ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson
Episodes
New from Kaleidoscope: Mind Games - Episode 1. The Guru's Guru.
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if someone told you that you could skip years of therapy with a few mental tricks? It sounded impossible… until we found Neuro-Linguistic ...
ON CRISPR Episode 5: The Conversation
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the four years since the book’s publication, CRISPR has revolutionized the world of medical treatments and possibilities. But our world has c...
ON CRISPR Episode 4: Franken Monsters
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the gene editing field kept growing, so did the dangers. Back in 2018, Jennifer Doudna received an email from a Chinese scientist claiming that he ...
ON CRISPR Episode 3: Patent Wars
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Doudna thought she had won the race. She thought she had beaten out all scientific competitors when she and her co-author had shocked the wor...
ON CRISPR Episode 2: The Discovery
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the 1990s, a young microbiologist in Alicante, Spain became obsessed with a strange pattern he observed in the genes of tiny organisms —...
ON CRISPR Episode 1: Beginnings
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, when the world learned the news of baby KJ successfully undergoing the first personalized genetic treatment, it represented a miles...
ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Isaacson - bestselling biographer behind Musk, Einstein and Steve Jobs - in conversation with Evan Ratliff brings you behind the scenes of The ...
ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Episode 5: Legacy
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of our series, host Evan Ratliff and biographer Walter Isaacson discuss Benjamin Franklin's remarkable late-in-life achievements...
ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Episode 4: The Statesman
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After retiring at the age of 42, Ben Franklin immersed himself in politics, taking on enormous diplomatic challenges on behalf of Pennsylvania and the...
ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Episode 3: Industry
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few people remember that Benjamin Franklin was America’s wealthiest self-made man. After being denied a formal education and then indentured to his ...
ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Episode 2: The Great American Character
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From writing under pen names in the newspaper as a teenager, to the Poor Richard maxims we all know, to the autobiography he created to show the path ...
ON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Episode 1: Ingenuity
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Walter Isaacson– the bestselling biographer behind Musk, Einstein and Steve Jobs– and journalist Evan Ratliff (Shell Games, Longform) comes a...
Introducing Season 2: ON Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing ON Benjamin Franklin with Walter Isaacson - an intimate behind the scenes interview to understand Benjamin Franklin’s remarkable life.Se...
ON Musk Episode Four: What is Musk’s Legacy?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Which of Musk’s efforts will mark his legacy? Will it be Starship and his work bringing Americans back into orbit, or will it be X and his amplifica...
ON Musk Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Be a storyteller, not a preacher. That was novelist Walker Percy’s legendary advice to a young Walter Isaacson. One he takes to heart in his work as...
ON Musk Episode Two: Demons
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What kind of titan of industry has a "giddy mode"? Or a "demon mode"? The two aspects of Musk’s personality are forces that drive his choices and be...
ON Musk Episode One: Genius
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Space travel, electric vehicles, future-powering batteries—the ability to push technology forward and to bring it into the world in a real way is wi...
Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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