Walter Isaacson’s latest exploration of the lives of creative geniuses focuses on Jennifer Doudna, the co-inventor of the revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR. Alan explores with Isaacson his fascination with people who have changed the world, from Leonardo to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.
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Apr 28
Jon LaPook: Empathic medicine
CBS News’ medical correspondent, he also heads the Empathy Project, creating Hollywood-quality short films that train healthcare providers to be more humane and help empower patients to be effective participants in their own care. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm ... Show More
35m 36s
Apr 21
Valerie Fridland: Yes, you have an accent
Whether it’s the accent that hints at your hometown, your group, your social status or your ethnicity, the sounds we say reveal a lot about who we are and where we’ve been – even for those who might think they have no accent at all. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See p ... Show More
37m 30s
Apr 14
David Haskell: When the world burst into bloom
Flowering plants were late to evolve, but once they did, they took over most of the planet, connecting and communicating with a network of other living things and making possible our own evolution. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information abou ... Show More
37m 11s
Nov 2025
Best Of: Decoding Elon Musk
When Walter Isaacson, the legendary biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinci, started shadowing Elon Musk, he found himself following "a guy who was one of the most popular people on the planet, and ended up with a guy who's the most con ... Show More
1h 6m
Aug 2024
044 - Sandra Rose Michael
<div>In this engaging episode of the Think Tank Podcast, Robert dives deep into a conversation with Dr. Sandra Rose Michael, a trailblazer in integrative medicine and biophysics. The discussion explores her revolutionary work in biophotonics and scalar wave technology, which aims ... Show More
1h 45m
Nov 2024
Leonardo da Vinci with Ken Burns
<p>Leonardo da Vinci was a man like no other. A restless visionary and polymath, his paintings are some of the best known of all works of art.</p><br><p>To talk about Leonardo, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb is joined by Ken Burns, the multi-award winning American filmmaker who has ... Show More
39m 26s
Sep 2024
Ep483 - Robert Greene | Mastery
Robert Greene visits Google to discuss his latest book, "Mastery." What did Charles Darwin, a middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the similar choices made by Mozart and by Caesa ... Show More
1h 1m