Future Minds
11 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsJoel Pearson is a university professor in cognitive neuroscience and innovation at The University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, with a background in art. Joel is an author, public speaker, entrepreneur and public intellectual working at the forefront of science, innovation, agile science and biohacking. Prof. Joel Pearson and his guests talk entrepreneurship, leadership, science, health, performance, longevity, education, biohacks, critical thinking, art and technology, with a theme of what drives people to do the amazing things they do.
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010 Katharine Kemp – what is big tech doing with all your data?
October 25, 2019 00:04 - 53 minutes - 72.9 MBKatharine is an expert on the legalities of what big tech companies can do with our data, what those terms and conditions statements that none of us actually read mean and who else will use all the data that is collected about each and everyone one of us. Katharine is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on competition law (particularly misuse of market power), consumer protection and data privacy in financial and tech services. Kathari...
009 David Sinclair – How to reverse aging and live forever
October 17, 2019 22:39 - 59 minutes - 27 MBDavid is a Professor at Harvard Medical school, has founded or co-founded around 15 companies, his new book Lifespan: Why we age and why we don't have to, has just come out and is already a best seller. David is a high-profile scientist that is famous for his discoveries of the effects of resveratrol and its effects of Sirtuins and is now one of the top go-to people for all things anti-aging, with specific focus on NAD precursors, nicotinamide riboside or NMN. He is famous for taking these s...
008 Emma Johnston – Going from Science to government policy
October 10, 2019 03:18 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBEmma Johnston is the Dean of Science at the University of New South Wales, the president of Science and Technology Australia, the host of the TV show Coast Australia and Professor of Marine ecology. Professor Johnston is a high-profile science communicator, winning the 2015 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Australian Science Research. She is a regular media commentator and, as co-presenter for the Foxtel/BBC television series, Coast Australia, has helped take Australian marine ...
007 Amantha Imber – from Innovation to how we work
October 03, 2019 23:13 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBAmantha Imber is an innovation psychologist, founder of Inventium, an innovation consultancy, and co-creator of the Australian Financial Review’s Most Innovative Companies list. Amantha has a PhD in organisational psychology from Monash university and has helped companies such as Google, Apple, Disney, LEGO, Virgin Australia, to innovate more successfully. Amantha has written two books the “The Creativity Formula” and “The Innovation Formula” and many popular articles on innovation and how t...
006 Adam Alter – What addictive technology is doing to you
September 19, 2019 00:58 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBAdam is the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Irresistible, which considers why so many people today are addicted to so many behaviours, from incessant smartphone and internet use to video game playing and online shopping, and Drunk Tank Pink, which investigates how hidden forces in the world around us shape our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Adam is an Associate Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Adam has also written for the New Yo...
005 Toby Walsh – The Future of Artificial Intelligence
September 12, 2019 00:52 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBToby is a leader in Artificial intelligence, he is a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, he is the author of multiple books, including It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots and 2062: The World that AI Made. He is the co-chair of the Effective and ethical development of artificial intelligence working group that consults with the Australian government on how to deal with Artificial Intelligence. He helped write an open letter arguing f...
004 Alex Holcombe – Is Science broken? And how to fix it.
September 05, 2019 03:03 - 1 hour - 37.2 MBAlex is a leader in the field of meta-science, the science of science. He is doing important and interesting work on the science replication, author contributions and generally how to make science more open and transparent. In this episode we discuss: Meta-science, The Replication crisis, pre-registration, replication vs discovery science, agile science, funding, the file draw problem, publishing science, Elsevier, science communication, the role of tech and radical new models of science.
003 Emad El-Omar – Your microbiome and how to optimise it for physical and mental health.
August 29, 2019 03:13 - 1 hour - 34 MBProfessor Emad (@emadelomar) is a world expert on the microbiome and the Director of the Microbiome Research Centre in Sydney Australia. In this episode we discuss: How to repair your microbiome after antibiotics, Biohacking and the gut, the links between the gut and the brain, commercialisation of microbiome research, health, diet, intermittent fasting, centenarians, ketogenic diet and microbiome, diversity of microbiota, genetics of the microbiota, stomach acid, probiotics and using probio...
002 Stephen Kosslyn (President and CEO of Foundry College) on the future of education, applied psychology, commercialization, and going from Harvard to a startup.
August 26, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 30 MBStephen Kosslyn (@skosslyn) is the President and CEO of Foundry College (https://foundrycollege.org/) an online two-year college designed to help working adults develop skills and knowledge that will not be automated by AI in the foreseeable future. Before that, he was the Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Minerva University (https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/ ), prior to that he was a Professor of Psychology and Dean of Social Science at Harvard University. Steve is a prolific writer an...
001 Ed Catmull (Pixar) on creativity & innovation at Lucas Films, Pixar & Disney.
August 25, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBEd Catmul (@edcatmull) was the president of both Pixar and Disney studios up until 2019, and was a co-founder of Pixar with Steve Jobs, before that he ran Industrial Light and Magic for George Lucas at LucasFilm. Ed is a real-life Renaissance man, Ed got his undergraduate degree and PhD from the University of Utah, while still at university he made some pioneering discoveries in computer animation and texture mapping. He then ran the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technol...
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August 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.4 MBJoel Pearson is a university professor in cognitive neuroscience and innovation, with a background in art, he is an author, public speaker, entrepreneur and public intellectual working at the forefront of science, innovation, agile science and biohacking. Prof. Joel Pearson and his guests talk entrepreneurship, leadership, science, health, performance, longevity, education, biohacks, critical thinking, art and technology. With a theme of what drives people to do the amazing things they do.