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Arifa Akbar lost her sister far too young. She died from a 19th century illness in a 21st century hospital. Arifa’s journey through grief takes her to Rome, Keats…and gentle words of reflection.

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Everyone makes mistakes. How do you learn from them? Lessons from the classroom, the Air Force, and the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

RESOURCES:

• Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, by Amy Edmondson (2023).
• "You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It," by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022).
• "The Market for R&D Failures," by Manuel Trajtenberg and Roy Shalem (SSRN, 2010).
• "Performing a Project Premortem," by Gary Klein (Harvard Business Review, 2007).

EXTRAS:

• “How to Succeed at Failing,” series by Freakonomics Radio (2023).
• "Moncef Slaoui: 'It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen,'" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2020).

SOURCES:

• Will Coleman, founder and C.E.O. of Alto.
• Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership management at Harvard Business School.
• Babak Javid, physician-scientist and associate director of the University of California, San Francisco Center for Tuberculosis.
• Gary Klein, cognitive psychologist and pioneer in the field of naturalistic decision making.
• Theresa MacPhail, medical anthropologist and associate professor of science & technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
• Roy Shalem, lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
• Samuel West, curator and founder of The Museum of Failure.

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Today on Here's Where It Gets Interesting, we’ll continue to talk about some key players of the Jacksonian Era - and, before we get to this infamous scandal in Washington that I’ve been teasing you about, we need to learn about another one of our first ladies who never made it to the White House. Our next President’s wife actually passed away almost two decades before she would have been First Lady.

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Professor Johnjoe McFadden is on the show today, he is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey. His principle field of research is in molecular genetics, particularly of microbes that cause infectious diseasesand particularly antimicrobial resistance. Initially he did his PhD at Imperial College London and went on to work on human genetic diseases.

As well as studying infectious disease he has also been an advocate for Quantum Biology for nearly twenty years. 

In 2014, he, with the physicist, Jim Al-Khalili wrote ‘Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology’, describing recent exciting discoveries of quantum mechanisms in photosynthesis, bird navigation, enzymes and maybe even consciousness.

Today we talk about:

• What causes resistant bacteria
• The ‘scary twin’ phenomenon
• What we can learn from multidrug resistant TB (MDRTB)
• Issues with the current use of antimicrobials and how we can reduce the burden
• How quantum biology relates to human consciousness

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Vampire legends are a global phenomenon, and the trope of the blood-sucking humanoid shows no signs of vanishing from human traditions. But can we trace its origins back to any specific diseases and medical symptoms? In this blood-stained episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick haul up the vampire’s casket and look for signs of rabies, syphilis, dermatitis, tuberculosis and more.

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