According to Ruchi Thanawala M.D., M.S., Co-founder of Firefly Lab , an educational data management system (platform) for tracking medical, clinical, and procedural performance, 234,000,000 are performed every year, and the skill of a surgeon accounts for 25% of the overall outcome of the surgery. With this in mind, we spoke with Ruchi to understand more about the work Firefly Lab is doing to bring quantitative data science into medical and surgical education. In this episode, we cover: How Fire...
Jan 20, 2023•26 min•Season 6Ep. 7
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3X6p7SB While remote work comes with many benefits, it can be hard for employers to create an environment that fosters a sense of belonging that encourages employees to stick around. In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back po...
Jan 06, 2023•30 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3X6p7SB How do founders come up with startup names? And what makes a great startup name? Well, if you are feeling lazy, you could use a startup name generator. However, if you want something that will really make an impact, then...
Dec 23, 2022•20 min•Season 6Ep. 5
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3X6p7SB With a population of over 331 million , the US is a great market to create a startup, giving founders the opportunity to build a booming company without ever having to leave the country. However, for founders in smaller ...
Dec 09, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 4
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3X6p7SB One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar ...
Nov 25, 2022•19 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to build a world-class software engineering team, then this is the episode for you. In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we speak with Sashank Purighalla , Founder and...
Nov 11, 2022•23 min•Season 6Ep. 2
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc According to The NewYorker , ketamine therapy is going mainstream, as the drug has been shown to help people suffering from anxiety and depression. Moreover, evidence that this drug can help those suffering from mental h...
Oct 28, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc In 2014, Jose M. Azares established a boutique burger shop brand that would later expand to three locations across Alberta, Canada. Due to the high turnover rate in the hospitality industry, Azares was constantly taking ...
Oct 14, 2022•20 min•Season 5Ep. 25
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Less than 9% of the 300 million tonnes of plastic produced every year is actually recycled. In order to change this, we must first see a change in consumer behavior. In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, we explore how the Everything as a Service (XaaS) economy stands to be a v...
Sep 30, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 24
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc If you’re on TikTok, there is a chance you may be familiar with a trend known as "product overload." According to Insider , it is a trend that involves mixing cleaning chemicals in sinks and toilets to create "mesmerizin...
Sep 16, 2022•25 min•Season 5Ep. 23
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc In 2011, Aaron Labbé was diagnosed with Bi-polar 1 Disorder, after over a year of un-diagnosed mania and psychosis that caused a number of lasting scars in his life. In February 2012, he was forcibly hospitalized for the...
Sep 02, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc When the pandemic hit, Jerry Kolber , co-creator of National Geographic's Brain Games and Netflix’s Brainchild , alongside his producing partners discovered they had two things at hand, a lot of time and a lot of ideas. ...
Aug 19, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 21
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc In a number of past episodes on Brain Byte Back, we have focused on what it is like to live as a digital nomad , and solutions to tackle the challenges of the new decentralized workforce , but in today’s episode we will ...
Aug 05, 2022•17 min•Season 5Ep. 22
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc In 2016, Adam David Jones woke up from a coma in a trauma center with no memory of how he got there. They told him someone had smashed the back of his skull in with a cinderblock and that half his skull was gone from eme...
Jul 22, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 20
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc Indoor air quality has a huge impact on our health and well-being, yet it is often overlooked. According to the WHO , roughly 3.8 million people a year die from indoor air pollution. This is a staggeringly high number, b...
Jul 08, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 19
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc Back when we first launched Brains Byte Back in 2019, in one of our earliest episodes , we interview a Certified Sexual Addiction Counselor and a Professor of Gender and Sexuality studies and asked them the question “Is ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 18
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc When you get into a slump, it can be hard to pull yourself out. This is something the pandemic made very real for many of us. In fact, according to a survey by Public Health England (PHE), more than 40% of adults in Engl...
Jun 10, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 17
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc In our modern society, businesses across the globe are taking a stand for ethics and beliefs they believe in, or at least that their customers believe in. Sometimes businesses are built around the idea of an ethical prin...
May 27, 2022•25 min•Season 5Ep. 16
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “ Wild, Wild Country .” Well in today’s episode we speak with a...
May 13, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc It may come as no surprise that many are still feeling the psychological impact of the pandemic . And, as mental health becomes less stigmatized, a new wave of apps and companies, such as BetterHelp and Talkspace , have ...
Apr 29, 2022•41 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc From time to time, in one way or another, most of us can relate to having an inability to focus, being easily distracted, being poorly organized, and sometimes being impulsive. For those that suffer from ADHD, this can b...
Apr 15, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 13
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc Changing our behavior can be difficult but necessary if we want to see a change in our lives. This is true for every type of change we want to see in our lives, from our health to our finances, and for the latter, this h...
Apr 01, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc When it comes to political research and building your own political opinion before voting, it can be easy to find opinions, but hard to find unbiased data, research, and information. This was the issue that inspired Kell...
Mar 18, 2022•25 min•Season 5Ep. 11
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc Mental health and addiction have been longstanding issues across societies around the world. However, in our modern society, as stigma subsides around these issues, conversations and solutions have arisen. In today’s epi...
Mar 04, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc If you have heard of the term Non-Fungible Token (NFT) or the metaverse and wondered what these things are, then you are in the right place. Because in today’s episode we will be breaking down NFTs and the metaverse, and...
Feb 18, 2022•23 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc Have you ever wondered what will happen to your NFTs and crypto when you die? Well, if you don’t have a plan in place, chances are, they will be lost. As more assets become digitized and decentralized, it has never been ...
Feb 04, 2022•24 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year's resolutions. If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place,...
Jan 21, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 7
As we enter 2022, in this episode, we will look back at some of our greatest Brains Byte Back clips of last year. And since we did a best of episode halfway through 2021 right before we took a break, this roundup will primarily focus on episodes from the second half of the year. It will include clips from: Mapping the Avenues of Addiction in our Brains AI-Assisted Recruiting Will Help Put Education Alongside Career Path Finding Solutions to the Challenges of the New Decentralized Workforce Augme...
Jan 07, 2022•33 min
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc If you have noticed the growing presence of AI in the workforce and ever wondered how it might impact you, this is the episode for you. Because in today’s episode we will explore what jobs will last in the fa...
Dec 17, 2021•28 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Episode Description below⬇️ Leave an iTunes review here - https://apple.co/3i60XWu Subscribe on Youtube here - https://bit.ly/3o1M4Z3 Follow us on your favorite podcast platform here - https://bit.ly/3kTfNkY Find out more about our sponsor Publicize here - https://bit.ly/3BqDUxc The pandemic was unquestionably a very difficult time for many around the world. However, if the pandemic had any silver lining, it is the increased acceptance of working remotely, for those whose jobs allow it. This has...
Dec 03, 2021•22 min•Season 5Ep. 5
