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Genesis Undone: The Long Arc of Echoes

Divine Blueprint: When the Future Starts Remembering Where It Came From

Ep 51 - Teaching Science to Know Itself

Hubris Rising: When Science Fiction Starts Reading Like a Policy Brief

Synthetic Eden: Why We Needed a New Story About the Futures We’re Building

Ep 50 - Moral World Building and the Launch of a New Partnership

Ep 49 - Mammoths, Moonshots, and the Messiness of Life

Ep 48 - The Model That Reprograms Cell Identity

Ep 47 - Seven Moonshots for the Century of Biology

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Ep 46 - Manhattan Genomics and the Kobayashi Maru of Biology

Synthetic Eden is Coming — ARC Readers Wanted

Ep 45 - At the Frontier of Biology, Language Models Are the Lab Techs

How a Frog Froze Itself and Froze Time

Ep 44 - The Science of Story: Why Narrativity Belongs in Technical Writing

The Myth of the Lone Genius: How Three Minds Built a Living Story

Ep 43 - The Fungus Among Us: When Ecosystems Collapse and Science Plays God

The Art of the Impossible: Why I’m Writing a Science Fiction Novel

You Just Read the First Chapter of My Debut Novel - Join Me for More

On the Wings of a Pig

Ep 42 - A Shift in Cadence, A Step Toward Impact

Ep 41 - Editing the Future: Why People Are (Finally) Talking About Gene Editing for Babies Again

Ep 40 - AI 2027: When Forecasts Feel Like Fiction and Hit Like Strategy

The Snow Never Fell

Ep 39 - Where Does a Mammoth Start and an Elephant End?

NatSec Biotech Prologue: Rewriting the DNA of Global Power

Ep 38 - Reports are nice, but legislation makes reality

The Icebound Covenant

Ep 37 - The Allies Genome: Biotechnology and the New Alliance Playbook

How To Win Markets and Influence Policy

Lines of Life

Ep 36 - Biotechnology’s Most Needed Infrastructure: People

Moving from Academia to Biotech

Velvet Eclipse

Ep 35 - Out-Innovate or Be Outpaced: The Biotech Innovation Imperative

The Quiet Wars

Ep 34 - The Frontlines of the Future: Biotechnology and the New Face of Defense

The Fifth Pillar

Ep 33 - We Can’t Just Discover, We Have to Deliver: The Real Work of Scaling U.S. Biotechnology

The Genome in Fifty Pieces

Ep 32 - Not Just Another Report: Chapter 1 and the Battle to Lead in Biotechnology

The Second Century

Ep 31 - Hello Senator, We Recommend You Take Biotechnology Seriously

Invisible Hands

Ep 30 - The Next National Security Race: How Biotech is Rewriting Global Power

Ministry of Futures

Ep 29 - Science Fiction in a Suit, Policy in a T-Shirt

The Last Outbreak

Ep 28 - The Real Risks, and Real Promise, of AI in Biotech from the Perspective of the National Academies

Through the Looking Glass: A Mirror Life Odyssey

Ep 27 - The Mirror Life Problem: When Every Threat Looks Like the Next Existential Crisis

The Long Form: Essays & Explorations

SSI Part 7: A Fragile Bond

Ep 26 - The Slowdown in AI for Biology: A Pause or a Plateau?

SSI Part 6: Awakening

Ep 25 - The Future of American Scientific Research Funding

SSI Part 5: The Architects of Flesh

Ep 24 - From Chaos to Clarity: Organizing Life’s Code in the Genomic Era

SSI Part 4: The Inheritors

Ep 23 - Heritable Polygenic Editing: Closer Than You Think

SSI Part 3: The Catalyst

Ep 22 - The Nobel Turing Challenge: A New Dawn for Discovery

SSI Part 2: Flesh Made Algorithm

Ep 21 - Polyintelligence and the Art of Connected Ideas

SSI Part 1: The Silent War

Ep 20 - A New Frontier in AI Sovereignty

The Price of Vitality

Ep 19 - Building Tomorrow’s Bioeconomy: A Quiet Revolution in Biomanufacturing

The Fine Print

Ep 18 - Anticipating Biological Risk: A Toolkit for Strategic Biosecurity Policy

The Printing Press