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How To Academy Podcast

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  • How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. Our biweekly podcast is your chance to hear in-depth from the most exciting thinkers in global culture.
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Episodes
  • Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth

    Pioneering Biologist J Craig Venter - The Future of Life on Earth
    Jul 23 2024
    A household name following both the mapping of the human genome and, in 2010, the creation of the first synthetic organism, J Craig Venter is a singular figure in 21st century science: a biologist whose legacy is secure and who, at 77, still continues to push boundaries. He joined us in conversation with David Malone to share a story that is equal parts thrilling global adventure and a journey of momentous scientific discovery: his fifteen year, 65k mile quest to map the microbiome of the oceans. Traveling in the Sorcerer II, a 100ft sailboat turned research vessel, Venter and his team discovered millions of unknown genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance

    New York Times Bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi - Money and Power in the Fantasy Renaissance
    Jul 19 2024
    Renowned as a pioneer of climate fiction, Paolo Bacigalupi's novels The Windup Girl and The Water Knife earned him a reputation as one of the essential speculative novelists of our time, with a prophetic gift akin to established genre masters like William Gibson and Magaret Atwood. His new novel Navola is part of a different tradition: a fantasy novel where historical realism takes precedent over the overtly imaginary, exploring the relationship between family, money, and power in a lightly disgused version of Renaissance Italy. His protagonist Davico di Regulai is the reluctant heir to a Medici-inspired banking empire and the coming-of-age story Bacigalupi tells transports us to another world where contemporary themes reasonate deeply within a thrilling, escapist narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned

    Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell - When the Wild Things Returned
    Jul 16 2024
    After years of running a failing farm in West Sussex, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to hand back control to nature. Slowly but surely, plants shot up, creatures crept in, and the landscape began to heal. The area now hums with life and is home to some of the rarest species in Britain, such as peregrine falcons, turtle doves and purple emperor butterflies. Free from human intervention and monocultures, the farm has become a safe haven for nature which self-corrects and self regulates. In this episode of the podcast they share their rewilding journey, dispel myths about the antagonism between farming and wilding, and share their hopes for the future of the movement with Hannah MacInnes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    1 hr and 8 mins
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