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Growing Meat from Cells
Season 1 Episode 152
Justin Kolbeck is the co-founder and CEO of Wildtype, a company making seafood without killing fish.
Their first product is cultivated salmon, which …
1 year ago
The Ordinary Stuff Behind Technological Breakthroughs
Season 1 Episode 151
Ed Conway is an economics journalist and author of the book “Material World: The Six Raw Materials that Shape Modern Civilization.”
On today’s show,…
1 year ago
Carbon Capture at Rock-Bottom Prices
Season 1 Episode 150
Shashank Samala is the CEO and co-founder of Heirloom, a carbon capture start-up.
His problem is this: Can you use crushed up rocks to permanently su…
1 year ago
Ferrari Fandom, Supercharged by AI from Smart Talks with IBM
Season 1
Today we're sharing an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Smart Talks with IBM. Scuderia Ferrari and IBM are redefining fan engagement with AI-dri…
1 year ago
Why Amazon Built a Spatula-Wielding Robot
Season 1 Episode 149
Aaron Parness is a director of applied science at Amazon Robotics.
His problem is this: How do you build a robot that can put stuff on shelves.
Today …
1 year ago
Drilling Smarter Wells to Unleash Geothermal Energy
Season 1 Episode 148
In many places on Earth, there’s steam just below the surface. We don’t know where those places are — but if we could figure it out, we could unlock …
1 year, 1 month ago
Inventing a Better Pain Pill
Season 1 Episode 147
Dr. Stephen Waxman is a professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology at Yale. His research on pain helped pave the way for a newly approved…
1 year, 1 month ago
Mapping the Unmappable
Season 1 Episode 146
Philipp Kandal is the chief product officer of Grab, an app that serves several countries across Southeast Asia. Two of Grab’s main businesses are d…
1 year, 1 month ago
Reinventing Blood
Season 1 Episode 145
Dr. Allan Doctor is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Kalocyte, a company that is developing dried red blood cells that can be rehydrate…
1 year, 1 month ago
The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine
Season 1 Episode 144
Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper that crea…
1 year, 2 months ago