FC108: The Board Is Your Brush
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Future Brunch Episode 7, with Productivity Researcher, Anne-Laure Le Cunff
A no-BS exploration of how to make the most of your mind.
FC107: 3D Damascus Steel
Plus, silent owl wings, giant mech warriors, big wave surfing, and good news on global inequality, hydrofluorocarbons, air pollution in China and re-wilding in Australia
FC106: Candyflipping The Future
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Future Brunch, Episode 6 with Philosopher, Bayo Akomolafe
Exploring the heart of the matter, and embracing the God of the Glitch
FC105: Rice Cooker Voodoo
Plus, real conspiracies, zeppelins, quantum chemistry, and good news on global AIDS deaths, refugees in Germany and ocean conservation in Belize and the Seychelles.
FC104: The Color of Television
Plus, nano-diamond batteries, hummingbird gymnastics, and good news on Chinese fishing fleets, US immigration and afforestation in Niger.
Future Brunch Episode 5 with Storyteller, Michael Margolis
Exploring the art of narrative thinking, and celebrating the taste of chocolate.
FC103: Planet Earth's Piano Strings
Plus, ekroplans, moon buggies, a love letter to amateur dancing, and good news on the global offshore wind industry, lung cancer in the United States and elephants in Kenya.
FC102: A God By The Name Of Possibility
Plus, flying grain silos, moonhacks, the Planthroposcene, and good news on dementia in the US and Europe, plastic bags in the UK and childhood stunting in Senegal.
FC101: We've Got Some Big News
Plus, Arctic code, a new CasΦ for the CRISPR family, bird tracks in the sky, and good news on population growth, military spending, wildlife bans in Vietnam and woodland cover in the United Kingdom.
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The coronavirus pandemic has set off the most devastating downturn in the industry’s 150-year history, one from which, ultimately, it may never recover.
FC100: Indistinguishable From Nature
Plus, ice craters on Mars, the best science fiction movie of the last three decades, and good news on funding for the WHO, prison rates in the US, and conservation in Pakistan.
FC99: The Culture Wars Cavalry
Plus, Mayan ruins, the passion economy, and good news on global funding for vaccines, human rights in Gabon, and tree planting (again!) in Ethiopia.
Future Brunch Episode 4, with Purpose Practitioner, Rebecca Tapp
Diving deep on the DNA of purpose
FC98: Talk Is Cheap
Plus, The Narrow Waist Of The Internet, Thomas Friedman is the worst (so are brains), and good news on FGM in Sudan, traffic deaths in the US and coal power in the UK.
FC97: Mr Electrico
Plus, hot qubits, magic mushrooms, Nicolas Jaar, and good news on coal financing in Japan, a Green New Deal in South Korea, and white-tailed eagles in Britain.
Portal Economics
COVID-19 offers us an escape from a much bigger mess, but only if we're brave enough to try it.
The Bio-Political Straitjacket
How the pandemic exposes the limits of our economic and political imaginations.
FC96: Ignore The Productivity Pressure
Plus, the world's largest distributed supercomputer, the best business advice we've been given, and a tonne of good news from the frontlines of the global effort to beat COVID-19.
FC95: We Are Waves Of The Same Sea
Plus, a library for press freedom in Minecraft, and good news on coal in South Korea, women's rights in Pakistan, and conservation in Afghanistan.
FC94: Information Wants To Be Free
Plus, ground penetrating radar, Blade Runner greenhouses, lab-grown breastmilk, good news on clean energy in Turkey, foster care in the US and blue whale populations off South Georgia.
FC93: Superfluous Sacks of Meat
Plus, legendary astronauts, dead children in VR, genetically engineered moths and good news on EU emissions, foster care in the US, and rhino poaching in South Africa.
FC92: A Decade of Vaccines
Plus, Kanye's Sunday Service, heartprints, AR contact lenses, the "Bohemian Rhapsody" of T-cells, and good news on Chinese birth rates, global fisheries and solar in Vietnam.
FC91: A Nation On Fire
Plus, holographic popstars, cobra genomes, Blade Runner samples and good news on cholera, landmines and child marriage.
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If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves.
