Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

From DaVinci to CRISPR

Mar 30, 2021

46:32

Creator website

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

2min

The Importance of Storytelling

2min

The Race to the Nobel Prize

2min

The Importance of Imagination in Science

5min

The Importance of Knowing Yourself

2min

How to Be a Better Listener

3min

The Importance of Creativity

3min

The Importance of Storytelling

2min

10.

The Triumph of the Mona Lisa

3min

11.

Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance

2min

12.

The Value of Being a Floating Expert

2min

13.

The Importance of Tolerance

2min

14.

How to Deal With a Living Subject

2min

15.

The Curve of the Universe

4min

16.

The Importance of Imagination

2min

17.

How to Stop a Compulsive Talker

2min

18.

How to Start a Conversation With Someone You Don't Know

3min

19.

The Importance of Being a Research Scientist

2min

20.

The Beauty of What Remains

4min

Walter Isaacson’s latest exploration of the lives of creative geniuses focuses on Jennifer Doudna, the co-inventor of the revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR. Alan explores with Isaacson his fascination with people who have changed the world, from Leonardo to Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid