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299 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe humans behind the big ideas shaping our world. Inspiration and help for future creators of big ideas and for all those who love big ideas and great stories.
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PepsiCo: The Future of Food
February 16, 2020 10:01 - 47 minutes - 56.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Ellen de Brabander, Senior Vice President Research and Development at PepsiCo. Ira Pastor Comments: Today we are going to segue into the food industry, which is a fascinatingly complex and diverse set of businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the global population. In 2020, food, needless to say, is much more than just calories. It is, of course, still about about calories, but food is also about nutrition, ...
Biotech's Wizard of Wall Street
February 12, 2020 18:06 - 44 minutes - 52.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Fred Frank, Founder and Chair of Evolution Life Science Partners, an investment bank focused on the needs of life sciences and healthcare companies. Ira Pastor Comments: On several recent shows we’ve been discussing some of the novel, alternative funding pools that have been emerging in and around the biotech space, specifically related to some of the unmet medical needs of which we have been focusing on, on the ideaXme show, ...
XPRIZE - Dr Roey Tzezana Develops Prizes To Radically Extend Human Lifespan
February 11, 2020 17:45 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Roey Tzezana,Futures Studies Researcher, Tel Aviv University, Research Fellow, Brown University, and Lead Researcher, XPRIZE Foundation. Ira Pastor Comments: An inducement prize contest (IPC) is a competition that awards a cash prize for the accomplishment of a feat, usually of engineering, and are typically designed to push the frontiers and extend the limits of human ability and can be extremely effective in pushing the ad...
Suzanne Somers: Longevity's Ultimate Advocate
February 09, 2020 16:22 - 1 hour - 73.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Suzanne Somers: actress, author, singer, businesswoman, and health spokesperson. "She just might be a pioneer!" Oprah Winfrey. Ira Pastor Comments: On the last several shows we have spent time talking with many thought leaders and experts on different levels the biologic architecture of the health and aging process. We’ve spent some time talking about the genome, the microbiome, systems biology, tissue engineering, and we've...
Dr Tara O'Toole: The CIA, National Security And Preventing The Next Pandemic
February 06, 2020 12:03 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Dr. Tara O’Toole, Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel. Ira Pastor Comments: We have a fascinating show today focused on a very timely topic. On a few past episodes we’ve explored the topic of viruses from different angles – from the somewhat benign ,where we discussed the "good" human virome and Hepatitis G co-infection, to the less benign (where we discussed chronic herpes simplex II infection and potent...
World Health Organisation votes Ireland as First Age Friendly Country
February 05, 2020 10:11 - 47 minutes - 54.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Catherine McGuigan, Meath County Council Chief Officer, and National Programme Lead, Age Friendly Ireland. Ira Pastor Comments: The country of Ireland has become the first country to be acknowledged as "age-friendly" by the World Health Organisation. The World Health Organization (WHO), through their Department of Ageing and Life Course, recently defined this new decade that we have just entered (2020-2030) as “The Decade of H...
The Health Past Of Mummies: Evolutionary Medicine Insights For Human Diseases Now
February 02, 2020 10:27 - 31 minutes - 38.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Professor Dr. Frank Rühli, Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and on the Medical Faculty of University of Zurich, and Founding Director, Chair, Full Professor of Evolutionary Medicine. Ira Pastor Comments: Famous prominent Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, stated in a 1973 essay that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." When one applies ...
Dr Rhonda Prisby: The Health Connections Between Cardiovascular and Skeletal Systems
January 30, 2020 14:09 - 30 minutes - 36.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Rhonda Prisby, Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, at The University of Texas at Arlington. Ira Pastor comments: We have a fascinating show today focusing on the intersection of the cardiovascular system and the skeletal system. We will be discussing interesting recent evidence that suggests a unique link between cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis, a disease in which both the density and quality of...
Mayor Zarifa Ghafari moving the human story forward in Afghanistan and the world
January 29, 2020 14:04 - 48 minutes - 57.1 MBAndrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Mayor Zarifa Ghafari, first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of a province in Afghanistan and voted as one of the BBC 100 Women of 2019. Andrea Macdonald comments: The current war in Afghanistan began with the United States invasion on the 7th October 2001. It has cost the USA1 trillion dollars and the world, including Afghanistan, over 150,000 lives. The Washington Post’s ‘Afghanistan Papers’ is the latest contribution to a growin...
