135. AJ Jacobs on Happiness, Helping Tim Ferriss and Answering the Age Old Question of Religion
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AJ Jacobs (@ajjacobs) is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig and Editor-At-Large at Esquire. He has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Thanks a Thousand–the secret to happiness through gratitude; The Year of Living Biblically.
132. The Failed Drug War, Unintended Consequences and Future of Sustainable Agriculture | Richard Brion
Richard Brion (@richardbrion) is the founder of Revolution Agriculture—a patent-pending solution to the food security challenge—and an ex-US Navy officer focused on making farming more adaptable to a climate change-driven world.
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125. The Bioethics of Engineering Superhuman CRISPR Babies, Cloning and Bringing Back the T-Rex | Paul Root Wolpe
Paul Root Wolpe (@parowol) is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Biological Behavior, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University and spent 15 years as Senior Bioethicist at NASA and is now their first Chief of Bioethics. Paul sits on a number of national and international non-profit organizational boards, has testified twice to the President’s Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues in DC.
105. George Church on Synthetic Biology, Climate Change and the SUPERHUMAN Genome Project
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George Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent publications and developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since.
75. Designer Babies, Reviving the Neanderthals and Funding Fundamental Science | Prosanta Chakrabarty
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Prosanta Chakrabarty (@preaux_fish) is a systematist and an ichthyologist studying the evolution and biogeography of both freshwater and marine fishes. His work includes studies of Neotropical (Central and South America, Caribbean) and Indo-West Pacific (Indian and Western Pacific Ocean) fishes.
57. The Bluezone Secrets to Health, Happiness and Longevity | Jason Prall of Human Longevity Project
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Jason Prall (@jasonprall) is an anti-aging expert ad the co-founder of The Human Longevity Project, an upcoming documentary film series filmed over 2 years, in over 50 locations, in 9 countries, on 3 continents that will take you on an exciting journey around the globe, on a mission to discover the secrets of the longest-lived and healthiest populations on Earth.
44. Psychiatry 2.0: The Biochemical Basis of Depression, Autism, Saddistic Serial Killers and School Shootings | Dr Bill Walsh of the Walsh Research Institute
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Dr. Bill Walsh is the president of the Walsh Research Institute (@WalshResearch), a non-profit focused on improving human psychiatry and mental health conditions with nutrient-based therapies, rather than drugs.
26. Genetic Engineering Will Cure Disease, End Aging and Evolve All of Us | Ashwin Seetharaman
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Ashwin Seetharaman is molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level.
16. Launching a Space Hotel 200 Miles Above Earth at $792,000 Per Night | Frank Bunger of Orion Span
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Frank Bunger (@frankbunger) is a veteran technology executive, serial entrepreneur and Founder/CEO at Orion Span – the company that’s building a space hotel (second space station) and looking bring down the cost of visiting and living in space by orders of magnitude.