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Oct 30, 2020

Our guest this week is Sam Maggs. Sam is a best-selling author of books, including The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope, Conquest, and Tell No Tales, as well as comics, including Marvel Action, Captain Marvel, My Little Pony, and Transformers, and video games as well, like Marvel's Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank. She's...


Oct 23, 2020

Our guest this week is Ramona Pringle. Ramona is a creator, journalist, and researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between humans, technology and the world around us. She’s a contributor to numerous media outlets, including tech columnist with the CBC (Canadian broadcasting corp), and Director of...


Oct 16, 2020

Our guest this week is Dr. Brian Fisher. He's a curator of entomology at the California Academy of sciences and a world-renowned ant expert, nicknamed the "Ant Man". Fisher has spent three decades documenting the island of Madagascar's beautiful biodiversity. Along the way, he's discovered over 1000 new ant species. As...


Oct 9, 2020

Our guest this week is Vanessa Mason. Vanessa Mason is the research director at the Institute for the Future, a 52 year old nonprofit organization that helps individuals, organizations and communities think systematically about the future. Her futures research explores how we can redesign and reimagine well-being and...


Oct 2, 2020

Our guest this week is Mark Moffett, who did his doctorate under Harvard conservationist E.O. Wilson. In grad school, Mark figured out photography to document his ant research, leading to his first National Geographic article. He's a widely traveled tropical explorer, who's currently studying the life and death of...