Bringing Down Pablo Escobar: DEA Heroes
January 26, 2020 09:38 - 57 minutes - 68.4 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and lead investigators in the manhunt of Colombian drug lord and Medellín Cartel leader, Pablo Escobar. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/8002... Ira Pastor Comments: On a few previous shows, we have touched on the global problem of drug abuse of both legal and illegal drugs, primarily looking at the problem from a therapeutic perspective – specifica...
Genomics Pioneer Who Travels The World To Discover Which Countries' Health Budgets Go The Furthest
January 24, 2020 08:12 - 41 minutes - 48.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. William Haseltine, American biologist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, known for his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS and the human genome. https://www.amazon.com/Aging-Well-Solutions-Pressing-Challenges/dp/9811321639 Ira Pastor Comments: On today's show we have a thought leader who sits amongst a rare group of people who have been responsible for creating many aspects of the modern biopharma / genomics / regenerative med...
Living Architecture: Merging Living Systems With Buildings
January 21, 2020 11:31 - 1 hour - 115 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Professor Dr. Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at Newcastle University. Ira Pastor Comments: On past shows, as we've been navigating the biological architecture of life, we've spent time taking about the important differences between the properties of machines, and that of living organisms. One, the machine, representing a system of parts working toge...
The Deep Fake Dilemma: Fake News, Deepfakes, and the Post-Truth Era of Hyper-Realty
January 19, 2020 15:32 - 43 minutes - 53 MBChallenged by the overwhelming spread of fake information, in this episode of ideaXme Rich Connectedness Podcast series, I, Dr. Shima Beigi founder of mindfulness Engineering™️ interview Amanda Christensen, content creator and media and communications scholar specialising in the symbiotic relationship between humanity and media. Deepfakes While access to highly capable digital devices gives the users excitement, these technological advancements leave individuals extremely vulnerable to...
Killing Cancer With Ultrasound: Oncotripsy
January 17, 2020 13:28 - 23 minutes - 28 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews David Mittelstein, MD/PhD Student at California Institute of Technology and Keck School of Medicine of USC. Ira Pastor Comments: Today we are going to head back towards a major set of pathologies responsible in 2020 for what is a still a big portion of the $7 trillion global healthcare figure, and that’s cancer. Despite the major progress that has been made over the last century on improving patient outcomes and the period o...
Discover Longevity and Anti-Aging Science Past, Present and Future
January 15, 2020 11:11 - 50 minutes - 59 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Magomed Khaidakov, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences. https://www.amazon.com/Pessimistic-Gu... Ira Pastor Comments: Today we are going to be talking about mitochondria, among many other longevity and anti-aging themed topics. We're also going to talk a little bit about the role of pessimism and realism when it comes to the human translation of c...
Guardian of The Amazon
January 10, 2020 09:40 - 19 minutes - 24.5 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Ms. Nemonte Nenquimo, President of the Waorani Pastaza Organization (CONCONAWEP - Coordinating Council of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador). This is an English language voice over of Ms Nenquimo's audio interview. Ira comments: Today we have a fascinating guest joining us on the ideaXme show from a rather remote location, to discuss ethnomedicine, environmental conservation and protection, entheogens (the topic of bio-active...
US$30 MILLION GLOBAL GRAND CHALLENGE: Longevity and Healthy Aging
January 08, 2020 15:32 - 46 minutes - 55.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Victor Dzau, President of the United States National Academy of Medicine (NAM)and of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Ira Pastor Comments: On today's show we are going to continue upon a theme that we started a few weeks ago, and that is in today's (and the near future's) world, we are facing this major demographic shift: by 2050, the estimated population of those 65+ will repre...
Frugal Innovation In Biomedicine For Big Results
January 06, 2020 11:41 - 35 minutes - 43.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sanga Kanthema, 24 year old electronics specialist and founder and CEO of two Malawi-based companies, Dolphin Health Innovations and QubiX Robotics. Ira Pastor Comments: On today’s show we are going to continue our “virtual global road trip” and our discussions about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) initiatives, and about ways they are disrupting the status quo. In doing so, we are ...
Dr Lucica Ditiu On The Frontlines of Battling A Forgotten Plague: Tuberculosis
January 03, 2020 11:32 - 37 minutes - 45.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership,a partnership whose activities focus chiefly on raising awareness about TB and advocating for greater commitment to, and funding for, TB prevention, treatment and research. Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts o...
Inside The Hot Zone
December 30, 2019 10:19 - 47 minutes - 57.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Mark Kortepeter, MD, MPH, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health. Viruses: On today's show we are going to jump back into the theme of viruses. On previous episodes, we've been talking about either the beneficial therapeutic applications of certain viruses, thinking about our discussions surrounding the topics of bacteriophage therapies or benefic...
