVID contact tracing, but now we know there's already a lot of stuff out there, including our own smartphones that can be used also to do this. So why don't we start by how is Alert. Trace different than those other existing devices that are out there to do contact tracing?
Richard Allen: 1:53
Yeah. So Alert Trace is a standalone system that involves small devices. So we build the small devices, the small alert trace devices, which are using Bluetooth to determine the distance between one device and another device and individuals in a work environment of some sort or an organizational environment would all be AltEd with the devices. And it basically just keeps track over time. How close have they been to other people on the team so that if anybody on the team winds up contracting COVID or any other infectious disease, at some point you can go back over any time period that you wish a week, two weeks, whatever. At that time the CDC is saying as the infectious disease cycle, and you can find everybody that they were in c
Everyday people around the world step on to a scale to see what they weigh, but is this really the most effective tool for measuring our health? Michael Fedewa and Mike Esco, lifelong health and fitness researchers, co-founders of MADE Health and Fitness, and Cade Prize finalists tell us why cutting edge technology on our smartphones may be the best tool for managing our health. By simply downloading an app and taking a photo we can gain an accurate assessment of our health, body fat % included, that is as accurate as what we could get from a high-tech lab.
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Speaker 1: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to radio Cade and podcast from the cave museum for creativity and invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Speaker 2: 0:39
Welcome to radio Cade . I'm your host, James de Virgilio. And here's something for you to think about as you're beginning to listen to this podcast, why are you measuring weight loss? Should you even measure weight loss when you got on the scale this morning, this week, last week, a month ago, is that number relevant? And is it telling you what you want to know about your health? My guests today, both co-founders of the made health and fitness app, Michael FITO and Mike ESCO, joining the program to tell us about maybe why we're not reading our scale correctly, Michael and Mike, welcome to the show. Thanks for being with us. Thank you for having us . All right . So you told me pre-show that we're going to call Michael FITA his last name, and then we're going to call Mike ESCO to keep things simple for our listeners. So we have FITO and ESCO and de Virgilio three last names that are great for a podcast. Let's start talking about this then right away, weight loss, something that obviously is very, very important, perhaps even more important in light of COVID now, but here we are teasing out the beginning saying maybe your scale, isn't the primary thing you should be using to measure whether or not you are getting more or less healthy. That's right. I'm curious. Tell me why. That's the case. That's the primary way in which people will evaluate progress on a weight loss program? I mean, after all, they want to lose weight, but the question becomes, where is that weight loss coming from? We have fat mass, which is the culprit of poor health. And then we have lean mass with muscle involved in that. And we're just based in our progress on weight loss in general, there's no way of really knowing how much fat mass was lost versus fat free mass or muscle mass as lost research shows that through most weight loss programs, there is muscle that is lost through that. And then the question becomes how much. So imagine we're starting out and someone says to you, I'd like to lose some weight. I'm just going to eat less calories or exercise more. And we could spend hours discussing that in a podcast, but I want to lose more weight. Of course the response would be, well, you really are saying you want to lose fat and you want to maintain your muscle and what you are suggesting. And I think science is definitively telling us is that if I lose 10 pounds, what matters to me is where did those pounds come from, right? How much was fat and how much was muscle and the scale is not going to tell me that. Correct? Yeah, you're absolutely right. You know, in our research we have pretty good evidence. We kind of use a three quarters rule. So if you a pound of weight,
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Josh McCauley, the founder of COMB, discusses how his innovation could help provide environmentally-friendly housing to 20 million people worldwide that can't afford to put a roof over their heads. COMB is a new system of construction consisting of interlocking blocks made from recycled plastic, utilizing mankind's abundance of ecologically damaging plastic waste to provide environmentally sustainable and economically viable housing to everyone.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host James Di Virgilio on today's episode, we're going to talk about something that may be controversial. Everyone loves their primary residence. And generally we think of building it out of brick or stone or wood or a variety of other materials that have been used for a long, long time. But what if I told you that using recycled plastic could result in a better home? Not just because it's economically more efficient, but that it's actually better. My guest today, Josh McCauley , the founder of COMB is doing just that. And he is here to convince all of us that this is in fact, a reality and a possibility Josh, welcome to the program.
Josh McCauley: 1:20
Hey, thanks, James. Happy to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 1:21
So tell us about this new system of construction. It's fascinating to me at first, you look at it and think there's no way on building a home out of plastic. What is it that you're doing and how are you doing it?
Josh McCauley: 1:31
COMB is a new system of construction that consists of interlocking blocks that are made from the recycled plastic. So the goal is to utilize our abundance of ecologically damaging plastic waste in a long-term application to provide environmentally sustainable and economically viable housing to everyone.
James Di Virgilio: 1:49
Walk me through this. What does this look like? Is there a place I can go online to see this, I'm listening today? Are there pictures of what this home may look like?
Josh McCauley: 1:57
Uh , yeah. On my LinkedIn profile, there are a couple of pictures up of , uh , renderings and really, I guess the easiest way to describe it would be to picture a honeycomb sort of the basis of the name. The main wall block is a hexagonal shape block. And so all the other blocks sort of are designed around that. And so the overall effect is kind of a honeycomb appearance.
James Di Virgilio: 2:19
And so that's obviously a very strong structure engineering wise. And the idea here, right? You might be thinking, well, what kind of market is this for? Are we talking about the million dollar market? Are we talking about the inch level market? But your idea at least initially is to attempt provide housing to people that basically throughout the world don't really have housing at all.
Josh McCauley: 2:34
Yeah, absolutely. My ultimate target market is the over 20% of humanity that is currently living without adequate housing. 1.6 billion of us not having o
Every day Veterinarians help animals heal, and part of that process is keeping an eye on the animal's respiration, heart rate, and temperature using wires and probes. This can be difficult and dangerous, as animals are uncomfortable being attached to wires and can lash out at the vet. Vik Ramprakash, CEO of Structured Monitoring Products Inc, has created a solution, VetGuardian. A wireless device that sits a few feet away from the animal and requires no connection points to monitor the animal's vitals. Now, veterinarians can provide 24/7 monitoring that is non-invasive, while keeping the animal and themselves safe.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:37
Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. Today, we're going to talk about wires. Do we need them? Most of us are used to existing in a world now without wires, whether it's Bluetooth or other mediums, but how about wireless medicine? What if we can detect heartbeats and other vital signs without having anything touch your body at all? My guest today is Vik Ramprakash. He is the CEO of Structured Monitoring Products Incorporated, and he is working on just that. Vik, welcome to the program. So Vik, tell us about what you've developed. This seems almost futuristic, right? As a kid, I can remember watching movies and films where in the future, there's no doctor, it's just a machine sort of looking over you and nothing is touching you and its sensors, but you are doing this in real life.
Vik Ramprakash: 1:22
Absolutely. So basically if you put it this way, when you go to doctor's office, the very first thing they want you to do is to check how you're doing initial assessment, like at your heart rate respiration and your blood pressure. So think about every time they have to connect you to wires. And I think we live in this 21st century where things are getting more and more wireless. So one of my initial thoughts and ideas was like, what if we could do away with this virus? So that's how I started this process of thinking about it and making something towards that goal.
James Di Virgilio: 1:52
That seems extremely difficult. How difficult was it to create something that can detect a heartbeat or your breathing without contacting you?
Vik Ramprakash: 1:59
I would say I'm not the inventor for this technology. It's University of Florida where this technology was born at . So taking a step back, my background is in remote sensing technology. So when I started working with this technology, it's basically working with Landsat imagery, satellite imagery, and try and review and see how things work out. So if we could think of the same way University of Florida's electrical engineering department, they started working with sensors and Dr. (inaudible) Lynn out there has focused on Doppler data centers, which is the same kind of sensors , a useful weather technology. What he was able to do was to miniaturize it almost to a size of a credit card size, and his application was to use it for the human side. Now, here I am with a remote sensing degree and I was doing my MBA at University of Florida. I said, then I met him through, off the technology licensing from the university and we
What happens if you pair artificial intelligence with drones? Among other things you make life easier for tree growers, who can now count, measure, and more efficiently take care of their crop. Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis and Matt Donovan are the developers of Agroview, a Florida startup invention and a 2020 Cade Prize finalist. They explain using basic drone images, Agroview’s AI and data fusion method provides very accurate information on thousands of acres in hours for what normally takes agricultural producers weeks.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Spying on trees, what are they doing out there? It turns out if you pair a drone with artificial intelligence, you'll find out all their secrets. I'm your host, of Radio Cade. Today my guests are Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis and Matt Donovan of Agroview, a 2020 Cade Prize finalist. Welcome to the show, gentlemen.
Matt Donovan: 0:54
Thank you, Richard.
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis: 0:56
Thank you for having us.
Richard Miles: 0:57
So first of all, I have to confess that I'm a sucker for any topic that has the word drone in it. My wife got me a little drone a few years ago and I have to become highly proficient and wasting lots of my time taking pictures pretty much of nothing, but they're pictures from a thousand feet. So it's cool. Right? I'm guessing you all have to be slightly more productive with your time and the technology. So why don't we start Yiannis, if you could describe for us what the core product of Agroview is, which as I understand it marries drones with artificial intelligence to take lots of pictures of trees. So why don't we just start out? Why trees? What are those pictures tell you? And more importantly, what does it tell the person growing trees who presumably is going to buy this product?
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis: 1:34
Yeah, that's a really good question. First of all, let me start from the beginning of Agroview, so there's some tools, Agroview is a cloud-based application. So actually it's like a software that analyze and visualize the images from drones, but also for ground based sensing system . So why do we developed Agroview for tree crops and vegetables is because we identify that there's same gap. There are not so mainly tools and solutions for specialty crops, like tree crops and vegetables, regarding on drones. And then the main idea here is to convert the data that we collect the information to some kind of practical information, useful information that the growers , the managers can use. There are samples for row crops like wheat, soy , bean , cotton , but very limited solutions that are available for specialty crops. That's why we developed Agroview. And again, the main goal is to convert data. For example, the images that we collect from drones to information, to something that we can really use.
Richard Miles: 2:41
So the real secret sauce here is the AI, right? Because obviously drones have been around a while. UAVs have been around and under development getting rapidly better since the nineties. And I've heard about all these potential applicati
Over 20 years in the making, Redhill Scientific's patented process creates nitrate fertilizer on-site and on-demand with a simple combination of air, water, and electricity, replicating the natural nitrate creation process found in thunderstorms. Their non-thermal plasma nitrogen fixation system uses zero fossil fuels, releases zero carbon, is more fully utilized by plants, and reduces the chance of evaporation or nitrogen run-off. Growers can directly apply the fertilizer to plants via spray or irrigation. But that's not all, Noel Munson, CEO of Redhill Scientific, tells us how their thin-film plasma reactor can change not only our planet, but Mars as well.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:38
Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host James Di Virgilio. Today we're going to talk about a triple bottom line innovation an innovation where the potential for societal environmental and profitability becomes a reality. It's something that's wide ranging. It's something that's complicated, but it's something that's very, very powerful. My guest today, Noel Munson . The CEO of Redhill Scientific is going to walk us through what he's creating and how it's been created. Noel, welcome to the program.
Noel Munson: 1:05
Hi James. Thank you for having me.
James Di Virgilio: 1:07
So we've spent a lot of time in the pre-show just to get me to sort of understand what this application is, where it's going, but let's start at the 30,000 foot view. Tell us what you have created and why it's needed.
Noel Munson: 1:19
We have created a very small, very robust, very cheap to manufacture plasma reactor. And the core of the technology was developed over several decades at Florida State University with a mix of National Science Foundation and institutional money. And since we have licensed seven patents from FSU, we have added our own private equity into commercializing that technology.
James Di Virgilio: 1:51
Now, this technology involves plasma plasma reactor, right? When I think of a reactor, I'm thinking of something I've seen in a nuclear film, or I've been to Chernobyl. So I've seen something there, but walk us through what this reactor is like and why it's such a great innovation.
Noel Munson: 2:04
Sure. Thanks for asking. These reactors are single pieces. They are very small, approximately three millimeters in size, a millimeter not centimeter, and they are very similar to a fluorescent light bulb. When you see a fluorescent tube bulb in your office, you are looking at a plasma reaction. It's called a cold plasma reaction where you are exciting electrons off of a molecule. And then in the case of that light bulb, they are then fluorescent gas. In the case of our plasma reactors, we are introducing water into the reaction inside the chamber, and we are creating chemical reactions with that water. Most specifically, we are creating large amounts of hydroxyl and the hydroxyl, which is O H the hydroxyl, if are then also feeding the air into the reactor will create nitrate, which can be used as fertilizer, as well as nitrite and perox
Unmanned aerial vehicles started out as a military technology, but now have applications in fields like agriculture, surveying, search and rescue, pipeline monitoring, emergency response, infrastructure inspection, and disaster relief. Trevor Perrott, CEO and co-founder of Censys Technologies, explains what it’s like to start and run an aerospace startup company, and its market niche in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Unmanned aerial vehicles started out as a military technology, but are now used in agriculture, surveying, search and rescue, pipeline, monitoring, emergency response, infrastructure inspection, and disaster relief. Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host Richard Miles. Today, my guest is Trevor Perrott, CEO, and co-founder of a UFA company called Censys Technologies in Daytona Beach, Florida. Welcome to Radio Cade, Trevor.
Trevor Perrott: 1:02
Thank you very much. Appreciate the opportunity and the platform.
Richard Miles: 1:06
So, I was getting a little bit of research on UAVs and I'm going to let you correct me to see how much, if it's I , I get right or wrong, but UAV's or drones is a lot of people refer to them now. And this dictatology has surprisingly been around a while in one form another, going back to the mid 19th century, 1849, when the Austrians used balloons loaded up with explosives to attack Venice. And then the concept was further developed also during war time, world war one, world war two, but it wasn't really until the 1990s and two thousands that UAV's started taking off so to speak. So now, we're at the point where Amazon can make drone deliveries of small packages, consumers, and I'm guessing one day my pizza and beer will arrive the same way in the backyard, should be great. But my point is that this has grown to be an incredibly competitive market. So tell us where Censys is positioned in the market. What are your current line of products and how do you plan to grow and succeed and what has got to be a huge and rapidly growing market?
Trevor Perrott: 2:02
Well, the only thing I'm going to correct you on is that Amazon still can't deliver packages. At least not at mass market. They've got some limited approvals to do some trial runs, but there's still quite the problem still exists. And proving, we call resilient communications, resilient, UAS operations. A lot of those mass market opportunities hinge on something that we call it, BVLOS, which is actually an acronym that stands for Beyond Visual Line of Sight. So BVLOS, kind of slurring it a little bit then to BVLOS, that's kind of where Censys position. We're in a very small segment of companies that has onboard detect and avoid technology, which what that does is our drones are able to look across the sky and identify potential collisions and then avoid those collisions before they encroach what's called a near miss. So, what was that to about a 4,000 feet or so is generally what we call a near miss. I think a lot of people kind of struggle with that spatial understanding that 4,000 feet is not a lot when objects are moving at hundreds of miles an hour. So it sounds big, but I promise that's actual
Just 20 years ago the dream of starting a space company could not have become a reality unless you had significant capital and access to government programs. Mark Sirangelo, one of the founders of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, along with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, joins us to discuss how the space industry is becoming far more accessible and how you can start your very own space company.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to a special edition of Radio Cade. I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. And today we're going to explore what sort of space company we might want to start, which kind of venture would you get into? What would be the wise thing to do? And how complicated is this? My guest today is Mark Sirangelo. He is one of the pioneers of commercial space flight, the commercial space industry, and someone who has a wealth of knowledge and depth of expertise, not only in space, but a wide variety of entrepreneurial ventures and projects. Mark, thanks for being with us today.
Mark Sirangelo: 1:10
Well, thank you, James. I'm excited to talk a little bit about one of my favorite topics here and talk a little bit about the future and how people who might be looking at space might look at it.
James Di Virgilio: 1:20
Now let's revisit the past here you were in fact, one of the pioneers of commercial space flight . So non-government oriented space flight , private space flight. What was the genesis for that? And what did that look like in those days?
Mark Sirangelo: 1:33
I'd be happy to go back a bit. And it's funny because in going retrospective, you sometimes think it's decades, but it really wasn't. Most of what is now known as the commercial space flight industry largely started in the early 2000s. And in my case, 2004, when I took over a small little company called SpaceDev, that was based in San Diego. But about that time, it was interesting for me and a number of others who sort of created the foundation of this industry. We all seem to a number of us and I'm speaking of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Paul Allen, and a number of other people all from different directions started to look at the space industry and say that as an industry, it had not been disrupted in any really significant way for quite a long time. Really the only bellwether entrepreneurial company was a company called Orbital Sciences that was started by Dave Thompson. Who spun out of graduate school with an idea and a project that turned into a very significant company. But beyond that and a few others there , it was really not a sector in space for the most part was dominated by legacy companies, very large companies. And I think there was a convergence of people who had experience in disrupting other industries or who involved in the tech growth industry of the nineties and the early two thousands who looked at space and said, this seemed to be in an area which has a fascination to it. And that's not a small part of why people get engaged, but had not been really refreshed for many, many years and decades, even. And from different perspectives. All within a couple of years, we approach various problems in space and said, how coul
For 20 years the International Space Station has served as a microgravity lab in the sky. Every day there are dozens of experiments being run that are designed to improve humankind. Dr. Siobhan Malany, Founder and President of Micro-grx, is using the test lab to study how to reduce muscle atrophy here on earth. Join us as we discuss what it takes to run such an experiment and why space makes for such a great testing environment.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio : 0:38
Welcome to another edition of Radio Cade's space podcast series today's guest is studying human tissues, specifically how they respond and microgravity and how that may help us improve the human condition here on earth. My guest today is Dr. Siobhan Malany, the founder, and president of Micro GRX and associate professor at the University of Florida. So many other things we could add to your title, Dr. Malany, we're excited to have you today. We're excited to talk about what you're working on, a welcome to the program.
Dr. Siobhan Malany: 1:07
Thank you. I'm excited to talk about it. It's a fun, exciting, and challenging field.
James Di Virgilio : 1:11
So I've read a lot about your backstory and for those listeners, obviously that have not in general, you find yourself in 2011, a background in pharmacology, and you're going to watch a space shuttle launch, and this is going to change really the next decade of your life. Right? And so tell me about what got you interested in space. I think as we've done this space podcast space seems like this huge, enormous sci fi endeavor, but in your case, I think reading through your story, it's actually a really great example of how it's really not as far away from maybe many of our own individual lives or things we've already learned as we may think it's just a different environment, but talk to us about how those dots connected for you and how you went from something that seems far away from space, in fact, to working primarily in space.
Dr. Siobhan Malany: 1:54
Yeah, it's a fun story because my family and I had just recently moved from San Diego where I was working in the biotechnology industry and 2010 and its the recession. And we're really starting over in some sense, and coming to Florida and I was working at the Sanford Burnham Institute in Orlando. So you come to Florida and one of the things to do in Florida is go see a launch. And so I had the opportunity to go to the Endeavor launch in 2011 and it's in the middle of the night trying to keep yourself awake and started to talk to actually a teacher that was sending experiments up to look at crystallography and how crystal's, form and thats really been a big advancement in space because without gravity, you have this perfect formation of crystals . So that has always been one of the things that's been studied in space. And that makes sense. He said, they're really looking for researchers to send experiments to space. And it's like, well, that's very fun pharmacologist. What would I do in space? I mean, I do screening of compounds and biological assays, and we're looking at drug discovery and how would I use space to do that? Um, but then he invited me to a workshop where there w
What do you do with human waste in space? Daniel Yeh, winner of the 2014 Cade Prize and a professor at the University of South Florida, invented a solar-powered system that converts human waste into nutrients, energy and water. Initially designed for small villages in the underdeveloped world, the all-in-one waste management system is being tested for use in the Artemis program for a return to the moon in 2024.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Waste in space, specifically human waste. What do you do with it? And is it good for anything? Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles. And today we'll be talking to Daniel Yeh, an engineering professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, as well as a winner of the 2014 Cade Prize. Welcome to Radio Cade Daniel.
Daniel Yeh: 0:56
Richard it's great to be here. Thanks for having me here.
Richard Miles: 0:58
So Daniel, you've had an incredible ride over the last several years, six years ago, you won the Cade Prize. It was a great moment for you and your team. Now we're going to talk all about that, the technology behind it and so on. But first I'd sort of like to focus on you a little bit. Tell us what the Daniel Yeh story. So you're born to come home from the hospital, then what happens? And then how did you end up in Tampa?
Daniel Yeh: 1:19
So I grew up in Northern New Jersey, I think just typical suburban environment, nothing really exciting. And I was thinking, you might ask me this question. So I was thinking, you know, do I have something, some aha moment as an inventor, right? You people usually point to something when they're living , right ? Somebody gave them some electronic tool kit and that sparks some creativity. No, I think I listened to a lot of music at the time. And that was obviously pre-internet. I just listened to a lot of radio and whenever I can get on the bus and lay down , I was able to drive over New York City, go watch concerts and clubs and whatnot. And that's mostly what I did focus a lot on music.
Richard Miles: 1:55
Are you a musician yourself?
Daniel Yeh: 1:56
That's on my bucket list and to pick up a guitar and play and probably should . Now that you're asking me that. So after high school, I went to the University of Michigan. And for me, that was a world of difference from what I was used to coming from the New York, New Jersey area, being in the Midwest. And I think that experience going to the University of Michigan, being a Midwest really changed my life in many ways, got to see a different perspective of how people are in the Midwest. And of course, I met my wife there.
Richard Miles: 2:24
That helps it.
Daniel Yeh: 2:25
it was life changing for the better.
Richard Miles: 2:27
So we entered the University of Michigan. Did you know you wanted to study engineering or what was your undergraduate major?
Daniel Yeh: 2:31
What is it like to be an astronaut? We talk to former astronaut and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, who became the second sitting member of Congress to fly into space in January 1986 on the Space Shuttle Colombia. Nelson describes his training, his fellow astronauts, the highlights of the mission, and his thoughts on the future of space exploration.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host Richard Miles. And today is part of space pod our series on the renaissance and space exploration. I'll be talking to former astronaut, native Floridian, University of Florida graduate, and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, welcome to Radio Cade senator Nelson.
Bill Nelson: 0:56
Thanks. It's great to be here and it's great always to talk about one of my favorite subjects space flight!
Richard Miles: 1:04
Space flight right? And , um, we're going to be talking mostly about space flight today, but I would be remiss in my duties as a host. If I didn't mention to the audience, the rest of your very eventful life, which began in Florida and is mostly unfolded there. As I mentioned, you were of course , born in Florida, in Melbourne, you attended the University of Florida as an undergraduate. Then after that to Yale and the University of Virginia, you returned to Melbourne to start practicing law. You were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 and stayed there until 1991. Then you held several statewide offices in Florida. You ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and you served there until just last year, 2019. So that's a huge expanse of time. The state of Florida has changed enormously in the last 50 plus years. So I thought maybe we'd start by what are some of the big, broad trends you've seen as a kid growing up, start with that up until now with regards to Florida.
Bill Nelson: 1:57
Well, my goodness , uh , Florida has remade itself basically because the country has moved to Florida. And so when you look at a political reflection, you see that Florida is so evenly split, just like the country. South Florida is a very international community. You move further North up the East coast, you got a lot of former New Yorkers. You move over to the Southwest coast, a lot of Midwesterners that have come to Florida. And then as you get up into North Florida, it's more like the old deep South. And so it's such a varied state reflecting pockets of the entire United States. Indeed the Hispanic folks in Florida are a reflection, not a one particular Spanish heritage, but multiples of all Latin and central and South America, indeed, we are as much of a cosmopolitan mix as any state in this union.
Richard Miles: 3:12
That's absolutely right. I tell friends who are not from Florida. I said, you know, Florida's really a microcosm of the entire country for precisely the reasons you mentioned really does have this incredible mix of people from other countries, people from around the United States itself. And then it makes for very interesting election, for instance, right? Senator Nelson, let's talk about your time in space. It's fascinating, great career you've had, bu
Will factories in space enable us to become a “multi-planetary species?” Yes, according to Aaron Kemmer, founder of Made in Space. In 2014 the company's Zero-G printer was launched from Cape Canaveral and went on to successfully print the first ever part manufactured in space. Kemmer talks about space manufacturing, a moon base, and a potential trip to Mars.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
Will factories in space enable us to become a multi-planetary species. Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host Richard Miles today. We'll be talking to Aaron Kemmer founder and chairman of Made in Space. Joining us from the Philippines. Welcome to Radio Cade Aaron.
Aaron Kemmer: 0:54
Thanks for having me, Richard. I appreciate it.
Richard Miles: 0:56
So before we get into the details of Made in Space, the company you founded, I got to ask why space is this something that fascinated you when you were a kid? Are you a science fiction fan or just something that sounded interesting?
Aaron Kemmer: 1:09
Yeah, really , really good question. I think ever since I was a little kid, I've definitely been fascinated with space. Like many kids. I wanted to be an astronaut. And I think when I was five years old, I would tell a lot of people this, but I was playing with a toy space shuttle and jumping up and down on my bed. It was stainless steel, like a little metal hot wheel, but a space shuttle. And I flew off the bed. Didn't want to let go of my space shuttle. And it like slammed into my skull. And I still got a scar, like a little Harry Potter scar right in my forehead with the giant line down the middle. And that reminds me ever since then, I've wanted to go to space. I grew up in Florida. So watching space, shuttles launch, it was kind of inspiring to me growing up,
Richard Miles: 1:47
You founded, Made in Space in 2010. And I think by any measure, you had an extraordinary run in the early years, probably way more success than other startups do. So you founded the company in 2010, you created a 3D printing lab at NASA in 2011, you were awarded a grant to design a 3D printer for the international space station. And then that was launched. That mission was launched in September, 2014. And then a couple of months later in November, you successfully printed the first ever part manufactured in space. So that's really a stunning record. Walk us through sort of the early months from the concept. When you came up with the idea of 3D printing as a viable concept that you wanted to work on to that moment in 2014, when you saw the part being printed in the space station, what was that like ? Let's start with who came up with the idea and then how did it develop after that?
Aaron Kemmer: 2:37
Really great question. Early back in 2010, when we started the company, there, wasn't a lot of space startups and we're kind of seeing a renaissance now, which is super exciting, but there was companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, but the general mindset was the way you become a millionaire in the space industry is you start out
We have learned a great deal about radiation here on earth, and that knowledge has paved the way for us to discover a solution to an even more difficult problem, radiation in space. Space explorers need to be able to move and work without worrying about radiation. Dr. Oren Milstein, CEO and Co-founder of StemRad, has created a wearable radiation shielding vest that takes up minimal space and protects the most susceptible vital organs — like bone marrow, reproductive organs and lungs — from the harmful effects of radiation.
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Inventors and their inventions Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. We're exploring a series on space colonization. And today my guest is Dr. Oren Milstein. He's the CEO and co-founder of StemRad. And he's working with radiation. When dealing with deep space. Radiation is one of the most important challenges facing astronauts and colonization of not only the moon, but also Mars. Dr. Milstein, welcome to the program.
