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Amanda Christensen, ideaXme guest interviewer and strategist at Cubaka, speaks with David Grinspoon, PhD. astrobiologist, senior scientist at the Planetary Institute and award winning author. They talk of NASA's Davinci+ mission to Venus. Specifically, they discuss: What we can learn from Venus to increase our understanding of climate change on Earth. Further, Grinspoon talks more broadly of how w...

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Adam Rogers award winning author and Senior Correspondent WIRED magazine. We spoke to Adam about his new book Full Spectrum: How The Science of Color Made Us Modern.  In this interview you'll discover that colour is everything. Moreover, how mankind's need to understand and create colours is at the heart of how our species evolves - from philosophy an...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. William A. Haseltine, President ACCESS Health International. In this interview William Haseltine talks of: -How Covid-19 has changed science? -How "unprecedented levels of scientific collaboration" and knowledge sharing were sparked in this crisis and became institutionalised -The pioneering science that created solutions for a global pandemic -W...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Ayesha Khanna CEO and founder ADDO AI. In this interview Dr Ayesha Khanna talks of: - Smart Cities and smart nations - opportunities and threats - Singapore, voted as lead smart city - ADDO AI https://www.addo.ai - Ethics and security related to the advancement of exponential technology - Her charity 21st Century Girls 21C Girls http://www.21cgir...

Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interviews Loay Elbasyouni, senior director for engineering at Astrodyne TDI. Loay was one of the engineers - lead electrical and power electronics engineer (to 2018), on the NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter whilst working for AeroVironment. In this interview, which took place before the attempted 4th flight of the Mars Helicopter, discover the technical challenges...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Jekan Thanga, PhD., Head of SpaceTREx laboratory, Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ASTEROIDS laboratory and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. They discuss the latest developments at the laboratories. Moreover, ideaXme receives a news exclusive relating to SpaceTREx's proposal to build a...

Neil Koenig TV Producer and Journalist interviews David Roche, Founder of Independent Strategy. Neil Koenig comments: The great financial crisis that began in 2007 mostly took the world by surprise. And the main reason why so few experts saw it coming, says the global investment strategist David Roche, is that most of our existing tools for analysing how economies work are "useless". He argues tha...

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Kevin Pitts, Chief Research Officer at Fermilab and Physics Professor, University of Illinois. They spoke of 2 exciting research projects. The first focuses on neutrinos and the second on muons: Will these experiments reveal new laws? 13.8 billion years ago matter pitted against antimatter and won. DUNE, a new experiment in the making, hosted by F...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. LaMesha Craft, all-source intelligence warrant officer (retired) and now contracted faculty member at the National Intelligence University, USA. Disclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Craft in this interview do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Intelligence Community, or the U.S. Government. Offici...

Andrea Macdonald, Founder ideaXme interviews John Vickers, Founder and CEO of Blue Abyss. Blue Abyss will be a high tech pioneering training and extreme adventure centre. It will be "the most comprehensive deep sea and space research, training and test facility of its kind in the world, unmatched in its breadth of configuration". Blue Abyss' primary function will be to enable extreme environment d...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA, USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama. Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer, One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas - the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied children at the border in February 2021) and his perspecti...

Neil Koenig,  TV Producer, Journalist and ideaXme board advisor interviews  Keith Clarke CBE,  a senior construction industry figure shaping the modern sustainably built world and passionate environmental campaigner. Keith is currently Chair of  Constructionarium , Member of Advisory Board,  Environmental Change Institute , Oxford University and Director  Women in Property Network . Moreover, unti...

What will future space habitats for humans on the Moon or Mars look like? What do we need to consider when we design habitats for outer space? Dr. Samer El Sayary designs future habitats for outer space. He is a practicing Architect and Assistant Professor at the Beirut Arab university. https://www.samerelsayary.com. Here, Dr Sayary is interviewed by Andrea Macdonald, Founder of ideaXme. Listen to...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.  Tom works with providers, health and life science organisations to plan and implement innovative analytical and predictive solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. At Microsoft, he creates strategies for digital trans...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Perry Marshal l, founder of Evolution 2.0 Prize and Natural Code LLC. Perry Marshall Disseminator of Biological and Inorganic Information Systems Perry Marshall is a high level connector and multi-disciplinary disseminator of both biological and inorganic information. He is most recently famous for corralling some of the world's top scientists and en...

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist. https://www.amykarle.com ​ . Listen to the the interview to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics. Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist working at the nexus of where digital, physical and biolo...

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton CEO ClientEarth to talk of how law can save the planet. ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, drafting and advisi...

Richard W Smith, oceanographer and ideaXme world's oceans ambassador interviews John Englander , President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute and author Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level. Rising Seas Climate change and rising sea levels are changing the boundary lines of our world, and, if left to continue at their current pace, pose considerable financial, ecological, and societal threa...

Karen Potter, Director of sustainability hub https://sustainability-hub.org and ideaXme sustainability ambassador interviews James Longcroft, Managing Director, CHOOSE Packaging.  https://www.choosepackaging.co.uk. CHOOSE is a packaging development company that is leading the move away from plastic bottling to environmentally friendly options. CHOOSE uses biodegradable materials that are 100% plas...

Dr Merritt Moore, PhD, quantum physicist, ballerina and aspiring astronaut talks with Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme. Merritt has achieved what some would call 'the impossible': a career as both a professional ballet dancer and academic quantum physicist. She plans on adding another profession to her roster and that profession is astronaut! Background: Dr. Merritt Moore graduated with Magna...

Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interviews George Duffield, co-founder Blue Marine Foundation (Blue). Blue is a marine conservation charity. Its objectives are to ensure the protection of at least 30% of the ocean by 2030. They develop models of sustainable fishing proving that low-impact fishing benefits marine life, local fishers and communities. They restore marine habitats to revive and prot...

Xie Rong, Artist and ideaXme Eco Art Ambassador interviews Betsy Damon Artist, Environmental Activist and Founder, Keepers of the Waters. A journey with water The supreme goodness is like water. It benefits all things without contention. In dwelling, it stays grounded. In being, it flows to depths. In expression, it is honest. In confrontation, it stays gentle. In governance, it does not control....

Dr Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor, Centre For Governance and Political Studies Kuala Lumpur and ideaXme Climate Change ambassador, interviews Frans Nauta, founder ClimateLaunchpad www.climatelaunchpad.org and Climate-KIC Accelerator. Climate-KIC Accelerator is the world's largest support program for clean-tech startups. Over its 8 years of operation it supported more than 1.500 startups, that...

Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme interviews Dr Pieter Roelfsema Director Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:06:52] Welcome everybody again to another episode of the ideaXme show. I'm Andrea Macdonald, the founder of ideaXme. ideaXme is a global podcast available in 40 countries worldwide, a creator series and mentor program.   [00:07:10] This episode conc...

Tali Ramsey, ideaXme guest contributor and writer specialising in contemporary art, internet culture and society, interviews Tim Robin Reichel, ideaXme's new Diversity Ambassador.   Everyone looks for something larger than themself   Tim Reichel is a student living in Berlin and studying English as well as Media and Communications. He is also an activist and member of Amnesty International's queer...