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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
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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
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Alexander Titus
3
13:29
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
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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
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Alexander Titus
8
15:34
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
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Alexander Titus
6
12:29
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
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Alexander Titus
4
15:12
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
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Alexander Titus
3
14:01
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
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Alexander Titus
8
10:04
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…
Jun 17
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Alexander Titus
4
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
Jun 10
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Alexander Titus
15:02
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
Jun 3
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Alexander Titus
2
9:56
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
May 30
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Alexander Titus
2
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