Dr. Oren Milstein: 1:05
Thank you, James. It's really great to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 1:07
Your research is fascinating. I think the best way for us to start out our discussion today is to talk about radiation in general. What is it? And why is it something that is so important to deal with?
Dr. Oren Milstein: 1:20
Radiation is a topic that people really don't know how to grasp . You don't feel it. You can't see it, it doesn't have a smell or a taste, but it's there it's like something almost mystical, I would say, but there is a way to measure it specifically ionizing radiation. It's ionizing because it creates occurrence. So it's creates ionized particles that generates current and that current is something measurable and you could actually compute different doses of radiation based on that current. So really what it is, it's photons. In most cases that strike, for example, a cell of the body and generate charge particles. In the case of the cell, it could be a free radicals that are able to create mutations within the DNA and therefore hinder a replication of that DNA and ultimately cause cell to undergo apoptosis or suicide, and also create higher susceptibility to cancer down the road
James Di Virgilio: 2:19
When we think of radiation, most Americans, especially they think of the nuclear power plants, three mile Island Fukushima and of course, Chernobyl, maybe in the largest sense they think of an atom bomb and all of these cases, if radiation strikes, can you see it? Is there a wave of radiation you see coming at you or is it something invisible?
Dr. Oren Milstein: 2:38
Radiation really is invisible in the spectrum that we're talking about. It's invisible. You have to understand that the ionizing radiation that we're talking about is basically just another portion of the spectrum of light. So it's invisible light . So to speak of a higher frequency that has penetrating power and wreak havoc within the tissue, that it, but it is a form of light and you have a spectrum, but that is not harmful at all. Within the spectrum of light arrange
A public private partnership in Space. What does that look like in Florida, the rest of the country, and the world? Part two of our series on the renaissance in Space Exploration features Tony Gannon, the Vice President for Research and Innovation at Space Florida. Tony reveals how our new space ecosystem pairs NASA, with billionaires, and corporate space mavericks, to yield an extensive infusion of innovation and capital…transforming the future of space travel and dramatically reducing government costs.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles : 0:38
Astronauts landed on the moon 50 years ago, and we have never stopped looking toward the stars, imagining what the future holds far beyond earth, launching into Radio Cade's Space Pod, and step inside the future of humanity's journey into deep space. Meet the innovators and visionaries who are charting a bold new course to the moon. Then to Mars and beyond discover the revolutionary technology that will get us there and see how it's already transformed life here on earth. Today, I'm speaking with Tony Gannon , vice president of research and innovation at Space Florida. Tony reveals how our new space ecosystem pairs NASA with billionaires and corporate space mavericks to yield an extensive infusion of innovation and capital transforming the future space of travel and dramatically reducing government costs. Welcome to Radio Cade, Tony.
Tony Gannon: 1:25
Thank you very much, Richard. It's an honor to be on your podcast.
Richard Miles : 1:28
So Tony, before you tell us about getting to space, tell us about getting to the United States. You were born in the UK, you're raised in Ireland. You've spent some time in Spain and France. How on Earth did you end up in Florida?
Tony Gannon: 1:40
That's a great question. And I'll try and be very brief for the sake of your audience, Richard. So I have that mixed background, which made me set aside diverse in nature. And so when my wife and I decided we were getting married, of course we couldn't do that in any logistical fashion. We decided we would go to Florida, have a vacation with some friends and get married while we were here. My wife's twin brother lives here in Cocoa Beach, Florida. And it seemed like the occasion of marriage, what an ideal situation. So we did that. Got married, and while I was here, my wife often jokes . She said, I think I became a widow overnight, but I was space widow, because I literally spent two weeks every day going up to the space center, absolutely enamored with the space program about what could be achieved, but really having no idea that I could ever be a part of it. But I think a love was born my heart for it. And I said, I , somehow, I'm going to work out a situation whereby I can work in the future in the space industry.
Richard Miles : 2:37
It's a great story. And I know that you wrote that you witnessed the 1969 moon landing, I presume as a child and that made you want to play some sort of a role in the space program. And then of course, as anyone who's seen the great Apollo 11 documentary or other similar movies back then, of course, getting to space, the mo
Launch into Radio Cade’s Space Pod and step inside the future of humanity’s journey into deep space. Our first episode features Mark Sirangelo, who was involved with more than 350 space missions at Sierra Nevada and is the visionary NASA tapped to lead its Moon to Mars Mission Directorate. Mark discusses not just the how of the space exploration renaissance, but the why. Although we need the excitement of discovery to motivate us, much of the current work on space will improve life on earth soon.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Astronauts landed on the moon 50 years ago, and we have never stopped looking toward the stars, imagining what the future holds far beyond earth. Launching the Radio Cade's Space Pod, and step inside the future of humanity's journey to deep space, meet the innovators and visionaries who are charting a bold new course to the moon, then to Mars and beyond. Discover the revolutionary technology that will get us there and see how it's already transformed life here on earth. Today. I'm speaking with Mark Sirangelo, who is involved with more than 350 space missions at Sierra Nevada, and is the visionary NASA tapped to lead its moon to Mars mission directorate. Hear Mark on this first episode of our Radio Cade Space Pod, because we're headed back to the moon and this time we plan to stay. Mark , welcome to Radio Cade.
Mark Sirangelo: 1:25
Hi Richard, Good to be here. I'm glad to be able to speak with you on the topic of space and its feature .
Richard Miles: 1:30
So Mark, as you know, this is part of a bigger series that we're doing on space exploration in which we're going to talk, not just about the how of getting on the moon and beyond, but the why . And perhaps few people are better positioned to talk about both the how and the why than you. So to give listeners an idea of what you bring to the table, why don't you start with a brief summary of your career, including the non-space parts, which I found fascinating. So what made Mark Sirangelo?
Mark Sirangelo: 1:56
Thanks Richard, I'm happy to give a little background. I think one of the things I like to talk about when I speak to groups or students is the fact that I didn't have a traditional path to space. I didn't grow up as a space engineers, spend 30 years doing it and wound up coming out the back end. Many of the people today are looking at their lives and careers and deciding what they want to do. My background, although I have a long history in flying, I was flying as a teenager and an active pilot ever since. And the love of space and aviation came from many generations of my family who've been involved with that. I didn't actually start in the space industry. I started as a nature photographer. I'd spend time traveling the world as a mediocre photographer, but when that was good enough to get a lot of work and I think I got more work than most people because I could fly myself around and that was making me cheaper than most other photographers, but I saw a lot of imaging and I also got to see a lot of different cultures and people. And that really started me off on a understanding of the world, understanding of the world we live in and
Antibiotics are used to keep cattle healthy and lower their feeding costs. But as with humans, antibiotic overuse leads to super resistant bacteria. Is there a better way? This week listen to Horace Nalle, CEO of Nutrivert and the winner of the 2020 Cade Prize for Innovation. Nalle is the co-inventor of “postbiotics,” which achieve the same beneficial effect as antibiotics without the creation of super bugs. If successful, Nutrivert could upend the nearly $4 billion market in antibiotics for livestock.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Antibiotics for animals, specifically livestock, they keep cattle healthy and lower their feeding costs, but they also create antibiotic resistant bacteria. Is there a better way? Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host Richard Miles, Today I'll be talking to Horace Nalle, CEO of Nutrivert, the winner of the 2020 Cade Prize for Innovation. Welcome to Radio Cade, Horace.
Horace Nalle: 0:58
Thank you very much, Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:59
First off, congratulations. We had a virtual ceremony this year and I wasn't able to meet you in person, but I hope you enjoyed the evening. And we want to know, did you crack open the cocktail kit that we sent all of the finalists?
Horace Nalle: 1:10
Yes, we did. I had my wife and son here and we enjoyed the champagne and cocktails, thank you.
Richard Miles: 1:14
We would have sent champagne, but we don't have a license to ship booz across state lines. So who knew that you could not do that? So Horace, first of all, congratulations, it was a great field this year. I mentioned this during the ceremony, but this is the first year that we actually went beyond state of Florida for the competition. So it's great that you're currently in Atlanta, but you are using a technology I think developed at Auburn, correct?
Horace Nalle: 1:35
Auburn and outside Auburn. Bernhard Kaltenboeck recently retired professor at the vet school is a key inventor of this technology.
Richard Miles: 1:42
Okay. So at any rate, beyond the state board, of Florida, so we're very pleased in the first year in which we expanded the prize to see teams from outside of Florida, do quite well in the competition. But before we get too much further down the road talking about the company, let's talk about the technology itself so that our listeners fully understand what it is that we're talking about. I give a little bit of description of antibiotics in livestock , but why don't you first start with, what is the current state of using antibiotics for livestock? How does that work? Why is it necessary? And what is the issue?
Horace Nalle: 2:11
We looked very hard and we can't find a bigger pharmaceutical market on earth for antibiotics for livestock. Current estimates are on the order of 130,000 tons of active pharmaceutical ingredient. So this is just an enormous use of drugs. In about 1950, it was discovered that these products enable livestock to grow on less fee
Each year in the U.S., over 164,000 emergency room visits and 300 deaths are caused by falls from a ladder. Inspired by his father, Paul Stentiford has invented a simple device that makes climbing ladders safer. A general contractor, Paul and his son developed six prototypes over two years and are now moving their product to market. Paul remembers helping his father on carpentry jobs when he was four years old, and remembers him always figuring out how to make using tools less dangerous.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Making ladders safer and reducing accidents at home and on the job. Welcome to your Cade . I'm your host, Richard Miles . And today I'll be talking to Paul Stentiford President and CEO of Stantiford Safety Services and a finalist for the 2020 Cade Prize. Welcome to Radio Cade, Paul .
Paul Stentiford: 0:54
Thank you. Happy to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:56
Let's start right away and talk about your invention because to me, I think it's fascinating that it's both extremely useful, but very simple by design and simple to use from what I've seen, most people are familiar with ladders. So I'd like listeners to understand from the get go, what is the problem that you're trying to solve and exactly how your invention works? Why don't you describe a standard extension ladder, which I think most people have seen, or they've used a lot of homeowners, handyman have standard extension ladders. So what is the problem with those ladders? And then tell us how your invention fixes that.
Paul Stentiford: 1:28
Sure. It's only for extension ladders. Anyone that's familiar with one, there are two sections that slide together. If you want to traverse up to a roof area, you are going to set the ladder, the appropriate distance from the wall and start with a rope, pulling the second section, the top section up. So as it slides up to the desired height where your leaning it against the house, and then you start climbing it when you climb it, where that second section is, is the traverse area. That's difficult because you have an overlapping section that you have to step out over that step. More importantly, when you're coming down, because it's in about two and a half inches to the next step. That's where the problem area is. This device is basically all aluminum welded, three steps that gradually take you to the fourth step down below that offset by half inch increments. In other words, you could hook this on the ladder right below the offset. It's two vertical side rails at rest on the side rails of each ladder on right and left. And then the steps overhang onto the rungs of the ladder below the offset. So that if you took a straight edge, if you can picture this, took a straight edge from where that next rung is on the offset and sticks out and go four rungs down. This device would plane out with the nose of each of those steps. So your foot cannot miss it.
Richard Miles: 2:46
When you entered the Cade Prize and foresaw the application, I have a tendency to read too quickly. And so my first impression was it A, this was like a different type of ladder. And then B, that your de
Despite the plethora of language learning tools, learning a new language is still very difficult for many people. What if it was much easier and much more fun? Dr. Sara Smith, a finalist for the 2020 Cade Prize, Oxford and Harvard educated Assistant Professor at USF, and CEO of MARVL shares how her patented augmented reality app can change how we learn languages.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:38
Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. And today we're going to tackle a subject that is near and dear to my heart. Why is it so hard to learn a new language? And is there a way that we can improve how we or I, or you learn a new language? Joining me today is Dr. Sara Smith. She is the CEO of MARVL, also an Assistant Professor of English to speakers of other languages and foreign language education at the University of South Florida and Doctorate from Oxford time at Harvard. Very, very smart, Sara, welcome to the show. I can't wait to figure out how you can help me and our listeners improve in learning languages.
Dr. Sara Smith: 1:15
Well, thank you so much for having me and thank you for the very flattering introduction.
James Di Virgilio: 1:19
You're most welcome. Now, tell me, let's just jump right into the question of why is it so hard for a three-year-old or myself to learn a new language?
Dr. Sara Smith: 1:28
It's a good question. It's a question, people ask me a lot, you know, learning a new language requires learning thousands and thousands of words, a kindergartner knows about 5,000 words. That's a lot of words and learning a new word is harder than you think you have to be exposed to that word over and over and over before you remember it. So one of the reasons why learning a new language is hard is because you have to build up that bank of words. You need to get all those vocabulary words, and that takes time and that takes effort.
James Di Virgilio: 1:54
And so when I'm traveling around France and I'm seeing words during my vacation, and I can learn a few of them, the ones I typically will learn the most are the ones I engage with the most. If I see this word 15, 20, 30 times, it sticks in my mind that sortie means an exit or whatever the case may be. But if I don't get exposed to these other vocabulary words, then I don't have enough words to draw on to begin to speak the language.
Dr. Sara Smith: 2:17
Yeah. And I love that you use as an example, you traveling around France because that's actually an even better way to learn. New words is when you're having experiences. One of the things that makes learning a language when you're either trying to teach yourself at home with your own materials, or even in a classroom setting, is that you're not having varied experiences and exposures to those words, right? You're only encountering them in these sort of flat interactions where it's just there in front of you in print. Maybe it comes with a definition, but if you're traveling around France, you're having experiences, you're having emotions. You're encountering that word in an authentic setting,
When is a heart attack not a heart attack? Current diagnostic tools are surprisingly inaccurate. 2020 Cade Prize finalist Dr. Russell Medford and his team have developed a “virtual cardiac catheterization” that takes existing CAT scan images and analyzes them using advanced mathematics and computational fluid dynamics. Heart doctors can quickly run this analysis on a desktop and determine whether someone has a blockage and how serious it is. This could eliminate up to 1.5 million unnecessary invasive procedures annually in the United States and Europe.
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Inventors and they're inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
When is a heart attack, not a heart attack, and how do we know? Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host Richard Miles. Today my guest is Dr. Russell Medford, CEO of Covanos, a company that is working on solutions to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac and vascular disease. Dr. Medford is also a finalist for the 2020 Cade Prize for Innovation. Congratulations and welcome to Radio Cade Russell .
Dr. Russell Medford: 1:00
Thank you, Richard. It's a pleasure being here.
Richard Miles: 1:02
So I should note from the beginning that you are one of our first Cade Prize finalists from outside the state of Florida, specifically from Emory University in Atlanta, and now normally Floridians don't congratulate Georgians for anything, but today is a new day. So Russell, tell us a little bit about yourself. You're originally from Brooklyn. How did you end up in Georgia?
Dr. Russell Medford: 1:21
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on your show Richard and we at Covanos are honored to be a Cade Fibonacci finalist . We understand this is the first year that the award is now outside of Florida and I'll speak for many Georgians, if not all, that we view our Floridian brothers and sisters with a great deal of affection and we're part of a Southeast region that has a great deal to be proud of in many areas. So we love Florida. I love Florida. My background, I'm a Brooklyn born son of Brooklyn, but was raised in Northern New Jersey, went to Cornell University for my undergraduate training and then to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, in New York City for both my medical degree training and I also have a PhD in molecular and cellular biology. I then traveled as a professional student as one to do, to Harvard and became a resident in medicine and a fellow in cardiology. And my first faculty position at the Harvard hospitals, the Beth Israel and the Brigham and Women's hospitals. My career has been characterized by basic science research on the basis for heart disease and vascular diseases and was recruited in 1989 from Boston to head up the molecular cardiology group at Emory University School of Medicine in 1989, where we began to apply new fields in our understanding of genes and molecular biology to the treatment and understanding of heart disease and other vascular diseases such as stroke. In the course of that work, I became introduced to the process by which we take ideas in the laboratory, as a basic scientist, and translate those ideas eventually into therapies that we, as doctors can use at the bedside to treat patients
Dr. Margaret K. Offermann, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist, tumor biologist, former Deputy National Vice President for Research at the American Cancer Society, and CEO of OncoSpherix, an early-stage cancer drug development company that is trying to significantly improve the lives of cancer patients. Join us to get to the inside scoop on how cancer treatments get discovered and tested, the challenges that are faced along the way, and why Dr. Offermann, a finalist for the 2020 Cade Prize, is so excited about her potential breakthrough.
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Inventors and their inventions, welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida.The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host James Di Virgilio. Today we're visiting with one of our Cade prize finalists, the Cade prize rewards, inventors and entrepreneurs who demonstrate a creative approach to addressing problems in their field of expertise resulting in an innovative invention. Today, we have a special guest, both an MD and a PhD an oncologist, a tumor biologist, and an educator. Yet she is most excited about a new cancer treatment approach. So excited in fact that she is developing a company to launch this product. My guest today is Dr. Margaret Offermann. We're going to call her Kenny because she told me pre-show that that's what she likes to be addressed as. Kenny, it's a wonderful nickname. Welcome to the program. We're so excited to have you.
Dr. Offermann: 1:22
Thanks. It's a real pleasure to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 1:24
Now. Let's talk about you being the CEO of OncoSpherix and what you're developing. It's obviously a cancer drug. So many companies are working on these things. What is yours and why is it special?
Dr. Offermann: 1:35
Well, our drug development program is really focused on a common feature of nearly all solid tumors. And one of the problems with cancer is that it grows very rapidly and spreads to new places. And it's that spread that ends up being the problem with so many different patients who die of cancer. We now know that cancer cells grow faster than their blood supply. And then that creates low oxygen when they get far enough away from the blood vessels, it doesn't take very far. It's typically 10 to 15 cells away from a blood vessel. And rather than them being crippled by that low oxygen, they're actually very clever in how they fight back. What they do is respond with a master regulatory switch that allows them to bring in new blood vessels, allows them to move into those blood vessels and move to other places to set up shop in other tissues. And we have drugs that block that whole process by targeting the master regulatory proteins that not only allow but actively drive the process that allows these cancer cells to survive and spread.
James Di Virgilio: 2:59
Now, how many people per year have a type of cancer or a type of tumor that leads to the situation you just described?
Dr. Offermann: 3:05
Well if you're talking in the United States, it's roughly 600,000 people in the United States who die of cancer every year. And the vast majority of those are people who have solid tumors and the vast majority o
Millions of people each year face natural coastal disasters, leaving them without water, and electric power. A Wave Energy Converter named Platypus, using only oceanic wave motion can continuously generate enough electrical charge to operate a seawater desalinator that turns saltwater into clean drinking water, or it can provide sufficient power for heating, lighting, or other electrical items needed in emergency situations.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:37
Welcome to Radio Cade. I'm your host James Di Virgilio. Today we'll be visiting with one of our Cade Prize inventors. He's working on something very, very interesting. In fact, he's created many different things I like to welcome to the show Mark Supal, chief technology officer at Engineering Technologies, LLC founded in January of 2019. Mark you're working on something that, to my knowledge, hasn't been done before. Very interesting concept. Tell us about it.
Mark Supal: 1:05
Thank you for the introduction. What the product is, it's called Platypus and we named it Platypus because it has two arms that bounce up and down, kind of like a tail and a bill on a Platypus. And it bounces in ocean waves. Turns generators to produce electricity and the electricity can either be stored in batteries, right at the machine and use there, or it can be routed to the shore via a marine cable. And again, it's for producing and harvesting ocean energy.
James Di Virgilio: 1:29
So is anyone working on or has anyone worked on anything like this before using the ocean waves to produce usable energy?
Mark Supal: 1:37
Many universities and big companies have tried to produce machines that generate megawatts of electrical energy. They're very expensive and they haven't necessarily been successful to sell electricity at a cost that makes sense, or is comparable to like wind or solar energy. What makes this product unique is that it's very small in size. It was designed to be shipped and airdropped into emergency regions that suffer from coastal disasters, like the strike we recently had from hurricane Laura , where people might need water. And to produce this water, you need low scale power. So this machine produces the order of 50 Watts, which can power a decelerator to produce fresh drinking water, but what's interesting is upon investigation. We found many companies that need things other than to sell a nation of water. They need to power all sorts of scientific buoys in the ocean.
James Di Virgilio: 2:25
So if I'm needing to power of buoy , I grabbed this Platypus. I drop it somewhere out in the ocean. I'm assuming it runs on solar power. And then it gives me an injunction with wave power. Is it just wave power? Tell me how I'm getting energy. And then how am I using the energy?
Mark Supal: 2:40
No, it uses strictly the ocean energy. So the waves bounce up and down. And the movement of the wave rotates a generator, which produces the electricity and it's stored in the batteries are used directly at the buoy. So the Platypus can be tethered to the buoy, right to the buoy via c
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. New technology like RFID chips has gotten dramatically cheaper, making the business model viable. A former engineer at Texas Instruments, Adam saw a new communications platform there that he knew could be adapted for fresh produce supply chains. A year later, no one else had adapted the technology, so Adam jumped in. “It was boldness or stupidity,” he says, that motivated him to enter a market he knew nothing about. This episode was originally released on October 16, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:36
Can the internet get me some fresh strawberries? Apparently, yes. If you can track them and integrate the information into global supply chains here to tell me how that works is Adam Kinsey. The founder of Verigo a company that does just that. Welcome Radio Cade, Adam.
Adam Kinsey: 0:49
Thank you, Richard. Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:51
So Adam, most of our listeners probably know or have heard about the internet of things, but in case we've got some late adopters out there among our listeners. Tell me in general, what is the internet of things? And you can describe for me what Verigo's technology is.
Adam Kinsey: 1:07
The internet of things is a buzzword that spawned probably 15, 20 years ago. Now it's the idea that we have complex systems in the world, whether it's a building and that building has an HVAC system and a water system and all of the systems in that building historically, you'd have to have a technician go and look at each system one by one to manage that building IOT says, let's put sensors on each of those sub systems. Let's put wireless communications on them and let that building talk to you. IOT and related to buildings would be a smart building system, but it also can be applied to things that are in motion. So our specific areas, perishable supply chain, when you're shipping thousands of truckload, shipping containers, aircraft loaded with pallets of cargo, same type of problems of important, valuable products that are in motion, and you need to be able to manage them in that supply chain. And so IOT in the supply chain is let's put smart sensors and communications on each of those packages for each of those shipments and let them collect intelligence about themselves and talk to you while they're in motion. So you can effectively manage the entire supply chain and all the products in it.
Richard Miles: 2:16
And so what has made that easier right, is a couple of breakthroughs in technology. And it used to be early computer age days, but the idea of putting some sort of physical sensor on a machine part right away was probably overwhelmed by cost considerations and ability of that sensor to talk to other sensors and so on what has happened that has made the ability for things to talk to other things cheaper, faster, more reliable.
Adam Kinsey: 2:41
What has caused the internet of things, quote, unquote, to grow so rapidly has been the development of new technologies like RFID, come on the scene that now makes it possible to make something smart for something on the order of pennies
How does the brain change itself, and can those changes be passed on to the next generation? ‘Yes’ and ‘yes’ according to Dr. Bryan Kolb, a neuroscientist at the University of Lethbridge, author of a classic neuropsychology textbook and a recipient of Canada’s highest civilian honor. Listen in to learn about brain plasticity as well as epigenetics, the science of how genes flip on and off and can be inherited in their new state.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Brain plasticity, and epigenetics. What do those terms mean? And why do they matter? I'm your host Richard Miles, and I'm very pleased to welcome a very distinguished guest, Dr. Bryan Kolb neuroscientist at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, the author of numerous books and articles on neuropsychology and the recipient of the order of Canada, Canada's highest, Civilian honor. Welcome to Radio Cade Bryan.
Bryan Kolb: 0:59
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 1:01
Bryan. I read somewhere that your groundbreaking textbook Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, is the most stolen book in England. What is up with that?
Bryan Kolb: 1:08
Well, apparently it's true. It's stolen form libraries that obviously doesn't happen in Canada or the U.S. People buy the book. We had a heck of a time getting it published in the late 1970s, because nobody believed there was such a field and it turns out there is and the book did very well.
Richard Miles: 1:24
For an author obviously an author would like to get paid on the sales, but to have your book stolen probably better than your book being dropped off at used bookstores. But let's talk about that. The book itself was very important because it was pathbreaking breaking . It's published in , I think in 1980. And you talked about brain plasticity, not just that, but that was one of the fundamental things. And basically your definition, I believe is the ability of the brain to reorganize its structure, function and connections in response to experiences. So why don't you sort of walk our listeners through, what does that mean? How can we think about brain plasticity in a useful way?
Bryan Kolb: 2:01
If you imagine being born into the world, the brain has no idea what world its going to be, could be in Alaska? It could be at the equator. You could be in Africa. And so the brain biologically needs to be able to change itself, to adapt to the environment that it's in. That's sort of the background as to why evolution would have done this. It's not just true of us. It's true in worms. So all animals have this capacity to change their brain response to the environment that they find themselves in. And of course, if your listeners would learn anything from this discussion today, we have to change their brains. Somehow distorted material, the brain has to change. It's just not magic.
Richard Miles: 2:39
So If I understand this correctly and we're not stuck with the brain were born with right? Basically from the minute we're born, the brain is constantl
In 1999, Chris Malachowsky was on the team at NVIDIA that invented the Graphics Processing Unit, an invention that transformed the consumer electronics industry. The GPU is now used by video games and virtually all social media platforms. The son of a doctor, Chris started out as pre-med but switched to engineering and got hired by Hewlett Packard. “I never felt we were at risk,” Chris says of his early start-up days. But he cautions early entrepreneurs, “don’t do it for the money or the glory. It’s too hard.” (Mild profanity) This episode was originally released on November 20, 2019.**
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Inventors and their inventions, welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio (00:39):
For Radio Cade, I'm James Di Virgilio. Our guest today is a 2019 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, inductee, University of Florida alumnus, and co founder of NVIDIA. His name is Chris Malachowsky. Chris went on to found a fortune 1000 company that invented the Graphics Processing Unit, which for me was a large part of my life and had a big introduction to video games. But that unit did much larger things than that. It's now used by Facebook, Twitter, Google, super computers, a whole host of other things. And in fact, Chris and his cofounders transformed the visual computing industry by creating a consumer oriented 3D graphics market. Chris, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm looking forward to hearing about your story. As we spoke off air, your story is like so many other inventors and entrepreneurs stories and that it does not move in a straight predictable line. Tell us how your story began.
Chris Malachowsky (01:34):
Well, I was a kid about to get in trouble in New Jersey and, uh, wanted to graduate early, before I succumb to the wildly ways with my friends and knew I wanted to get out of New Jersey. It was middle of winter it's slushy, it's cold, it's dreary. And my father was a physician. My parents and their friends all assumed I was to be a doctor. I like carpentry and cabinet making and, and thought that was the path I wanted, but didn't really think I needed to make up my mind. So what I did decide was warm and green was the criteria for school. If they had a medical school and a building construction school, I could decide later, let me just get on with my life, get out of New Jersey. And so I applied to Tulane, they had a really pretty lawn and sunny scene on the cover of their catalog thought that was attractive. They had a medical school on a building construction school done, I flied, and got in. My parents were a little gas that I wasn't giving myself more options and that maybe I should at least see the school. So my older brother was given my parents' car and him and I drove off to Tulane. And after being there for a couple of days, I really didn't think that was going to work out for me. I was going to get myself in some serious trouble in the French Quarter. So on the way home I was dismayed because I did not give myself any options. I stopped, to see a cousin who was going to University of Florida. I spent a couple of days there and really did like it. And it also had the same characteristics of building construction school and a medical school. And I decided this is cool. So I picked up an application and on the way, driving home to New Jersey, I filled it out, mailed it in, got in. And I guess
Beloved by corporate HR departments and government agencies alike, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measures personality types. Betsy Styron, board chairman of the Myers-Brigg Foundation, explains how the assessment works and what it should and shouldn’t be used for. An introvert herself, Betsy powers through a great interview. This episode was originally released on July 11, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles . We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace personality.
