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Send us Fan Mail Ryland Engelhart, is Executive Director & Co-Founder of Kiss The Ground ( https://kisstheground.com/ ​), a non-profit organization dedicated to planetary regeneration, and is the producer of Kiss The Ground, the Movie, recently released on Netflix. Mr. Engelhart has spent the last 15 years as an entrepreneur working in hospitality and building a family business of organic, pla...

Send us Fan Mail Brett Vaughan is the U.S. Navy Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer and AI Portfolio Manager at the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Mr. Vaughan has 30 years of Defense Intelligence and Technology expertise with strengths in military support, strategic communications, geospatial intelligence (GEOINT), Naval Intelligence and Navy R&D. He spent two decades in various roles...

Send us Fan Mail  A "food desert" is an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food, and the designation considers both the type and quality of food available, as well as the accessibility of the food through the size and proximity of the food stores. In 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that 23.5 million people in the U.S. lived in food desert...

Send us Fan Mail  When one mentions the topic of “head transplantation” (or a related topic – the “brain transplant”), for most people, it remains a topic purely in the context and sphere of science fiction. Yet most people are unaware of the following history: In 1908, Nobel Prize winner Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon who had developed surgical methods to connect blood vessels in the context of...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Nicole Prause, PhD is an American neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior, addiction, and the physiology of sexual response. She is also the founder of Liberos LLC, an independent research institute and biotechnology company. Dr. Prause obtained her doctorate in 2007 at Indiana University Bloomington, with joint supervision by the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex...

Send us Fan Mail Neuromodulation is defined as "the alteration of nerve activity through targeted delivery of a stimulus, such as electrical stimulation or chemical agents, to specific neurological sites in the body". It is carried out to normalize – or modulate – nervous tissue function.  Neuromodulation is an evolving therapy that can involve a range of electromagnetic stimuli such as...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Graham Ryan, is the Director at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO), in Montserrat, WI. Dr. Ryan has 17 years’ experience in volcanology and geothermal geophysics, using his skills to better understand the nature and behavior of magmatic systems and fluid flow through geothermal systems. His current interests include ground deformation associated with the volcanic systems...

Send us Fan Mail  The 711th Human Performance Wing, under the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory leads the development, integration, and delivery of Airman-centric research, education, and consultation enabling the U.S. Air Force to achieve responsive and effective global vigilance, global reach, and global power now and in the future. It’s comprised of the United States Air Force School of Aerosp...

Send us Fan Mail  The National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program office, under the Defense Innovation Unit, that seeks to create new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. NSIN partners with national research universities and the venture community to reinvigorate civil-military technology collaboration. As opposed to m...

Send us Fan Mail  Today we are going to discuss the topic drug enforcement from a very interesting technological angle. Brian Drake, is the Director of Artificial Intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) Directorate of Science and Technology. Mr. Drake works with the DIA’s Future Capabilities and Innovation Office, and he also leads an initiative to test the effectiveness of d...

Send us Fan Mail  Today we are joined by none other than the “Father of Biohacking” himself, bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and serial entrepreneur, Dave Asprey, Founder & Chairman, of the Bulletproof 360, a high performance coffee and food company, and creator of the widely popular Bulletproof Coffee. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, host of the Webby awa...

Send us Fan Mail  The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health was established in Philadelphia in 2017 by Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, and a multi-million $$$ grant from the Marcus Foundation (headed by it’s Chairman, Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of The Home Depot) to expand the research, education and clinical care profile of Jefferson’s integrative medicine program, and to set th...

Send us Fan Mail The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development ( https://www.humandevelopment.va/it.html ​) was established at the Vatican, by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, in 2016, and deals with a range of issues concerning migrants, refugees and victims of slave trade, human trafficking, justice and peace, the progress of peoples, the promotion and protection of dignity and human righ...

Send us Fan Mail  Today we’re joined by Melodie Yashar - Designer, Researcher, Technologist, co-founder of the firm Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), Senior Research Associate with San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames Research Center, and an Associate Researcher within the UC Davis Center for Human/Robotics/Vehicle Integration and Performance (HRVIP). She also teaches...

Send us Fan Mail  According to the U.S. Centers For Disease Control (CDC), in 2018, over 36,000 people were killed, and over 2 million were injured, from motor vehicle crashes, costing the nation $44 billion in medical expenses and work loss. The American Automobile Association (pronounced "Triple A") is a federation of motor clubs throughout North America, and is a privately held, not-f...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr Yu Shrike Zhang PhD is Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Bioengineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital Dr. Zhang's research interests include symbiotic tissue engineering, 3D bio-printing, organ-on-a-chip technology, biomaterials, regenerative engineering, bioanalysis, nanomedicine, and biology. His scientific contributions have been recognize...

Send us Fan Mail  Spider silk is a protein fiber spun by spiders, which they use to make webs or other structures, which function as sticky nets to catch other animals, or as nests or cocoons to protect their offspring, or to wrap up prey. They can also use their silk to suspend themselves, to float through the air, or to glide away from predators. Each spider and each type of silk has a set of me...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Bruce Greyson is the Chester Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia (UVA), the Former Director of UVA's Division of Perceptual Studies, and has been widely acknowledged the father of research in the area of near-death experiences (NDE). He was previously on the medical faculty at the University of Michigan and...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Rachel Ramoni, is the Chief Research and Development Officer of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where she oversees their nationwide research enterprise, encompassing some 2,000 active projects, at more than 100 sites, with a total budget of $2 billion in both direct VA support, and research funding from outside entities such as the National Institutes o...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Michael Levin is a Tufts University professor who holds the Vannevar Bush endowed Chair in the Biology department, and who serves as both the Director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology and Director, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. Dr. Levin’s group's focus is on understanding the bio-physical mechanisms that implement decision-making during...

Send us Fan Mail Campbell Dwyer grew up in North Carolina before moving to Pennsylvania with Quincy, her four-legged sidekick. With Quincy by her side, Campbell enjoys exploring the outdoors and traveling as often as possible. Her knowledge and experience come from her personal journey and not through clinical training, which allows her to relate on a level most professionals cannot. Campbell’s li...

Send us Fan Mail  On today’s show we are going to be weaving together a really interesting range of themes including psychedelics, pharmacognosy and medicinal botany, history, religion & spirituality, end of life care, dreaming, mental health and a whole lot more.  Brian Muraresku is the author of "The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name". Brian graduated...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. James Weinstein, is Senior Vice President, Microsoft Healthcare, where he is in charge of leading strategy, innovation and health equity functions.  Prior to Microsoft, Dr. Weinstein was president and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, a $2.0 billion academic medical center in Northern New England, where he led the organization to adopt a population health model, including th...

Send us Fan Mail  Mr. Ken Shamrock is the very first athlete elected to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Hall of Fame, widely regarded as one of the biggest stars in the history of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), as well as an icon and pioneer of the sport.  He’s widely known for his participation in the Ultimate Fighting Championships, The World Wrestling Federation, Pride Fighting Championship...

Send us Fan Mail  Dr. Leonard Hayflick, is Professor of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, where he has been part of the faculty since 1988 Dr. Hayflick received his Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania, did a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Texas under the tutelage of the renowned cell culturist Prof. Charles Pomerat, and then returned to Philad...