This weeks audio picks features episodes from Futures in Biotech with Marc Pelletier, one of several shows featured on the TWiT.tv Netcast Network with Leo Laporte.

TWiT.tv's history is pretty extensive, so I'll point you over to them to see what it's all about. These guys have a number of podcasts going on a regular basis. Besides Futures in Biotech, a random sampling of other topics are MacBreak Weekly, Daily Giz Wiz, Security Now, and Jumping Monkeys. I found TWiT.tv when I was reading up on Drizzle, the current work coming from Brian Aker and other folks from the MySQL project. Brian was interviewed for FLOSS Weekly 35, the weekly open source-oriented podcast at TWiT.tv.

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Now on to this week's podcast picks from Futures in Biotech. Marc Pelletier is a biotechnologist, and host of the podcast. The byline for Futures in Biotech is found on the FiB site:

"This netcast explores the rapidly changing world of biotech, with a penchant towards getting a better understanding of who we are and where we are going. The living world will soon be a true substrate for engineering. Our world will change, and so will we.
We bring a first hand account from the scientists that are moving us into this new technological era - the era of biotech."

In prior blog posts here at Appistry, I've talked about my interest in the synthesis and cross-pollination of ideas between disciplines. Besides strictly  biotechnological topics, Marc has been interviewing folks from the space industry, another of my interests. He does this with the hope of exploring the cross-pollination between biotechnology and space sciences. For example, in episode 23, he interviews Dr. Buzz Aldrin, one of the first to walk on the moon, and in episode 26, he speaks with Dr. Harrison Schmitt, the last man to walk on the moon. Both men are still very active in mankind's reach into space. I'm a firm believer in the value that comes from space exploration, both in terms of knowledge gained, and the technological advances we all subsequently benefit from. Both interviews are excellent, and a great listen, and there are other space-related interviews that I've not gotten too yet.

See you next week with more. Meanwhile, keep learning!