Richard Miles: 0:39
It's not just a song. It's a test, specifically, a test called Myers Briggs type indicator. My name is Richard Miles, ENTJ. My guest today is Betsy Styron. INTP the President and CEO of the Center for Application of Psychological Type and chairman of the board of the Myers and Briggs Foundation. Welcome Betsy .
Betsy Styron: 0:57
Thank you. Good to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:59
So, the initials I rattled off after names are one of what? 16 Myers Briggs type indicator, I think. And I've taken that many times working for the federal government. And after 20 years, I just barely shifted from INTJ to ENTJ in fact, according to test , I have no personality at all. So I don't know what it says about me working for the federal government or, or whatnot, but Betsy, why don't we start out by educating our listeners for those who are not familiar? What exactly Myers-Briggs is tell us what does it measure and how does it measure it?
Betsy Styron: 1:31
Okay, let's call it the NBTI Myers Briggs Type Indicator. And the word indicator simply means it indicates a preference. So we're looking at four scales and there are two opposite sides. So let's start with introversion extroversion, which are opposite. So I happen to be an introvert. So when I took the NBTI and got my results, essentially it pointed to introversion as a preference. We don't like to use the word test. We call it an indicator because there was really no right or wrong answer. We all do both. I couldn't be talking with you without extroverting. It really is about two scales. And you just prefer one over the other. The analogy that is most often used is like being right handed or left handed. You have the preference that you lead with the preference, where you get more energy. You're typically a little bit more accomplished with that one, but we all use both hands. There will be times like now, with me with a preference for introversion that I'm talking and I'm animated about it because the topic is very interesting to me and there are four scales. And we can talk about those a little bit later, if you would like.
Richard Miles: 2:46
So let's take that as an example, introversion, extroversion, what are some sample questions for instance, on the NBTI, in which you try to suss that out, whether somebody has a preference for introversion or extroversion.
Betsy Styron: 2:58
There are multiple items that measure the different scales. And when you sit down and take it, they're all integrated in a way that you can't figure out, you know, am I doing the block of questions related to this or that, but essentially, a question might be, if you have a choice to want to go out tonight and be social, or would you rather prefer to stay at home? That's not a direct question, but the whole idea of the items is to get at the essence of what t
Microbiologist Phillip Furman is the inventor of AZT, an anti-HIV drug, and other antiviral drugs for Herpes and Hepatitis B and C. He talks about his breakthrough moments, the difficulties of taking “miracle” drugs to market, and the culture shock of moving from New York to Florida as a teenager. Furman’s interest in science was fueled at age 8 with the gifts of a microscope from an uncle and a chemistry set from his parents. His advice to researchers: “Follow the data. Negative results give you as much information as positive results." This episode was originally released on October 23, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:36
Treating viral diseases is hard, but not as hard as it used to be, thanks to the development of antiviral drugs. Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host, Richard Miles and today my guest is Phillip Furman, a microbiologist and the holder of 20 U.S. Patents. The inventor of AZT an anti-HIV drug, and a 2018 inductee into the Florida inventors hall of fame. Welcome to show Phillip and congratulations.
Phillip Furman: 1:00
Thank you very much, Richard.
Richard Miles: 1:01
So, the problem with interviewing super inventors like you is trying to focus on just one thing, but you have 20 patents, you've done a lot of things and you've developed antiviral drugs for herpes, HIV, hepatitis B and C. And we could talk about each one of those probably for a long time, but then we'd have to order in lunch, dinner, and probably sleeping bags for this session. So let's start though with a basic definition of viruses for listeners who may not be microbiologists , how viruses act in the body and how they can be treated.
Phillip Furman: 1:33
Well, viruses, some people think are very simple. They are an intracellular parasite. They have to infect a cell in order to be able to reproduce themselves and their basic components are there genetic information, a virus capsid, which surrounds them. It's a protein coat that protects them once they get into the cell. And some of them have a membrane, which they pick up when they are released from the cell, but viruses aren't quite that simple.
Richard Miles: 2:07
Spoiler alert, it's not that simple.
Phillip Furman: 2:08
They, a lot of them contain or code for proteins or enzymes, which function in the replication of the virus. Everybody thinks that well, once the virus gets into the cell, it requires the cell to produce enzymes and proteins that are essential for virus replication. And the buyer system takes that over and doesn't have any of its own proteins or enzymes to replicate itself, but indeed they do.
Richard Miles: 2:34
So you've been working on this for quite a long time. Right? You got your undergraduate degree in microbiology?
Phillip Furman: 2:40
In microbiology. Yes.
Richard Miles: 2:42
What was your big breakthrough? Which one of the antiviral drugs came first?
Phillip Furman: 2:46
Acyclovir was the first one I worked on.
Richard Miles: 2:49
And that's treatment for herpes viruses?
Phillip Furman: 2:52
Yes.
Richard Miles: 2:52
Can video games be used for education? Co-host James Di Virgilio puts that question to Lindsey Tropf, founder and CEO of Immersed Games. Unlike other educational software, Immersed Games uses online, multi-player experiences to teach things like STEM skills to middle-schoolers. Eventually, the programs can be customized by individual teachers to achieve their specific learning goals. A gamer herself, Lindsey became an “accidental” entrepreneur while earning her PhD in education. This episode was originally released on July 31, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:36
Video games are the most popular form of entertainment, but can they be used for education? I'm James Di Virgilio. One of the cohost of Radio Cade, and with me today is Lindsey Tropf, the founder and CEO of Immersed Games. Lindsey , thanks for joining us.
Lindsey Tropf: 0:51
Thanks for having me, I'm excited to be able to chat.
James Di Virgilio: 0:53
So Immersed Games, the first thing somebody might think of, if they don't know what it is you do is that you're creating video games, which is only partly true. Tell us what you're working on and why that's different.
Lindsey Tropf: 1:02
So, we are focusing on video games that really empower people to do deep learning and problem-solving. Right now, we're really focusing around middle school science. We chose this because middle school is generally the time that students either really solidify their love of STEM or it drops off. And so it's a really critical time point for students when they're trying to engage around STEM and science topics. And so, our games really focus on bringing that love of problem solving and understanding of the importance of it to the forefront so that students are engaging in exploring a coral reef that has a problem to figure out how climate change is affecting it, or building an ecosystem from scratch to learn how to balance it. And so they're engaging these really hands-on problem-solving experiences that are really kind of an authentic experience of maybe something as scientists would do or think about.
James Di Virgilio: 1:52
The game itself is not like a typical game somebody might think of when it comes to education. I have a friend, he home schools his children, they use a lot of educational games , uh , very successfully , but they tend to be one player games that navigate you through a course or a curriculum. Yours is entirely different, it's an online player based interactive multi-player game. Tell us a little bit more about that.
Lindsey Tropf: 2:12
Yeah, so the inspiration behind it came from playing a lot of those types of games when I was in high school, I played something called, Star Wars Galaxies, where you actually made player cities together and did all sorts of really cool emerging, creative things out of that. And then a lot of World of Warcraft and things. So when I was working on my PhD in education at the University of Florida, as we talked about what ideal learning and ideal learning communities looked like, it really always remi
Dr. Rich Patton, MD, grew up in the small town of Wahoo, Nebraska where the town doctor clearly had a better life than he did as a child farm hand. That inspired Rich to eventually go to medical school and to become a pathologist. From there he saw how many patients got treated unnecessarily for sepsis – blood infection – and he was pretty sure he knew why. So, he invented the SteriPath, a device that virtually eliminates false positive diagnoses in blood cultures. This episode was originally released on April 26, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Randy Scott: 0:38
Hello, for those of you expecting the velvet voice of Richard Miles, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this is Randy Scott, your guest host today for Radio Cade. I'm here today with Dr. Rich Patton , MD out in Seattle. And he's the inventor of the SteriPath blood collection device. Hi, Rich, are you doing today?
Dr. Rich Patton: 0:59
As pleased to say, life has been very good to me and continues to do so.
Randy Scott: 1:06
I appreciate you making some time here. So just to start things off, why don't we take a minute or two for our listeners if you can explain the SteriPath, you know, pretty basic terms, what the SteriPath does and how it benefits patients.
Dr. Rich Patton: 1:21
The SteriPath, instrument essentially replaces and does away with false-positive blood cultures. How does it do this? The process is to use on needle, which goes into a vein and a vein then are a conduit for putting blood into a culture vial, and that's the way it has been for 50 years. You know what goes into, in most cases, a vein which then directs blood into a bottle with medium, and that process passes a skin biopsy into the culture bottle and that is where our large portion of the contamination occurs. What SteriPath does is divert very first portion of blood from a vein and sequesters it, and that being done, the blood is directed past that sequester and into the bile of medium. So it's a very simple process and simple to understand, and that's, what's the beauty of it is. It's something that is very doable, should be done worldwide. A lot of expenses and patient success and the patient safety is, has moved greatly ahead was this type of blood culture procedure.
Randy Scott: 2:45
So Rich, that's interesting. So you're trying to avoid these false positives in blood cultures, maybe a little bit more background for me and the listeners on what are the medical uses for a blood culture? Why would a blood culture be taken in the first place?
Dr. Rich Patton: 3:00
Blood cultures are taken when people have high fevers or maybe become systemic and ill with not only a high fevers, but increased heart rate, and no symptoms are present than a blood culture is ordered and it takes about 24 to 48 hours to get result. And that result is something that hides the therapy, antibiotic treatment, part of this. So that's the way it begins. And that's taking it to the point where our culture, our shows and our organism that is a pathogen and it needs to be taken care of.
Randy Scott: 3:37
A false positive means that they've detected what they think is an infection and there's not really an infection there, I guess. And so then they're going to administer antibio
All sorts of organizations, big and small, are attempting to create a vaccine for COVID-19. While big pharma has access to seemingly endless resources, even small organizations are obtaining funding for their vaccine ideas. Alan Joslyn Ph.D. President and CEO of Oragenics Inc, has spent 20 years in Big Pharma and has been the CEO and Director of several privately held companies. Join us as we discuss COVID-19 vaccine challenges and explore Oragenics journey from idea generation to COVID-19 vaccine testing.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to another edition of Radio Cade . I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. Today. We revisit vaccinations, but last time while we took a broad lens look at what is a vaccine and how does it work. This time our guest Alan Joslyn , who has a PhD in biomedical pharmacology is going to walk us through what it's actually like to be working on a vaccination, what it takes to get it to market the hurdles that you face. And really just how much goes into finding a successful vaccine. Alan Joslyn is the president and CEO of Oragenics Incorporated. He spent 20 years in Big Pharma and has been the CEO and director of several privately held companies during his career. Alan , welcome to the program.
Alan Joslyn: 1:19
Hi James, thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 1:22
So last I spoke about vaccines, we had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Peter Corey of Ology, and I know today is going to be yet another one of those. Tell us a little bit about Oragenics and i t's rather recent shift a nd what i ts core portfolio is.
Alan Joslyn: 1:37
Well, Oragenics is actually originally a spin out of the University of Florida back in the mid 1990s, working primarily in the areas of oral health development of probiotics, and also developing a brand new class of antibiotics called Lanta Biotics that we've been working on for upwards of 20 years. And recently we had the opportunity presented to us to take on a vaccine candidate that was originated actually from the national Institute of Health and a private company in the Gainesville area. Noachis Terra was fortunate enough to license that product in and we moved forward and acquired Noachis Terra just a month ago to jumpstart development of this COVID-19 vaccine.
James Di Virgilio: 2:25
Now, why get into the game seemingly this late? Right? I read today that Moderna is going to reach its final stage of testing. I learned from Dr. Peter Corey that really only 16% of vaccinations even make it to the end of their trials with any sort of success. So of course one could argue that that's probably what you're doing, but when you were looking at this, why take on this challenge now, are you late to the game or is this the right time?
Alan Joslyn: 2:48
Well, it's really important to understand that, especially in vaccine development, it's not necessarily the fastest to the endpoint . It's those vaccines that produce the greatest immunogenic response coupled with safety. This particular vaccine that we've in licensed is much more
Gainesville, Florida, home to the Cade Museum, is a university town famous for being the home of nine members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Thanks to technology to harness their creativity, a fresh crop of Gainesville musicians are using their music to bring comfort and joy during troubled times. This is the story of 25 musicians with Gainesville connections, collectively known as Band Together, and their collaboration on a music video that has brought relief to thousands of music lovers and ordinary people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace
James Di Virgilio: 0:38
For Radio Cade, I'm James Di Virgilio. The mission of the Cade includes not only technology, but also arts. And within that, especially music. Past entrepreneurs and scientists who have been guest on this show where musicians, including Robert Cade himself. Today, we are joined by three musicians, Bob McPeak, Rob Rothschild , and Chris DeMakes. They're here to tell us about the technology and the creativity behind the collaborative made at home music videos that certainly are proliferating in the age of COVID-19. They're part of the amazing tradition of Gainesville, Florida music, a university city that is part of the story of Tom petty and the Heartbreakers, the Eagles Bo Diddley, Stephen Sills, the Motels, Less Than Jake, Sister Hazel, River, Phoenix, Against Me, Minnie Riperton, and many more. 25 musicians from Gainesville recently joined together, calling their band, Band Together, to make a music video of a song called "On the Other Side", which has been generating quite a bit of attention. Welcome to the show Bob, Rob Rothschild, and Chris DeMakes
Bob McPeak: 1:43
Hi. Great to be here. Thank you, James.
James Di Virgilio: 1:45
Now, Bob, you started this project Band Together, and you're also an example of someone who is both scientist and musician.
Bob McPeak: 1:52
That's right. Although a lot of people who know me as a musician don't know that I am a social scientist. I received a PhD from Ohio state university in social psychology way back in 1976.
James Di Virgilio: 2:06
And how did you wind up getting into music, social psychology to music, or do those two overlap? It seems sort of like a leap?
Bob McPeak: 2:12
It is an unusual combination, I think, although certainly not unprecedented. Uh , I started playing guitar when I was 14 and I got hooked on it and played in bands all the way through college. But at the end of my third year of graduate school, I was picked by the psychology department to go to this place in Greensboro, North Carolina called the Center for Creative Leadership. And one of the things I did while I was there was to take a career workshop from the vice president of the Center for Creative Leadership, whose name is David Campbell. He was a really remarkable guy. You may have heard of the Strong Campbell Vocational Interest Blank, which is a psychometric instrument that's supposed to help you determine a career choice. And he did a career workshop and we went through all these exercises and every exercise that we
James Clement conducts research into anti-aging technologies. He has studied people over 110 years of age and has found a strong genetic connection to their super long lives. Yet, periodic environmental signals such as fasting and certain dietary supplements will prompt human cells to effectively cleanse themselves and recycle materials for energy. This causes cells, and thus bodies, to live longer. This episode was originally released on September 25, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles, we'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
I'm going to live forever as a song from the musical fame, and if only that were true, but it turns out we can slow down some of the effects of aging and here to join me in my time machine thought capsule is, James Clemett, the CEO of Better Humans, a company that conducts research into longevity, disease prevention, and general human enhancement. Welcome to Radio Cade, James.
James Clemett: 1:00
Thank you, glad to be here.
Richard Miles: 1:01
So James, I'm not going to make you sing any songs from any hip musicals, probably to your relief, but I would like to have you start out by defining for us what anti-aging technologies are and what they actually do. And I'm going to ask my very first follow on question. Does this mean that we can live longer? Or does it mean we aren't afflicted by the normal conditions that apply to aging people?
James Clemett: 1:23
So the answer is yes to both of those things. We actually have longer living healthier people amongst us right now. I spent the last 10 years studying supercentenarians, and have met many women and men 106 , seven, eight years and older, all the way up to Morano in Italy who's 117 who are still cogent, living by themselves, often cooking their own food, and cleaning their own homes. One gentleman at 109 had just driven from the Tucson area to Denver in a sports car for his daughter's 80 something of birthday, a remarkable a feat for any elderly person, but at 109, amazing. So my initial quest was to figure out how these people live so long, how they do so in really great shape, and then to see what can we learn from that and apply to the rest of us who aren't so lucky.
Richard Miles: 2:17
So James, I'll just ask a kind of a nerdy social science question. It sounds like there are enough supercentenarians so people not just a hundred, but a hundred what?
James Clemett: 2:25
110.
Richard Miles: 2:26
Okay. Are there enough of that population to study and make valid conclusions that study this?
James Clemett: 2:32
That's sort of debatable. Okay. So my mentor, George Church, one of the top geneticists in the United States, he's at Harvard Medical School, he believes that you can discover rare phenotypes from even in of one . So a single person compared to everyone else's genetics, you can tease out what the differences might be. And certainly in a small family, brothers and sisters and mom and dad, et cetera, that haven't don't have a similar phenotype. Th
Big public infrastructure projects used to be synonymous with corruption, including bid rigging. Super-smart professors Jim McClave and Tom Rothrock figured out a way to detect bidding irregularities and catch cheaters. As a kid, Jim loved solving puzzles and did well at school, but suffered from bad “comportment” according to his teachers. Tom, a farm boy from Missouri, went to a one-room schoolhouse in a town of 100. “Not a lot of education took place” so he struggled in school, but “math came easy” to him. In 1977, Jim and Tom formed a business called InfoTech and have been collaborating ever since. This episode was originally released on February 13, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
It's all rigged. Or is it? Specifically, how does one go about detecting bid rigging? Here to help us understand, are Jim McClave and Tom Rothrock, the inventors and developers of computerized tools to see who is cheating and who is not. Welcome to the show, Jim and Tom.
Jim McClave: 0:54
Thank you.
Tom Rothrock: 0:55
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:55
So let's start out, Jim, I'm going to ask you what , uh, what exactly is the technology , uh, that you have developed and are using, explain it to me who really doesn't know that much. I took one college statistics class, so I kind of know , uh , but not really. So to assume that our listeners don't have a deep background in statistics.
Jim McClave: 1:16
Fair enough. Um, our invention consists of , uh, software computerized techniques, statistical techniques that looks for patterns or trends to suggest that companies may not be playing fairly, that they may be rigging bids when they submit prices to government agencies to do work for them. So it's, it's basically software that makes the difference, shows a difference between competition and lack of competition.
Richard Miles: 1:46
So typically, if a government agency or public entity puts out a project to bid, they're going to get all these bid documents. And so the , the concept here is that all those bid documents get fed into a program. And then the program looks for anomalies or, you know, is there, is there a parameter range for each one of those numbers? And that's how it essentially works. Is it more sophisticated?
Jim McClave: 2:10
It's a little more sophisticated in that . If you're going to look for trends, you really need historical data. -Okay. So rather than just looking at today's bids, we're looking at maybe five or even 10 years worth of bids. And again , um , I try as hard as they might, if companies are cheating, it doesn't look like competition. So there are patterns that show up, sometimes they're trying to hide it, but -I see, we figured out ways that that look , uh, around the corners and into the nooks and crannies and find , uh , these patterns that suggest bid rigging.
Richard Miles: 2:43
Um , so I saw a great phrase, I think one of your
“Creativity is finding unity in what appears to be diversity,” says Dr. Kenneth Heilman. Author of Creativity and the Brain, Heilman, a distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, explains where creativity may reside in the brain, how it differs from raw intelligence, and how creative people actually think. Heilman has been fascinated by creativity since childhood. Almost killed by meningitis as an infant in 1938, he was saved by a doctor who had heard of a new treatment and tried it on Heilman. “Creativity has reduced a huge amount of suffering,” Heilman says.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles, we'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Creativity in the brain, where can it be found? How does it differ from intelligence? And what are creative people like? I'm your host Richard Miles, today, My guest is Dr. Kenneth Heilman, distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Florida and author of surprise, a book called "Creativity and the Brain". Welcome to Radio Cade Ken.
Dr. Kenneth Heilman: 0:56
Thank you for inviting me.
Richard Miles: 0:58
So Ken, like many of our guests on this show, you spent your career in Florida, but you were born in Brooklyn. So, the first thing I gotta ask is, Dodgers or Yankees? Let's get that out of the way first.
Dr. Kenneth Heilman: 1:09
Brooklyn Dodgers. But when they moved to LA, I stopped being a professional sports fan.
Richard Miles: 1:16
So you didn't switch to another team? You just gave up entirely on sports?
Dr. Kenneth Heilman: 1:19
Well, you know, here was a team that was tremendously supportive and actually started integration with Jackie Robinson and what happened because they offered him a free stadium in the park and Patriot, the hell with the fans that have been watching him for all these years, we're going to LA and I said, look, I don't move for businesses.The hell with this I'm not watching this anymore.
Richard Miles: 1:42
And that was a precursor of things, the calmest teams to abandon their cities, to go to other markets and so on during the expansion years. Okay. Well, now that we've got that most important question out of the way, let's sort of dive straight into our topic. As you know, Phoebe and I, have always been interested in the neuroscience of creativity and I think the first time we met, probably about 2010, it was to get your ideas and some other folks at the University of Florida, we're planning a big exhibit on the neuroscience of creativity. And so we needed to get smart, and we knew that you were one of the folks to talk to. So creativity is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot and sometimes it's defined in different ways. So why don't I start by asking you to define creativity from your point of view, and then how does it differ from intelligence? But let's start with that.
Dr. Kenneth Heilman: 2:25
Okay. First of all, when I was in high school, I took a public speaking course, I got to seen it, but
“Every imagination is distinct,” says Dan Hunter. “It is a conglomeration of what you’ve experienced, what you want to achieve, and what you remember.” Can imagination be measured, and what does it have to do with creativity and invention? How do teachers develop imagination in their students, and how is it elicited in the workplace? Host Richard Miles talks to Dan Hunter, the inventor of the Hunter Imagination Questionnaire, known as H-IQ, the first assessment of individual imagination and ideation. Dan is also an accomplished playwright, author, songwriter, teacher, and comedian.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:00
Imagination. What does it really mean? Can it be measured? And what does it have to do with creativity and invention? I'm your host, Richard Miles, and my guest today via the miracle of Zoom is Dan Hunter, the inventor of the Hunter Imagination Questionnaire known as H-IQ, the first assessment of individual imagination and ideation. He's also accomplished playwright, songwriter, and teacher. Welcome to the show, Dan.
Dan Hunter: 0:00
Thank you, Richard
Richard Miles: 1:04
So, Dan. This show is produced in Florida. I live in DC, You live in Massachusetts and we're conducting the interview via a technology created in San Jose, California. Imagine that.
Dan Hunter: 1:04
Yes, exactly.
Richard Miles: 1:17
So I neglected to mention in introducing you that you are probably the world's foremost authority on what makes Iowa funny.
Dan Hunter: 1:25
I'll claim that honor. Yeah, I am a native of Iowa and lived there until about 20 years ago.
Richard Miles: 1:32
And you've written a couple of books on it as well. Sort of specifically humor and Iowa, right?
Dan Hunter: 1:36
Yeah, Three books. "Let's Keep Des Moines a Private Joke," "The Search for Iowa" and "We Don't Grow Potatoes," and, the last one is, "Iowa. It's a State of Mind."
Richard Miles: 1:47
Is this taken well by native Iowans that they like the ribbing? Or do you get some push back?
Dan Hunter: 1:52
No. I made my living for about 17 years, performing throughout the Midwest and primarily Iowa. I think Midwesterners, they appreciate humor about themselves, and they recognize that they have a calm humility about them, for the most part. Occasionally you get a crackpot, I mean one person once sent me back one of my books stapled 100 times.
Richard Miles: 2:14
Like I said, that's an interesting side hustle. But I guess it wasn't a side hustle a while.
Dan Hunter: 2:20
No, it was my main work at the time.
Richard Miles: 2:22
So, this is not a show dedicated to Iowa humor, as much as we, we could talk about that, but to showcase the stories of inventors and entrepreneurs, and at the root of most of those narratives are seeds of imagination and creativity. But the problem is imagination, so
Does UV light kill COVID-19? How can we best use it? Is it expensive?
Terry Berland, CEO of Violet Defense, whose UV solutions are currently being used in operating rooms, hotels, schools, ambulances, food processing, and athletic facilities and Jim Thomas of Kirenaga Partners and The Central Florida Tech Fund join the program to discuss all things ultraviolet light.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Welcome to another COVID-19 edition of Radio Cade . Today, we're going to talk about UV light. It has been described as nature's disinfectant. Does it solve the COVID-19 crisis? Can it help us move forward with disinfecting things? For Radio Cade I'm James Di Virgilio, my guest today, Terry Berland, CEO of Violet Defense, a UV light company, and Jim Thomas of Kirenaga Partners and the Central Florida Tech Fund. Gentlemen, thanks for joining the show. -Absolutely great to be with you. Now Terry, in 1910 in Marsay, France, UV light was essentially first used as a disinfectant or so it's credited, you have a very interesting background in a lot of things. Tell us a little bit about how you are qualified to do what you're doing and how you're running Violet Defense.
Terry Berland: 1:26
So let me start with my first job out of college. I was undergraduate at Notre Dame and I needed to pay for my last two years of school. And so the Navy came to me and said, why don't you come teach nuclear engineering for the Navy as the Naval nuclear power school in Orlando, Florida, and in exchange for that we'll pay for your last two years. So my first job out of college was actually teaching nuclear engineering, never in a million years did I imagine that what I learned there, which is all about photonics and radiation would actually play out some 25 years later. From there, I went to graduate school. I was a partner at McKinsey in the healthcare practice I spent about 13 years on wall street , uh , was part of, kind of two major transformations, one, the bear, Stearns, JP Morgan transformation, the other one, the Lehman brothers and Barclay's transformation. I then went to work for the largest hedge fund in the world, an organization called Bridgewater. And then about five years ago, partner Dave Scalzo and I spun out to actually start a venture capital firm called Kirenaga Partners within three months of actually starting that decided I could do that anywhere. And so I relocated back to where I had started my working career in Orlando, and I ended up coming across Violet Defense as one of our first Florida based investments back in 2016. I started as the interim chief operating officer, as well as the lead investor. And then in 2018 , uh , the chief science officer and founder asked me to step in to be the CEO, so he could step back into the science role. And so I've been the CEO of the company for the last two years,
James Di Virgilio: 3:00
And I understand a lot of very interesting things have been happening. The bulk of today's discussion we'll be discussing UV light, what Violet Defense is doing to help further that study. But first, Jim Thomas Central Florida Tech Fund, tell us about the mission behind this. It's a very interesting thing, especially for the state of Florida to have
What is a vaccine? How long will it take to get one for COVID-19? Are there are other alternatives? What about herd immunity?
