The Source Code

Even if you think you can't afford it, there are ways to buy a home and leverage it as an investment. Real Estate prodigy Skylar Brillante drops by to drop some knowledge on me. He explains how investors do things, how to buy a house and what your options are if you already own a ... Show More

A DNA test sends me down the rabbit hole of ancestry until I’m stuck with a dilemma that could change my life. I don’t remember my grandparents. When their stories were told it meant nothing to me. A DNA test inspires me to discover my ancestry for myself until a sudden event cha ... Show More

Can prodigies be created with early specialization? Laszlo Polgar was an educational psychologist who believed they could. He experimented with his own children and the results were fascinating. This is Part 1 of a re-release of the first 3 Prodigy episodes. They are meant to be ... Show More

<p>If it was possible to take a full scan of all of the DNA of every cell in and on your body the results would be startling: Only 1 percent would be human. The other 99 percent comprises all of the bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes you literally cannot live without.</p ... Show More

<p>Every person has a set of chromosomes, or coiled strands of DNA. Check out this HowStuffWorks podcast to learn how chromosomes combine to promote variation from one generation to the next.</p><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwor ... Show More

All sorts of exotic and often terrible stuff runs through our heads when we think of genetic mutations, but the vast majority of them are caught before they happen thanks to the crack teams replicating our DNA in our cells.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

One of the more futuristic things around right now on Earth is research into encoding data into strings of genetic code.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Sam Harris speaks with Robert Plomin about the role that DNA plays in determining who we are. They discuss the birth of behavioral genetics, the taboo around studying the influence of genes on human psychology, controversies surrounding the topic of group differences, the first l ... Show More

An at-home DNA test kit reveals a horrifying truth. But who has the right to tell the story? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

A legacy isn’t just something you leave behind, it’s something you carry on. Our DNA holds the stories of that legacy and in this episode, the Ellises unlock some of those stories with their report from 23andMe. Dead ass.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In this episode Benny and Mal think about why knowing more about our DNA might be a good thing. Knowing which health issues we might suffer from would mean we could be prepared. But what if we learned we would face many horrible diseases – do we really want to know what the futur ... Show More

Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate heredity, the genius of Gregor Mendel, the ethics of altering our genes, the future of genetic medicine, patent issues in genetic research, controversies about race and intelligence, a ... Show More

Want to know who you really are? Take an at-home DNA test, just like over 26 million others have around the globe. But the question is: why? For many, it’s just a bit of fun; for others it might be for medical insight. But for everyone, it promises to tell you who you really are ... Show More