How This Investor Helped After a Nuclear Disaster | Josh Wolfe
This weeks American Alchemist is Josh Wolfe. Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in ord...
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UFO Material Locked Away at Stanford University feat. Garry Nolan
Dr. Garry Nolan is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He has published over 300 research articles and is the holder ...
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Why American Sperm Count Dropped 41% in 50 years | Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.
Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D., is one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of environmental medicine and public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
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The Company Building Factories in Space | Delian Asparouhov and Will Bruey
Delian Asparouhov and Will Bruey are the cofounders of Varda space. With backgrounds in building the dragon capsule at SpaceX and at Founders Fund, the team wants to build stepwise better materials in...
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Why The CIA Hired a Team of Psychics | Paul Smith
Parapsychology is a fringey field of physics that involves the study of mind over matter effects. Many elite universities had parapsychology departments in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. At American Alchemy...
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The Mysterious Origins of Lyme Disease | Ross Douthat
This week’s American Alchemist is Ross Douthat: Ross is an American political analyst, blogger, author and New York Times columnist. He was a senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written on a variety...
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Why the Soylent Founder Moved to a Goat Farm | Rob Rhinehart
This week’s American Alchemist is Rob Rhinehart: Rob is the founder of Soylent, partner at Mars Bio, and author of the blog mostly harmless. He’s incredibly intelligent and incredibly eccentric. He li...
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