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Walter Isaacson

@walterisaacson

Author of bios of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Steve Jobs. Professor @Tulane. Formerly @Time, @CNN, & @Aspeninstitute

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Here is David R. Liu’s excellent explanation about a recent and historic moment in human medicine - when a personalised and custom-made genetic base editing treatment was used to cure a new born baby named KJ which suffered from an incurable genetic disease. In his fascinating

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.Michael Luo, Executive Editor of The The New Yorker, hopes to bring the history of the Chinese in America into the light with his new book, "Strangers in the Land." He joins Walter Isaacson to discuss. youtu.be/i1diCXmx1ME

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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his  funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?
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I realize we all probably don't need more reasons to be sad, but I'm pretty sure you're going to be sad if you listen to what might have been at NASA. arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/…

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Jared got it. Jared would have done what needed to be done to fix NASA. It is such a shame his nomination was withdrawn. This short clip sums up everything wrong with NASA in one minute by Jared Isaacman from the The All-In Podcast

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Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of global logistics platform Flexport, discusses how companies are responding to the changing tariff landscape and what consumers can expect. Ryan Petersen Walter Isaacson youtu.be/W52-Ba1Ayfc?si…

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Combined age - 157 Records sold - 267 million To see Springsteen & McCartney perform together - PRICELESS #Springsteen #McCartney #Macca #TheBeatles #Liverpool

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Good Night and Good Luck is a good play. Astoundingly, fortuitously resonant. Brilliant to air it on CNN. Directed on live TV by David Cromer better than I’ve ever seen that done. Bravo to one and all.

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Edward R. Murrow's famous 1958 sermon — known as his "wires and lights in a box" speech, and dramatized by George Clooney in "Good Night, and Good Luck" — was industry-shaking in a way that we can't fully appreciate now. Read the speech here: rtdna.org/murrows-famous…

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Bill Atkinson was a key part of why, from the first Xerox Parc visits to the amazing iPhone cameras, so much magic is embedded in Apple’s DNA. In addition, he was a good person.

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Ada Lovelace, often considered the first computer programmer, wrote an algorithm in the mid-1800s for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers. This makes her algorithm over 170 years old, predating modern electronic computers by a century.

Ada Lovelace, often considered the first computer programmer, wrote an algorithm in the mid-1800s for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine to calculate Bernoulli numbers. This makes her algorithm over 170 years old, predating modern electronic computers by a century.
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A fascinating piece by Henry Louis Gates, especially on the Pope’s Creole and Creole of color and quadroon roots in New Orleans. nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

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Ahead of President Trump's military parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Army, Gen. Stanley McChrystal sits down with Walter Isaacson to discuss the optics and his new book "On Character." Stan McChrystal youtu.be/RG3-RxpsrVI?si…

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An extended family, separated by just a few miles and the complicated history of race in New Orleans. The election of Pope Leo XIV has brought their connection to light. Why I love New Orleans. nola.com/news/pope-leo-…

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Person after person from the Supreme Court told me that Amy Coney Barrett may be the most interesting-- and misunderstood-- justice. So I worked for months on this profile: nyti.ms/3HIcgUm