The Connected Ideas Project
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Podcast
Science
Technology
Policy
Futures
Fiction
The Long Form
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
Ep 50 - Moral World Building and the Launch of a New Partnership
I brought the science, and Sean brought the fiction. How a novel partnership built Synthetic Eden into a hard science fiction take on modern bioethics…
Sep 9
•
Alexander Titus
2
43:54
Ep 49 - Mammoths, Moonshots, and the Messiness of Life
What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life
Sep 3
•
Alexander Titus
3
13:29
August 2025
Ep 48 - The Model That Reprograms Cell Identity
How specialized AI models are rewriting the code of cell identity and accelerating regenerative biology
Aug 26
•
Alexander Titus
1
14:12
Ep 47 - Seven Moonshots for the Century of Biology
From decoding life to redesigning society, the moonshots that chart our biological future
Aug 19
•
Alexander Titus
8
15:34
Synthetic Eden ARCs are dropping soon - sign up before they close
You are why I write this newsletter, and I'd like to say thank you with an advanced reader copy of my debut novel. You helped make this a reality, so be…
Aug 15
•
Alexander Titus
3
Ep 46 - Manhattan Genomics and the Kobayashi Maru of Biology
At the frontier of technology, humanity is the experiment. The question now is, who is designing the experiment?
Aug 12
•
Alexander Titus
6
12:29
Synthetic Eden is Coming — ARC Readers Wanted
Join me for an advanced reader copy of Synthetic Eden and be one of the first in the world to read my full debut novel
Aug 8
•
Alexander Titus
9
Ep 45 - At the Frontier of Biology, Language Models Are the Lab Techs
When the lab protocol thinks back and CRISPR meets its AI counterpart
Aug 5
•
Alexander Titus
4
15:12
How a Frog Froze Itself and Froze Time
Finding the real science behind the sleep that carried us to the stars
Aug 1
•
Alexander Titus
3
July 2025
Ep 44 - The Science of Story: Why Narrativity Belongs in Technical Writing
A landmark paper from grad school still shapes how I write, speak, and think today—especially when it comes to TCIP.
Jul 29
•
Alexander Titus
3
14:01
The Myth of the Lone Genius: How Three Minds Built a Living Story
The experiment was the writing itself
Jul 25
•
Alexander Titus
2
Ep 43 - The Fungus Among Us: When Ecosystems Collapse and Science Plays God
Genetic engineering, ecological collapse, and the cost of getting it wrong
Jul 22
•
Alexander Titus
8
10:04
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
