Podcast Episodes featuring Walter Isaacson
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Episode 38: Nina Burleigh, Walter Isaacson & Tim Robinson
Mooch FM - May 21, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 166 ratingsIn this episode, Anthony is joined by award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh, to discuss her new book ‘Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the Pandemic,’ and what she’d say to the many people resisting the coronavirus vaccine. Walter Isaacson is a ...
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Goldman Sachs Talks - April 05, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 76 ratingsIn this episode, Walter Isaacson, historian and author of The Code Breaker, discusses the story behind Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna’s discovery of CRISPR gene editing and why CRISPR has been critical in the fight against COVID-19. The interview is moderated by Goldman Sachs' Joh...
FedEx CEO is Fired Up; Ford’s Electric SUV; Walter Isaacson
Squawk Pod - November 18, 2019 16:26 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 431 ratingsFedEx founder and CEO Frederick Smith is challenging The New York Times to a debate. Ford has unveiled its fully electric SUV; the automaker’s president Joe Hinrichs speaks to the new Mustang Mach-E and auto-electrification beyond Tesla. WSJ’s Dan Gallagher and author and CNBC contributor Walter...
Amanpour: Peter Neumann, Ernest Moniz, Walter Isaacson, Peter Pomerantsev and Siddhartha Mukherjee
Amanpour - August 06, 2019 19:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratingsPeter Neumann, author of "Bluster: Donald Trump's War on Terror", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss the definition of domestic terrorism following the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend. Peter Pomerantsev, journalist and author of "This is not Propaganda", talks about the age of...
Walter Isaacson | Leonardo da Vinci
Free Library Podcast - February 02, 2018 10:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratingsWatch the video here. Released just weeks after the tech guru's death, Walter Isaacson's ''staggering'' (The New York Times) portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs instantly became an international bestseller. Isaacson has also penned bios of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and Albert Eins...
What Leonardo da Vinci can teach us about tech (Walter Isaacson, author, 'Leonardo da Vinci')
Decoder with Nilay Patel - October 23, 2017 04:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2.4K ratingsAuthor Walter Isaacson talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new biography of Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, which he describes has a "culmination" of themes he explored in past books about Ada Lovelace, Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs. Isaacson explains how da Vinci's pursui...
The Imagination of Leonardo da Vinci with Walter Isaacson
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 17, 2017 17:43 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 213 ratingsWalter Isaacson is fascinated by innovators — the kinds of geniuses whose ideas have transformed industry, science, and society. Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin each grabbed his attention in ways that allow us, as readers, to discover the depth and breadth of their brilliant t...
Eric Schmidt and Walter Isaacson: Technology and Innovation in Focus
On Shifting Ground - December 16, 2015 19:08 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 163 ratingsThis week’s episode focuses on Technology and Innovation and comes in two parts. In the first half hour, we will highlight the future and where the next great innovations are likely to come from, in a conversation with Eric Schmidt of Alphabet and Tom Kalil of the White House Office of Science a...
Free Forum Q&A - (1) TEMPLE GRANDIN, one of the most accomplished adults with autism, designer of livestock handling facilities, author, ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN (2) WALTER ISAACSON, head of the Aspen Institute, author, EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIV
Free Forum with Terrence McNally - April 09, 2015 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsTEMPLE GRANDIN - Originally aired January 2010 WALTER ISAACSON - Originally aired May 2007 Two extraordinary minds: Interviews about a couple of individuals who, though slow learners as children, grew up to do amazing things. In the first half, I'll talk with Temple Grandin, PhD, proba...
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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - January 03, 2015 09:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 875 ratingsScience fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....
The Innovators: In Conversation with Walter Isaacson
On Shifting Ground - December 05, 2014 16:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 163 ratingsWalter Isaacson discusses the personalities who created the computer and the Internet. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? Isaacson ...