Leo Laporte interviews Andy Weir, author of "<a href="https://amzn.to/3v9LUiU" target="_blank">The Martian</a>," about his new book, "<a href="https://amzn.to/3hLcStp" target="_blank">Project Hail Mary</a>." The discussion starts out spoiler-free with a chat about making the book into a film, how Andy Weir approached writing this book, and the time he confused Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. After a loud and apparent spoiler warning (at 32:04), the two continue their chat by discussing "Project Hail Mary" in depth. Weir shares a bit about the science behind the book, the characters he's created, and other stories he's working on. 
Project Hail Mary: <a href="https://amzn.to/3hLcStp" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3hLcStp</a> 
The Martian: <a href="https://amzn.to/3v9LUiU" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3v9LUiU</a> 
Artemis: <a href="https://amzn.to/3v9LUiU" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3vahYDf</a> 
 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="http://www.andyweirauthor.com/" target="_blank">Andy Weir</a> 
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Triangulation 428: Andy Weir's 'Project Hail Mary' - A conversation with science-fiction author, Andy Weir

Amy Webb joins Leo Laporte to discuss her new book, "The Genesis Machine." Webb explains synthetic biology, tells the story of golden rice, and shares a glimpse of the future and the changes we can expect. 
Get "The Genesis Machine": <a href="https://amzn.to/3BC7K2t" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3BC7K2t</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://amywebb.io/" target="_blank">Amy Webb</a> 
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Triangulation 429: Amy Webb: The Genesis Machine - Looking to the future through the lens of synthetic biology.

Tripp Mickle joins Leo Laporte to discuss his new book, "After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul". They discuss the shift in Apple's dynamic and approach to products after the passing of Steve Jobs from a company of innovation with Jony Ive, to a company of efficiency under Tim Cook. 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://bit.ly/aftersteve" target="_blank">Tripp Mickle</a> 
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Triangulation 430: Tripp Mickle: After Steve - A Conversation with Tripp Mickle

Writer/activist Cory Doctorow and scholar Rebecca Giblin join Leo Laporte to talk about their latest book <a href="https://chokepointcapitalism.com" target="_blank">Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back</a>. They argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. 
Get "Chokepoint Capitalism": <a href="https://chokepointcapitalism.com" target="_blank">https://chokepointcapitalism.com</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guests: <a href="http://craphound.com/" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/rgibli" target="_blank">Rebecca Giblin</a> 
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Triangulation 431: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism - How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez returns to talk with Leo Laporte about the second book in his 'Delta-v' novel series, 'Critical Mass,' where a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid—kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance.  
Get 'Critical Mass': <a href="https://amzn.to/3Yjb9xu" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/3Yjb9xu</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/itsDanielSuarez" target="_blank">Daniel Suarez</a> 
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Triangulation 432: Daniel Suarez: Critical Mass - Daniel Suarez on his latest book 'Critical Mass'

In a wide-ranging conversation, Leo Laporte talks with Dr. George Church about the history and future of genome sequencing. Dr. Church explains why he is very excited about how they made an organism resistant to all viruses- both known and unknown.   
They also talk about: <ul> 
<li>How Dr. Church made sequencing affordable (from $3BN to $600)</li> 
<li>Where are we on sequencing the entire human genome, and why would we even want to?</li> 
<li>How close are we to reversing aging?</li> 
<li>Should we use gene therapy to double the human lifespan?</li> 
<li>Why genetically engineering cold-resistant elephants could be important for climate change, and what about ultimately bringing back the Mammoth?</li> 
<li>He explains the difference between the hype and reality of CRISPR</li> 
<li>sequencing, synthesis, and delivery</li> 
<li>What are the privacy concerns about companies sharing your genome?</li> 
<li>They discuss the controversy and benefit of reconstructing old viruses like the 1918 flu and even inventing new viruses.</li></ul> 
Dr. Church is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer in personal genetics. He is credited with developing the first methods for sequencing the first genome and also the CRISPR technology. He created several companies, including Nebula Genomics and Veritas Genetics. 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/" target="_blank">George Church, Ph.D.</a> 
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Triangulation 433: The Father of Modern Genomics - George Church

