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Corey and Steve speak with Ted Shultz, research Entomologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Ted is an expert in Leaf Cutter Ant evolution and systematics. Topics discussed include evolution, systematics, the genetic basis of behavior,  E. O. Wilson and small revolutions in science.ResourcesTed SchultzScience Magazine Table of Contents – December 9, 1994As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods (Seymour Benzer)The City Under the Back StepsTranscript

Corey and Steve interview Noor Siddiqui, a student at Stanford studying AI, Machine Learning, and Genomics. She was previously a Thiel Fellow, and founded a medical collaboration technology startup after high school. The conversation covers topics like college admissions, Tiger parenting, Millennials, Stanford, Silicon Valley startup culture, innovation in the US healthcare industry, and Simplicity and Genius.ResourcesNoor SiddiquiThiel FellowsTranscript

Corey and Steve are joined by Bobby Kausthuri, a Neuroscientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. Bobby specializes in nanoscale mapping of brains using automated fine slicing followed by electron microscopy. Among the topics covered: Brain mapping, the nature of scientific progress (philosophy of science), Biology vs Physics, Is the brain too complex to be understood by our brains? AlphaGo, the Turing Test, and wiring diagrams, Are scientists underpaid? The future of Neuroscience.▶️ WATCH: Bobby Kausthuri & Brain Mapping — Episode #2ResourcesBobby Kasthuri BioThe Physicist and the Neuroscientist: A Tale of Two ConnectomesComputing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan M. TuringTranscript

Corey and Steve discuss news of gene edited babies in China, and the future of human genetic engineering.▶️ Watch: CRISPR Babies — Episode #1ResourcesGeneration CRISPR?He did it: He Jiankui talk at HKU conference on gene editingEconomist Radio podcast interview on Genomic PredictionTranscript

Corey and Steve, friends for almost 30 years, introduce each other to the audience.Caltech Traditions and Prankshttp://www.admissions.caltech.edu/exp...Steve’s blog, Information Processing http://infoproc.blogspot.comman·i·fold  /ˈmanəˌfōld/   many and various.In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locallyresembles Euclidean space near each point.