Interviews with innovators, academics, artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, futurists, economists, and philosophers.
Episodes
Tuesday Sep 29, 2015
Tuesday Sep 29, 2015
C. James Townsend holds an M.A. in Liberal Arts from California State University Sacramento and a B.A. in Integrated Studies and a minor in physics from the same institution. He is seeking to obtain his Doctorate in Future Studies in the near future. His interests include: physics, Complexity Theory, political and economic philosophy, Marxism, Techno-Optimism, comparative mystical religions-Gnosticism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism and the Russian Cosmists, Transhumanism and Future Studies. His physical interests include Cheng Man Ching style Tai Chi Chuan and Aikido. The Singularity and Socialism is his first published work and he is presently working on a companion book that takes up the ramifications of the coming economic singularity and the financial instruments that will need to be invented in order to stave off the coming inevitable collapse of the welfare-warfare state and burgeoning technological unemployment.
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
Sunday Sep 27, 2015
In this podcast Micah Blumberg and Alexandre Calil Sicchieri Silva join me to discuss current VR systems, possible trajectories the technology will take, opportunities for game and film makers, and VR's applications to education, job training, and science.
Friday Aug 28, 2015
Friday Aug 28, 2015
In this podcast Nicole and I discuss quantum neural networks. Beginning with classical NNs, then moving on to quantum effects in biology, the implications of the afformentioned effect's for neuroscience, information theory, and, finally quantum neural networks. This recording is at once mind-bending and accessible. Nicole is extremely gifted when it comes to presenting difficult ideas.
Tuesday Aug 25, 2015
Tuesday Aug 25, 2015
Dr. Mani’s Story
In search of a meaningful path to move beyond traditional drugs and psychiatry, Dr. Mani is a Harvard-trained neuroscientist, author and visionary leader. He is the author of the upcoming book Break The Cage, MD: The Physician’s Guide to Transcendental Self Medication which helps doctors craft a lifestyle dominated by their passion instead of by clinical; medicine. He co-founded- Mindful360 with the goal of applying neuroscience to real world problems and understanding. Break The Cage, MD takes that mission further by focusing on Doctors and their desires.
After working with several fortune 500 organizations, including WebMD and Motorola, Dr Mani turned his attention to helping doctors make sense of the rapidly changing digital medical landscapes.
His brain-slapping style of research attracts clients from around the world to actively discover how their minds work and how to think their way to success (without shame). A true polymath, he’s brought much-needed science to the fuzzy world of self-improvement, and he’s equally at ease with everyone from billionaires to Tibetan throat singers.
Graduating from UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine, followed by an intense Psychiatry residency at University of Miami (the busiest psychiatric trauma center in the United States). Dr. Mani is also passionate about helping fellow physicians understand and benefit from the opportunities of emerging digital trends.
He helps docs get more personal time while earning more money by understanding the fundamentals of creating digital media products. He helps them to position themselves to benefit from a global market by discovering rich niches based on their expertise and crafting celebrity personal brands to attract affluent-loyal clientele.
Professional Collaborations
Saturday Aug 22, 2015
Saturday Aug 22, 2015
In this podcast we discuss Aristotle, science fiction cinema, Heidegger, friendly AI, the threats and promises of superintelligent software, technology’s impact on society, surveillance states, and cyborg citizens.
Peter Joseph Moons has a wide academic background and has spent over a dozen years outside the United States. Among his travels, he was in Panama for the tail end of the dictatorship under General Noriega. He also was in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, just after another political strongman, Slobodan Milošević, vacated his military forces from that province. Both of these experiences give him a unique perspective on governmental power.
Peter's current interests include international relations, politics, understanding power and control within dictatorships, complex humanitarian emergencies, conflicts, crisis management, and ethics of technology. His analysis on these topics can be found at www.straterian.com or on Twitter, @Straterian. Peter's academic research papers are available at https://salve.academia.edu/PeterMoons and his complete professional profile is at www.linkedin/in/petermoons.
COL Clark H. Summers, Ret. (USAR) is a doctoral candidate at Salve Regina University. His dissertation research considers aspects of American citizenship as an expression of the classical English militia tradition. Recent projects include article publications in Military Review, US Army Chemical Review, andInter-Disciplinary.Net.
