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Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.
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He’s Here To End Death - EP 90 Dr. Emil Kendziorra (opens the original)
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A few years ago, some people put me in a van and drove me to the edge of Moscow. And by “the edge of Moscow,” I mean where things started to get a bit rural. We turned off a road and went toward what looked like a modest farmhouse with a shed. After exiting the van, we entered said shed and found two large metal containers that were full of human bodies and heads along with the bodies of many animals, including dogs, cats, and a hummingbird. Have a look.These bodies were being cryopreserved with
The Wordcel Queen Of Silicon Valley — EP 89 Anna Gát (opens the original)
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We’ve heard a lot of moonshot ideas on this podcast, but this week’s guest may have the most impossible one yet: making tech more cultured.In this episode, Ashlee sat down with Anna Gát, a Hungarian philosopher, playwright, and founder of Interintellect, a platform for hosting intellectual conversations online. She calls herself “the bridge” between the humanities, academia, and the tech world, which in practice means getting engineers to read Goethe.Gát grew up on a TV set in communist Hungary.
Investigation: Does LA Have The Chinese Work Ethic? (opens the original)
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If America is to build things again, it will be building things in Los Angeles.LA has become home to a multitude of manufacturing startups across energy, defense, aerospace and beyond. (Like, really … Read more
What’s In The Water At Waterloo? (opens the original)
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FOR YEARS, sources I’ve spoken to from all corners of the Bay Area tech scene have said this exact phrase: Waterloo creates cracked engineers.They always emphasize cracked, a techie badge of honor for the freakishly talented, the kind who work absurd hours and build impossible things. As journalists do, I decided this meme ought to be investigated.After arriving on a red-eye flight, filming a chess match with Geoffrey Hinton, and touring Toronto’s graffiti alley, I found myself inside a broom cl
Solar Energy's Second Act — EP 88 Joel Jean (opens the original)
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As a woo-woo Californian woman, I’m an appreciator of crystals and the healing properties of sunlight. It turns out I have a lot in common with this week’s guest.In this episode, Ashlee sits down with Joel Jean, CEO of Swift Solar, a San Carlos-based startup trying to create new solar technology using synthetic perovskite. We previously published a story about Swift, if you’re wondering what the fuck perovskite is! In short, it’s a crystal that turns sunlight into electricity better and cheaper
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