In this episode of "Technically Human," I speak with Carl Zimmer, who reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life.
Drawing from his experience hosting the popular podcast "What is Life?" Carl explains the meaning of life to me, and he talks about what it means to write about it. We talk about the challenges of writing and reading about science, and how we should read articles about the most urgent scientific concern of our moment: Coronavirus.
Zimmer is a popular speaker at universities, medical schools, museums, and festivals, and he teaches workshops and seminars at Yale. His column Matter appears weekly in The New York Times, and he is the author of thirteen books about science, including his newest book is She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Power, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.
He is, to his knowledge, the only writer after whom a species of tapeworm has been named.
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Body Snatchers: Manjula Padmanabhan discusses the drama of technology and the black market of organ harvesting
Word Processing: how tech transforms translation
The Next Generation of AI
Creative (R)evolution: PJ Manney and science fiction for good
Running Interference: will democracy survive foreign cyber attacks?
The Private Square: democracy and the attention economy
Digital Democracy
The LAWS of War: Lethal autonomous weapons systems and the new ethics of warfare
Grimm Futures: Technology’s fairy tales
Moving Pictures: Film director Jake Wachtel discusses his new film, Karmalink, and sci-fi in Cambodia
How Women Work: Gender, digital labor, and (not) getting paid to do what you love
A Conversation with Open Dyalog: civil discourse in the digital age
Cybersecurity in the age of Zero Trust
Technically Human 101: a crash course on being human in the age of tech
Embodied Technology and the Quantified Self with Dr. Steven LeBoeuf
The Fork in the Road to Ethical Technology: Vivek Wadhwa on navigating ethical roadmaps in a perilous tech landscape
Principled Dissent: Joe Toscano explains why he left the tech industry and what real change looks like
Memory Drive: The ethics of Holocaust memory in the age of virtual reality
Public Service: Yaël Eisenstat Tackles the Intersection of Ethics, Tech, and Democracy
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