Friday Aug 14, 2015
Friday Aug 14, 2015
"BioViva is engaging in a bold implementation of genetic rejuvenation therapies - a first step on a path that I have been proposing for 15 years"
-Aubrey de Grey
"Elizabeth Parrish has taken the bull by the horns to spearhead an approach to cure aging using gene therapy that no one has ever had the guts to do before. Her gene therapy approach at BioViva makes all of the previous theoretical iterations of telomerase activation nearly obsolete. It will finally deliver on the promise of my team’s discovery of the hTR and hTERT genes at Geron Corporation and take that promise to the next, powerful and groundbreaking level. THIS is the future of Telomere Biology and therefore human longevity."
-Bill Andrews
Elizabeth Parrish is the Director of Outreach at the Complex Biological Systems Alliance (CBSA), Founder at BioTrove Investments, Secretary of the Board at the Regenerative Technology Alliance, and Admin Management at 3 Circles LLC.
Liz is a leading voice of progress, reason, and education for the advancement of biotechnology and serves as a Motivational Speaker for the Life Sciences. She is actively involved in international educational media outreach and works with the International Longevity Alliance (ILA).
The Complex Biological Systems Alliance (CBSA) is an international multidisciplinary team of researchers investigating fundamental questions in biology and medicine. The CBSA is a unique platform for advanced scientific discourse and discovery. The mission of the CBSA is to further scientific understanding of biological complexity and the nature and origins of human disease.
To this end, the CBSA is developing novel mathematical, statistical, and experimental models to uncover fundamental threads of molecular information essential to key cellular functions and biological processes. CBSA members are afforded access to these tools to expedite scientific publication of their research. Moreover, these models provide the means to establish a new paradigm in evolutionary biology.
BioTrove Investments is committed to offering a meaningful way for people to fund research in biotech. This research will help alleviate disease caused by cellular degeneration. New evidence supports the important role of genetics, stem cells, and biotech on health, longevity, and curing of disease. BioTrove Investments wishes to advance research throughout the world to accomplish cures and improve resistance to defects and disease, as well as to achieve physical improvements in the human body. They intend to create a voice for progress, reason, and education for the advancement of biotech.
The Regenerative Technology Alliance (RTA) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit trade association that brings together individuals, companies, and organizations who work in advancing the emerging field cell & regenerative medicine.
The mission of the RTA is to be a strong and unifying voice in the emerging field of regenerative technologies; to bring together the leaders of this field to develop true global standards for the processing of human tissues & cells used in the field of regenerative medicine; to provide leadership to effectively self-manage & self-police the industry; and to actively engage with regulators & health agencies to develop a third way model for the safe translations of cell therapies from the bench to the bedside.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015
Christine Gaspar, R.N. is a registered nurse and the president of the Cryonics Society of Canada. Her educational background is a diploma in nursing with an emphasis on emergency and trauma nursing. She has worked in a variety of hospitals in the Greater Los Angeles and the Greater Toronto area, where she currently resides. She has served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves as a medical assistant in the infantry and artillery.
Her current employment is with William Osler Health System where she provides emergency care in one of Canada's largest and busiest hospitals. Christine has participated in the Alcor Southern California standby team as well and is currently working towards developing greater standby capabilities for cryonics patients in the Toronto region.
She advocates for cryonics in the press, and has published essays and articles on transhumanism and cryonics for Humanity+ magazine, KurzweilAI, and IEET. She is also an entrepreneur who participates in a family-run specialty farming business and cares for her family at home. Her interests lie in developing cryonics in Canada, transhumanism, and subsistence farming. Christine earned her diploma in Nursing at Georgian College in 1998.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
Sunday Jul 19, 2015
In this podcast Mr. Stolyarov and I discuss the psychology, biology and economics and necessity of unlimited life extension. We also toss around some ideas for an upcoming video game to accompany his children's book, Death is Wrong.
About Gennady Stolyarov II:
Gennady Stolyarov II (G. Stolyarov II) is an actuary, science-fiction novelist, independent philosophical essayist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator, a magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress. Mr. Stolyarov regularly produces YouTube Videos discussing life extension, libertarianism, and related subjects.
In December 2013, Mr. Stolyarov published Death is Wrong, an ambitious children’s book on life extension, illustrated by his wife Wendy Stolyarov. Death is Wrong can be found on Amazon inpaperback and Kindle formats, and can also be freely downloaded in PDF in the English,Russian, and Spanish languages.
Mr. Stolyarov has contributed articles to the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET),The Wave Chronicle, Le Québécois Libre, Brighter Brains Institute, Immortal Life, Enter Stage Right, Rebirth of Reason, The Liberal Institute, and the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Mr. Stolyarov holds the professional insurance designations of Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA), Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS), Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Associate in Reinsurance (ARe), Associate in Regulation and Compliance (ARC), Associate in Personal Insurance (API), Associate in Insurance Services (AIS), Accredited Insurance Examiner (AIE), and Associate in Insurance Accounting and Finance (AIAF).