Our guest is Dr. Peter Khoury, the President and CEO of Ology Bioservices Inc. He is an expert on vaccines and biologics and during his 30-year career, he has worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck, and Baxter International. Dr. Khoury has involved in international forums on vaccines, pandemic planning, and biodefense preparation.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:37
Welcome to another special edition of radio Cade. I'm your host James Di Virgilio. Today we'll be discussing vaccinations and COVID-19, there's a lot of information, misinformation questions that you have that we have. And with us today, we have an expert in the subject of not only vaccinations, but also manufacturing them. Dr. Peter Khoury. He is the president and CEO of Ology Bioservices Inc and that is located in Alachua, Florida. He's been involved with vaccines and biologics for a majority of the 30 year career employed by organizations, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Merck and Company and Baxter international. Dr. Khoury has been an invited speaker for many international forums concerning vaccines. Pandemic planning, biodefense preparation, and has worked on global threat programs against biologics with many ministries of health and oversight committees for large events, such as the Olympic committee. Dr. Khoury, thank you so much for joining us today.
Dr. Peter Khoury: 1:34
Thank you for inviting me.
James Di Virgilio: 1:35
So the role now that you and Ology are playing in the COVID-19 crisis is essentially to manufacture vaccinations amongst other things which are going to unpack, but it seems prudent to start with asking a simple question, but one that is now talked about a lot. What is a vaccine?
Dr. Peter Khoury: 1:54
Probably the simplest answer is a vaccine is a protein that stimulates your immune system to induce immunity or induce antibodies. It's exactly as if you were exposed to the disease. So when a healthcare worker gives a vaccination, they're exposing your immune system to something that looks very similar to a particular virus or bacteria, which helps your immune system then react quickly when you're exposed to the real infection, it has, what's called immune memory and it remembers, ah , I've seen this before and it starts immediately in a sense, producing these antibodies to fight that infection.
James Di Virgilio: 2:46
Now , these viruses, I'm a big fan of game theory are essentially alive in a sense, right? They're adapting, they're changing and your body's doing the same. So if you get a good vaccine and it produces the proper, it's possible that the virus then counters that with a different response of sorts, right? Depending on what we're looking at,
Dr. Peter Khoury: 3:06
It's amazing that a virus can be that smart, that it quickly can adapt, or it's in a sense survivor of the fittest. It's just like an antibiotic. When you have antibiotic r
Moving COVID-19 patients from one ICU to another is possible thanks to transportation ventilators. In the second of two episodes on ventilators, James Di Virgilio talks to Dr. Richard Melker, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He holds over 25 issued U.S. patents including several for emergency medical devices in use throughout the world, and by the US Special Forces.
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Welcome to a special two-part edition of Radio Cade . We'll be discussing COVID-19 and ventilators. In part one, we visit with Dr. Sem Lampotang. And in part two, we visit with Dr. Richard Melker. We hope you enjoy the program. Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:54
Welcome to a special episode of Radio Cade. I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. Today we're going to be covering mechanical ventilation and its effect on the COVID-19 crisis. Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving therapy that is used extensively and modern intensive care units. The origins of modern mechanical ventilation can be traced back five centuries ago to the seminal work of Andreas Vasilis really the founder of modern human anatomy. Joining the program now is Dr. Richard Melker. We just had him on the show very recently. He is the professor emeritus at the Department of Anesthesiology at the UF College of Medicine. We touched on ventilators last time you were with us Dr. Melker, COVID-19 had not taken off yet like it is now. We want to talk with you about ventilators. I know you have a story about how you got interested in them. Welcome to the show. And tell us a little bit about that story.
Dr. Richard Melker: 1:49
Well, thank you. Yeah, I think using a chronological order will allow people to understand how we got to the sophisticated ventilators we have today, and also as to why we don't have enough of them. So I went to medical school and graduated in 1974 and did my residency in pediatrics at a hospital in Los Angeles called Harbor General Hospital. It's now called Harbor UCLA Medical Center, but most people would never recognize the name of the hospital, but the hospital had another name called Rampart General. And Rampart General was a hospital used in a TV show called The Emergency. And back in the days, when I was doing my residency at Harvard General Hospital, they were filming this show and using my hospital as where the patients were taken by ambulance. And I was doing my residency and realize that when the paramedics came in, they really had no understanding about children. So I went to the chairman of my department and I said, you know, Los Angeles County has one of the best EMS systems in the United States. It was one of 12 systems that was a paramedic system at the time. And I said, if I can spend some time with them, I would like to write some material that they could use for training paramedics on how to care for children. And my chairman was all for it. So every Friday at 12 o'clock, I would leave the hospital and I would go to ride with the paramedics for the rest of the day. And the fire station that they were using on television was actually the fire station that I worked out of with the paramedics. And by the time I completed my residency and was ready to move to Florida, I had written a textbook some information on how paramedi
Building ventilators to help COVID-19 patients could be much easier than we think. Dr. Sem Lampotang is a Professor of Anesthesiology and the Director of the Center for Safety, Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies at the University of Florida. Based on a design Lampotang helped create 30 years ago, simple "crisis" ventilators can be built with parts from Home Depot, Ace or Lowe's hardware stores for less than $300. The "open-architecture" design can be downloaded anywhere and allows anyone to use locally-available parts if traditional parts can not be sourced. Doctors and engineers in Mauritius, Lampotang's native country, have already produced ventilators using his design.
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Welcome to a special two-part edition of Radio Cade . We'll be discussing COVID-19 and ventilators. In part one, we visit with Dr. Sem Lampotang and in part two, we visit with Dr. Richard Melker. We hope you enjoy the program. Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:53
Welcome to a special episode of Radio Cade . I'm your host, James Di Virgilio. Today we're going to be covering mechanical ventilation and its effect on the COVID-19 crisis. Mechanical ventilation is a lifesaving therapy that is used extensively and modern intensive care units. The origins of modern mechanical ventilation can be traced back five centuries ago to the seminal work of Andreas Vasilis, really the founder of modern human anatomy. My guest today is Dr. Sem Lampotang. He is the Joachim S. Gravenstein professor of anesthesiology at UF Health and the Director of the Center for Safety Simulation and Advanced Learning Technologies. Dr. Lampotang, welcome to the show.
Dr. Sem Lampotang: 1:33
Thank you.
James Di Virgilio: 1:35
Now your background is extensive. You have a PhD in engineering. You spent a lot of time dealing with patient safety, especially on the anesthesiology side, but today you've been working extensively on a mechanical ventilator. That is interesting for a lot of reasons. Tell us a bit about how this project came to be.
Dr. Sem Lampotang: 1:54
If you go way back, like 30 years ago, what we are building today, I actually designed 30 years ago together with two respiratory therapists, Michael Bonner and Paul Blanche at the University of Florida and our design was actually commercialized and used on patients in the United States by a Swiss company. The ventilator was called Hamilton Max. And what we're building today is essentially the Hamilton's Max, but we've paused from hardware stores. The reason we decided to use hardware store parts from my work 3 decades ago, with ventilated companies , we still have insider information being a good way about what's going on. So three, four weeks ago, before everybody else knew, we already knew that there would be no parts traditionally use to build ventilators. That's a problem GM is facing right now as they're trying to build ventilators. So when we were approached to design one to address that expected shortfall of ventilators, if we truly need a million, then the design style that we have , how do you build it? If your traditional supply chain is no longer available. And that's when the idea
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is hard to detect, and is sometimes called the "invisible injury." Ron Hayes and Nancy Denslow, both scientists at the McKnight Brain Institute and the founders of Banyan Biomarkers, have developed a blood-based test that will make TBI detection and treatment easier and faster. One potential application is to detect brain injury in newborn infants. This episode was originally released on April 1, 2020.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:41
This morning, we have Dr. Ron Hayes , one of the co-founders of Banyan Biomarkers with us. Welcome, Ron .
Ron Hayes: 0:46
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:47
So Ron , before we start talking about Banyan Biomarkers and what a biomarker is and what it does, tell us a little bit about yourself. Where were you from? Where'd you grow up and how did you decide to become a scientist?
Ron Hayes: 0:58
I grew up in Richmond, Virginia in the fifties at the time, it was a, quite a conservative time , uh , somewhat isolated, really a classic vision of the old Seth. My undergraduate major at the University of Richmond was classical languages. And , uh, then I did some graduate work in philosophy. So it's surprising sometimes to find myself , uh , here today. But if we want to elaborate at some point, I think it's been a benefit for me to have a liberal education.
Richard Miles: 1:30
Tell us a little bit about what you're like as a kid where you were very curious, sort of interested in everything. And when did you sort of know you wanted to gravitate towards a scientific field
Ron Hayes: 1:39
As a kid, I didn't know. I read voraciously wasn't , uh , much of a sports person. I, although I ultimately ended up playing competitive tennis later in life, but at that time I was really quite focused on reading
Richard Miles: 1:57
Really? Okay. Did you have a teacher that stood out or were either of your parents? So what did they do, were they scientist engineers, doctors?
Ron Hayes: 2:07
No, I was the first person in my family to go to college. They, they encouraged reading. Uh, they , uh, certainly liked to see me do it, but , uh, as I reflect, it was sort of a self-taught environment. And I read anything put in front of me.
Richard Miles: 2:25
Tell us a little bit now , uh, let's talk about biomarkers , uh, for folks who don't know what that means, what is a biomarker? How does it work?
Ron Hayes: 2:34
It's an indicator of , uh, the organic state of an individual or an animal that provides in a medical situation information on the health or the disease state of the person. And a biomarker can be a variety of different things. It could be information from the blood such as we use in, in, in our, or it could be an image of the body. It could be a recording of bodily activity, such as heart rate, but any of these things colle
Dr. Richard Melker holds 69 issued US Patents, with others pending, as well as hundreds of foreign patents. A University of Florida Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Melker has invented everything from disappearing sunscreen to a new type of oxygen saturation sensor. His first invention was an emergency airway, which is used primarily by the military and by EMT’s.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Serial inventors, I'm not talking about people who invented Cornflakes and Wheaties , but people who have lots and lots of ideas and patents, and today I'm pleased to welcome one such person, Richard Melker, a University of Florida, professor emeritus of anesthesiology who holds 69 issued U.S. patents with many others pending as well as hundreds of foreign patents. Welcome to Radio Cade, Dr. Melker. -Thank you so much for having me. Ok if I call you Richard? -Please, two Richards in the room here, what could go wrong? So Richard, you hold patents for everything from disappearing sunscreen to a new kind of oxygen saturation sensor. So, first thing I got to ask you are patents like kids, do you even have a favorite or do you just have to love all of them equally?
Dr. Richard Melker: 1:20
Patents are like kids. I have to love all of them equally. But, the reality is is that the patents that have resulted in medical devices are the most satisfying to me. Obviously, when you find out that you've invented something that a company starts to manufacture and people use it and it affects people's lives, particularly when it's saved somebodies life, that's the most satisfying thing of all. And over the years, I've gotten letters from people in the fields where I've invented technology thanking me, and there's nothing better than having that.
Richard Miles: 1:55
That's an interesting point, and I think maybe of interest to people who aren't as familiar with this world is that there may be a popular misconception that an inventor, when they get a patent, they already know exactly what that thing is going to be used for and how it's going to be applied. But very often the case is you're patenting a new process or a new technology or a new insight. And the end use of that may not be clear for quite some time. Is that more or less accurate?
Dr. Richard Melker: 2:18
I would think that somewhat accurate, in my case, usually when I conceive of a product and when you're inventing something, it's called the conception. When I conceive of it, I've already found out that there's something lacking in the medical field that there's a need for. So in my case, I think that I tell people that I get frustrated when I can't do something or help somebody. And therefore I conceive of something. And then we eventually develop the product and it's commercialized.
Richard Miles: 2:49
You usually have a fairly good idea in mind and what the end use is going to be when you're actually filing the patent?
Dr. Richard Melker: 2:54
In my case, I think that's true, of course, with many of my products once they're on the market
“Super tasters" are people who experience more intense sensations than others. Dr. Linda Bartoshuk is a University of Florida researcher who figured out how to identify super tasters by using “cross-modality” testing. For example, subjects are asked to compare the sweetness of a soft drink to the intensity of various sounds. Linda attributes her interest in taste research to the experience of seeing her father and brother suffer from cancer, which prevented them from being able to taste or enjoy most foods.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965 my name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Welcome to a bittersweet episode, also a sour and salty episode in which you will get a taste of a new method invented by a psychologist at the University of Florida. I'm Richard Miles. My guest today is Linda Bartoshuk, a researcher who discovered the concept of supertasters. Welcome to the show, Linda.
Linda Bartoshuk: 0:52
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:52
So Linda, I was going to offer you some Radio Cade coffee, but I'm suddenly afraid it will not measure up to your standards. So tell me, are people afraid when you come to their house for dinner? Do they order out all of a sudden? Is that a problem?
Linda Bartoshuk: 1:05
No, I never stopped to think about that. People do want to know if I'm a super taster and I have to tell them no, I'm not only not. I'm at the opposite end of the distribution.
Richard Miles: 1:15
So, so any listeners thinking of inviting Linda to dinner, you can relax and she won't show you up. So Linda, we usually start out each show by asking the inventor, entrepreneur or researcher to explain what the what is of what we're talking about. So why don't you give an explanation of what is a supertaster and how did you find out that they even exist?
Linda Bartoshuk: 1:35
Supertasters are people who experience more intense taste sensations than do others. That's the simple original definition of them. Then of course, we started to learn a lot about these people and one of the first things we learned was that they have more taste buds. Not surprising, I suppose more taste buds. They experience more intense taste , but not only do they have more taste buds, because of the anatomy of the tongue and because they're pain fibers in baskets around tastebuds , they also feel more pain in their mouth. And because the structures that hold the taste buds have touched fibers, they feel more touch. And one of the most important components of food is fat. And we perceive fat by touch. It's viscous, thick, creamy, oily. These are all touch sensations.
Richard Miles: 2:22
Do these people self identify? I mean, did you give surveys? How does somebody even know that they're super tasted ? Like most people think the way I taste or look as normal? How do they know that they're not normal?
Linda Bartoshuk: 2:32
That's an extremely good question because it gets to the heart of what was special about this work. How do we know if someone's a supertast
What is it like to grow up with an inventor as a dad? Phoebe Cade Miles, co-founder of the Cade Museum and daughter of Gatorade lead inventor Robert Cade, talks with James Di Virgilio about her father, his creative spirit, and what his creative legacy has inspired. Phoebe also explains the neuroscience of creativity, and how everyone - but especially kids - can wire their brains to be more inventive in life.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio:
For Radio Cade, I'm James Di Virgilio, and today we have a very special guest. Joining us in studio is Phoebe Miles, the co-founder and board president of the Cade Museum. Phoebe, welcome to your own podcast.
Phoebe Miles: 0:50
Thank you, James. It's a pleasure to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 0:52
And it's gonna be great. We have so many interesting to talk about. Let's start with the beginning for you because this really shapes your story. You grew up obviously with what became a very famous father, but I want to hear what it was like to grow up during what a lot of was a struggle with his innovation story. It was not a rosy success story. What's it like to grow up with an inventor as a father? especially one that was so influential.
Phoebe Miles: 1:17
Growing up with an inventor of as a father for me was an incredible experience, but I didn't realize it at the time. I just always grew up, and my father had invented Gatorade at the University of Florida, or he led the team that invented a Gatorade at the University of Florida. I grew up thinking everybody had access to this creativity and this energy, and this excitement about problem-solving in my childhood memory was as if every day my dad came home and there was something exciting that happened. I'm sure it wasn't like that in reality, but he would come home excited and motivated by problems and his ideas of how he is going to solve them. And by the time I came along, I'm the youngest of six children and a large family he had already investigated, and he had established his reputation of the University of Florida, and he had more flexibility, I think, with his time. And at that point my mom was very happy if I went with my dad to the lab or to research he was conducting at the University of Florida, track field So I was constantly surrounded by ideas and Just an excitement in a passion for science, for history, for creativity. My dad was the most creative person I've ever met.
James Di Virgilio: 2:21
Now, at this time in your life as a child, was your dad a celebrity? Were you sort of known in places you wonder? Or did you have a little anonymity?
Phoebe Miles: 2:29
I can't really answer that question because I was three years old when my father invented Gatorade, and I don't really ever remember a life when he hadn't done that. So certainly at that point it was already a known quantity here in Gainesville. But it was many years before became a national product and then an international product that it is today.
James Di Virgilio: 2:48
So at that point in time, you're just growing up like any other child with a father who does something.
Phoebe Miles: 2:52
James Di Virgilio talks to Daniel Barousse, the founder of Slice, a company that makes components for 3D printers that help improve their performance. Daniel and his co-founder Chris Montgomery literally started in a garage, tinkering their way to solutions to problems they encountered with 3D printers at work. In just over a year of existence, Slice is now distributing its product in 12 countries.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
For Radio Cade, I'm James de Virgilio. My guest today is Daniel Barousse. He is the CEO and co-founder of Slice Engineering. Daniel, welcome to the podcast.
Daniel Barousse: 0:48
Thanks for having me.
James Di Virgilio: 0:49
Now, it says on your website and elsewhere, that what you do is you supercharge 3D printer technology. What does that actually mean?
Daniel Barousse: 0:58
We're a manufacturer we design and manufacture components for 3D printers. Your PC has an Intel sticker on it. More than likely Intel makes the chip that goes inside of your computer, your , for your PC. So we're doing similar things for 3D printers. We're making components for 3D printers, specifically ones that help to improve the performance either with higher temperature materials or more capable engineering grade materials, or allow you to print faster, better resolution, things like that.
James Di Virgilio: 1:25
Well, let's talk about 3D printers for a second. This is a topic that confuses and confounds me. Cause when I think of 3D printer, I still think of like trying to print something out and now comes a sheet of paper with things on it. It's called a printer, but what really is a 3D printer? What is it capable of? Is the sky the limit here? I mean, what is this device that you're improving?
Daniel Barousse: 1:45
So one of the cool things about 3D printing is that you mentioned limits. Essentially the limit is sort of your imagination. Anything you can design on a computer with CAD, you can pretty much 3D print and turn into a physical object. So that's really the appeal, especially for like a DIY consumer type person. They've made me have an idea of, Oh, I want to create a new product or I want to just make a bracket for something in my garage. If you can think of it and design it in a computer, you can pull the real object in your hand within a few hours. So that's pretty amazing in terms of what it is. If you imagine plastic being on a spool, like a spool of thread, and then that plastic being fed through a hot glue gun, the hot glue gun would melt the plastic and then squirted out onto what's called the build plate or like a sheet of paper, basically where the object is being created. And instead of doing it in two dimensions, it builds it in three. So the build plate goes down or the hot glue gun it's called the hot end goes up and builds layer upon layer until you come out with a 3D object at the end.
James Di Virgilio: 2:45
So if I want to print a bumper for a car, this can be done?
Daniel Barousse: 2:49
Harold Fethe is the inventor of the Visual 360 Interface, a software tool to make rating employees more accurate and faster than traditional methods. Employees get to pick five colleagues who then rank the rated employees according to how they perform compared to other colleagues. Harold, an anthropologist by training, is also an accomplished jazz guitarist. “I use music analogies all the time,” he says. "Music is a phenomenon that has teamwork, underlying patterns with which you have to be competent, aesthetic decisions, and fairness.”
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Measuring employee performance. It's hard to do, or is it? I'm your host Richard Miles and today on Radio Cade , I'll be talking to Harold Fethe who has great experience in S and P 500 companies, also a founding principle at MindSolve Technologies and the inventor of the Visual 360 Interface. Welcome to the show Harold.
Harold Fethe: 0:55
Thank you. Good to see you.
Richard Miles: 0:57
So Harold , for a long time, listeners who have listened to every single one of the episodes, some of them may say, Hey, I've heard this before. And so I should mention to our listeners that this in fact is a companion episode to my interview last August with Jeff Lyons , another founding member of MindSolve. And I'm sure your accounts won't vary by one I owe it to Harold. You're going to completely corroborate each other's stories.
Harold Fethe: 1:21
Jeff and I can argue about whether it's a nice day.
Richard Miles: 1:24
He said you could provide an alibi. He didn't, you can say what that was in reference to.
Harold Fethe: 1:28
I love Jeff, we couldn't be better buddies. And thank you for that tee up.
Richard Miles: 1:31
So I encourage our listeners to go back and listen to that episode. It was a fun conversation August of 2019, entitled "Better Employee Evaluations" with Jeff Lyons . And if you don't like this episode, you're just not a lot of fun . I can't really help you as a listener, but anyway, Harold, let's get right into it. And let's start by talking about your invention of the Visual 360 Interface. If I were a brand new employee at your company or one of your former companies, and you were trying to explain it to me, what does it do? And how does it make your life and my life easier?
Harold Fethe: 2:00
Okay. So I'm going to speak to you that way. So I'm going to say, Richard, you just got here and you're going to be working closely with people. And when it comes time to do the performance measurement, you'll pick five or so people who work closely with you to evaluate your performance and you will be chosen by some people and you will evaluate their performance. And this is how we gather a consensus view because we're a very teamwork, dependent teamwork oriented organization. If people aren't collaborating faster than the competition, we're in trouble. And so this is how we make our performance measurement harmonious
Is food just food, or is there a power behind the experience of eating that can bring people together? Hirofumi Leung, the Founder of Dragonfly Restaurant Group, creates restaurants that push Japenese cuisine beyond sushi, creating authentic connections and shared moments. Hiro shares his secrets for how he created one of Florida's best restaurants.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Food. Does it talk back to you? Is it an experience or is it just something that we eat? For Radio Cade I'm James Di Virgilio. My guest today is Hirofumi Leung. He is the founder of the Dragonfly Restaurant Group locations, Gainesville, Orlando, Miami. Hiro, welcome to the show.
Hirofumi Leung: 0:56
Hey, thank you, James. Uh , yeah, I actually love what you just said. Food talking back to you.
James Di Virgilio: 1:00
I stole it from you, which is a good opener because as we were discussing before the show, food, as you envision, it has a lot more to do with just something on your plate that you are eating. Some people view food as just performance material. It's bland. I don't need it. I just want it to fuel my body. You on the other hand, see it very differently.
Hirofumi Leung: 1:19
Absolutely. I'm growing up in Asia. My parents were always in my family were always about food. I come from a culture where family meal really meant putting food in the center of the table. And we deliberately, instead of eating individual meals in front of you, we would put food in the middle of the table. And in order for you to get your food, you had to reach over and ask people and create these interactions and meaningful conversations. And so from an early age on food really met a connection with people rather than the food that you're eating, but it helped the food tastes good.
James Di Virgilio: 1:50
So you grew up in a culture around food, and then you're in Gainesville, Florida. And now you started a restaurant that primarily focused on Asian cuisine, raw foods, raw materials at the time. Was there such an offering in Gainesville?
Hirofumi Leung: 2:05
No, not really. There was just the average restaurant. When I first started, I was going to school at University of Florida and , uh , like many people who didn't have a lot of money to go to. You had to go work part time. So I was working at a part time restaurant and it was very transactional. You serve tables and you bring food out and you say goodbye. And that was it. I actually had a business plan exercise from my class and I put together a whole experiential component of that business presented to the business owner. And at the time she just ran her restaurant for 10 years as a mom and pop. She just told me, Hey, you're I really appreciate you doing this, but I'm actually not trying to add on extra work. And so I put it back on the shelf and collected dust for a couple more years until I had the energy or a life changing moment when I was unemployed and said, Hey, look, I either go do something or continue on this path of just chilling out and just hanging out on my brother's couch. So we act
Cannabis and hemp. For years those substances operated in the shadows, and today they are at the center of a growing multibillion-dollar industry. How do you know what’s in them, and if they do the things they are supposed to do? Richard Miles interviews Adam Christensen, CEO of Botanica Testing, a company that tests cannabidiol and hemp.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:31
Cannabis and hemp. For years, those substances operated in the shadows today. They're at the center of a rapidly growing multibillion-dollar industry. How do we know what's in them? And if they do the things they're claimed to do, I'm your host, Richard Miles. And today on Radio Cade, I have Adam Christensen, CEO of Botanica Testing a company that tests CBD and hemp. Welcome to Radio Cade, Adam.
Adam Christensen: 0:59
Thanks. I'm happy to be here.
Richard Miles: 1:01
Adam, I'd like to start with basic definitions and explanations of how things actually work. I don't want to assume that all of our listeners sort of know everything there is to know about CBD and hemp. So why don't we talk about what is the difference between cannabis and hemp? A lot of people think they know, but they don't. So they use it interchangeably for marijuana. Why don't you give us a little basic chemistry lesson and tell us what are the main differences?
Adam Christensen: 1:23
So when it comes to plants, we have these things called chemo types, which is basically what are the main compounds in our plants. And so you have plants like lavender oil or peppermint or Rosemary. And now there are about five different kinds of Rosemary plant variations out there that are commercially sold. When it comes to cannabis, there's about seven or eight different main chemo types that we're talking about. But one that most people know and is becoming very popular is the difference between hemp and marijuana. And so when we talk about chemo types or the main compound in these plants, we're talking about two different compounds. One would be THC, and the other would be CBD now for the plants that you would associate with college or your downtime, those would be the high THC varieties, which are psychoactive. And so that would be the association that you get with being high. Now, in most of these plants, they started off as an acid form. And when the heat or time are introduced, that's when they convert over and they lose the acid part of the compounds. And so they go from THCA to THC, which is why, when you are smoking marijuana, you need to light it. So you introduce heat and then you get the psychoactive effects. Now in the products that we test, we are testing the chemo type of CBD, which is a non-psychoactive compound, which has been found to be helpful with a variety of conditions, as well as symptoms. And so for CBD, when you introduce heat, it goes from CBDA to CBD. And so those are the products now that are becoming widely available on the market, simply because they don't have any psychoactive effects. And the levels of THC in them are negligible so that you could technically smoke hemp all day long and never feel the high effect .
Richard Miles: 3:17
Technology and farming always have mixed well in the United States, but in many other countries, particularly in the underdeveloped world, it’s a different story. Why does it matter, and what can be done about it? Richard Miles interviews Gbola Adesogan, Director of the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Technology and farming always has mixed well in the United States, but in many other countries, particularly in the underdeveloped world, it's a different story. Why does it matter and what can be done about it? I'm your host, Richard Miles, and today on radio Cade, I'm pleased to welcome Gbola Adesogan, a professor at the University of Florida and director of the livestock systems innovation lab at the university's Institute of food and agricultural sciences, otherwise known as IFAS. Welcome to Radio Cade, Gbola.
Gbola Adesogan: 1:05
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 1:06
So, Gbola, you develop technologies that improve livestock production in eight African and Asian countries, and this is paid for in part by the U.S. government. So I think the first thing we need to explain to our listeners is why is a university in North central Florida working on improving agricultural technologies in African nation ?
