The PanFuture Society Podcast
Technology Podcasts
Technology, science, and culture news and discussion covering topics from around the corner and across centuries. We aim to encourage long-term thinking and educate people on cutting edge developments happening now as well as dream about what might be far in the future.
Location:
United States
Description:
Technology, science, and culture news and discussion covering topics from around the corner and across centuries. We aim to encourage long-term thinking and educate people on cutting edge developments happening now as well as dream about what might be far in the future.
Twitter:
@PanFutureCast
Language:
English
Website:
http://panfuture.org/
Email:
info@panfuture.org
Episodes
Ep 89 - So long, and thanks for all the fish
3/3/2018
Thank you for listening, thank you for your support. Do check on the blog or twitter from time to time, I intend to keep writing. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you were today.
Duración:00:18:26
Ep 88 - The State Of Things
3/3/2018
Just some thoughts this week on the current state of the world and the changes underway.
Duración:00:16:32
Ep 87 - Plant Genetics with Dr. Kevin Folta
2/24/2018
This week Dr. Folta returns to the show to talk plant genetics, fear mongering, and putting worry into proper context.
Also, the Clock of the Long Now is officially under construction
Duración:00:39:02
Ep 86 - Interview with Holly Griffith
2/17/2018
This week I have an interview with NASA engineer Holly Griffith. We talk about Engineer's Week (Feb 18-24), the importance of engineers in life all around us, women in science, and some other stuff.
Also, I am tired of saying "Never again."
Duración:00:47:13
Ep 85 - Dr. Emily Monosson
2/10/2018
This week I interview Dr. Emily Monosson about her book Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health, and we talk about academia, changes in our society currently underway, and motherhood in the scientific world.
Also, Robocoffee, and searching for technosignatures around distant planets. Oh, and some guy launched a car into space.
Duración:00:34:01
Ep 84 - When I Grow Up...
2/3/2018
This week I offer an essay on my career choices, wonder why I didn't become a scientist, and offer advice on finding your ideal work.
Also, Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra
Duración:00:20:45
Ep 83 - Interview with Ira Pastor of Bioquark
1/27/2018
This week I had a long chat with Ira Pastor, CEO of Bioquark. We talked about their research into new treatments for disease, the importance of a good scientific process, and the challenge of translation, getting from the petri dish to mice to people. Also, a lesson the importance of looking back to past research
Duración:00:56:36
Ep 82 - Sci-Fi Inspirations for Long Term Thinking
1/20/2018
This week I ruminate on some of my early inspirations for long term thinking from the world of science fiction.
Also, nano material from pitcher plants, and tiny nuclear reactors for your house on Mars.
Duración:00:22:41
Ep 81 - A.C. Hachem and a 2017 movie wrap up
1/13/2018
This week I talk to author A.C. Hachem again. We geek out about movies, wax philosophical on the importance of science, and get the scoop on A.C.'s next novel.
Duración:01:10:02
Ep 80 - The Future Of Food 6 - Interview with a cricket farmer
1/6/2018
This week I have an interview with Austin Miller of Craft Crickets (crackcrickets.com). We discuss the many benefits of eating insects and some of the details of how one farms crickets.
Also, Asimov's 1953 vision of self-driving cars, and more news on Tabby's Star.
Duración:00:38:25
Ep 79 - Long-term perspective
12/16/2017
This week an essay on long-term thinking and keeping things in perspective.
Also, 7 banned words at the CDC, and Arthur C Clarke's 100th birthday.
Duración:00:21:02
Ep 78 - More Stories from a Music Career
12/9/2017
This week I offer more insight into a career in the arts, and how my experience may apply to all jobs in the future.
Also, artificial life and martian worms.
Duración:00:33:38
Ep 77 - Essay on a Career in the Arts
12/2/2017
This week I offer an essay on my music career, and how that fits (or doesn't) with modern society in America. I also ruminate on the place of arts in civilization and whether other careers will go as arts have gone.
Plus news in graphene spider webs, our interstellar visitor, and Voyager 1
Duración:00:25:04
A Musical Interlude
11/25/2017
I thought with the business of the holiday this week we could all use a break from my normal banter/blather. In the feed today is an acoustic EP, Evagation, from my band Strange Land
Chloroform Dream
27 Miles Out
Corozal
The Girl With The Octarine Eyes
The Last Mountain
Duración:00:25:14
Ep 76 - Blockchain and Bitcoin: interview with Steve McKeon
11/18/2017
This week I have an interview with Steve McKeon from the U of O. We talk about blockchain and bitcoin, what it is, what people are doing with it, and why you should pay attention. Please see the show notes for a number of links to recent news.
Also, genetic engineering a skin replacement to fight a deadly disease.
Duración:01:02:40
Ep 75 - Nanotech interview with John Donovan, U of O
11/11/2017
This week I have a long interview I did a few weeks ago John Donovan. John is the Director of the MicroAnalytical Facility at the University of Oregon's CAMCOR, Center for Advanced Materials Characterization. I got a tour of the whole facility and we talked about all the different kinds of nanotechnology scanning and imaging done at the facility.
Duración:01:03:33
Ep 74 - News Show #7
11/4/2017
Catching up on the latest and greatest including growing rice in saltwater, algorithms for acoustics, and the NASA twin study.
Duración:00:30:29
Ep 73 - Interview with Astronaut Abby
10/28/2017
This week I have a great chat with Abigail Harrison, aka Astronaut Abby. We talk about her ambitions for Mars, getting people excited about space, STEM, and the arts, and whether there will be cats on Mars.
Duración:00:52:35
Ep 72 - News Show 6
10/21/2017
This week we catch up on the news. Mars, self-driving cars, trains and tractors, new telescopes, medical imaging, shills, dolphin culture.
Duración:00:32:00
Episode 71 - Interview with Aerospace Engineer Mike Paul Hughes
10/14/2017
This week features an interview with Aerospace Engineer Mike Paul Hughes. We chat about upcoming missions, speculate on life, and Mike reminds us why it's important to study history.
Also, a bad case of bad science headlines.
Duración:00:50:42