Category Archives: Big Ideas

Marcello Dantas, Director SFER IK

ALIVE Art | Marcello Dantas

Neil Koenig, ex BBC producer and current ideaXme board advisor and guest interviewer, interviews curator Marcello Dantas. ALIVE Art | Making Art Relevant To Wide Audiences Are humans the only creatures who can appreciate art? Perhaps not, says Marcello Dantas. His latest project aims to create “art that’s meaningful to other species”, such as birds, […]

Jekan Thanga PhD.

News From SpaceTREx: The Lunar Ark

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Jekan Thanga, PhD., Head of SpaceTREx laboratory, Principal Investigator of the NASA-funded ASTEROIDS laboratory and Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. They discuss the latest developments at the laboratories. Moreover, ideaXme receives a news exclusive relating to SpaceTREx’s proposal to build a […]

John Vickers

Blue Abyss: One Giant Step For Extreme Environments Training?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder ideaXme interview John Vickers, founder of Blue Abyss. Blue Abyss will be a high tech pioneering training and extreme adventure centre. Its objective is to be “the most comprehensive deep sea and space research, training and test facility of its kind in the world, unmatched in its breadth of configuration”. Blue […]

Shelley Lyford President and CEO West Health and the Gary and Mary West Foundation

Billionaire Philanthropists Pour US$400 Million into Initiatives to Help the Weak and Vulnerable

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Shelley Lyford President and Chief Executive Officer of West Health, the Gary and Mary West Foundation, and the West Health Institute. Growth in Population of Weak and Vulnerable According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the world is on the brink of a demographic milestone. Since the […]

Professor Hildebrandt saving the northern white rhino. Credit: Leibniz Institute For Zoo and Wildlife Research

Saving the World’s Rarest Large Mammal: Professor Hildebrandt Talks of Saving the Northern White Rhino

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernd Hildebrandt, Head of the Department of Reproduction Management at Leibniz-IZW and Professor of Wildlife Reproduction Medicine at Freie Universität Berlin. Ira Pastor comments: The “Sixth Mass Extinction” is a term for an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene […]

Dr. Derek Yach

Ending Smoking in This Generation

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Derek Yach, the founder, president, and board member of The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. Ira Pastor comments: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that we currently have over 1.1 billion smokers on earth, and that tobacco kills more than 8 million people […]

Dr. Hamed Faridi

Food Science and Technology: Dr. Hamed Faridi

 Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Hamed Faridi, Chief Science Officer of McCormick. Ira Pastor comments: Throughout the 20th century, natural products, especially those from the plant kingdom, formed the basis for a majority of all pharmaceuticals, biologics, and consumer healthcare products used by patients around the globe, […]

Food Security and Agro-Terrorism: Protecting Against Zoonotic Viruses

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Christopher Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Ira Pastor comments: Today, we have an ideaXme episode at the epicenter of a fascinating set of topics. But first, some background numbers and definitions: Antibiotic resistance is when germs (i.e., bacteria, fungi, etc.) develop the ability to defeat the […]

Nina Khera, Credit: Nina Khera

Nina Khera, 13 year old Biotech Superstar

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder f Bioquark, 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 […]

James Strole, Credit: The Coalition for Radical Life Extension

James Strole: Advocacy, Education, Awareness About Radical Life Extension

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews James Strole, Co-Founder and Co-Director of People Unlimited and Director of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension. Ira Pastor comments: On the last several shows we have spent time on different hierarchical levels of the biologic-architecture of the life, disease and aging process. We’ve […]