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Astrolabe Podcast
by Cyril Shtabtsovsky
Conversations with the scientists and engineers reshaping our world.
Episodes
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Robert Zubrin | Elon, NASA, China, and why we need Mars
Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the founder of The Mars Society. He hugely influenced Elon Musk to build SpaceX. 00:51 – Favorite sci-fi 01:17 – What killed Apollo’s momentum 02:12 – What's wrong with Artemis 05:21 – today's space race 07:24 – Private companies vs government 09:05 –...
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Emil Kendziorra | Cryopreservation, Best Chance of Not Dying, Longevity & AI
Dr. Emil Kendziorra is the founder & CEO of Tomorrow Bio, the world's best human cryopreservation company. 00:35 — Best sci-fi 01:35 — What Tomorrow Bio is 03:01 — How much it costs 07:13 — The two big open questions 09:11 — How we actually freeze people (no ice crystals) 13:21 — How many people...
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David van Dijk | Yale Professor at YC, Why Pharma Is Broken & How AI Fixes It
David van Dijk is the Yale professor (12,000+ citations) and founder of CellType (YC W26). In collaboration with DeepMind, he built Cell2Sentence - an LLM that simulates human biology. 00:42 – Favorite sci-fi 03:53 – Why drug development is broken 07:49 – AI as the future model system 09:15 –...
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Shai Albaranes | AI transformation of $8B company, what happened to climate tech, learning science
Shai Albaranes leads Orbia's AI transformation and corporate VC. 1:04 – Do you like science fiction? 5:57 – What the Israeli army actually gives you 8:41 – Why almost every S&P 500 company has R&D in Israel 11:15 – Building an innovation function from zero 20:14 – What is the real value of AI…
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Sasha Malysheva | GoogleX, Robotics & AI bottlenecks, Women in AI
Sasha Malysheva, former DeepMind and Google X researcher who published in Science at 22, shares her journey from building AI-powered exoskeletons to founding her own stealth AI startup. 00:00 - Intro & Welcome 01:09 - Favorite Sci-Fi 02:11 - Starting AI Research at 18 03:29 - Why She Left Pure...
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John Martinis | Nobel Prize, Entrepreneurship vs Google, AI Replacing Jobs
John Martinis is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, recognized in 2025 for his pioneering 40-year career developing superconducting qubits. He led Google’s team that achieved quantum supremacy in 2019, and today he is co-founder of Qolab, his quantum computing startup. 00:43 – Welcome &…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Conversations with the scientists and engineers reshaping our world.
HOSTED BY
Cyril Shtabtsovsky
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