“ We tell ourselves stories
in order to live.”
- JOAN DIDION
The rhythms of life seem off. Can we restore a steady beat?
MORE STORIES IN MIT TECH REVIEW →A Vanity Fair contributor’s encounter with psychedelics helped him emerge from a pandemic brain fog that had snatched away his ability to write.
MORE STORIES IN VANITY FAIR →We’re Ruining the Microbiome, According to Human-Genome-Pioneer Craig Venter
MORE STORIES IN VANITY FAIR →Researchers want to synthesize an optimized human genome that can be stored indefinitely and grown decades from now. So I volunteered mine.
MORE STORIES IN WIRED →He's Everywhere—a Harvard geneticist whose science fiction visions of the future tend to become real: an essay and Q&A with George Church discussing his hopes and fears for the future.
MORE FUTURE COLUMNS ON SUBSTACK >Scientists make it possible for quadriplegics to control a television, play simple computer games and check e-mail... by just thinking about it.
MORE STORIES IN NPR →The Cred of This Miracle Med Has Gotten Murkier and, Somehow, More Promising
MORE STORIES IN VANITY FAIR →Documentary: Sky Archeology: Discovering Lost Cities from Space, documentary shot in Guatemala, aired on the Discovery Channel
DISCOVERY TELEVISION
Special Producer and Correspondent. Shot on location in Oxford, UK: New York, NY: and Kosrae, Micronesia
NOVA SCIENCE NOW!
Special Correspondent and Producer, ABC News, How much does on man’s heart bypass operation cost and what exactly is being paid for in terms of people, machines, meds, and overhead?
ABC NIGHTLINE
David on PBS Newshour talking about AI and robots, and about his book, Talking to Robots
PBS
The Today Show followed David’s Experimental Man Project, where he test drove hundreds of new health tests and technologies, from genetics and his microbiome to brain scans
David with Tech Nation host Moira Gunn talking about the “Bioissue of the Week” in a studio at KQED in San Francisco. A sampling of over 100 segments the two have aired since 2004:
MORE STORIES IN NPR →NPR Commentator David Ewing Duncan reflects on his attendance at the thirteenth International AIDS Conference.
MORE STORIES IN NPR →We live in a world full of toxins. Science writer David Ewing Duncan set out to find out just how polluted his own body was – and where the chemicals came from. He writes about the results in the October issue of National Geographic. Correspondent and Producer
MORE STORIES IN NPR →The Accutron Show with Indrani and David Barret
During Climate Week in New York City, our hosts David and Indrani had the chance to talk to award-winning journalist and best-selling author David Ewing Duncan to discuss the launch of his new book "The Voyage Of The Sorcerer II. In his new book, an epic science and adventure story of famed geneticist Craig Venter’s voyages from 2003-2018 in a 100-foot sailing and research vessel that collected microbes all over the world, David reflects on how we view this tiny, invisible world. Tune in!
Interviewed by host Michael Krasny
Since the turn of the 20th century, life expectancy in the developed world has risen from just shy of 50 years to nearly 80. But how much higher can it get? Author David Ewing Duncan’s new book “When I’m 164” argues that advances in medicine and bionics will drastically increase our life expectancy in the next 30 to 50 years. What are the potential social, environmental and economic ramifications of extending our lives?
Sex, Love, and Robots with David Ewing Duncan
On today’s show, Emily is joined by best-selling author David Ewing Duncan to talk about this new book, Talking to Robots – and their breaking down the chapters about intimacy & sex!
How far would you go to enhance yourself using the latest medical technology?
NEW YORK TIMES
What’s real and what’s not about scientists attempting to extend lifespan—and what would it mean if they succeed?
NEW YORK TIMES
iBrain is a headband with sensors that read brainwaves and turn them into speech, potentially unlocking the thoughts of patients like Stephen Hawking who can’t speak
NEW YORK TIMES
Harvard geneticist George Church has co-founded or advises some 22 businesses that focus on things like synthetic biology, genetic sequencing and providing genetic testing to consumers…
NEW YORK TIMES
Eric Schadt is one of a handful of scientists blending mathematics, biology and supercomputers to pursue a new understanding of human biology…
NEW YORK TIMES
