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Ep 42 - A Shift in Cadence, A Step Toward Impact
This September will mark one full year since I launched The Connected Ideas Project.
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Alexander Titus
4:38
Ep 41 - Editing the Future: Why People Are (Finally) Talking About Gene Editing for Babies Again
As science advances and public opinion warms, gene editing embryos to prevent disease is moving from taboo to possibility, raising new questions about…
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Alexander Titus
15:25
Ep 40 - AI 2027: When Forecasts Feel Like Fiction and Hit Like Strategy
The AI future experts are predicting for us in 2027
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Alexander Titus
15:02
The Snow Never Fell
Where Extinction Ends and Existence Begins
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Alexander Titus
2
Ep 39 - Where Does a Mammoth Start and an Elephant End?
On dire wolves, de-extinction, and the strange privilege of building what comes next
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Alexander Titus
9:56

May 2025

NatSec Biotech Prologue: Rewriting the DNA of Global Power
If I were to write Chip War for biotech, this is how I would start the book
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Alexander Titus
Ep 38 - Reports are nice, but legislation makes reality
The first bill introduced to implement the recommendations from the NSCEB's final report
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Alexander Titus
2
19:23
The Icebound Covenant
Sitting by a lake, watching frogs that never knew they were the reason we survived
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Alexander Titus
Ep 37 - The Allies Genome: Biotechnology and the New Alliance Playbook
Chapter 6 of the NSCEB Final Report
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Alexander Titus
11:19
How To Win Markets and Influence Policy
A game theoretic approach to navigating science in the 21st century
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Evan Peikon
Lines of Life
How Biotech Became the New National Service
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Alexander Titus
2
Ep 36 - Biotechnology’s Most Needed Infrastructure: People
Chapter 5 of the NSCEB Final Report
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Alexander Titus
18:35
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