You're listening to Bull proof radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that young scientists are doing more innovative research

than you would ever possibly believe.

When I was a high schooler doing a science fair, I don't remember what I did, but

it was pretty lame.

This year's winners, the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Awards, which is the nation's oldest

prestigious search for young scientists, found these three teenagers, a guy named Benji

in New York, developed a mathematical model that uses disease data to predict how weather

pattern spreads spores of a fungus, which caused the Irish potato famine.

I can't even imagine doing this as a young person.

How would you have access to all of the knowledge and compute resources and things like that?

Second place was a young woman named Natalia Orlovsky from Pennsylvania, who looked at the

response of lung epithelial cells to fluids in vaping.

Third place went to Izzani Singh of Colorado, who figured out that women with Turner syndrome,

which is a genetic abnormality, do have some cells with two X chromosomes.

What's going on here is the sum of human knowledge is greater than it's ever been in

all of history.

It's more accessible than it's ever been because you don't need card catalogs in microfiche

or even mostly libraries.

The libraries are amazing places.

They're not the only places to learn things.

We have a whole generation of young people, like these young men and these two young women,

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