Gbola Adesogan: 1:25
Okay, thank you for that question. And thank you for this opportunity. I think we're all aware about a growing global population, the problems of poverty and hunger, and in many countries, what many of us may not be aware of is the problem of hidden hunger, which is when people lack certain nutrients in their diets that prevent them from reaching their potential. And this malnutrition deficiency or stunting is something which is prevalent in many developing countries. And we have come to realize the research has shown that a deficiency of these certain key nutrients causes lifelong problems. It's Tom's physical development, as well as cognitive development. So children are less able to do well in school. Their test scores are much lower. Their IQs are much lower and more susceptible to diseases and so on. And we have come to realize that the nutrients which are missing in the diets of those children, which caused this problem are present in livestock products. And we have a longstanding department of animal sciences and a community at UF, a community of researchers who have experience in developing technologies that can help to prevent this problem, improve livestock production, improve the supply of these missing nutrients in the diet. So we, as a team of , uh , several faculty across different units at the University of Florida, most of us from IFAS, collectively submitted a proposal to manage this livestock systems innovation lab, which has at its core, a vision to sustainably intensify livestock production, so that we can improve the nutrition, the health, the incomes, and the livelihoods of the poor in these eight countries.
Richard Miles: 3:14
If we could define livestock, is it just large animals are talking about or does go al
In 1969, Professor Larry Hench developed a glass that can grow with bones. His close friend and colleague, David Greenspan, helped Professor Hench develop the material into BioGlass, a product that is used in orthopedic and dental bone graft materials. David, a native of Brooklyn, wanted to be a drummer but turned to glass blowing instead. His big insight into entrepreneurship? “Never lie to yourself.” This episode was originally released on September 25, 2018.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James, Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Glass that lives. That's the subject of our Radio Cade podcast today and in the studio with me, I have David Greenspan. David, welcome.
David Greenspan: 0:47
Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here and it's great to see the Cade Museum alive and well.
Richard Miles: 0:52
Thank you. Thank you. All right. Before we talk about you, David, which is, I know probably your favorite subject, right? Of course. Let's tell the listeners a bit about BioGlass, which is the invention that you're associated with. Just explain to me in very simple terms, what is the core technology underneath it and sort of how does it work and then we'll come back later and talk about the applications in the market and that sort of stuff.
David Greenspan: 1:15
Bioglass is a bio material and there are lots of biomaterials you can think of. Metals for hips, knees, materials for wound healing, gauze, bandages, all biomaterials heart valves, some are synthetic some are natural. Bioglass is a form of glass and of course glass itself as a chemistry has lots of different compositions, lots of different properties within that category. BioGlass is unique because when it's implanted, and originally it was used as a bone regenerative material. When it's implanted in bone, it actually reacts like sugar dissolves. Well, much more slowly BioGlass the atoms, the Ions in BioGlass will react and actually stimulates bone healing and that was the core Aha moment.
Richard Miles: 2:05
I see.
David Greenspan: 2:06
So basically that was the concept and the original material and from that and from learning about how this glass reacts and how you could change the composition slightly and change, the reactions, the field kind of broadened out into applications well beyond just trying to help bone healing.
Richard Miles: 2:25
So that sounds both fascinating and incredibly complicated at the same time because unlike what your earlier examples about a metal hip, there you're basically just taking an object, sticking it in the body and it replaces the previous object, but BioGlass really sounds quite different in that it is actually interacting with the body itself.
David Greenspan: 2:44
Yeah, it is different and when professor Larry Hinch actually invented the material, the first experiments, and he had a whole series of thought processes, which actually we can explore that, but it actually wasn't... she wasn't... I'm going to make a material that's going to bond to bone. It was I'm going to make a more compatible material that we can put in the body. There's a great quote by Isaac Asimov that I'm going to butcher right now, but basically he said the most profound moment in science is not "Eureka",
Jonelle Toothman has done a lot. A former Division 1 soccer player, Journalism major, and Army brat, she also co-founded NextGen Biologics and became its CEO. The company uses salamander tissue as an architecture for regenerative medicine to help burn victims and help repair wounds. As far as other applications, Jonelle says "our imagination is our only limitation." This episode was originally released on September 25, 2018.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James, Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
This morning we have our guest Jonelle Toothman, who is the co-founder and chief executive officer at NextGen Biologics. Welcome, Jonelle.
Jonelle Toothman: 0:47
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:48
So before we talk about NextGen and what it is you do and invented, tell me a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? Where'd you grow up? What were you like, what did parents do, tell us everything that you want to tell us about.
Jonelle Toothman: 1:00
So I am a very high energy, high passion, extremely outgoing, and I grew up and was born in Germany.
Richard Miles: 1:10
Germany. Why, Germany?
Jonelle Toothman: 1:13
Why Germany, my Dad is retired Air Force, so we did a little bit of moving around as a child.
Richard Miles: 1:18
Uh, where in Germany?
Jonelle Toothman: 1:21
Zweibrücken.
Richard Miles: 1:22
Okay. There's a big airbase there, right?
Jonelle Toothman: 1:23
There is.
Richard Miles: 1:24
Okay. And you're there just as an infant or how many years were you in Germany?
Jonelle Toothman: 1:30
A young child. We left there when I was five.
Richard Miles: 1:31
Okay. Um, and so as you're growing up what sort of inspired you to become a CEO? Did you ever even think about it or what were you like as a kid?
Jonelle Toothman: 1:40
I'm still trying to figure out how that title is where I'm at right now. As a kid, I really... all I cared about was being outdoors and playing sports. I, uh, was outside from dusk till dawn and all I wanted to do is play soccer. So, the passion really came later in life after my sister actually passed away of brain cancer.
Richard Miles: 2:06
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Jonelle Toothman: 2:07
So my sophomore year in college she had a devastating disease that only allowed her to live 18 months after finding out that she was diagnosed with brain cancer. And during that time in college, I kind of evaluated what I was doing with my life and where I was going and what the opportunities were.
Richard Miles: 2:25
What were you studying at the time, Jonelle?
Jonelle Toothman: 2:27
I was a journalism major.
Richard Miles: 2:29
Journalism, okay.
Jonelle Toothman: 2:29
So I thought I wanted to do sports broadcasting. That was kind of my thought and ambition at the time.
Richard Miles: 2:34
And you got a degree in journalism?
Jonelle Toothman: 2:36
Journalism and m
“Head, Heart, Hands, and Health,” otherwise known as 4-H, is all about developing young people, a mission that overlaps with the Cade Museum. Host Richard Miles talks with Jennifer Sirangelo, President and CEO of the National 4-H Council about 4-H’s key role in promoting agricultural innovation in the U.S. for almost 120 years. Partnering with a national network of agricultural extension offices created by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, 4-H discovered that young people are early adopters of technology and great change agents in a pivotal part of the economy. Today 4-H works in many different areas, including STEM education and civics.
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:02
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Head, heart, hands, and health, otherwise known as 4H, is all about developing and mentoring, young people. Something we here at Radio Cade and the Cade Museum are also into, in a big way. This morning, I have the pleasure of talking to Jennifer Sirangelo, President and CEO of the National Forage Council, and also a good friend. Welcome to Radio. Cade, Jennifer. -Thank you, Richard. So, first of all, thank you for making the arduous journey to Northcentral Florida from Chevy Chase, Maryland. I know it took you several layers to get here and appreciate that. Not as many black-tie dinners here, but the boiled peanuts are much better.
Jennifer Sirangelo: 1:13
Thanks for inviting me. I'm really happy to be here in Florida today.
Richard Miles: 1:16
So, Jennifer, we usually start out the show talking about the actual invention or the actual business. And in this case, instead of an invention, it's actually an organization. So why don't we start by you telling me and our audience about 4H and why don't we start with the history? You know, where was it developed? Why and what was so rough timeframe?
Jennifer Sirangelo: 1:34
Well, 4H started in 1902 and there's actually a dispute between Iowa 4H and Ohio 4H about exactly where it started, whether it was with A.B. Graham, or with Jesse Field Shamba, but both of them were leaders in cooperative extension and agricultural education at the time and realized that when it comes to innovation and new technology, young people are typically more open to adapting and trying new things than some of the adults, at least in agriculture at the time that were ready for it. So, it was a important time in our country in 1902 and in the early 1900s, when we were really figuring out how are we going to feed our growing population? And so, having young people try all the new technology going on at the universities at the time was a really important way to get the innovation and the new techniques out there in use.
Richard Miles: 2:34
So this was everything I imagined from the internal combustion engine, right? I mean, you started going towards machines, but also new agricultural, new fertilizers, new seeding , that sort of stuff. Is that what we're talking about?
Jennifer Sirangelo: 2:44
Right. Right. So, just a little bit more of the history, so 4H is the youth development program of the Nations Cooperative
Our 2019 Cade Prize winners, Greg Hudalla and Ben Keselowsky, have invented a new way to control inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. The method uses natural enzymes to suppress inflammation at the source, without the harmful side effects of medications. Ben, a native of Tampa and a graduate of the University of South Florida, always enjoyed science and math and was inspired by his high school physics teacher. Greg, originally from Chicago, became interested in medicine after a serious knee accident at 18 ended his collegiate athletic career. This episode was originally released on May 22, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Weekend warriors rejoice, your bad knees are about to get better. That is if the breakthrough by our guests today becomes widely available. People suffering from arthritis will have a brighter future. And before I mangle any more metaphors, welcome my guests, Greg Hudalla and Ben Keselowsky, both professors in biomedical engineering at the University of Florida. Welcome Greg and Ben .
Ben Keselowsky: 0:57
Hi.
Greg Hudalla: 0:57
Hi.
Richard Miles: 0:58
So this is actually personal for me because I've been a lifelong runner and just last year found out I have osteoarthritis, a word I couldn't even pronounce six months ago, much less define. So in between icing my knee and stretching, spending a lot of time at the physical therapist office, I come across your application of the Cade Prize. And so after the show, you'll both lay hands on me and I'll be good to go, right? It's simple, a few needles might be evolved , right ? So let's explain for our listeners in simple terms, what is the problem that you're trying to solve? And how does your invention do that?
Ben Keselowsky: 1:29
Our mission is to control inflammatory disease and we're motivated by the fact that inflammation underlies the onset, the progression and the pain associated with numerous diseases that affect millions of people. And so osteoarthritis is one of these that we're particularly interested in, in the U.S. 13% of the population is afflicted. That's over 40 million people with direct healthcare costs of over $80 billion per year. Current technologies include steroids and antibodies, and they're injected into the bloodstream and they're distributed throughout the body. And they're associated with terrible side effects, including infection, lymphoma, diabetes, and weight gain. And our technology works at the site of inflammation and it uses natural mechanisms that suppress inflammation. And so, we use an enzyme called IDO, Indoleamine dioxygenase, it breaks down an essential amino acid, tryptophan, into its product [inaudible] . And those two mechanisms, the local depletion of tryptophan and production of [inaudible] work together to quiet down inflammation. And so being able to suppress that inflammation allows tissue to return to healthy function.
Greg Hudalla: 2:51
So the key challenge for us when we began developing this technology was coming up with a strategy to place IDO at the site action and have
Tony Barr has invented several computer programming languages, including the Statistical Analysis System, better known as SAS. He describes the concept of language, as “a mental model to think about the world.” Tony believes he has found the “concept of a concept” that will enable his new language, AMORE, to “redefine computer science.” As a child, he “lived inside his head,” and “never got any support from teachers.” Tony’s mother was “a brilliant person” and his grandfather held a patent on making ice cubes. His words of wisdom, “share the credit, but also take the credit.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Amore in Italian, it means love. And it's a title of many, a song it's also an acronym for a model of reality and you computer programming language. I'm your host Richard Miles today on Radio Cade. My guest is Tony Barr, a distinguished inventor of other programming languages, such as the Statistical Analysis Systems, SAS, and Acme, the automated classification of medical entities. He holds four U.S. patents and is considered one of the world's experts on programming languages. Welcome to the show.
Tony Barr: 1:05
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 1:06
So if we talk about everything that you know, and every technology you've developed, this would probably be a six to eight hour podcast series, and we'd have to order in lunch and sleeping bags and everything else. So we're going to start out at the ground, and that is, let's start about the concept of language itself, because you have developed programming languages for computers, but really programming languages , just another language, right? So why don't we start at the conceptual level about the function of language, and then we'll move from there to how you have interpreted those functions in your various inventions from SAS on up to a model of reality. Language, what is it for? What do we use it for? Why is it important? How do you think about language?
Tony Barr: 1:45
Language is the way we represent knowledge, the way we communicate knowledge, I actually go one step further beyond language. I think we have mental models in our mind that enable us to think about the world. We build models of organizations called enterprise models that drive the world. The government's got the biggest model in the world. Every business has a model. The museum has got its model for its customers and its exhibits and who their vendors are. We build models to think about the world, to understand the world. Language is a medium to communicate models. And it's my thesis. That the way we represent things in our mind is very similar to the way we represent things in the computer. And my hope is to unify the way we think about the mind, the way we think about the computer. So we have a uniform model, a simpler model for the world to live in. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could, at the age of 12 learn model of reality. Inside it would be mathematics and logic. It would also be the way the computers work. It could give you the insight is the way you separate the concepts from the objects in the world. And this woul
Alex De Quesada Sr. is the classic American success story. Unable to complete medical school in Castro’s Cuba, he moved to the U.S. “with $5” in his pocket and ended up at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. In 1965, he joined the team in Gainesville that invented Gatorade and was given the task of researching “everything in the library about sweat.” Later in life, he helped found the LifeLink, a Tampa foundation that is one of the largest organ transplant institutions in the United States. Listen to guest host and fellow Cuban Randy Batista interview Dr. De Quesada in Radio Cade’s first Spanish-language episode.
Our food is brought to us from ever-increasing distances, but is this best for us? Anna Prizzia, the Founder of Working Food, views food as an entire ecosystem that must be cared for from seed to plate, farmer to consumer. Prizzia tells us why she set out to make food more local, creating a community utilizing collaboration, economic opportunity, education, and seed stewardship.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:39
Food. Where does it come from? Do you know where it's coming from? Is it local? Is it coming from across the world? Today's guest, Anna Prizzia, is someone who can help us solve that problem. It's become obviously much more of a hot button issue and hot button topic. And today we're going to dive in and explore, where does your food come from? From seed to the table who are the major players involved in those things? And how can we improve that process? Not only for health, but also for the community. For Radio Cade , I'm James Di Virgilio, my guest, Anna Prizzia the Director of Working Food. Anna , welcome to the show.
Anna Prizzia: 1:11
Thanks for having me.
James Di Virgilio: 1:12
So take us through this process when I was looking through working food and what it does and what it once was, there's so many things you do. Kind of walk us through the overall mission and then problem that you're solving in the community.
Anna Prizzia: 1:25
Sure. So working food is really seeking to sort of be a hub for local food systems, activities from seed to plate. So that's why we have so many things going on. We're really trying to take a comprehensive look at what's going on with our food system and not be the solution to all the problems or trying to address every piece of the system, but to be a go to place for people, to connect with resources in the community on local food, and definitely try to tackle some of the big issues and challenges we have here early on, because in much of the country, people have really taken up local food and food security and things of that nature as a big part of the work they're doing. And we found here in Florida and particularly in Alachua County, we're still struggling with those issues, but more and more, we're seeing local food nonprofits pop up and community organizations take it up. So we're excited. And for us, we do a number of things. One is saving seeds, seeds are the literal foundation of our food systems. So we want to make sure that we're protecting seeds that are adapted to our climate and our region and our tastes and our culture. And so we do that and then we provide those to our community. We also want to make sure people understand where their food comes from and how to cook food, why food is important to our bodies and to our culture. So we have lots of events and programs, and we do a youth garden in two different community centers on a weekly basis to connect students and kids, to gardening and food. And also for the fun that it is to be able to eat healthy and grow it yourself. And then we touch the economic side of things. So we actually incubate food entrepreneurs and we help those food entrepreneurs start businesses less by renting space from us by the hour and hel
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. Michael Bass, a professor at the University of Central Florida, is the holder of 34 patents and a 2019 inductee in the Florida Inventors’ Hall of Fame. Bass invented ways to use lasers to treat bleeding in the gastrointestinal system, detect nanoparticles associated with tumors, and amplify light in fiberoptic cables.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Lasers. No scifi movie can do without them, but it turns out they're good for lots of other things, including the treatment of tumors and advanced communications networks. Welcome to Radio Cade . I'm your host Richard Miles recording at the University of South Florida in partnership with our Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, as well as USF today. My guest is Michael Bass, professor Ameritas at the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is also the holder of 34 U.S. patents as well as a 2019 inductee into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Welcome to show Michael and congratulations.
Michael Bass: 1:11
Oh, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
Richard Miles: 1:14
So we usually start out the show explaining the inventors technology, but you've got 34 patents. So I'm sort of at a loss where to begin here, but why don't we start with a very basic definition of lasers and the types of things they can be use for, and then we'll move from there and to specific applications that are contained in some of your patents.
Michael Bass: 1:32
Sure. First, a laser is a device that produces a lot of light. It also produces it with very special properties so that you can focus it very carefully and you can select from a variety of lasers to be able to look at different kinds of effects, some effects depend on frequency or wavelength of the laser. Some activities you want to do require shorter pulses. We now have lasers that run continuously and yet other lasers that make pulses as short as 10 to the minus 15 seconds.
Richard Miles: 2:05
Wow. Okay. So there's a lot of power there and a lot of utility and you have managed to figure out a number of different ways in which is sort of harness the power of lasers to do different things that I think people wouldn't ordinarily think of. And I think one of the cool things about talking about inventions is not just the inventions themselves, but how did the inventor think of them? So let's start out with one that I've heard you talk about, and that is using lasers to treat bleeding in the gastrointestinal system. How did you come up with that idea? What led you to that particular use?
Michael Bass: 2:37
All inventions begin with a question in this case, the question was raised to me by two people who are gastroenterologists at the university of Southern California Medical School. They had been using fiber optic endoscopes and could see pathologies bleeding and ulcers in the gastrointestinal system. And the comment both made was it's very frustrat
Animator Chance Glasco is famous for his work on video games, most notably the Call of Duty Franchise. His newest venture, Doghead Simulations, is using Virtual Reality to replace and improve conference calls, video calls, and screen sharing. Imagine being worlds apart, yet able to meet together face to face, sharing data and information in real-time, through a virtual reality environment that works across a variety of platforms and operating systems.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida , the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:38
I'm James de Virgilio in for Richard Miles . And today I get a chance to talk with a rather famous, and I heard you said this in a podcast Chance, a famous, but maybe not famous on the street, developer who's now doing some really interesting things. His name is Chance Glasco. He's sitting down with me here at the Cade Museum, and we're going to talk about a couple of things today, a Chance. Let me give you your bio. You're the Co-founder of Infinity War, that's what you're famous for, which produced Call of Duty and the really good Call of Duty games. I think it's important to say in there , and then you are now the Co - founder since 2016 of Doghead Simulations. And we're going to spend quite a bit of time talking about this today. What, first of all, why start Doghead? You were in Brazil for a while . You had kind of given yourself a little mental space. Why come back with this project?
Chance Glasco: 1:25
So after , um, 13 years of Call of Duty, 15 years of the game industry, I was just burned out. As you probably heard. The game industry is a lot of hours, a lot of crunching late nights. Yeah. They feed you, but you're there 12 hours a day, sometimes six days a week, and whatnot, it just kind of takes a toll on you. And you, you know, at a certain point, doesn't matter how much someone pays you. If you can't enjoy your life, what does it matter? Right. And so I guess I kind of pulled like a Dave Chappelle in a sense , right. I just kind of left the country and went to another place, which was Brazil , uh, lived there for , uh , overall, I close to three years, about two years in Rio and then , uh, six months or so, and , um , San Paulo and , uh , yeah , just enjoyed it and just kind of relaxed, recovered, and started working on a VR project remotely with a buddy of mine, Albert Perez, who's another Co - founder of Doghead. He was in Seattle, I was in Rio and we were working on this game called Bear Tinder. And it was actually a , um, animal bartending game. You're in virtual reality, you're a bear. And then animals come in and they order drinks and you actually reach behind you, grab the bottle, you know, and grab everything, start mixing stuff, get points, serve them. And eventually ended up with just this crazy drunk animal bar. So like, why am I not doing a drunk animal game now? Well, investors, would probably be the correct answer, right? You're a money guy. So, you know, like if someone came to you, with the background of Call of Duty is like, Hey, I've got this great idea. You can get drunk with a goat and a chinchilla in VR, or, Hey, I've got this idea that can revolutionize communication education. Like the investors are going to go with the second choice, most likely.
James Di Virgilio: 2:55
Probiotics for plants? Paul Zorner, CEO of Locus Agricultural Solutions in San Diego, explains how bacteria and fungi help plants grow faster and pull more carbon dioxide out of the air. Even better, agricultural companies that use probiotics see a 200% return on investment in crop yields and use fewer fertilizers. Paul grew up on a farm and “hated it” but later began to see the beauty in the natural world.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Probiotics for plants, they make plants healthier, more productive, and better able to take carbon out of the atmosphere. I'm your host Richard Miles today on Radio Cade . My guest is Paul Zorner, CEO of Locus Agricultural Solutions based in San Diego. Welcome to Radio Cade, Paul.
Paul Zorner: 0:54
Thank you, Richard. It's a pleasure.
Richard Miles: 0:55
So Paul, before we talk about plants, let's talk about probiotics. I think most people have heard of them and know in a vague way that they are somehow good for us, but explain what probiotics actually are and what their function is.
Paul Zorner: 1:09
Great . Well , I , most people have seen lots of information on probiotics for humans. They occupy our intestines and they regulate all kinds of things from our immune health to our nutrient status, to even our mood and plants are no different. But in this case, probiotics for plants are our live organisms, bacteria and fungi that live in the roots of plants and they perform the same function for that plant, that microbes in our intestines serve for us. They make the plant's immune system better. They help it take up nutrients from the soil and they allow it to grow faster, better produce more food. And in this particular case to turn the plant into an increased carbon pump, a stronger carbon pump in terms of pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turning it into sugars that ultimately get turned into carbon down in the soil, which is a wonderful thing, especially in this day and age where we're so worried about global warming.
Richard Miles: 2:00
So Paul, is there a way to precisely measure the increase in all these good things like the increase in the plan , how the productivity and the ability to take carbon out of the air ? I imagine that you can do a before and after without probiotics and nose width. Is it that refined?
Paul Zorner: 2:15
Absolutely . And generally when we put trials out, we focus on, on agronomic performance owners. We work with growers and we work in Florida with , with citrus growers, for example, and we'll generally put this out to their micro sprinklers and drip irrigation systems to get it out of the root. Then we compare a treatment with our probiotic against what we call grower practice, whatever the grower is doing. We bolted onto that and we take a look at the increased growth of the plant, more leads, greener leads. And then ultimately what's important is the yield of the, of the citrus. None of the disease, getting more cases of citrus growers is more pound solid, more fruits and more sugar and things that are valuable to h
How do ranchers know if their cows are healthy? One way is to use a quick and easy blood test to measure the strength of cows’ immune systems, a method that avoids the overuse of antibiotics. The test was invented by Treen Huo, a professor at the University of Central Florida and twice a Cade Prize finalist. Treen, who grew up on a farm in China said she was a very curious kid. “To keep me out of trouble, “ Treen recalls, "my father had me learn music, painting, and Kung-Fu. I run my research like a piece of art, and my training in these things taught me to be tough and persistent.”
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Is your cow healthy? Not a question most people ask themselves, but if you own a lot of cattle, you think about it every day. If only there were a blood test to measure the strength of your cows immune systems, spoiler alert, there is. I'm your host, Richard Miles, and today on Radio Cade, my guest is Treen Huo, a professor at the University of Central Florida and the founder of Nano Discovery. Welcome to the show, Treen.
Treen Huo: 1:02
Hi Richard, Uh , thank you. Uh, it's a real pleasure to be here.
Richard Miles: 1:06
So Treen, we usually start out each show by asking the inventor or the entrepreneur to explain the actual technology, what it is and what it does. And maybe you've heard the phrase that person's all hat and no cattle. Well, I don't have a hat or any cattle, so you really have to start with the basics for me. Um , why don't we start with what kind of diseases do cattle get and , and how do ranchers currently deal with that problem?
Treen Huo: 1:31
So basically , um, I always say infectious diseases, they infection by bacterial viruses, parasites , uh, is the biggest problem for the cattle health. And because animals are not like a humans, so they don't talk, so when they're sick, we don't know. So how do you find out that ? I mean, by the time you find out one or two calves or cows are dead, you know, there's something wrong with your herd . So that's when the farm owners started to suspect that there's a disease because they're all all together in the ranch, or in the farms. So they basically spread of the diseases are very fast . So now there are a couple of things is the ones that are sick, how can you identify them as quick as possible? So we can treat the sick ones and the prevented the disease to further spread to the other cattle. And the secondary thing is just like a human, and so just like us and the animal was a better immune health. They're going to be more disease resistant. So infectious disease , basically pretty much any infectious disease, it has everything to do is with immune health. And if you have a good immune health, you'll be better, you'll be more resistant to the disease. So really what we are trying to do is to help the farmers to , uh , look at the immune activity and also the status of the animal, so say we from the data, we would know, Oh yeah, this kind of this cow, this calf has a better immune system or the other calf currently has an active immune response. So we suspected the calf is sick right now. So this is what we are trying to have a
Running shoe technology hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years. Cyle Sage of On shoes, a 2011 Cade Prize finalist, explains how On shoes “roll and stop,” offering both vertical and horizontal cushioning. Cyle, a former triathlete and coach, partnered with a Swiss engineer in 2003 to design and market the shoes to take on the shoe industry giants. In the last few years On also has become the “it” shoe among celebrities, turning up on red carpets as well as running trails.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors, and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Some are going to have their head in the clouds and it turns out they can have their feet there as well. Here to join me in the cloud is Cyle Sage, one of the first employees of On, a running shoe company and also the person who brought On to the United States. Welcome to Radio Cade . Cyle.
Cyle Sage: 0:53
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:53
So, Cyle, I think the last time I saw you was in 2011, when On, or the shoes from On was named a Cade price , sweet 16 finalist.
Cyle Sage: 1:02
That's right.
Richard Miles: 1:02
Like just yesterday. Right? So before we get too far into this, let's start for our listeners talking about the technology itself in On, and as we said, it is a running shoe. And so I think most people are familiar with running shoes or traditional running shoes. You know, it's , it's extra padding, it's a bigger heel. It's basically meant right? To cushion the blow from running. So how is On different from those types of shoes that have been around now? What, since the early seventies, the Nike's and the Adidas's and why are they better than say a Nike?
Cyle Sage: 1:32
That's a great question. And running shoe technology hasn't changed much in the last 30 years, and yet you would think it would, but running injuries are not decreasing either. So because it's all based on a traditional solid midsole and the Swiss engineer that I came in contact with in 2003, he was down in Florida, he was running on a beach side of the road and he noticed his legs weren't as tired when he ran on the beach side of the road is when he ran inland and it was running in a regular pair of shoes. And he thought, well, I must be rolling on those sand grains and coming to a stop. So if I can come up with a cushioning system that rolls and stops, in other words, it cushions vertically and horizontally two directions. He might have something that people would love. So that's the start of it. So seven years later On started, and it's a cushion landing and affirm takeoff , but it cushions in two directions. And it also the shoe of lets your foot roll naturally heel to toe.
