{"podcast":{"title":"Free Radicals","slug":"free-radicals-7588534","podcast_index_feed_id":7588534,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/107b5162c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/danielshur","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/44142755/44142755-1763427468732-7a584148b3c73.jpg","author":"Daniel Shur and Eric Dai","episode_count":24,"summary":"Interviewing visionaries dedicated to giving humanity control over biology. All problems are solvable, including aging and death.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T00:19:52.263803+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534"},"episode":{"title":"Selecting the Superman? Embyro selection with Jonathan Anomaly","slug":"selecting-the-superman-embyro-selection-with-jonathan-anomaly","published_at":"2026-06-23T11:17:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534/selecting-the-superman-embyro-selection-with-jonathan-anomaly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/danielshur/episodes/Selecting-the-Superman--Embyro-selection-with-Jonathan-Anomaly-e3l5dq3","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/107b5162c/podcast/play/121861379/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-23%2F426654231-44100-2-ee8a63c801d.mp3","summary":"Jonathan Anomaly is a co-founder of Herasight and former PPE professor. Herasight is pioneering polygenic screening for embryos, to help parents undergoing IVF select embryos for health, intelligence, height, and other traits people care about. We discuss the ethics of embryo selection and radical life extension. Jonathan has a Nietzschean view of humanity: within each of us we have the opportunity to either envy greatness in others, or seek to cultivate it within ourselves and in the world. In an era of total biological control, humanity can transcend its limitations and become something better. Watch on YouTube . Read the transcript .","meta_description":"Jonathan Anomaly is a co-founder of Herasight and former PPE professor. Herasight is pioneering polygenic screening for embryos, to help parents undergoin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3829,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/free-radicals-7588534/episodes/selecting-the-superman-embyro-selection-with-jonathan-anomaly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/free-radicals-7588534/selecting-the-superman-embyro-selection-with-jonathan-anomaly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}