How To Build A Tougher Mind
December 27, 2019 09:44 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBDr Shima Beigi BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D. founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Dr Jon Finn founder Tougher Minds. Dr Jon Finn: Jon began his career in elite sport - mainly professional football, rugby, cricket and golf. His work focused on helping people to perform to their potential. He realised that the same approach could be adapted to help a broader range of people, of all ages and in all walks of life. So he founded Tougher Minds and beg...
UK Government To Add 5 Healthy Years To UK Citizens' Lives?
December 18, 2019 09:12 - 41 minutes - 49.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Mr. George MacGinnis, Challenge Director of the Healthy Ageing Programme at UK Research and Innovation. Ira Pastor Comments: Over the 20th century, breakthroughs in medicine, public health, and social and economic development have resulted in unparalleled extensions of the human lifespan across the world. This represents a major triumph for humanity, but with it, major challenges have arisen. Globally, we are facing a major demo...
Tokyo 2020: Richard Whitehead MBE 10x Gold Medallist
December 17, 2019 16:31 - 35 minutes - 42.2 MBAndrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme Ltd. interviews Richard Whitehead, MBE, world record breaker and multi gold medallist in the T42 100m and 200m. A multi discipline athlete, Richard is also a world record breaker in the half and full marathon within the category for athletes with a double amputation (marathon record was beaten by Marko Cheseto at the 2019 Boston Marathon). Moreover, recently he is gold and silver medallist in T61 200m events. Please find the full transcript with photo's an...
Ali Jawad: On Russia's Tokyo 2020 Ban And His Battle Against Crohn's disease To Break World Records
December 15, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 35 MB"When I was born the doctor wanted to kill me!", Ali Jawad. Jawad, is a paralympic gold medalist and world record breaking powerlifter with Crohn's disease. He has had to overcome many challenges in life. His motto: "Why be the best when you can be the greatest?". Ali's competition personal best is 195kg but in the gym he has bench pressed over 200kg. Ali Jawad, born as a double above the knee amputee, is a full time athlete, currently competing at 54kg in the qualifying roun...
Biotechnology And The Study Of Human Sexuality
December 13, 2019 14:27 - 49 minutes - 59.4 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Dr. Nicole Prause, Ph.D, Founder, Liberos LLC and neuroscientist researching human sexual behavior, addiction, and the physiology of sexual response. This audio interview and text is not appropriate for audiences under the age of 18 years old. Ira Pastor comments: Today we are going to journey into the fascinating area sexual psycho-physiology and biotechnology. Dr. Nicole Prause, Ph.Dis an American neuroscientist researching h...
A start-up that helps to heal the world!
December 11, 2019 14:25 - 47 minutes - 55.8 MBDr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Sayuri Tanaka, renowned raw food chef, yoga teacher, cookbook author, chef tutor and owner of Sayuri Healing Food “The best vegan food in Bali”. Vegan food and vegans 6% of U.S. consumers say they are vegan, a 600% increase compared to just 1% in 2014. In Great Britain, approximately 1.16% of the population (600,000 people) reported being vegan in 2018, a 300% increa...
Astrobiology And The Search For Extraterrestrial-Like Life
December 10, 2019 14:38 - 36 minutes - 43.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Penelope “Penny” Boston, recent Director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute. Astrobiology Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary scientific field concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and considers the big question of whether extraterrestrial life exists, and if it does, how humans can detect it. Astrobiology makes use of molecular biology, biophysics, biochemistry, as...
Friendly Viruses: How To Unlock The Potential Of The Human Virome
December 07, 2019 09:22 - 35 minutes - 41.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Jack T. Stapleton, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, and Director of the Levitt Center for Viral Pathogenesis. Ira Pastor Comments: On today’s show we are going to jump back into the theme of viruses and the human virome. Viruses are infective agents that typically consist of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein co...
Walking On The Wild Side: Forest Therapy For Physical and Mental Health
December 05, 2019 12:03 - 48 minutes - 60.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Amos Clifford, Author and Founder of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs. Ira Pastor Comments: On the last several shows, we have spent time on the different hierarchical levels of the health, disease, and aging process We've discussed that "biological aging" is an extremely complex process that is controlled by a series of nested hierarchies that expand from the "very small" (genes, proteins, gene r...