Richard Miles: 2:34
So you have a pair in the studio here and we're , we're both looking at it and , um, I'll do my best to describe it for listeners without benefits of a visual. The best way I could describe it, visually is almost looked like a tank tread except without the wheels in the middle. So it's sort of the shape of a tread. And then they're on the bott
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.S. torpedos from German radio jamming. The technology was the forerunner of “spread spectrum" which is now used in GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi. She was recently inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, an award accepted by her son Anthony Loder, who talks about her life’s triumphs and sorrows.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:36
What do Hollywood, the German Navy, And the Cuban missile crisis have to do with each other? Turns out they're all linked by one person. Hedy Lamarr known in the 1930s and 1940s as the world's most beautiful woman and recently inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Welcome to Radio Cade, I'm your host Richard Miles today. My guest is Anthony Loder , the son of Hedy Lamarr. Welcome to the show, Anthony, and congratulations.
Anthony Loder: 1:00
Thank you very much.
Richard Miles: 1:01
So Anthony, your mother was both a famous actress and an inventor, and I'd like to talk about the actress part, but I'd like to begin actually with the scientist part, many people do not know, although recently it's become more public through books and movies and documentaries that she was a scientist and an inventor. So why don't we start and talk about what her invention was or what her patent was and what it's been used for and so on.
Anthony Loder: 1:25
So Hitler invaded, Austria Hedy's Homeland, and she grew up very happy there. And she had to flee because of all the negativity that was surrounding her. So she actually dressed up like the maid, escaped her possessive husband and left Vienna for Paris and then Paris for London. And then she bought a ticket on the Normandy to go to New York where she met Louis B. Mayer , who was in Europe, looking for fresh talent, fresh meat, for his stables, for his race horses back in Hollywood. And Hedy became a race horse, and she had to run fast in order to keep on board. And when she started, her look started to fade, they kind of threw her out. But early on when she was there, World War II was raging. And she always knew about munitions and problems with radio guided torpedoes because she was with her husband who sold munitions to the Germans. And she always knew about this problem about radio guided torpedoes, and it always stuck with her. And she always wanted to help defeat Hitler and help the allies and United States win the war. She was very patriotic. She loved America. She loved being safe. She loved being in tropical Hollywood and she wanted to pay back. So she always thought about what can I do to help win this war? And then she at home and she probably thought of frequency hopping because she had one of these Philco magic radios where you turn the dial on your Philco magic dialer. And it changed the radio station on the radio in the next room. So she , well look, I'm changing radio frequencies constantly here. What if we send a signal to a torpedo and not send it on one frequency, but send it on multiple frequencies in sync with each other. So only the transmitter
James Bates is bursting with creativity. A professor, sports broadcaster, and artist, Bates, a former college football player, “feels blessed” with three "dream jobs." As a child and through college, all he wanted to be was an NFL star, a desire nurtured by his football coach father. Though some scratch their heads at his change from the pigskin to the paintbrush, Bates says he wants to make other people happy through his art. He advises students to “take their work seriously, but not themselves.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
James Di Virgilio: 0:37
What do you think of when you think of an artist, a football player? Probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. My guest today is James Bates, a national champion in college football whose creativity has flourished during and since his playing days, I'm James Di Virgilio, James Bass thanks for joining us.
James Bates: 0:54
I like that. Thanks, James. Good to be here.
James Di Virgilio: 0:58
I want to talk about not your football career. We're going to tie football in, but about what now you're more known for now anyway, you are a play by play broadcaster. You are also a teacher at the University of Florida teaching commentating, and you're an artist and your art has a really unique style to it, especially your folk art. I want to know from the beginning, were you always drawn towards creative things? Did it take you awhile to figure this out? You were telling me before the show that your dad's a football coach and he's very much what you'd expect from a football coach. So creativity probably wasn't something that came right to the top of your mind in that family, right?
James Bates: 1:31
Yeah. I mean, my dad coached a long, long time for just retired a few years ago, but my whole life, he was Coach, long time in the NFL and I loved sports and I love competing, but as much as anything I was always creating and I didn't really take art classes other than the few that you take in elementary school and junior high, but I always loved them. And I guess I never really got that nudge because it was a football family. And so they knew that I liked to do that, but that's just what James does is he, he's over there drawing again. And you know, and I didn't take any art classes at Florida, but I probably should have, because I sat in class drawing, I guess I got it from my mom. She was always kind of doing a craft or fixing something herself or prettying something up herself. I definitely didn't get it from my dad, but it's in me. And it really kind of came out and I realized a guy that I roomed with at Florida, Eric Kresser is his name, he was Danny Wuerffel's backup. We were in the same freshman class. He was an art major. And my freshman year I wasn't red shirted right away. He was. And so I'd go out of town and I'd come back and he'd have our dorm room and Yon hall, which is in the stadium just as dirty as can be, but he'd have it rearranged and decorated basically. And I realized, well, I can do stuff like this. It's not just my mom. That would change my room around. You know, it's like in a weird way that was an adult moment for me as a creative person that I can, like, I can
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. A native of Newark, New Jersey, Jeff moved to Florida as a kid, where his dad worked at the (future) Cape Canaveral in the early 1960’s. “One of my biggest thrills,” he says, “was going out to the range with my dad to see a missile fired.” His dad was also a radio amateur, which introduced Jeff to the concept of antennas at a very early age. This came in handy when Jeff was a Navy communications specialist during the Vietnam era and at the National Security Agency. Later in life he formed a successful company that was bought by Philips Electronics. This episode was originally released on February 20, 2019.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:20
Our guest today on Radio Cade is Jeff Fitzsimmons: an inventor with a magnetic personality. And I mean that both literally and seriously, as the saying goes. Jeff is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Florida who invented radio frequency coil arrays for high field MRIs. Welcome to the show, Jeff. And did I get that description right?
Jeff Fitzsimmons: 0:20
Yes, you did.
Richard Miles: 0:20
So I got it right, only because I read it off a sheet of paper but, I need you to explain, briefly and in layman's term, exactly what an RF coiler array for MRI means and what it does.
Jeff Fitzsimmons: 0:39
Sure. So the best way to think about this is if you've ever seen a television antenna or you've ever seen a radio tower or you've seen a cell tower or any of those devices, those are all radio frequency antennas. The cell phone that you carry around with you has a very tiny radio frequency antenna built in. In fact, it has, it has a number of them built in. And of course in the old days, your television set used to have a radio frequency antenna on the roof. So, the antennas that we designed and built, and the reason they were unique, is that they were designed to pick up signals from parts of your body and so they focused on your shoulder or your hand or wrist or your knee or your foot or your brain or your heart, things like that. So these are custom designed radio-frequency coil arrays that are essentially antenna arrays that are conformed to a particular body part. So, they maximize the signal from that part and give you the best possible image.
Richard Miles: 1:35
Okay, great explanation. I think I get it. So these are obviously used in a wide array of applications in hospital settings. Right. So basically anytime you go into an MRI, depending on what hurts or what ain't working, there'll be some sort of coil array that will be looking for signals from that part of the body...is that about right? (Jeff: Yes, that's right.) Okay. All right. So like many inventors, you started out in academia, and then you made the transition through the commercialization of your research and that is a story that is not always successful. In fact, I'm guessing by the numbers, this fails more often than it succeeds. Can you describe a little bit about what led you to that path? I guess what led you to the decision first fall that you had a technology that you thought had market potential
One of nine children, Dr. Anthony (Tony) Brennan grew up in a small town in upstate New York. He invented a way to inhibit bacterial growth through plastic sheets that are comprised of millions of microscopic features arranged in a diamond pattern - much like shark skin. A voracious reader, Tony wanted to be an astronaut growing up, but had poor eyesight. His inspiration for Sharklet Technologies was the US Navy, which in 1999 asked him to figure out a way to keep barnacles from growing on its ships. This episode was originally released on September 25, 2018.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles.
Richard Miles: 0:20
We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:41
This morning I have as my guest, Tony Brennan, who is the founder of Sharklet Technologies, which as the name implies, has something to do with sharks. So he's a good guest. Welcome Tony.
Tony Brennan: 0:51
Thank you. It's my pleasure to be here today.
Richard Miles: 0:54
So before we talk about Sharklet, I always like to start asking the guest a little bit about their background. So if you could share with us where were you born, what were you like as a kid? What was your family like? How did you end up pre-academic days, so to speak.
Tony Brennan: 1:10
So it's always interesting to ask a Brennan a question like that because I'm one of nine. My father was one of ten. So there's a lot of us and we have a lot to tell, but uh, just to keep it reasonably short...
Richard Miles: 1:23
Maybe I should ask for some ID to make sure you're really the Tony Brennan I had mind right?
Tony Brennan: 1:27
Oh, there's no doubt about it. Anybody listening will recognize it right away. So I'm one of nine. I was the sixth child. I was born in Saranac Lake, New York, which is famous for being the first town formed in the adirondack mountains. It's really the home for the Winter Olympics. The mountain lake placid is just outside of Saranac Lake. Whiteface is actually closer to Saranac where the Olympics were held twice. Both times they had to haul snow in. The town I grew up in was a small hamlet, natural bridge, New York, and it's about 30 miles north east of Watertown, New York, which is 60 miles north of Syracuse, New York, which is right in the middle of the state. So we're very close to Canada and it was a great place to grow up because it was a town of 600. We had 11 people and so we were predominant in the town and we could do whatever we wanted and so it gave an early opportunity for me to explore.
Richard Miles: 2:29
So the early entrepreneurial setting here, so...
Tony Brennan: 2:32
Very early.
Richard Miles: 2:33
And Tony, I do believe you are the first guest on the show that has a connection to Napoleon Bonaparte. Maybe you could explain that.
Tony Brennan: 2:40
Yeah, that is such a fascinating story. We always heard this story that was given. There's natural bridge caverns in natural bridge in New York and they always gave a tour. It's a natural bridge formed by the Indian river that goes under through the limestone. So they actually give boat tours and they always told this story about French jewels that were buried there somewhere in the caverns. And we always
How do you train people to talk to other people? For some professions, like nursing, communicating with others is a critical part of the job. Computer scientist Ben Lok developed software for nursing students to interview and examine a “virtual patient.” The patients speak like actual people, have backstories, and don’t necessarily share information easily. The son of a pipeline engineer and a nurse, Lok moved to the Tulsa from Malaysia when he was 5 years old. He credits his father’s prescient interest in computers - and an Atari game - with his career path. Lok’s company, Shadow Health, has plans to develop applications for other occupations that rely on face-to-face communication. This episode was originally released on January 2, 2019.
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Intro: 0:21
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Is treating patients like playing a video game and do virtual patients get us better nurses. Here to answer this question is Dr. Ben Lok, Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Florida. Welcome, Ben.
Dr. Ben Lok: 0:49
Hello. Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:50
So Ben, we're going to talk about you in a minute. But first let's start by explaining what your technology or your invention is, what it does and what problem do you think it's solving?
Dr. Ben Lok: 1:01
All right. When we think about how do we train people to talk to other people. And we think about that. We've been working on that for a very long time and we still have the same technologies, the same approaches. We tend to do roleplaying with other people. And that's the way we've been doing it for hundreds of years. But now we've just entered this place where these computer technologies, these simulations where you can see these virtual people much like you see in a movie or a video game. Could we use them to help you practice talking to another person? It's kind of initially an interesting question. So it's not too different than let's say a flight simulator. But if you could practice your communication skills with these virtual people, would that translate to you talking to real people? And so that was a question we started thinking about back in 2004. So we've been thinking about this for a long time. We wanted to study the science behind it and really evaluate whether this was possible. And after about six, seven years, we worked with medical faculty. We worked with educators, we did a lot of user studies, which means we tested the technology out and really be able to understand that people, yeah, did learn how to communicate better using virtual people. Then we decided to form a company named Shadow Health and we said, can we bring this out to the masses? Can we get this rolled out into a lot of universities so we can be helping the new beginning nurse. Think of yourself as a nursing student just starting nursing school and you have to and learn how to talk to people. And so we said, hey, can simulation play a role here? That's what Shadow Health has now rolled out to lots of universities and colleges across the country. But the goal is again, talk to these virtual people and it'll help you become a better communicator.
Richard Miles: 2:28
So just so our listeners understand what exactly we're talking abou
Alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency, a genetic disorder, is a common factor in lung diseases like COPD and emphysema. Dr. Mark Brantly’s research examines how AAT interacts with environmental factors that trigger the disorders. His findings are important because many physicians remain unaware of the genetic background of the diseases they treat. Much of Brantly’s work has been funded by University of Florida royalties derived from Gatorade, the brainchild of Robert Cade.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Orphan diseases. What are they, why should we care? And who is out there trying to cure them? I'm your host, Richard Miles and today we'll be talking about one such disease with Dr. Mark Brantly, a professor of medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Welcome to Radio Cade, Dr. Brantly.
Dr. Mark Brantly: 0:54
Thank you, Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:55
Okay if I call you Mark?
Dr. Mark Brantly: 0:56
Absolutely.
Richard Miles: 0:57
Good, okay. So your research focuses on a condition called Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency. Did I say that correctly?
Dr. Mark Brantly: 1:05
Absolutely.
Richard Miles: 1:05
Okay, good. So what does that mean exactly? Who gets AAT and what is actually going on inside the body?
Dr. Mark Brantly: 1:12
Well, so Alpha Antitrypsin Deficiency is a somewhat rare genetic disorder that is associated with a increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or pretty bad lung disease, and also liver disease, particularly in children and as well adults, Alpha Antitrypsin Deficiency is relatively common in the Caucasian population. And in about one in hundred individuals have at least one abnormal gene, people that have two copies is about one in 3 000 people. So in the United States, there's up to one and a hundred thousand individuals that have Alpha Antitrypsin Deficiency.
Richard Miles: 1:48
So this is actually much more common than I thought. I thought this was an extremely rare condition, but it sounds like this is much more common.
Dr. Mark Brantly: 1:55
That's absolutely correct. And indeed it is the most common genetic cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or emphysema in the United States.
Richard Miles: 2:03
So if I understand correctly though, by itself, is it going to necessarily cause lung cancer having the deficiency will everyone with AAT eventually get lung cancer or are there other factors involved?
Dr. Mark Brantly: 2:14
Right. So they don't get lung cancer. They actually get destructive lung disease or obstructive lung disease, but you're absolutely correct. Not everybody develops lung disease from alpha antitrypsin deficiency. And indeed there's a very strong environme
Dr. Christian Jobin, a professor of medicine, is an expert on how microorganisms behave in the intestine. When they behave badly, this can lead to conditions like inflammatory bowel syndrome and colorectal cancer. “Academically I wasn’t very gifted,” Jobin says, and at first he didn’t have the grades to get into college. Instead, he went to a community college and trained as a technician, before eventually getting a PhD in Microbiology. Among other bits of wisdom, Jobin advises prospective researchers to “have fun.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Gut instinct, guts and glory. Go with your gut. I'm your host, Richard Miles. And today we'll be talking about the gut with Dr. Christian Jobin, a Gatorade trust professor of medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Welcome to the show Dr. Jobin.
Dr. Christian Jobin: 0:52
Richard. Thank you for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:53
So mind if I call you Christian or Christian? Okay, great. So before we talk about the research, let's talk a little bit about your title. What exactly is a Gatorade trust professor?
Dr. Christian Jobin: 1:05
Well, the Gatorade trust professor was born, I guess, from the discovery of Robert Cade an associate of Gatorade drinks. So portion of the process royalty goes through a university, especially the department of medicine and they use it for research and they wanted to support me for years to come to continue my research. It was a great honor to have that as salary support. It's not the money research, it's just support salary so that when I get grants, I could divert this money to support my staff and not me. So it's a great tool to have freedom of doing research.
Richard Miles: 1:37
Right. So it acts a little bit like seed funding covers your costs and that thereby makes other grants more useful right?
Dr. Christian Jobin: 1:45
It gives you a little bit more room to breathe and your research enterprise, because you have money.
Richard Miles: 1:50
Okay. So now let's talk about your research. And from what I understand, it, it focuses on host, microbe interaction, the intestine, and especially how disrupted interactions cause problems such as inflammatory bowel disease and certain types of cancer. So can you break that down for us? Tell us what does that mean? You know, what are hosts? What are microbes and how are they supposed to act in the intestine? And what's a normal intervention?
Dr. Christian Jobin: 2:14
Well, Richard, as you may know, and your listeners, we are almost born germ-free, which is without any bacterial viruses, we evolve in a terrible from a mother. And as we go through the birth canal, we got colonized by bacteria, almost instantaneously. So we have microorganism that start to colonize inside our bodies . And one of the big p lace that these m icroorganism a re going is in the a ntis time. So we c alled that in microbiota and these assembled of microbes a
The engineering part of Augi Lye helped solve a problem for his musician self. How to speed up the aging of wooden violins, which enhances their tone? Augi not only came up with an invention, he formed a successful company that sells devices to all string players. Â Now Augi is using artificial intelligence to help vision processing. The son of immigrant parents, Augi was thought to have a learning disability as a young boy. His fourth-grade teacher told his parents, "I've seen this before. Augi will blossom in his junior year of high school." Spoiler alert: He did. This episode was originally released on December 5, 2018.
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Inventors and there inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
Vibrating violins, unmanned, aerial vehicles, and video games. What do they have in common? Turns out Augi Lye, my guest today on Radio Cade. Welcome, Augi.
Augi Lye: 0:48
Hey, how's it going?
Richard Miles: 0:49
So I think I first met you right after you had founded tone. Right? If I remember correctly, which I remember being a really cool idea. So why don't we start by you talking about tone, right? Which was, I think the first of your companies that you founded, if I'm not mistaken and then a little bit about the technologies that you've worked.
Augi Lye: 1:07
Yes. So all my life, I was a musician. I started my musical studies at five, played the violin all my life and pursuit of the perfect tone in your instrument that I was obsessed about. And when you're shopping for a violin, there's a common problem of instruments that haven't opened up yet. Especially new instruments that they require about 30 or 40 years of being played on constantly for them to open up. That's one reason Strads sounds so good. They've been played on for hundreds of years and that constant being played on improves the sound. So how it all started was I was still in college and I bought this new cello. I could tell this cello is a good cello, but it was closed up. It n eeds to be played on for next few years before w e r eally could really start sounding good. And I didn't want to wait that long. So I was playing around with electronics. At that time, I was studying electrical engineering and I put together a little device that would play the instrument overnight while I was sleeping. So I invented this little contraption and I put it on the instrument. I left it on overnight and I did this for about a month. And then a month later I brought the cello back to the maker and the maker was j ust like, what did you do? This thing? This doesn't sound like the cello I sold you. And I went back to my car and pulled out this little electronic contraption, not thinking much of i t. I t's just a little thing I made for myself. And his next words were run to the patent office.
Richard Miles: 2:32
How does it work? I'll give you that for you want to say contraption, what exactly?
Augi Lye: 2:35
It's a device that sits on top of the violin bridge or on top of the strings on a guitar. And it induces subsonic frequencies into the instrument , simulating being played on and over a course of a
George Sklivanitis, founder of Extreme Comms Lab, believes we can build underwater wireless networks. Using enhanced modems on existing nodes (such as ships and submarines), his team’s technology can boost signal strength under the sea by 10 times. A native of Athens, Greece, George studied on the island of Crete before moving to Buffalo NY, and finally Florida Atlantic University. His advice to prospective inventors: “Use criticism as a fuel to keep going. Don’t give up.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
IPhones , deep sea Netflix and scuba surround sound. Sounds impossible, right? Maybe it still is. But my guests this morning may have brought us a step or two closer to a bunch of impossible things. I'm your host Richard Miles. My guest today is George Sklivanitis founder of Extreme Comms Lab. Welcome to Radio Cade, George.
George Sklivanitis: 0:58
Thank you Richard for the invitation.
Richard Miles: 0:59
So let's start George, talking about your core technology , sort of what is it and how does it work?
George Sklivanitis: 1:04
So today we're living in exciting times, right? Every day we are using devices that are almost always, and at any time connected to the internet from your smartphones to your smart watches, to Alexa at home to Siri, you name it. Can we leverage this exciting technology developments that we have seen for land-based communications and somehow use them to wirelessly connect our oceans, to the internet? Well, to give you an idea of what's the existing infrastructure out there, first of all, it's very expensive and it's very limited. U.S. Navy. For example, the submarines are using acoustic signals to communicate. The signals are very low frequency, very low bandwidth. And as a result, under water communications today is very, very slow. So the Extreme Comms Lab, we started to change that by building underwater communication modems, that can boost wireless connectivity up to 10 times. This moden scan communicate in 360 degrees. They are only directional. They can both transmit and receive, and they are fully reprogrammable on the fly so that they can efficiently utilize all of their available resources. We have buttoned pending software and hardware, which is easy to install, easy to operate and offer compatibility with existing infrastructure. So we are trying to disrupt underwater communications today to give you an example, the state of the art modems out there, it's like using your 1990s , dial up modem to download an email or stream a video from the web. It would take forever, right?
Richard Miles: 2:33
So I remember those days well, I winced just hearing that, but, okay. So in addition to this sounding very, very cool. This household sounds very, very expensive because if I understand the analogy correctly, if we think about above ground , right, we have cell phone towers and wireless networks, and that has been built up over a decade or so of cell phone towers on every corner. Is that also how this would work? Would you have the equivalent of towers underwater or buoys underwater that would be serving the s
Computers and smartphones are about to get a lot faster. If Roger Tipton succeeds with his invention, light will replace copper wires as connectors of computer components. This will be like using fiberoptic cable to access the web instead of a dial-up modem. A recent arrival to the University of South Florida, Roger was inspired to invent during high school shop class in Cleveland.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Traveling at the speed of light, right from the comfort of your own keyboard. Is that the future of computing? I'm your host Richard Miles. My guest today is Roger Tipton, CEO of Path Optical Systems, which has developed optical interconnects to replace copper wires on computer chips. Welcome to Radio Cade, Roger.
Roger Tipton: 0:56
Hi, how are you?
Richard Miles: 0:57
Uh , so I'm going to start with a really basic question. What on earth is an optical interconnect? What does it do?
Roger Tipton: 1:02
What it does is it connects different components on a PCB board. So if you've got to get information from the processor to the hard drive or from memory or wherever that information has to travel, that's an interconnect and most of them are copper interconnects at this point.
Richard Miles: 1:18
Okay. So if I could actually look at the chips, if I had the ability to do that, all those connections are being made by essentially tiny copper wires right now.
Roger Tipton: 1:24
Yeah. Yeah. And you can actually see it on the green PCB board. That's inside the little copper traces running everywhere.
Richard Miles: 1:30
So your technology in place of those copper wires, it's actually flashes of light?
Roger Tipton: 1:35
Yeah. That is actually how it works. And I think a good analogy of this is if you remember dial up internet that was on copper wires from your phone line, and they replaced that with fiber optic cables. And that is the exact same technology and some similar materials. And that just sped everything up that allowed Netflix and YouTube and videos and downloading and all the amazing things we have. And we're bringing that same exact technology to your phone or your server or your laptop. And those are the kinds of speed increases that we will see on those devices with these new interconnects.
Richard Miles: 2:12
Roger tell me, is their a reason it hasn't been done already? What was holding that back? Was there a technical or physical reason why? Because fiber optics has been around a while, right?
Roger Tipton: 2:21
Yeah. 30, 40 years. And really it's 3D printing has allowed this new technology, 3D printing is opening up all kinds of opportunities and all kinds of new things. And I think we were the first to apply 3D printing to this challenge. And so I think that's why we're first.
Richard Miles: 2:37
So this will mak
2019 Cade Prize runner-ups Joe Sleppy and Isaiah Oladeji have invented a wire-shaped supercapacitor. Unlike batteries, capacitors are not used to store energy, but to deliver it quickly and in dense amounts. Using wires instead of plates or boxes greatly reduces the space needed on things like circuit boards. Isaiah, raised in Nigeria, said he was “a very bad student.” His parents received no schooling at all, but Isaiah eventually got a PhD in the U.S. Joe progressively lost his hearing by third grade and had to get cochlear impacts to hear again. At age 16, he won a $10,000 business plan competition and started his own company.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade and podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, the museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
According to philosophers, we're all hungry for power. That may be debatable, but what's not in question, is it the machines we build are hungry for power of the ACDC variety. I'm your host Richard Miles. My guests today are Joe Sleppy, and Isaiah Oladeji of CapaciTech, which has a wire-shaped supercapacitor. Joe and Isaiah welcome to Radio Cade.
Joe Sleppy: 0:58
Thanks for having us.
Richard Miles: 0:59
I'm deficient in actually many things, but probably a more so in anything to do with electricity. So the first thing let's start out, walk me through and our listeners, what is a capacitor and what is a supercapacitor.
Isaiah Oladeji: 1:10
Capacitors and supercapacitors actually doing the same things, storing energy. You can store energy in them fast and you can get those energy out faster. So supercapacitor probably has a more storing capacity than the actual capacitor.
Richard Miles: 1:27
Got it.
Isaiah Oladeji: 1:27
And that's the simple difference between the capacitor and the supercapacitor. At the end of the day, they store less energy compared to standard battery .
Richard Miles: 1:36
Got it. Okay. And capacitors have been around in one form or another for a while . I mean the ability to store energy, right?
Isaiah Oladeji: 1:43
Yes.
Joe Sleppy: 1:43
Right. Well, the one thing I want to point out the difference between s uper apacitors and a normal capacitor is in a normal capacitor. You have two electric plates, there's an electric field between them. And that's what storing the energy wi th t h e s upercapacitor. You add an energy storage material between those electric plates to further enhance that energy storage ability. So it's not a battery, st ores, less energy than a battery, but it can deliver that energy really, really quickly, which means it has a high power density, which is what makes it the difference between a capacitor, a su percapacitor a nd a battery.
Richard Miles: 2:10
Okay. So what you have is a wire shaped supercapacitor and again, for listeners who are not familiar with, at all with any of this, what is the current standard configuration of capacitors and why is a wire supercapac
Auxetic foam is an advanced form of padding for helmets and athletic shoes. The material, which has a honeycomb structure, becomes denser as more pressure is applied. Betsy Condon and her husband Joe have licensed the technology from Florida State University and are hoping for a breakthrough with the military or with shoe companies. Betsy and Joe had extensive experience working in the manufacturing industry but eventually started a company in their garage. “We have certainly ridden the rollercoaster,” says Betsy, “with stomach-dropping moments.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Padding the resume is a bad thing, but is it? In the case of our guests this morning, Betsy Condon, padding is literally her resume and I'm talking to her about a new kind of foam padding that can be used among other things and football helmets and athletic shows. So welcome to the show. Betsy.
Betsy Condon: 0:53
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:54
So before we get into sort of your story and how you arrived at this, let's talk about the actual adventure that technology it's called, auxetic foam padding, A U X E T I C for our listeners who aren't familiar with that word. I wasn't familiar with the word. So it's foam padding. How exactly does it work? How does it differ than the padding? You might see, you know, athletic shoe today or a helmet today?
