Microbiology
Subject in Life Sciences
Microbiology has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including TED Radio Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Anne MaddenMicrobiologist and founder and chief scientist of the Microbe Institute
Madden worries about microbes lost to extinction through habitat destruction such as clear-cutting forests.
“what keeps me up at night sometimes is thinking about all the microbes that have gone extinct”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 17:07
Madden predicts microbes will solve more human problems over the next century.
“the next 100 years will feature these microscopic creatures solving more of our problems”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 10:56
Madden estimates scientists know only a small fraction of microbial species.
“Maybe we know 1 to 10% of what these species are”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 2:36
Madden argues that the diversity of microbes in homes represents a vast source of solutions to human problems.
“It is 100,000 new sources of solutions to human problems”
TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 5:27
Podcasts
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
The shocking power of tiny thingsTED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.