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Silent Spring at 60: My Mom and Rachel Carson, by David Ewing Duncan

By David Ewing Duncan

10 min readAug 9, 2022

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What Will Happen When Robots Store All Our Memories

In the future, we could record, optimize, and replay our memories — even after death

8 min readJul 15, 2019

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Is the World Ready for Synthetic People?

Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans.

7 min readApr 5, 2018

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The Radical Idea of Avoiding Sickness

Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you.

7 min readOct 5, 2017

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What Keeps a CRISPR Creator Up at Night

Gene-editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s new book reveals her dreams and nightmares about what she has unleashed.

5 min readJul 6, 2017

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It’s Time to Believe in Synthetic Biology

Juan Enriquez bets on the end of undruggable targets, the power of programmable cells, and a machine that cooks up biological material.

8 min readJun 1, 2017

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David Ewing Duncan

David Ewing Duncan

Journalist, author, latest book: Talking to Robots (Dutton); Wired, Vanity Fair, Tech Review, Atlantic, NPR, NEO.LIFE; CEO Arc Fusion www.davidewingduncan.com

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