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  • Rob Reid
    1:44 pm Thu, Dec 6, 2018
    Interview with the astronomer who speculated that Oumuamua might be a sign of extraterrestrial life

    As his title indicates, Harvard astronomy department chairman Avi Loeb is an extremely credentialed astronomer. So when he asserted that an object currently passing through our solar system might just… Read the rest of the article: Interview with the astronomer who speculated that Oumuamua might be a sign of extraterrestrial life

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  • Rob Reid
    2:28 pm Wed, Oct 3, 2018
    Will the human race survive the twenty-first Century?

    My guest in this edition of the After On podcast is British Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. And just to state the obvious? Astronomer Royal is such a cool title. And… Read the rest of the article: Will the human race survive the twenty-first Century?

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  • Rob Reid
    2:46 pm Mon, Jul 2, 2018
    Synthetic biologist Floyd Romesberg is developing a third, artificial base pair for DNA

    For billions of years, all life on Earth – in all of its mad diversity – has been encoded in the four-letter alphabet of DNA. A,T,G, and C – that's… Read the rest of the article: Synthetic biologist Floyd Romesberg is developing a third, artificial base pair for DNA

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  • Rob Reid
    3:45 pm Thu, Jun 21, 2018
    Interview with Stewart Brand on the 50th anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog

    Many people have equated Stewart Brand to the mythical "World's Most Interesting Man," who was featured for years in those Dos Equis commercials. Enough people that the comparison's a bit… Read the rest of the article: Interview with Stewart Brand on the 50th anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog

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  • Rob Reid
    2:27 pm Wed, May 30, 2018
    The crazy range of medical developments vying to extend or radically improve our lives

    I don't know anyone with a broader purview on the crazy range of medical developments that are vying to extend or radically improve our lives than Daniel Kraft. Daniel is… Read the rest of the article: The crazy range of medical developments vying to extend or radically improve our lives

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  • Rob Reid
    2:25 pm Wed, May 23, 2018
    Depression: the psychedelic cure

    George Goldsmith and Katya Malievskaia are a married couple whose startup – Compass Pathways – will soon launch the largest triple-blind clinical trial ever of a psychedelic drug. The drug… Read the rest of the article: Depression: the psychedelic cure

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  • Rob Reid
    8:37 am Tue, Apr 3, 2018
    The astounding present and dizzying future of synthetic biology

    George Church's Harvard lab is one of the most celebrated fonts of innovation in the world of life sciences. George's earliest work on the Human Genome Project arguably pre-dated the… Read the rest of the article: The astounding present and dizzying future of synthetic biology

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  • Rob Reid
    10:03 am Fri, Mar 23, 2018
    Rodney Brooks on the present and future of robotics & AI

    Rodney Brooks is the father of the Roomba, the founder of iRobot, and the creator of both the Baxter and Sawyer product lines from Rethink Robotics. He's arguably the world's… Read the rest of the article: Rodney Brooks on the present and future of robotics & AI

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  • Rob Reid
    1:51 pm Tue, Mar 6, 2018
    Why neuroscientist David Eagleman thinks we live in the past

    When David Eagleman was a kid, he and his friends infiltrated a nearby construction site. Soon enough, he was tumbling three stories to the ground. The fall seemed to take… Read the rest of the article: Why neuroscientist David Eagleman thinks we live in the past

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  • Rob Reid
    5:45 pm Thu, Mar 1, 2018
    On tumors, MRIs and telepathy: Mary Lou Jepsen on the future of devices that could read images from our brains

    Mary Lou Jepsen was finishing her PhD work in holography at Brown University when she started getting sick. Really sick. After a year of steady decline, she was living in… Read the rest of the article: On tumors, MRIs and telepathy: Mary Lou Jepsen on the future of devices that could read images from our brains

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  • Rob Reid
    5:45 pm Wed, Jan 17, 2018
    If Aubrey de Grey is right, you could live forever

    I first met Aubrey de Grey over ten years ago, when he presented at a conference I attended. And his core message blew my mind. It was — and remains… Read the rest of the article: If Aubrey de Grey is right, you could live forever

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  • Rob Reid
    1:36 pm Thu, Jan 4, 2018
    John Hodgman and others read the After On audiobook

    Over the past couple of weeks, I ran two unusual episodes of the After On Podcast, both of them connected to … After On! The novel, that is. The podcast… Read the rest of the article: John Hodgman and others read the After On audiobook

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  • Rob Reid
    8:54 am Fri, Dec 15, 2017
    Cryptocurrency: From Basic Definitions to Expert Issues in One Interview

    You'd have to be living in some kind of a news blackout not to have heard chatter about cryptocurrencies recently. The granddaddy of 'em all – BitCoin – has appreciated… Read the rest of the article: Cryptocurrency: From Basic Definitions to Expert Issues in One Interview

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  • Rob Reid
    4:47 pm Thu, Nov 30, 2017
    The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018)

    Imagine that a folded note before you reveals — definitively — whether an excruciating, protracted neurological death lies a decade into your future. Should you look? Do so, and you… Read the rest of the article: The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018)

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  • Rob Reid
    8:48 pm Mon, Nov 20, 2017
    Music Piracy: The Extraterrestrial Threat

    I'm taking a week off from producing a full podcast, and am instead presenting what I hope will be a fun Thanksgiving road-trip accompaniment. It's an audibobook excerpt. But since… Read the rest of the article: Music Piracy: The Extraterrestrial Threat

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  • Rob Reid
    1:02 pm Mon, Nov 6, 2017
    An hour with Ev Williams: founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger

    As I say at the start of our interview, Ev has founded an almost unreasonably long list of companies – and the three listed above each had huge impacts on… Read the rest of the article: An hour with Ev Williams: founder of Medium, Twitter, and Blogger

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  • Rob Reid
    6:45 pm Thu, Oct 26, 2017
    TED Chief Chris Anderson on the neuroscience of memes and the future of TED

    Before Chris Anderson bought it in 2001, the TED conference was like a hip indie band only the in-crowd knew about. It was cool, small, had incredible buzz, and always… Read the rest of the article: TED Chief Chris Anderson on the neuroscience of memes and the future of TED

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  • Rob Reid
    12:38 pm Wed, Oct 18, 2017
    Space archaeology: A conversation with TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak

    The After On podcast a series of unhurried conversations with thinkers, founders, and scientists. It began as a complement to the novel After On, in that its first eight episodes explore science,… Read the rest of the article: Space archaeology: A conversation with TED Prize winner Sarah Parcak

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  • Rob Reid
    1:18 pm Wed, Oct 11, 2017
    After On Podcast: The Tim O'Reilly Interview

    In this week's episode of the After On podcast, I interview Tim O'Reilly – one of the most original and influential thinkers in tech. His new book, WTF, debuts today.… Read the rest of the article: After On Podcast: The Tim O'Reilly Interview

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  • Rob Reid
    5:01 pm Thu, Oct 5, 2017
    Chris Anderson: Drone mogul and former bass player for REM (no, not *that* REM).

    (Photo: Joi Ito, CC-BY) He's not the only major figure in the world of tech and ideas who goes by Chris Anderson. His namesake runs the TED conference – whereas… Read the rest of the article: Chris Anderson: Drone mogul and former bass player for REM (no, not *that* REM).

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