Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda - Season 21 trailer

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Science, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Alan and Executive Producer Graham Chedd chat about and play excerpts from Alan's conversations with some of the guests in the new season, beginning next week. Guests include architect Daniel Libeskind; bioarchaeologist Brenna Hassett; and a return visit from congressman Michael Turner.

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0:00.0	I'm Alan Olver and this is Clear In Vivid, Conversations About Connecting and Communicating.
0:16.0	Welcome to a preview of season 21 of Clear In Vivid.
0:19.0	I'm here with my producer Graham Shed with news about some of the people you'll be hearing
0:24.2	this season.
0:25.2	Wonderful conversations.
0:26.2	Yes, and we stop the new season with just one of those wonderful
0:29.8	conversations.
0:30.8	A return visit with Dr. Eric Topol.
0:33.7	He was on the show back in 2019, a few months before COVID hit.
0:38.5	He was talking then about the impact artificial intelligence was having on the practice of
0:42.5	medicine, but he was so alarmed by the misinformation and disinformation surrounding COVID that he
0:48.8	started a regular online use that are called ground truths.
0:53.2	And that soon became one of the best sources of the known and even the unknown facts about
0:58.4	the pandemic as an unfolded.
1:01.1	So we invite him back to get his take on what the experience of writing his newsletter
1:05.4	was like, including the torrent of the views he got from trolls.
1:10.5	But one of the topics you asked him about was something positive, which was the astonishing
1:14.8	success of the COVID vaccine.
1:18.5	His Eric Topol.
1:20.5	So this was a work in progress for multiple decades.
1:23.9	So the idea that, oh, sure, we had the sequence of the virus and 10 months later, we had vaccines
1:29.2	that were tested in 70,000 people with 95% efficacy and good safety.
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