People use all kinds of words to describe Elon Musk, from genius to megalomaniac, from

visionary to erratic.

But now there's less reason to call him enigmatic, thanks to Walter Isaacson's new 688-page

biography.

Isaacson hung out with Musk for two years, attending meetings, witnessing meltdowns, and taking

Musk's 3am own course.

In this special Unsung Science episode, Isaacson describes the man behind Tesla, SpaceX,

Starlink, and the social media site once known as Twitter.

I'm David Oag, and this is Unsung Science.

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Season 2 Episode 19 Inside Elon Musk's Brain.

I mean, I think it would be wild to be inside Musk's Brain, you know, just for like 45

minutes.

He's the world's richest man, some call him a genius, who built Tesla into the first successful

new American car company since 1920, and kickstarted the whole electric car revolution, or

a visionary who founded SpaceX, which now carries more payloads into space than the rest

of the world combined, or the mastermind of Starlink, whose satellites are bringing high-speed

internet to remote locations and disaster areas, or a prophet who's building a rocket

to Mars and wants to save humanity by colonizing other planets.

Of course, there are also some who consider him an unhinged lunatic, who can be volatile,

erratic, and cruel, who spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories, who bought Twitter

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