Denis Noble – The Cutting Edge of Biology

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Denis Noble CBE FRS FRCP FMedSci has a veritable alphabet soup after his name. It's kind of hard to pronounce, and it always becomes a point of conversation for him. But you don't get that many letters after your name for nothing. Noble is a longtime public intellectual, having been the first to mathematically describe the heart's pacemaker with computer models. And then the first to explain it to everyone else.
"I think what we're witnessing at the moment is quite a fundamental change in the way in which biology is viewed," says Noble. He goes into further detail. Most people think of our origins as a species to be "solved," to be "all sorted out." In fact, the theory of evolution is just that: a theory. There is still late-breaking news in gene mutation and selection in the field. There's still a lot to figure out.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.9	Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.
0:17.7	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.7	Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.
0:29.6	I have a very, very exciting guest today.
0:32.6	Dennis Noble, we're going to be talking about genetics and the microbiome and all kinds of interesting topics
0:40.3	and Dennis has so many credentials. If I try to describe them, I'm going to bungle it. So I'm going to ask Dennis to do a intro of himself and a brief background.
0:49.3	So Dennis, how you doing and thank you for coming? Well, delighted to come and join your podcast. Incidentally,
0:58.9	when it comes to all of those credentials, one of my critics describes my name as being
1:06.3	followed by a veritable alphabet soup.
1:19.9	He must have seen the CBE, the FRS, the FRCP, and the A.E.
1:23.0	And goodness knows, I know what you mean.
1:30.1	We seem to go in for these in the United Kingdom in a way that I don't think happened in quite the same way in the United States.
1:33.2	But what it does indicate, I think, is that, well, I'm quite an old hand at science and
1:43.6	discussing science with the public, you don't get all those
1:49.0	alphabets after your name for nothing. And I think that the reason that's happened with me
1:55.9	is that first, I was the first person to describe mathematically how your heart's pacemaker works.
2:05.3	In other words, I accounted for the rhythm of the heart in mathematical terms using the computer models,
2:11.8	and that was based very, very firmly on experimental data from real art cells. But later, I became very, very doubtful indeed
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