Family Impacts Economic Success

Family Impacts Economic Success

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Peaceful Muslims, Unboiling Eggs, Drones, Economic Success

Episode: Peaceful Muslims, Unboiling Eggs, Drones, Economic Success

  • Feb 17, 2015 10:00 pm
  • 28:52 mins

W. Bradford Wilcox, Sociologist and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia  “When you’re looking at raising kids, it’s much easier to do with two parents in the home,” says Wilcox.  “Married men tend to make 16,000 dollars more than their single peers,” whereas for women, “there is no personal financial advantage of getting married, or any penalty,” explains Wilcox.  “In general we found, kids in a single parent family tend to do worse,” says Wilcox, “as compared to a two parent family, doing the best.”

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Unboiling Eggs and Cancer Treatment

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Guest: Gregory Weiss, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine  How to boil an egg is among the simplest first lessons a home cook learns. Unboiling the egg, is certainly not. A team at the University of California, Irvine, in partnership with Australian chemists, recently published a paper in the journal ChemBioChem explaining how to turn a boiled hen egg back into liquid to help reduce costs in cancer treatments.  “I’m really interested in the proteins that drive cancer cells to become tumors. Those kinds of protein cells,” says Weiss, “are truly evil. I want develop things that will detect those kinds of proteins so we can quickly diagnose the cancer.”

Guest: Gregory Weiss, Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine  How to boil an egg is among the simplest first lessons a home cook learns. Unboiling the egg, is certainly not. A team at the University of California, Irvine, in partnership with Australian chemists, recently published a paper in the journal ChemBioChem explaining how to turn a boiled hen egg back into liquid to help reduce costs in cancer treatments.  “I’m really interested in the proteins that drive cancer cells to become tumors. Those kinds of protein cells,” says Weiss, “are truly evil. I want develop things that will detect those kinds of proteins so we can quickly diagnose the cancer.”