Nina Khera, 13 year old Biotech Superstar
December 03, 2019 10:29 - 26 minutes - 31.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Nina Khera, 13-year-old longevity and genomics researcher and Founder and CEO of Biotein. Ira Pastor Comments: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a term used to group together four key academic disciplines used extensively when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools to improve a country's competitiveness in internal science and technology development, workforce and economic developm...
How To Start At The Finish Line: Cancer Survivor
December 01, 2019 14:12 - 29 minutes - 35.6 MBHollie Fraser, founder of Books On The Move, worldwide book sharing movement, creative director and ideaXme literature, reading and writing ambassador interviews Matthew Newman, 2019 best Kindle book author. Matthew S. Newman, is a 39 year old cancer survivor and best-selling author of Starting At The Finish Line. He is a fitness aficionado, and a financial services industry speaker. His mission is help the wider public and to encourage financial preparedness. He does this by telling his sto...
The Scientific And Spiritual Dimensions Of Healing From Trauma
December 01, 2019 13:46 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBDr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D founder Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Dr Eric Pearl, founder Reconnective Healing®️ and Jillian Fleer Head, of Insight and Development Reconnective Healing®️. Shima Beigi comments: As a resilience scientist, I’m aware of the imprints traumatic events create on both the mind and the body. The seminal work of Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, “The body Remembers the Score”, demonstrates that although ...
Time Traveler: A Scientist's Mission to Make Time Travel A Reality
November 26, 2019 15:50 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut. Ira Pastor Comments: Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, by an object or a person, typically with the use of a hypothetical device known as a time machine. Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fi...
The Blue Economy: Lisandra Rickards
November 25, 2019 11:34 - 38 minutes - 45.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Lisandra Rickards, CEO at Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, Caribbean and Founder @ Merrivale Ventures LLC (Soul Career). Rickards has spearheaded the Centre’s strategic shift towards a venture capital model, supporting growth stage entrepreneurs towards investment. She has raised funding for the expansion of the Centre’s mission and relocated its headquarters from Montego Bay to the business hub of Kingston. Ira Pastor comme...
Science And Spirituality Of Sustainable Development
November 25, 2019 10:45 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBDr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D founder of Mindfulness Engineering™️ and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™️ ambassador interviews Guy Steven Needler, "a Pioneer in Spiritual Physics" teacher and author. Guy Needler MBA, MSc, CEng, MIET, MCMA initially trained as a mechanical engineer and progressed to become a chartered electrical and electronics engineer. He has meditated since he was a teenager. After his formal education, he embarked on a spiritual and vocational journey to focus on spiritua...
Uncovering New Ideas And Truths By Integrating Science And Religion
November 21, 2019 12:41 - 1 hour - 81.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sister Ilia Delio PhD. OSF, a Franciscan Sister (Order of St Francis of Washington, DC) who holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Ira Pastor Comments: On previous shows, as we've spent time discussing the bio-architecture of life, we have spent time at various levels of this unique hierarchy, from the very, very small (as we've delved into topics like quantum...
Science Of Mind, Magic and Manifestation
November 19, 2019 14:55 - 1 hour - 45 MBDr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D ideaXme rich connectedness ambassador interviews Dr Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Imagine the possibility of a new attitude to scientific exploration that allows us to explore the most fundamental behaviour of our fabric of reality. For the past centuries, science has relied on materialistic explanations of the world. This reality is often called Newtonian world view, where everything can be described through “la...
Discover Biology At The Extreme Limits of Life
November 19, 2019 09:24 - 39 minutes - 47.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Dr. Thomas Boothby, Assistant Professor from the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming. Ira Pastor comments: A few episodes ago we began to segway into a fascinating area of biology that has broad potential applications across various domains of human health and enhancement, and that was the theme of organism dormancy. We got our feet wet in talking about the topic of torpor, which ?is defined as a state of dec...
Cryonics: An Ambulance To The Future?
November 17, 2019 09:28 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBIra Pastor ideaXme exponential health ambassador interviews Mr. Dennis Kowalski, Cryonics Institute President, EMT-paramedic, certified in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), advanced pediatric life support (PALS), a CPR Instructor for the American Heart Association, and a fire fighter! Ira Pastor comments: Cryonics is defined as the extremely low-temperature freezing (or vitrification - converting into glass or a glass-like substance) usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K, and storage...
Future Proof Our Planet: Dr Renard Siew
November 15, 2019 16:12 - 35 minutes - 42.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor with the Centre for Governance and Political Studies in Kuala Lumpur. Today we are going to be talking about Sustainability and Climate Change; two topics that have really come to the public forefront in recent months, and which directly impact all of our respective health and longevity. Dr. Renard Siew Our guest today is Dr. Renard Siew. Dr. Siew has PhDs in both Civ...
