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Core Memory

by Ashlee Vance
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About the show

Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience. www.corememory.com

Latest episodes

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    A few years ago, some people put me in a van and drove me to the edge of Moscow. And by “the edge of Moscow,” I mean where things started to get a bit rural. We turned off a road and went toward what looked like a modest farmhouse with a…

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    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

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  • The Xbox Nearly Destroyed Him - EP 87 Seamus Blackley

    September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    This episode is nerd catnip unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Ashlee sat down with Seamus Blackley, who you might know as the man who talked Microsoft into building the Xbox. Nowadays, you can find Blackley in a Pasadena laboratory…

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    September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    We have been promised glorious gene therapies for decades. This is supposed to be the stuff of reprogramming the body to blunt or cure diseases with something approaching a permanent fix. While gene therapy progress has been made…

  • The Realest Longevity Guru - EP 85 Alex Colville

    August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    Over the past five years, Alex Colville has become one of the most influential figures in the longevity and aging fields. There’s a decent chance you have not heard of him, which is a bit by design. Unlike many longevity gurus, Colville…

  • AI Will Cure Us All!! Or Not!! - EP 84 Abhi Mahajan

    August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

    Every couple of days, a new AI-meets-biotech startup sends me a pitch, and the pitches all sound the same. AI is amazing, and it can now tame biology. We’re on the cusp of producing new cures for diseases at a rapid rate, and these…

  • The Google Engineer Who Set The Skydiving Record At 58 - EP 83 Alan Eustace

    July 22, 2026 · 2 hr 7 min

    Most people think that the Red Bull guy Felix Baumgartner holds the skydiving record. But this is not the case. The real record-holder is Alan Eustace. In 2014, at age 58, the Google engineer rode a helium-filled balloon into the…