Betsy Condon: 1:19
So auxetic foam has been in laboratories for over 20 years. The problem was that no one could repeat the technology. Why would this be important? Because most foam padding is inadequate in applications where you need especially impact protection, or you need a little bit more advanced materials. And so auxectics have a negative poisons ratio. They actually function very differently than regular foam padding. You actually have had exposure to a uxetic materials and probably not even realized it in Kevlar. Kevlar is a type of auxetic fabric. Auxetics have been in laboratories for over 20 years, but no one could find enough repeatability in their processes to make the technology viable in the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 2:07
So Betsy, if I could interrupt you for a second, if I understand correctly, the difference in layman's terms, is it conventional foam? Like if you put pressure on or impact it expands right? And auxetic, it actually somehow condenses.
Betsy Condon: 2:20
Right, it compresses.
Richard Miles: 2:22
compresses. Okay.
Betsy Condon: 2:23
Yes. Thank you. So with auxetics, the stronger, the load, the more compression that you actually get, and you actually absorb more of the energy. So more compression on auxetic foam makes it more durable, more dense and provides more protection. So it can be applicable in instances where traditional foam would quote, bottom out. If you squeeze a piece of conventional foam, you can feel your fingers at the bottom of it. If you squeeze a piece of auxetic foam, you won't feel that it takes a lot to
Dr. Paul Sanberg, a Vice President at the University of South Florida, holds 157 patents and has published 650 scholarly articles on neurology. One of his biggest contributions, however, is founding the National Academy of Inventors and the Florida Inventors’ Hall of Fame in Tampa. A native of Hialeah, Florida, Dr. Sanberg later moved to California and then studied music in Canada, where he “just wanted to sing rock and roll songs.” But an “amazing professor” led him to neuroscience.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:31
Author, inventor, scientist to founder and pilot. Is there anything Paul Sanberg hasn't done? I'm your host Richard Miles. And with me this morning is Dr. Paul Sanberg, founder of the National Academy of Inventors and the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and Senior Vice President for research at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Welcome to Radio Cade , Paul.
Dr. Paul Sanberg: 0:57
Thank you, Richard. Happy to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:59
So Paul reading your resume makes me want to take a nap. I mean, you've published 650 articles, 14 books. You hold 157 U.S. and foreign patents. Do you have a stunt-double, some guy that sleeps on a park bench outside the patent office? I mean, how do you find time to do all this?
Dr. Paul Sanberg: 1:15
I don't know, but it'd be nice to have artificial intelligence that's for sure.
Richard Miles: 1:20
So let's talk about you yourself or a scientist and an inventor, and much of your career was spent in the area of brain research and specifically how to repair the brain. So tell us a little bit about that, but make it simple for people like me that barely passed high school biology.
Dr. Paul Sanberg: 1:35
Well, sure. I think it was probably really important when I was training in college that I took this course. It wasn't called brain and behavior. In those days, it was called physiological psychology, kind of what's the physiology of behavior. And so I ended up wanting to study the brain after taking that. It was just like a light to shine. And then working with various people, it was like, how do we create diseases model , actually an animals so that we can test various things and look at how cells die in the brain, how drugs interact in the brain. And then from there, it was the natural step to say, well, how do we repair the brain? If we've created this problem? And all these people have brain diseases and neurology, as you may know, is one of those specialties that you don't have a lot of treatments for, with people that might have strokes or Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Huntington's disease, ALS you name it all devastating diseases. And so having that plus having family, having gone through a number of these diseases really encouraged me to look for ways to repair the brain. And that's when we started to look at all different approaches and putting cells in the brain was an important one.
Richard Miles: 2:39
Let's go a little bit deeper into that. And you said put cells i
As a kid and a young man Michael Seres, the founder and CEO of 11 Health, was plagued by Chrons disease and intestinal problems. Eventually, this required him to have an intestinal transplant, just the 11th ever performed in the UK. The surgery left him with a permanent companion, an ostomy bag. Tapping on business skills he developed creating product merchandising for TV shows like The Apprentice and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, he created a better ostomy bag and launched 11 Health.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Randy Scott: 0:40
For those of you expecting the wisdom of Richard Miles, I apologize, but this is your guest host today, Randy Scott, and I'm here today for Radio Cade, with Michael Seres, the founder and CEO of 11 health and the inventor of the Alfred smart optimi bag. Hi Michael, thanks for joining us today. It's going to be interesting to chat about this. So as we normally do here, Michael, we'd like to start actually with having you explain and, you know, fairly simple terms, just what the Alfred smart bag is and why it's important.
Michael Seres: 1:16
Sure. Let me start by explaining a little bit about, an ostomy, typically, an ostomy is where part of your intestine is brought to the outside of your tummy and you have a bag attached to that part of the intestine. And that's known as an ostomy bag. And most people I guess understand about a colostomy bag, but it's generally after surgery that would come from either bowel cancer or inflammatory bowel disease and where your bowel either needs to rest or isn't working. The part of the intestine is brought on the outside and those bags traditionally are collection vessels. They fill up and they leak and spill. And when you've had that surgery, part of your nerve endings is cut. And so you don't actually know when those bags are filling and what's happening to them. It's kind of like a diaper as it feels, and you don't necessarily know when to change it. And so what I did really, after my own experiences as an ostomy patient was to deconstruct an existing bag and rebuild it with a series of senses inside. And those senses are mainly temperature, sensors, and capacity senses that out. You understand when the bags have failed, that the sorts of senses that you would have in a car there , you know, sometimes the cars beep when you get too close to another car or when you're crossing over a lane. And so I integrated those senses into an optimi bag, and now they will send a signal to my cell phone when my bag is filling. And so it can prevent the leaks and the spills. And what it also enables us to do is send that information to the doctors so that they can help manage mine and other people's conditions better. As an example, if you have too much output in a day, you are prone to dehydrating and if you have too little out put in a day, it might indicate there's a blockage or there's some inflammation in the intestines . So your doctors need to know that data in real time. And currently the existing bags don't do that.
Randy Scott: 3:24
So you've mentioned that you're an ostomy patient yourself, so I guess you kind of come by this vention honestly, so to speak and you and I have already talked about this a little bit of course, but maybe for our listener
With an aging infrastructure, the United States faces more scenarios like Flint, Michigan, where high lead levels became a threat to safety. Safa Amiri, a chemistry professor at the University of Florida, has developed a handheld water-quality sensor that detects contaminants with just a few drops of water. Learning to play the violin as a child, Safa says, helped him learn how to persevere. His model was his father, a successful entrepreneur in Iran.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Water is the stuff of life, but unclean water can lead to death. But the good news is that we have ways to determine what water is safe to drink or use on crops and for animals and what water is not. So today on Radio Cade we welcome Safa Amiri, a professor of chemistry at the University of Florida and the inventor of a new water quality sensor. Welcome Safa .
Safa Amiri: 0:59
Thank you very much. Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 1:02
So Safa, obviously clean water is a big deal and people have recognized the scientific basis of that conclusion for about 150 years or so. Um, and there are different ways to measure water , water quality. So describe for our listeners before we get into your background, you know, what makes your invention different? Why is it , uh , better, cheaper, faster than other techniques?
Safa Amiri: 1:27
Sure. So the motivation behind this invention was what I was just seeing in real life in Flint, Michigan. I said that 8,000 children who were affected by lead poisoning, that is, that is like heartbreaking. That is , uh , just because you don't know what you're drinking and just, you just, just imagine, just keep drinking, tap water. And then after a, while you, it out, all of your children are effected or you can't even take a shower with that water. And , um , all of these were because people are just don't know, they just don't know what, what they're drinking, what, you know, what is in their water. And , uh, in several scenarios, even like, you know, they are not informed about it and they have also no knowledge about water chemistry. So it's very heartbreaking that , uh , they don't have a handy tool to test for it. About 45% of the piping infrastructure in the U.S. still is, you know , very too old. And, you know , um , they all contain lead and that causes a lot of issues. About 18 million people are still being suffered by those pipes that are being utilized for the water transportation under the ground. And they all need to be renovated. And it has been shown that if U.S. wants to fix all of these issues, it's going to take about two centuries, fix all of those and the cost of $1 trillion dollars. So they are not going to be fixed easily unless there's a problem. And people do not have a handy tool to do it. So that was the beginning of the alright, so we need to do something about it and let's fix this issue. So I came up with a sensor, water quality sensor, which is a handheld portable, easy to use sensor like cell phone, imagine, and then you just pour a drop of water and it tells you what is in there and how much of that is in there. And then we also be able to, you know, provide solution to our wider commendat
Optical filters are made for filtering out parts of the color spectrum that we don’t need, or that are even harmful. Migraines, for instance, are often caused by light from a particular part of the spectrum. Hooman Banei has invented a way to manufacture high-quality optical filters at scale for a reasonable cost. As a child growing up in Iran, Hooman worked in his father's concrete manufacturing company, but he wanted to be an astronomer. “My father and I had a debate about what I should do my life,” and Hooman decided to go into science before returning to manufacturing.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade , who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Some people have no filters, but our guest today has lots of filters, optical filters. So we're very pleased to have this morning, the 2015 winner of the Cade Prize, Hooman Banei. Welcome to the show, Hooman.
Hooman Banei: 0:49
Thank you very much Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:50
So ever since winning the Cade Prize in 2015, you've been living a life of wealth and fame, right? Paparazzi on your doorstep. I think those are your Bentley out in the parking lot, right?
Hooman Banei: 1:01
Well, you may think so. That's, that's one of the myths about entrepreneurship. Well, it takes a couple of decades to get there.
Richard Miles: 1:08
Okay. So 20 years now, it'd be like bill Gates, right? We won't even be able to get ahold of you . Hooman, let's start out by explaining for a guest, what exactly your technology is, what you invented, what optical filters are basically for those who don't know what they are, why they're necessary and what are some of the applications of optical filters.
Hooman Banei: 1:27
Sure. Yeah. Thank you very much for the opportunity. So, we deal with all kinds of filters in our daily lives. You know, anything from coffee filter to water filter, to air filter. So optical filters are also similarly made for filtering out parts of the color spectrum of light that we don't necessarily need for particular applications. I can give you examples. Let's say people who suffer from migraine headache about 80% of them are sensitive to light. And it turns out that the sensitivity is only two very, very particular colors of light. So if you can only filter out those two particular colors without touching the rest of the spectrum, you can essentially have say, eyewear, that is almost a hundred percent transparent, but at the same time, it gets rid of the problematic ranges of the spectrum. So these are many, many applications or applications for n ext g eneration smartwatches, where t hey're trying to bring really high performance and very high end and sensitive diagnostic methods to portable smart watch type of applications to bring some of the currently lab based test platforms into our portable devices. So these are also heavily based on filtering spectral signatures of let's say a glucose in our blood. There are many other things that they try to detect, and it takes a certain type of optical filter to focus on that a spectral signature.
Richard
Without a free market for over almost 60 years, Cubans have been forced to make do without most things. Turns out your average Cuban is pretty ingenious. Randy Batista, Jorge Lavoy, and Gabriela Azcuy, decided to start collecting examples of how Cubans have repurposed almost everything into something. From turning Soviet washing machines into lawnmowers and electric coils into water heaters, the collection highlights how hardship forces creativity. Produced by Rob Rothschild at Heartwood Soundstage in Gainesville, Florida.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Necessity is the mother of invention. And one of the places in the world that has had to be the most inventive is in Cuba, for about the last 60 years and here as our guest today , uh, where it's a pleasure to have Randy Batista , uh , long time local. Randy, you've done a little bit of everything. So it's hard to describe. We also have , uh, Gabby Azcuy , who's the curator of the exhibit , um , that we're going to be talking about and Jorge Lavoy. Uh, welcome all of you.
Randy Batisa: 1:11
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 1:11
First of all, let's tell listeners what we're actually talking about. There is an exhibit called, Cuban Ingenuity, the Artistry of the Everyday Inventor. It is opening soon, or at least a sneak peek on March the ninth, and it's going to run through the end of the year. And , um , basically I'm going to let Gabby give a very short description , uh, before we talk about it more in detail, what exactly is this , uh, exhibit about and what are people going to see when they walk in the door?
Gabby Azcuy: 1:38
So Cuba Ingenuity is a compilation of videos, objects , and graphics that will be in the West Gallery in the Cade Museum. We will have around 45, 50 objects of different sites, medium, small, and , uh , some , uh, videos that will project the reality in these days in Havana.
Richard Miles: 1:56
So , um , Gabby, just to clarify you and Jorge , um , did you personally select or curate all of these , uh, all the objects in the exhibit?
Jorge Lavoy: 2:04
Yeah, that's, that's correct. We , um, we did three trips to Cuba to find and bringing all these objects from there. So was a really hard task for us because we have , uh, as Cubans, we don't think that , uh, we have like awesome inventions or , uh, um, appealing objects to, you know, to maybe , uh, people from, you know , um , U.S. or countries that have a lot of , uh, progress medicine , you know, big, big countries with , um, you know, a bunch of tools and resources. So as Cuban's, you have , uh , the idea of , uh, just invent and it's normal for you. You spend your whole life doing that. So it was really hard to , for , for us finding , uh, the, the good example of ingenuity, because for us, maybe we have our washer machine model converted in a lawnmower, and maybe we think that this is normal people don't to see these like a cool thing. So for that reason, we have Ann Gilroy , she's a curator of the Tomo Center and she was all the time, like our U.S. eyes seeing the other part, Oh, there bring
Where do creative ideas come and how do we capture them? Judah Pollack, author of The Net and the Butterfly, talks frontal lobes, “genius lounges,” and the Rolling Stones. Born and raised in Manhattan, Judah made his way to the West Coast, where he advises organizations like Air BnB, Google, Sonos, and the U.S. Army.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
What do Keith Richards, Albert Einstein, and Archimedes all have in common? They all experience creative breakthroughs. The good news is that so can you, I'm your host Richard Miles and we're pleased to welcome creativity expert and author Judah Pollack, the author of "The Net and the Butterfly" to Radio Cade, welcome Judah.
Judah Pollack: 0:56
Thank you so much for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:57
So Judah, if I got your book correctly, essentially you're telling me I can become a lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones is that about right?
Judah Pollack: 1:03
No, no, I'm afraid there's been a great misunderstanding. I think I'm in the wrong podcast. I got to go.
Richard Miles: 1:09
Damn it. Alright . Um, no, but you, you , uh, you use that as one of the great examples of sort of a creative breakthrough. And, and I love the, the sort of the metaphor, the extended metaphor that you use about nets and butterflies and , and in fact your first couple of chapters play out , riff off that metaphor. You talk about four wings, sort of four ways that creative breakthroughs happen. And then, you know, you talk about being on the hunt, how to actually catch and record those ideas and then a lot of the book that follows this sort of real practical advice on how to do both the creative breakthrough part and sort of the , the catching and recording part. So I know I've probably done tremendous injustice to your book, but walk us through sort of an, again, starting from the beginning, how, how do you see creative breakthroughs happening through the major categories and then what are we supposed to do about them when we have them, if we have them.
Judah Pollack: 2:02
Our brains have actually evolved a system to have breakthroughs, to see patterns in the noise. And the thing that it's hard for us to get our heads around is it's not a focused, rational system. And that's very difficult for us because we like to be doing something on schedule, have a plan, and it's important for that. That's the executive function of your brain, which is literally a network of neurons at the front of your brain. Sort of like above your eyes. If you think of it that way, where you do everything like make a list, make sure to get to the airport on time, get a task done. It's, you focus, you have discipline. Now this is also the part of your brain that goes quiet when you get drunk. So sometimes you don't make great decisions, but you might also find yourself up on a table dancing and singing when you might not ordinarily be willing to do that.
Richard Miles: 2:49
This is just friends you've seen right Judah?
Judah Po
Amir Rubin is the co-founder of Paracosm, a company that developed a handheld device that creates 3D color maps of real-world environments. “We’ve turned reality,” says Amir, “into a video game.” Amir is a second-generation entrepreneur. Both his parents are PhD’s, but his father quit academia to start a hardware store, and later a bakery. Amir wonders if any entrepreneur would make it without some level of “blind enthusiasm.”
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors in the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
A three-dimensional world that used to be something only for science fiction and now it's an everyday part of reality and we're pleased to have here on our show this morning Amir Rubin, founder of a company called Paracosm, which deals very much in the 3D world and other inventions. Welcome to the show Amir.
Amir Rubin: 0:56
Hey, thanks for having me, Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:58
So, Amir, I always like to start out with the inventor themselves explaining what the invention is, the core technology at least behind it, what it does in very simple terms, and then we'll come back and talk later on about sort of how you develop that. So what did you invent Amir ? And what does it do?
Amir Rubin: 1:18
So, I co-founded a company in 2013, Paracosm, that has invented the world's first handheld color lidar mapping system and a lot of fancy words there. But basically it's a device that, the product is called the PX80. And it's a device that you can hold, has a little handle, and you just go for a walk and in whatever environment you want indoor, outdoor, and when you're done, we spit out a 3D replica, like a digital twin of the real world environment in full color. So it's like we've, you know, one way I describe it is maybe you could think of it as we've turned a reality into a video game level.
Richard Miles: 2:15
Okay. So, I've seen the product, the application before, and I've said it's very impressive. I think one thing that struck me was the speed at which you can do it because the technology has existed I think for a w hile. A nd you can do 3D mapping, but your invention enables you and this i s as of several years ago a nd I know you've improved it to do it very quickly and pretty, very accurate to a degree that's useful to a lot of t hings.
Amir Rubin: 2:46
Yeah, exactly. So there's been 3D scanning technologies that had been really good since, you know, the eighties and nineties, and they've been scanning for oil fields and oil rigs and other industrial applications and the way old or traditional scanners work is there like laser scanners that are mounted on the old, surveyors , tripods. You might have seen them when you drive by a construction site by the side of the road, you might see a crew with a survey, tripod doing surveys. So that's a pretty similar to how 3D scanning is, has been done and is currently done. And our big Aha moment is what happens if we ditched the tripod and let people just go for a walk. And it lets you capture data really fast that's never been possible before and lets people go into capt
The son of a Pennsylvania preacher, Philip Koehler made his way to Florida courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Eventually he became a Professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Florida. He’s developed a mosquito and fly trap that uses a minimal amount of insecticides, and he also has developed a trap for bed bugs. He patents inventions because “you can write an article for a scientific journal and no one will ever use it."
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them, we'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Bugs. We're back to talk about something that everyone who lives or is from Florida is very familiar with and very happy to have on Radio Cade this morning, Dr. Philip Koehler, who is a professor of Urban Entomology at the University of Florida. Thanks for being with us Phil.
Dr. Philip Koehler: 0:51
It's wonderful to be here with you.
Richard Miles: 0:53
Phil, I know if I tried to describe your technology I would completely mess it up. So I'm going to ask you to sort of tell me a little bit about your, your core technology core invention , um , and explain it as if , uh , and in this case, very realistic scenario. I don't know anything about it.
Dr. Philip Koehler: 1:11
Yeah, we, we started back in , uh, back in around 2010 or so trying to take on flies and mosquitoes as very dangerous animals that needed to be controlled because they , uh, they are very important from the standpoint of human welfare. There were very few products that were environmentally friendly to be able to control these , uh , these potential disease factors. And we'd gotten some funding from the military in order to develop, first of all, fly traps. And second of all , um , mosquito traps in order to be able to control them. And we've, we've developed several new technologies that have now been patented and are in the process of being commercialized throughout the entire world.
Richard Miles: 1:53
And so if I understand correctly, these technologies , um, they're, they're mostly not, or do they have anything to do with sort of insecticides or sprays or anything, or these are different types of pest control?
Dr. Philip Koehler: 2:05
Everything that we've done utilizes insecticides, however, they are contained so that people won't contact them. And also they're not a danger to the environment because they are contained.
Richard Miles: 2:16
Okay, so they're not like sprayed on a field or they're more in receptacles or containers?
Dr. Philip Koehler: 2:23
Exactly. We're, we're putting them associated with something that the insects like to go to. So you don't have to, you don't have to spray large areas of land. And that was one of the things that I was concerned about back in 2015, that the state of Florida, in order to control Zika factors, u h, they were spraying by air, over large tracks of land. And in many cases, that was the only thing that they had available to them.
Richard Miles: 2:50
Okay. So I think, I
Detecting diseases in water is harder than it sounds. The normal process involves expensive, time-consuming lab tests. Joseph Moss of the University of West Florida has invented a better method that spins out water-borne pathogens to help identify them quickly and cheaply. A native of Holland, Pennsylvania and the youngest of five children, Moss was a “fidgety” boy who loved being outside because “everything fascinated me.” After a “rambunctious phase” and a “dead-end” job on the West Coast, Moss, who had initially failed out of college, returned to school and became a researcher.
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Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Today we're entering the spin zone. Now you haven't accidentally downloaded a political podcast. I'm talking about literal spin as in an invention called a spin concentrator. And we're pleased to have the inventor on the show today. Joseph Moss, who is a researcher at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Welcome to Radio Cade, Joe.
Joseph Moss: 0:56
Thanks for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:57
So, Joe, I think I last saw you in 2012 or 2013 maybe when you were a sweet 16 finalist or you just finished being a finalist in the Cade prize. And I remembered the judges were very impressed with your entry, though I have to admit, I didn't really fully understand how it worked at the time. So I think, I know after having been through the prize, but I'm going to roll this description by you. Tell me where I'm wrong. Um, but I'll ask you to elucidate now, so I know it's a type of water filter which basically can detect a disease producing organisms in water. Um, and that is essentially the core function of it. But what I don't fully understand, you can explain, is sort of how does this differ from other existing water filters and you know, what is, um, you know, what is unique about it? Obviously there's something unique because you've had some commercial success with this. So let me stop there and let you tell us and tell listeners what exactly a spin concentrator is.
Joseph Moss: 1:56
Okay. Well you've got it mostly right. Um, it is a spin concentrator or spin device, um, which simply separates particles, microbial particles, whether it's our actual microorganisms or um, nonliving microbial, uh, particulates. Doesn't matter. It depends on the researcher what they want to do. It helps it aids in the separation of these particles so that you can subsequently down the line, evaluate your samples and see whether that pathogen or microbe or particle exists. So it doesn't detect the organism itself. It helps in the process. It speeds it up.
Richard Miles: 2:37
I see. Okay.
Joseph Moss: 2:38
It's a simple, fast way of doing it.
Richard Miles: 2:40
So traditionally, like what, um, you know, previous to this, what is for the traditional way of doing what you have to take like a water sample and send it out to a lab in order to do the same things.
Joseph Moss: 2:51
"Smart Steward" is a web-based platform that helps doctors prescribe antibiotics with the goal of reducing antibiotic resistance. The software helps track what other doctors have given a patient and makes custom recommendations for treatment. Guest host Randy Scott interviews entrepreneur Guy LaTorre who grew up in West Orange New Jersey, site of Thomas Edison's lab. Inspired by a museum dedicated to Edison's inventions, LaTorre says "I always had an inkling I would get involved in science somehow."
TRANSCRIPT:
Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Randy Scott: 0:38
Welcome to Radio Cade. This is Randy Scott, your guest host. If you were looking forward to the Silky Voice of Richard Miles, I apologize in advance, but I'm here today with Guy LaTorre, who's our guest, entrepreneur, and inventor. So Guy, you're uh, currently running a business called Antibiotic Edge Event, right?
Guy LaTorre: 0:57
Yes, that's correct.
Randy Scott: 0:59
Tell us in a simple kind of layman or even maybe eighth grade terms or something like that, what Antibiotic Adjuvant, uh, actually does.
Guy LaTorre: 1:09
Sure, sure. Antibiotic Adjuvant is our company. Our product's name is Smart Stewart and it's essentially a software program that's web based that doctors can use during the prescription process for antibiotics with a goal of reducing antibiotic resistance. Uh, which is a key problem, we're running out of antibiotics that are effective and there's a lot of now antibiotic resistant bacteria that are killing people and we don't have any new antibiotics being developed in the pipeline. So we have to try and be better stewards for the antibiotics we do have right now and use them more effectively and appropriately.
Randy Scott: 1:47
So how was Smart Stewart gonna help with that. I mean it's not, obviously, a drug itself, so.
Guy LaTorre: 1:53
No, that's a good question.
Randy Scott: 1:54
Yeah. What does it do?
Guy LaTorre: 1:55
That's a good question. So the problem today is when doctors want to prescribe, they often don't have the right information for the patient in front of them and they don't know what other doctors are prescribing and what's effective and what's not effective within that facility. So what Smart Stewart does is it guides the doctor through the prescription process and makes the best recommendations, the three top recommendations for antibiotics for that patient, for that infection. And most importantly with the goal of reducing resistance within that facility, we look at the facility and see which antibiotics are working well, which ones aren't. And obviously we recommend the ones that are working well for those particular infections that other doctors are treating.
Randy Scott: 2:39
Okay. So you're saying that, uh, not only does the type of illness or bug or whatever that patient had mattered, but somehow the facility in which they caught it matters?
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Stephanie Bailes is the executive director of the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention, the sponsor of Radio Cade. In 2017, Stephanie was drawn to the Cade's mission of "inspiring and equipping visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs." A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Stephanie knew of Robert Cade and his invention of Gatorade, but didn't realize how transformative it had been. As a girl, Stephanie considered becoming a pediatrician, but ended up with a degree in social work instead. After seeing terrible cases of abuse, she "realized my heart was too soft to be on the front line." But at age 22, she decided she could learn the skills "to make a difference" by running a non-profit. Along the way she worked in the telecom industry in Atlanta and Washington D.C. before returning to Gainesville in 2010 with her family.
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Intro: 0:24
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
"Spark wonder, invent possible." That is one of the taglines of the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida, which also happens to be the sponsor of Radio Cade. And today we're very pleased to have with us the Executive Director, Stephanie Bailes, of the Cade Museum. Welcome, Stephanie.
Stephanie Bales: 0:56
Oh, thank you for having me here.
Richard Miles: 0:58
So Stephanie it's a little bit weird cause I know most of the answers to all the questions I'm going to ask you, but our listeners may not. So, um, let's start out with the Cade Museum. Tell us a little bit what it's about. A little bit of it's sort of origin story. Um, and then we're going to talk about something even more interesting and that's you. So go ahead.
Stephanie Bales: 1:18
Well, I always start out with the mission of the Cade Museum, and that is to transform communities through inspiring and equipping future inventors, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. And I think that mission statement is so important because it contains really the spirit of who we are. Um, in two ways. The first component is transformed communities. And the second component is inspiring and equipping and, um, with the inspiration and the equipping piece, that is what we do every day in this beautiful facility that we have in Gainesville, Florida. And that's where we bring individuals of all ages into the museum and really give them an opportunity to have hands on experiences, immersive experiences with science and art and technology, um, things that they might not necessarily come across in their day to day.
Richard Miles: 2:14
And why Gainesville and why invention, what's the connection?
Stephanie Bales: 2:18
Right. So, um, I guess the inspiration for the Cade is, um, actually Dr. Cade and, uh, you know, our founder very well, Phoebe Miles. Um, she is the youngest daughter of Dr. Cade and Dr. Cade invented Gatorade. And Gatorade, you know, growing up in Florida. And well just growing up. Gatorade is a common product. You just think it's there for um, times when you're thirsty or hot and sweaty. And what I never realized until I came to the museum is that it wa
Serial entrepreneur Randy Scott founded Novamin, a toothpaste using the bio-glass technology invented by Larry Hench (featured on "Glass that Grows," 9/25/18). Bio-glass is a ceramic that essentially fuses with bone and cartilage in your body. Randy says the key to starting a biotech company is "to fall out of love with the science" and instead understand the economic model that makes the invention relevant. His father, "a prototypical entrepreneur," sometimes did well and sometimes did not, but his mother successfully ran a small business. Probably as a result, Randy as a child was always "inventing fictional businesses in my head."