RNA - Essential For All Human Life: Therapies
November 13, 2019 16:14 - 42 minutes - 51.1 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interview Dr. Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at University of Exeter Medical School. Ira Pastor Comments Today as we continue our discussions on ideaXme pertaining to the biological hierarchy of life, we are going to journey into what I refer to as the "metabolic architecture of the cell", and all of the fascinating dynamics that surround our genomes and allow the information encoded within to impa...
Could Millions Benefit From Dr Fajgenbaum's Self Cure?
November 13, 2019 12:15 - 36 minutes - 44.9 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme longevity and aging ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Patient Impact of the Penn Orphan Disease Center, Founding Director of the Castleman Disease Center, and Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN). Ira Pastor Comments: A rare disease is defined as...
A Sonnet To Science: Dr Sam Illingworth
November 12, 2019 14:30 - 34 minutes - 41.8 MBAndrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme Ltd. interviews Dr Sam Illingworth, PhD Atmospheric Physics, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Illingworth is a "poet scientist" who believes that poetry is a powerful tool to communicate and explore science. (For the complete transcript of this interview please visit www.radioideaxme.com) He is passionate about encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas from one seemingly unrelated sector to ano...
Exploring Rich Connectedness Through Music, Science And Spirituality
November 10, 2019 17:28 - 1 hour - 102 MBDr Shima Beigi, BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D. Founder of Mindfulness Engineering™, resilience scientist, consciousness coach and ideaXme Rich Connectedness™ ambassador interviews Estas Tonne, worldwide acclaimed guitarist who stars in Time of the Sixth Sun, a movie and documentary series about "global consciousness and the emerging movement to find a new way to walk more lightly on this Earth". Shima Beigi comments: It is easy to be carried away by today’s hyperconnected world and forget the very basi...
Apollo Era NASA secretary forges high level career
November 08, 2019 10:36 - 1 hour - 76 MBAna Guzman ideaXme space ambassador and space exploration audio visual communications expert interviews Dr Estella Hernandez Gillette, professor of Human Resources management at the University of Houston. In my next interview for ideaXme, I bring you a story that is less technical and more inspirational. Dr. Estella Hernandez Gillette gives us an oral history that starts with a young immigrant woman hired by NASA straight out of high school during the space race in 1964. Her expe...
Micronations: Flexibility To Innovate?
November 06, 2019 09:32 - 39 minutes - 46.7 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Alan Seid, presidential candidate for The Republic of Palau. Today, on ideaXme we are going to talk about the topics of micro-states, island nations, and innovation. ideaXme has no political affiliations and does not endorse this presidential candidate. Mr. Alan Seid started his political career at a young age of 23 where he became part of the movement to promote Palau's Independence from the US. He was ...
The POWER to lead: A country and global sustainability
November 03, 2019 16:13 - 21 minutes - 26.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, biodiversity scientist and former President of Mauritius 2015-2018. Today ,we are going to touch on several themes from recent shows (including natural products, bio-diversity, conservation, innovation, Africa, island nations, and micro-nations) and bring them together for what is going to be an exciting episode Throughout the 20th century, natural products (primarily thos...
Global sustainability and biodiversity
November 03, 2019 16:13 - 21 minutes - 26.2 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr Ameenah Firdaus Gurib-Fakim, biodiversity scientist and former President of Mauritius 2015-2018. Today ,we are going to touch on several themes from recent shows (including natural products, bio-diversity, conservation, innovation, Africa, island nations, and micro-nations) and bring them together for what is going to be an exciting episode Throughout the 20th century, natural products (primarily thos...
Blood For Everyone!
October 31, 2019 18:06 - 19 minutes - 23.6 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Manabu Kinoshita, Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, at the National Defense Medical College in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. Blood Transfusions Today the ideaXme show is going to travel around the world to Japan, to discuss the topic of artificial blood technology. Blood transfusions save lives and improve health, but many patients requiring transfusion in 2019 ...
Dan Addario, Drug War Veteran: History And Ideas On How To fight Today's War on Drugs
October 29, 2019 14:53 - 42 minutes - 49.8 MBIra Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Daniel Addario, former Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. On a few previous shows we touched on the global problem of drug abuse (of both legal and illegal drugs) primarily looking at the problem from a therapeutic perspective, specifically related to opiate withdrawal technologies. But the problem is much bigger than that. According to the U.S. National Survey on Drug...