COVID-19: How 900 Bytes Changed the World
Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón discuss COVID-19, DNA, and information.
Show Notes
- 01:09 | Introducing Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón, Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics at the University of Miami and Senior Researcher at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab
- 02:46 | A review of DNA
- 04:03 | A small amount of information can make a big change
- 08:03 | Coronavirus and information change
- 10:11 | The different kinds of coronaviruses
- 11:05 | Effects on air quality
- 12:43 | Other impacts of coronavirus
- 15:05 | The fundamental importance of information
Additional Resources
- Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón at the University of Miami
- Shannon information theory at Wikipedia
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