Mr. Stolyarov has written a science fiction novel, Eden against the Colossus, a philosophical treatise, A Rational Cosmology, a play, Implied Consent, and a free self-help treatise, The Best Self-Help is Free.
In an effort to assist the spread of rational ideas, Mr. Stolyarov published his articles on Associated Content (subsequently the Yahoo! Contributor Network and Yahoo! Voices) from 2007 until Yahoo! closed this venue in 2014. Mr. Stolyarov held the highest Clout Level (10) possible on the Yahoo! Contributor Network and was one of its Page View Millionaires, with over 3,191,000 views. Mr. Stolyarov’s selected writings from that era have been preserved on this page.
Mr. Stolyarov can be contacted at gennadystolyarovii@gmail.com.
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Tuesday Jun 30, 2015
Synopsis
[View Crash, Boom, Pop! here.]
Economics is full of BS -- but there is an alternative. Bank bailouts, quantitative easing, housing bubbles, austerity, etc. - are all economic policies putting most of us in the poorhouse. You can fight back...but how? Knowledge is power! This series is all about common sense, humor and great illustrations. It's 100% bull free.
Too many of us are living paycheck to paycheck. Income inequality is a worldwide problem. Students are graduating with record debts. Trillion dollar wars are charged to the national credit card of debt. We’re inheriting economies in crisis, with endless money printing, dismal job opportunities, sky high tuition fees and a housing market no one can afford.
These are baffling questions for many...including actual economists. Yes, that’s right. Much of what economists actually believe - and teach in their incredibly boring textbooks - is wrong.
As a team with a background in finance, education and economics, we read a copious amount of books that cut through the confusion: Steve Keen’s “Debunking Economics”, Ann Pettifor’s "Just Money - How to Break the Despotic Power of Finance" and Ha-Joon Chang's "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", just to name a few. With the help of our advisor and friend Steve Keen, we can now share what we’ve learned.
About Suzie and Miguel:
Miguel Guerra
An obscenely talented artist and writer whose dedication and ability to get [expletive] done on time warps the boundaries of time and space. It’s his art that you see on every page. Miguel was born in Spain, but his family later moved around the U.S. and settled in Canada. He speaks fluent English and Spanish. Miguel has worked on projects for various small and large organizations, including the National Book Foundation and Heavy Metal:
Together with his co-writer Suzy, they published the following short stories in Heavy Metal:
• Bedbugs (July 2007)
• Insomnia (January 2010)
• A Lonely Cry in Space (May 2010)
Miguel also creates original t-shirt designs and commissioned art (including book covers, comic covers, illustrations, avatars, web art, clip art, etc...). Have a special request? Let us know and he'll design something personal just for you. Click here to contact Miguel directly. You can also see his portfolio at www.MiguelGuerra.com.
Suzy Dias
A nose to the grindstone writer, Suzy works on comics, graphic novels, children's books, short stories, and novellas (usually comedy, sci-fi, and action). She also works as a webmaster, graphic designer, letterer, and a cartoonist. Suzy was born in Canada, speaks fluent Portuguese, advanced Spanish, and can order a meal in French. She started her career in finance and worked her way out of the pits and into the media industry, including the Globe and Mail in Toronto and Bloomberg in New York City, where she worked as a writer and editor for the better part of 10 years.
Kindred Spirits
Miguel and Suzy found they were kindred spirits and perfect co-creators and writing partners. They decided to tie the knot and have been writing and creating new worlds ever since. Together and individually, they've written comics, graphic novels, movie scripts, TV episodes, and novellas.
Thursday May 28, 2015
Thursday May 28, 2015
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD, is a head of the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at the Federal Clinical Research Center for Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Immunology in and the adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He is also a director and trustee of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based registered charity supporting aging research worldwide and a director of the International Aging Research Portfolio (IARP) knowledge management project. He is the CEO or Insilico Medicine, Inc, a Baltimore-based company with research facility on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University Emerging Technology Centers. The company is focusing on signaling pathway activation analysis, drug discovery and drug repurposing for aging and age-related diseases. He also heads NeuroG, a neuroinformatics project intended to assist the elderly suffering from dementia. His primary research interests include systems biology of aging, regenerative medicine, next-generation sequencing, molecular diagnostics and pathway analysis. He is the author of "The Ageless Generation: How advances in biomedicine will transform the global economy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
He holds two Bachelor Degrees from Queen’ s University, a Masters in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Biophysics from the Moscow State University.