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Glass that Grows part two. Welcome to another episode of Radio Cade in which for my guest today is Randy Scott, who's the founder and CEO of a company called Novamin and also partner at Health Quest Capital. Welcome, Randy.
Randy Scott: 0:53
Thanks, Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:54
So listeners who have been with us for awhile will remember that we did a show with David Greenspan called Glass that Grows. It was the technology invented or discovered by Larry Hench, who was a material science researcher at the university forward back in the sixties and seventies. And there've been various applications of that. So David Greenspan talked about one application and Randy you are involved with another one. So before we get into anything else for maybe our listeners who didn't catch the David Greenspan episode, if we could go back over, what was it that Larry Hench discovered kind of in real simple terms and then maybe just a little bit about why is there more than one way to use this core technology?
Randy Scott: 1:39
Yeah, sure. So the material that Larry Hench invented, was called bioactive glass or just bioglass for short. And the, the thing that makes us different than regular glass is we think of regular glasses, something that is sort of permanent and nonreactive and what have you, bioactive class is different in that it reacts in the presence of anything that's aqueous, including body fluids. And it doesn't stay permanent like window glass or you know, something you'd drink a beverage out of or whatever. It actually reacts and it releases calcium and phosphorus and some other things into the environment around it. And then it actually attracts those things back to itself. And it forms a crystal structure that is essentially the same as what bones and teeth are made out of and the body. And so you could imagine if this process takes place inside the body, then the resulting crystals that form to the body just looks like it's part of the body. And that's what made bioglass unique was that once it got put in the body and it went through this reaction, which happens very quickly then the body did not distinguish between its own tissue and this new material. So it became the first material that was not just invisible but was actually recognized by the body as this is part of myself.
Richard Miles: 3:11
Interesting. So when, when Larry Hench developed this, did he right away know that t
A native of Bogota, Colombia, Dr. Juan Claudio Nino became infatuated with science and math as a young child. Gravitating to something “less nerdy” than physics, he chose to study mechanical engineering along with his best friend. It was a line from his professor that solidified his choice of study, “If you were to put a piece of steel into a grinding stone and paid attention to the sparks it generates, you could tell the amount of carbon content in that steel.”
Now delving into the land of Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Nino helped invent a microchip that operates like a brain. The chip consists of pathways that mimic electric pathways inside the actual brain."
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
This morning we're going to be talking about the brain again and my guest today on Radio Cade, Dr. Juan Claudio Nino. Welcome, Juan. So Juan, you're originally from Bogota, Colombia. So before we talk about your research and the company and how you're doing, what was it like growing up in Columbia? What were you like as a kid? What were your interests and sort of how did you gravitate towards the research you're doing now?
Dr. Juan: 1:00
Sure. Thank you for having me. I was born in Colombia, in Bogota, and it was a very nice environment that we had. Early on, I was very interested in how things worked, so I would sometimes be very social, but a lot of times I would actually be mesmerized by things and be absorbed by whatever I was playing with, and fairly quickly I became very interested in math and sciences. My father was an engineer, a mechanical engineer, so he was also a professor or a teacher and I would always help him grading and just adding up the different questions and get a total for his exams early on and in school I also became very, I guess, infatuated with sciences and math. Our big influence of that was that the school itself essentially highlighted or promoted those students that were actually good academically basically And this was your score in Bogota? I did all the way to high school in and then my bachelor's in Colombia. So essentially the school was a big influence in the sense that I guess the popular or the important or highlighted students were those academically. So I said, well, okay, let's be good academically. That's basically it. And again, my, my mom and my father also very diligent and responsible and so on. And so the combination of those two fairly quickly pointed me towards stem type of fields and I was going to go to physics, back to high school, going to college, but my best friend at the time said now physics is too nerdy if you will. Um, why don't we do mechanical engineering?
Richard Miles: 2:58
Oh that's definitely not nerdy, right?
Dr. Juan: 3:00
Exactly. It was I guess a sidestep there. So I did, I took multiple classes in, in Columbia, a bachelors is a five year program, so you'd take a lot of credits and I took four courses in materials and I did well but not as good as in my other classes. So I said, well I want to stick to this because I'm not quite good at it I guess. And materials was amazing. I had a, an excellent professor, Professor Tovar
For most people, mosquitoes are very unwelcome. They can also carry dangerous diseases like the zika virus and malaria. Dr. Roberto Perreira has invented a simple mosquito water trap that doesn’t contain pesticides. Born and raised in Brazil, Pereira had no interest in insects as a kid. He went into entomology “through the back door” in graduate school by focusing on diseases that kill insects. Naturally he was drawn to swampy Florida where he specializes in “urban entomology.”
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
Getting rid of mosquitoes, we can put a man on the moon, but we can't get those damn bugs from biting our legs. Help may be on the way. My guest today is Dr. Roberto Perreira a research scientist in urban entomology who has developed simple mosquito traps for which I at least would spend a lot of money on. So welcome, Dr. Perreira
Dr. Roberto Perreira: 0:56
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:57
So let's start by having you explain exactly how these traps work. A mosquito trap. What do you do with it and how does it work?
Dr. Roberto Perreira: 1:05
Well, the mosquitoes that we're targeting here are what we call container breeding mosquitoes. So they are used to breeding tree holes but in the urban areas they just look for any container of water to lay their eggs. So the females are looking for these containers to lay their eggs. So what we have is just a bottle, is a dark bottle and it will have some water in the bottom so it will attract the female mosquitoes and we are talking about the 80s mosquitoes, that ones that are transmitting Zika and other diseases and because we treat this bottle internally with the pesticide, the female mosquitoes will end up dying. If by any chance some mosquito eggs get laid inside that bottle, we also have a second pesticide that targets the larvae and they don't allow the larvae to develop into adults. It's a simple item.
Richard Miles: 2:03
Is there anything in the water itself in the bottle that attracts them or is it just simply water? We actually put like a tea bag that has some ground leaves inside that tea bag and that basically conditions the water gives a little smell that it makes it more attractive for the mosquitoes. The bottle is a dark container and it has water. So that's exactly what these mosquitoes are looking for.
Dr. Roberto Perreira: 2:30
And if you had a small yard or medium sized yard, how many of these would you have to put around your yard? Well, we always recommend not putting less than two. It doesn't matter how small your yard is, but actually a normal yard, uh, say in Gainesville would probably want to have three or four or five of these containers around just so that you offer enough competition in relation to whatever other containers or water containers are there in that yard.
Richard Miles: 2:59
And so based on how you've described this, I'm guessing is the advantage here that you don't have to do any spraying of the yard with
Nine billion chickens are hatched every year in the U.S. Roy Curtiss and his colleagues came up with the idea of spray vaccinations, virtually eliminating the threat of salmonella for about one penny a chick. Always interested in genetics, Curtiss began became fascinated with pathogens and and has taught about them in various fields, including biology and dentistry. He eventually became a professor of veterinary science at the University of Florida and holds almost 50 patents.
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:37
Vaccinating chickens. No, that's not the name of some new indie band, but it is what may be keeping us from getting sick and here to explain this morning is Dr. Roy Curtis, a professor at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. Welcome, Dr. Curtis.
Dr. Roy Curtiss: 0:51
Glad to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:52
Okay, so it makes total sense, but I never actually have thought about giving vaccines to chickens before and I know it's, it's been around a while. It's not exactly a new thing, but tell us doctor, how does it work? Giving vaccines to chickens? Do they get a lollipop afterwards and a superhero bandaid or what is going on there?
Dr. Roy Curtiss: 1:09
Afraid not. There's no reward other than staying healthy, which of course is a pretty good reward. But chickens get immunized actually before they hatch against a virus that causes cancer, which can be devastating and that's totally controlled. And then after they come out of the shell, they're sprayed with a vaccine that protects them against bedbugs, like salmonella or viruses like bronchitis that cause devastating problems and inhibit the growth of the chickens. So before they get to the farm, they're already immunized and vaccinated.
Richard Miles: 1:41
Yes. How did this idea come about? What's sort of the history of figuring this out? I mean it seems obvious now, but all good inventions later on seem obvious. But before they were invented, they weren't so obvious. So that's why their inventions,
Dr. Roy Curtiss: 1:53
That's true. You recognize that you have viruses and bacteria that caused disease. Thirty - forty years ago. We didn't understand what the mechanism was. So the first thing to do is to figure out how do they cause disease, how do they infect, whether it's a chicken or us and what do they do to cause the symptoms that we get, whether it's diarrhea or a runny nose or whatever. Once we know that we can then begin if we understand something about the genetics to modify the virus or modify the bacteria so that it no longer causes disease, but it can still invade into a host animal like a chicken or us and cause the production of an immune response. Just like kids get vaccinated against measles, mumps, they get an inactivated virus and after a few months they develop a response so that they're no longer susceptible to infection and they're protected for life. Which is wonderful.
Richard Miles: 2:50
Let's talk about the practical application, I guess. I
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is hard to detect, and is sometimes called the "invisible injury." Nancy Denslow, a scientist at the McKnight brain institute and cofounder of Banyan Biomarkers has developed a blood based test that will make TBI detection and treatment easier and faster Daughter of diplomat, was born and raised overseas in Mexico and Ecuador, and Turkey. "Petrified by Science" growing up her interest was changed by a great high school.
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:38
This morning we have Dr. Nancy Denslow from Banyan Biomarkers. Welcome, Nancy.
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 0:43
Thank you. Glad to be here.
Richard Miles: 0:44
Nancy, tell us a little bit about yourself before we jump into asking you about the technology and its application. Just sort of where were you born? Were you raised to... How did you end up at the University of Florida?
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 0:59
Well, my dad was a diplomat, so I was actually born in Mexico City while he was stationed there and I lived there six years and then after that I lived in Quito, Ecuador for six years and then in Istanbul, Turkey for three years. So I was a junior in high school before I came back to live in the United States. And from there I graduated from high school in Virginia, northern Virginia, and then went to college at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, which at the time was an all girls school and majored in chemistry.
Richard Miles: 1:33
What made you decide to go into chemistry? Was this something from a little girl that you're interested in or was it a good high school teacher? What formed that decision?
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 1:43
Actually, I was petrified of science while I was growing up, but then I had an excellent teacher in high school and that's what turned my mind about it. And so that just goes to show what good teachers could do.
Richard Miles: 1:55
So your undergraduate was in chemistry, is that correct?
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 1:57
That's right.
Richard Miles: 1:58
Okay. And then your graduate work, you continued in chemistry and biology, is that correct?
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 2:03
No. So the last year in chemistry. I had a course in biochemistry and I thought it was just really interesting. So I continued biochemistry and molecular biology.
Richard Miles: 2:15
Got It. Okay. So let's talk about the technology here that the thing that you invented, the company is called Banyan Biomarkers. Tell us a little bit what are biomarkers, but tell it to me as if I were a six year old who doesn't know anything about anything and it's not that hard for me to pretend, but really tell us how the technology works and what it does.
Dr. Nancy Denslow: 2:41
Okay, so a biomarker is another method or is a metho
Making rechargeable batteries more powerful, cheaper, and longer-lasting benefits just about everyone. "Not a very good student in school," Phil Bennett didn't get into any of the major Florida universities but grew interested in science in community college and meeting Nobel laureates while working summers at the Miami Museum of Science. He helped develop Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries, and his company has pioneered the use of the next generation of Lithium-ion batteries.
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:40
This morning I have as my guest, Phil Bennett, who is a native Floridian and spent a lot of his career working in advanced rechargeable batteries. Welcome, Phil.
Phil Bennett: 0:49
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:49
So Phil, before we start talking about the heavy duty stuff on the technology, let's talk about you a little bit. I understand you're from Miami, born and raised there. What was it like growing up in Miami and sort of how did you end up in Gainesville?
Phil Bennett: 1:01
Well, I grew up in the southern part of Miami. I was about two miles from Biscayne Bay and maybe two or three miles from the everglades, so I had water everywhere and there were homes but not really close together. So I had a lot of opportunities to get out and see nature, which is now an important part of my life. I love the water, I love to fish and boat and I grew up there, went to elementary, middle school, high school there. I was not a very good student in public schools and I always had an interest in science, but as I was in my teenage years, science wasn't cool and I always felt that the girls didn't like science. So if the girls didn't like science...
Richard Miles: 1:44
What's the point, right?
Phil Bennett: 1:45
Right. I wasn't going to show that I was interested in it, although there was always that deep feeling that I enjoyed it and I was not able actually to get into the University of Florida, Florida State, or the University of Miami because of my high school grades and the courses that I took. I actually had no intention of going on to college and ended up taking some courses at the community college in Miami called the junior college, Miami Dade Junior College. And I was working at a machine shop and it was a small family owned machine shop. The owners recommended that I start taking some engineering courses. I guess he saw some potential in me as an engineer and the first time I took a chemistry course or anything beyond Algebra was when I was at the community college. And I really started enjoying it and I was fascinated with science again. So it kind of rekindled that idea of how important science was to me.
Richard Miles: 2:38
Right. Let's back up a little bit. So you're in in Miami as a kid, you said close to water and so on and out and about. I assume your parents probably had no idea where you were right...
Phil Bennett: 2:49
That's pretty much true. Yeah. My Dad had a small grocery store
Imagine a brain on a computer chip. Jack Kendall, founder of Rain Neuromorphics has figured out how to connect artificial neurons in “neuromorphic hardware,” a brain scaffolding useful for artificial intelligence. He hopes it will make A.I. cheaper and faster for all types of applications. A fan of the Crocodile Hunter, Jack grew up in the tiny town of Belleview, Florida.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:01
A brain on a chip. That is what we are going to be talking about today on Radio Cade and today on the phone I have as my guest Jack Kendall. Welcome, Jack.
Jack Kendall: 0:47
Hey, how are you?
Richard Miles: 0:48
So Jack, normally how we start this is if you could just tell the listeners what the technology is that you're working on and what it does and we'll talk later about the applications and the business model. So just tell us what is it that you're working on, what does it do?
Jack Kendall: 1:02
Yeah, we're building a new type of processor for artificial intelligence that's inspired by the brain.
Richard Miles: 1:08
Okay. So let me ask a clarifying question just for listeners who sort of aren't familiar with the AI world or the very concept of artificial intelligence, what's a useful thumbnail description of artificial intelligence.
Jack Kendall: 1:20
So AI powers a lot of things these days. I'm sure you've all heard of Siri. So Siri is powered by a type of artificial intelligence called neural networks. Google's reverse image search, a lot of really powerful recommendation engines, just like Amazon and Netflix that help you find similar products also use AI.
Richard Miles: 1:38
So AI is sort of the direction the IT industry is going in terms of making everything easier to use. Is that more or less fair?
Jack Kendall: 1:45
Absolutely.
Richard Miles: 1:45
Okay. So we're going to come back later in the show and talk about what you're doing with Rain and the overall business model, but first let me get some information about you. You know, what were you like as a kid, where did you grow up, that sort of stuff. And then maybe if you want to share about your formal education before getting into your current business. So let's start with where are you from and how would you describe yourself or how would others have described you as a kid?
Jack Kendall: 2:10
So I grew up in a small town called Belleview, Florida. It's about an hour south of Gainesville. Lot of cows and horses there.
Richard Miles: 2:17
Were either of your parents in a technical field or information technology or anything like that?
Jack Kendall: 2:22
Uh, no. My Dad was a mason. He actually started his own business doing masonry, and that sort of inspired me to create my own business as
EEG’s are great for diagnosing all sorts of conditions, including head injuries and seizures. But they’re hard to administer and thus don’t get used as often as they should. Elena Fraser and Duncan Kabinu, work with EncephaloDynamics a company that has developed a cap that makes EEG’s much easier to use. A born adventurer, Elena grew up one of four girls with a single mom. Duncan, a notable in Gainesville’s start-up scene, is no stranger to challenges.
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Intro: 0:20
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
All right. This morning we're going to be talking about brainwaves. I'm Richard Miles from Radio Cade and I have with me today, two guests, Elena Fraser and Duncan Kabinu welcome, Elena and Duncan.
Duncan Kabinu: 0:49
Thank you.
Elena Fraser: 0:49
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:50
Before we talk about your individual backgrounds and how you came to this project, Elena, I was wondering if you could just for our listeners, explain to me sort of the core technology, the core idea behind this invention in as simple terms as possible. I say this is for the listeners, but it's really just for me because I have a hard time understanding really technical stuff. So what exactly are we talking about? What is the core technology behind your business model?
Elena Fraser: 1:13
Sure. Okay we've invented a cap that acquires brainwave patterns to find problems that are related to electrical activity in the brain. The procedure itself is called an electroencephalogram or EEG, and through an EEG, doctors can look for abnormal patterns that indicate specific seizures or different brain problems. So what our product does is it simplified this procedure that has used kind of an antiquated technology for decades and we've simplified it so that a 20 minute - 25 minute procedure now only takes a matter of minutes because what happens when a patient has a brain injury, it's important to be able to do an EEG quickly because time loss equals brain loss and if you can make that happen, you can make that diagnosis happen faster and you can also bring about better outcomes for the patient.
Richard Miles: 2:08
So an EEG essentially measures brainwaves and doctors know what sort of normal brain waves look like. So when they see an abnormal pattern in the brain waves they know that something may be up like a seizure or concussion. Is that more or less accurate?
Elena Fraser: 2:23
That's correct.
Richard Miles: 2:24
All right, good. Good. I think I understand. Duncan, how did you jump into this project and what stage was the project when you jumped into it and what is your job?
Duncan Kabinu: 2:33
Sure, so I was introduced to a couple other inventors in this project by a local entrepreneur who knew my background as a person that loves to tinker with stuff and build stuff, and so they asked me to come in and help with prototyping this product and so I met Dr. Sackal
Both recent graduates of the University of Florida, Marlana and Nahu work on building apps for a wide variety of customers. Their story is a partnership of two visions, one rooted in entrepreneurship and the other in engineering. Both credit their parents as the ultimate role models, showing them “resilience and independence.”
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
There's an app for that. That's what we're going to be talking about on Radio Cade this morning and this morning I have with me Marlana Armstrong and Nahu Alula on our podcast and welcome to the show.
Marlana Armstrong: 0:49
Thanks for having us.
Nahu Alula: 0:51
Thank you.
Richard Miles: 0:51
So before I ask you about yourselves and sort of how you arrived at your company and what you're doing, Marlana, could you tell me a little bit about, first of all, what is it and what does it do?
Marlana Armstrong: 1:03
Sure, so Modernized Mobile is an app development company. That's what we primarily focus on, but we also do software development and Web Platforms, AKA websites and essentially every app that we do is going to be very different, but we want to help businesses engage with their clientele. We want to help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life so everybody has got a good idea, right? And apps are on everybody's phone essentially if you've got a smartphone. So the best way to enact a new idea is to put it on an app and see how it takes off.
Richard Miles: 1:38
Great. Um, okay. So we're going to talk later about the specific apps or maybe some of the types of clients you have, but first I'd like to know a little bit about the two of you and how you ended up doing this for what your past work towards this company. So Marlana why don't we start with you. Where'd you grow up and what was your childhood like? Education and that sort of stuff.
Marlana Armstrong: 2:00
All the fun stuff, yeah. I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Uh, all throughout high school. I love debate and public speaking and just spending my weekends talking about worldly topics that had a pro and a con and I was going to tell you which one was right, so that was my favorite thing to do for sure. Had a great family, just my mom and my dad and myself. Few dogs here and there.
Richard Miles: 2:24
And what made you choose the University of Florida?
Marlana Armstrong: 2:26
So it's kind of funny. For a while I was very resistant. I was like, everybody from my high school is going to UF, I'm not going and I wanted to be a broadcast journalist for quite awhile and I decided on UCF because they were close to Disney and Disney owns ESPN, so why not? But I ended up deciding on UF because it's the number one public school in Florida. It was the obvious choice and my mom was not going to let me attend a subpar college. Uh, not to put down UCF, UCF's a great school.
Richard Miles:
A veteran of both SpaceX and General Electric, Alan Hamlet, along with Matthew Bellman, is the inventor of the Myocycle. The bicycle-like device provides exercise and functional electrical stimulation for people with paralysis, and offers hope to those with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:39
Helping people with paralysis. That's the subject of today's Radio Cade and with me, I have Alan Hamlet who is with a company Myolyn. Welcome, Alan.
Alan Hamlet: 0:47
Thanks for having me, Richard.
Richard Miles: 0:48
So Alan, let's start out by explaining the core technology, what Myolyn has done, how it works, and who it's supposed to help. Try to use no jargon. Make it as simple as possible, mainly for me, but also for our listeners. And then at the end we'll sort of get into the direction the company's going.
Alan Hamlet: 1:05
Okay, I'll do it again. So Myolyn's mission is to improve health and human performance by empowering people to move. And our first product Myocycle is essentially a stationary exercise bike designed for people who have paralysis. So a lot of people don't realize, but if someone has paralysis, you do something like a spinal cord injury or any damage to the central nervous system due to multiple sclerosis or traumatic brain injury, oftentimes the muscles and the nerves and the lower body itself are perfectly fine. They just can't hear what the brain is saying. So what Myolyn does with the Myocycle is we bypass the damage to the spinal cord and apply electrical stimulation using electrode pads that we place on the skin. The sticky adhesive backed electrode pads over target muscle groups, and we can apply a small amount of electrical current to stimulate those target muscles and get those muscles to contract. And by timing and coordinating the stimulation applied to those different muscle groups in a coordinated way, we can allow someone who is completely paralyzed form a functional motion. So the Myocycle allows someone who's completely paralyzed to actively participate in therapeutic cycling exercise using electrical stimulation, which we call FES, Functional Electrical Stimulation.
Richard Miles: 2:22
Okay. Functional electronic or electric?
Alan Hamlet: 2:24
Electrical.
Richard Miles: 2:24
Electrical. Okay. Alright. So now we know what it is and you're the principal inventor of this technology
Alan Hamlet: 2:30
The inventor was actually my co founder. We were actually both getting our PhDs in robotics at the University of Florida and the technology was really the topic of his PhD dissertation, so controlling the human body using electrical stimulation. So while we were still in grad school about five years ago, now, we started the company to take this technology to market and help people who are living with paralysis.
Richard Miles: 2:52
So Alan, let me ask you a bit about your
Born and raised in Nottingham, England, Gerry Shaw was always interested in biology. His mother's dream was that he become "a priest or a doctor." After receiving what Gerry calls his "Phony Doctor" (PhD), Gerry began a career in biochemistry. In 1999 he founded Encor BioTechnology, which develops antibodies to help identify specific proteins in order to study them. "I never know what I'm doing," says Gerry, "I just blunder into things."
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Intro: 0:24
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade, who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:41
This morning I have our guest Gerry Shaw from Encor BioTechnology. And as you'll soon discover from hearing Jerry talk, Jerry is not from here. Welcome Jerry.
Gerry Shaw: 0:51
Thank you very much.
Richard Miles: 0:51
So tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from, sort of, what were you like as a kid, all the great things that happened to you before you became an inventor?
Gerry Shaw: 0:59
Well, uh, I was born in Nottingham, England, so I'm British obviously, and that explains my Downton Abbey accident and um...
Richard Miles: 1:08
Which by the way, as you well learned all Americans think Brits are smarter than they are based on their accent, right?
Gerry Shaw: 1:14
Yes. I never really understood that, but that's certainly people seem to think that for some reason, I don't know why. Anyway, so, uh, as a kid I was very interested in zoology and I'd go off into the woods and onto the palms and I catch little animals and put them in jam jars and look at them and study them. So when I got to be a bit older I decided that I wanted to study living things. So I had a degree in zoology in one of the London universities and then I moved to another London University. So Originally University College London and King's College London. My second degree was a PhD, so I did that in a zoology department. But as it turns out it was the same department where the DNA work was done. It was the biophysics department where Rosalind Franklin, if you know the story, actually made the picture that became the basis of Watson and Crick's elucidation of the 3D structure of DNA, which was probably the most important finding that anybody ever made in biology because the structure immediately told you basically how DNA works. Uh, that was happening about the time I was born. And I went to this lab about 20 years later and some of the people there knew this whole story, some of the original equipment was there, you know, sort of an interesting place to be a young scientist.
Richard Miles: 2:29
Did this run in the family? I mean, what did your parents do? Were they scientists or any of your siblings? Did they also pursue science?
Gerry Shaw: 2:37
No... A bit of entrepreneurialship in the family. I guess my brother runs a internet company. Uh, my father was a surgical appliance maker, which meant we had a good occupation during the war because a lot of people needed a new plastic legs and arms and things. And My mother was a nurse so she works in a ho
A native of Sweden, Helena Cowley moved to the U.S. in 2009 as a teenager. She is the CEO of Captozyme, a company that developed an enzyme to degrade oxalates, a key component of kidney stones and possibly the source of other problems for the body.
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Intro: 0:01
Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James, Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We'll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We'll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Richard Miles: 0:41
This morning we have Helena Cowley who is the CEO of a company called Captozyme with us this morning. Welcome Helena.
Helena Cowley: 0:46
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
Richard Miles: 0:48
So Helena, we start out by asking our guests a little bit about themselves. So prior to becoming a CEO of a company, where are you from? Where were you born, what did your parents do? Do you have siblings, all that good stuff. And tell us a little bit about your pre-CEO days.
Helena Cowley: 1:03
So I actually was born and raised in Sweden. I grew up in a small town, but I spent most of my life in Gothenburg, which is the second largest city in Sweden. I grew up with two siblings and we have a great connection, but we're very different actually, I mean I've always been interested in the natural sciences. My sister studied psychology and my brother, he's actually an MBA working for Price Waterhouse Cooper, so there I got an opportunity to brag about my siblings, but I, I moved to the U.S. that was in 2009 and I actually had a short stint with a biotech company developing a medical device here in the area. I got connected with the area originally because there was a company here in Alachua that had their headquarters in Sweden and I did an internship in, back in 2007 with them and that's how I first got connected with the area and I just fell in love with it literally and moved back in 2009 after I had completed my master's in bioengineering in Sweden. And then I pursued a career here in the U.S.
Richard Miles: 2:16
Were you always drawn to sort of engineering and science? I mean, I know as a kid you played the piano right? And you played some soccer, so you're sort of athletic, musical, where did the science fit into this?
Helena Cowley: 2:28
It started with a high school teacher. He taught biology and chemistry and he was just really good at making it fun, which was the key, because I always say it's like a feedback loop. The things that you find fun, you spend more time on it, you get better at it and when you get better at it, it's more fun. So then you're in that positive feedback loop. So it really starts with doing something that's really fun.
Richard Miles: 2:58
And me about your parents, are either one of your parents a scientist? I know your mother is from China, right?
Helena Cowley: 3:04
That's correct. So my mother is originally Chinese and my father is Swedish and that's how I was born in Sweden and my mother is a registered nurse and she's actually working in dialysis in particular, which is interesting. So it relates to what I do now.
Richard Miles: 3:19
Do