<img src="http://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_144x144/public/images/shows/triangulation/album_art/audio/tri1400audio.jpg?itok=fx44bMAz" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" title="Triangulation (MP3)" alt="Triangulation (MP3)"/>Chad Dawson created early VR prototypes in the late 90's before starting his career in game development at Stainless Steel Studios as a senior gameplay and AI programmer on the RTS titled Empire Earth. Joining Double Fine Productions in the mid-2000s on Brütal Legend, Chad led the engineering team on the matryoshka doll adventure of Stacking, the co-op puzzle platformer of The Cave, and the generation-spanning turn-based strategy game, Massive Chalice. Chad is now donning the VR headset once again and leading the design and development of Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, a character-driven VR adventure and the next chapter in the Psychonauts story. 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/DoubleFine" target="_blank">Chad Dawson</a> 
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Triangulation 286: Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

<img src="https://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_2048x2048/public/images/shows/triangulation/album_art/audio/tri_albumart_2017_audio.jpg?itok=_vS32SNZ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" width="300" height="300" title="Triangulation (Audio)" alt="Triangulation (Audio)"/>Margaret O'Mara, Professor of History at the University of Washington, joins Mikah Sargent to talk about her book <a href="https://amzn.to/32ozIwm" target="_blank">The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America</a>. They dive into the behind-the-scenes history of Silicon Valley, including how the Cold War shaped what Stanford University is today, shine a light on some of the unsung heroes like Ann Hardy and David Morgenthaler, and the legacy of Steve Jobs. 
Get "The Code": <a href="https://amzn.to/32ozIwm" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/32ozIwm</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent">Mikah Sargent</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/margaretomara" target="_blank">Margaret O'Mara</a> 
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Triangulation 424: Margaret O'Mara: The Code

<img src="https://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_2048x2048/public/images/shows/triangulation/album_art/audio/tri_albumart_2017_audio.jpg?itok=_vS32SNZ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" width="300" height="300" title="Triangulation (Audio)" alt="Triangulation (Audio)"/>Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist who designed Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, and the Wolfram Language. He talks to Mikah Sargent about translating between human language, mathematics, and programming languages, how computational language works, and how he has spent his life trying to build computational intelligence up. 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mikah-sargent">Mikah Sargent</a> 
Guest: <a href="http://stephenwolfram.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Wolfram</a> 
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<li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li>
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Triangulation 425: Stephen Wolfram

<img src="https://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_2048x2048/public/images/shows/triangulation/album_art/audio/tri_albumart_2017_audio.jpg?itok=_vS32SNZ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" width="300" height="300" title="Triangulation (Audio)" alt="Triangulation (Audio)"/>Flynn Coleman, writer, and international human rights attorney, joins Denise Howell to talk about her book <a href="https://amzn.to/2rIqgH6" target="_blank">A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are.</a> Flynn argues that we must instill values, ethics, and morals into our robots, algorithms, and other forms of AI by developing and implement laws, policies, and oversight mechanisms to protect us from tech's insidious threats. 
Get "A Human Algorithm": <a href="https://amzn.to/2rIqgH6" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2rIqgH6</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/denise-howell">Denise Howell</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/flynncoleman" target="_blank">Flynn Coleman</a> 
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Triangulation 426: Flynn Coleman: A Human Algorithm

<img src="https://elroy.twit.tv/sites/default/files/styles/twit_album_art_2048x2048/public/images/shows/triangulation/album_art/audio/tri_albumart_2017_audio.jpg?itok=_vS32SNZ" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="20" border="0" width="300" height="300" title="Triangulation (Audio)" alt="Triangulation (Audio)"/>Jason Howell is joined by TWiT's studio engineer to talk about his time as the drummer and founder of the progressive rock band Cairo, creating the Virtual Live Show, and how the intersection of music and tech has evolved. 
Cairo on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/JeffBrockmanDirector" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/JeffBrockmanDirector </a> 
Virtual Live Show on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/virtualliveshow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/virtualliveshow</a> 
Host: <a href="https://twit.tv/people/jason-howell">Jason Howell</a> 
Guest: <a href="https://twitter.com/virtualliveshow" target="_blank">Jeff Brockman</a> 
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Triangulation 427: Jeff Brockman

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