Category Archives: Featured Articles

Benjamina Bollag, Co-founder Uncommon.

Well This Is Uncommon | Benjamina Bollag Talks of Cultivated Meat

 Neil Koenig Senior TV Series Producer and ideaXme interviewer, in conversation with Benjamina Bollag, founder and CEO of Uncommon. Neil comments: As concerns about the sustainability of food production grow, could so-called “cellular agriculture” be part of the answer? A new Cambridge-based startup called Uncommon is one of a host of new players that […]

Neil Koenig ideaXme board advisor

Memories of Steve Jobs | Neil Koenig, talks of a conversation he had with Apple’s founder

Neil Koenig, former BBC Senior Producer and ideaXme board advisor tells us of his illuminating conversation with Apple’s founder, Steve Jobs. Sony Walkman TCD-D100 DAT In Paris in September 1998, my colleague Peter Day and I met Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to record an interview for a BBC documentary. But before we could get started, […]

David Grinspoon, Senior Scientist at The Planetary Institute.

David Grinspoon, Senior Planetary Scientist and Author joins ideaXme as Board Advisor

We are incredibly excited to announce that as of the 19th of April 2022, David Grinspoon, PhD, joins ideaXme as board advisor. David Grinspoon comments: “For our species and our biosphere this is a time of huge peril but also of great potential. We have the technical knowledge to prevent climate change and to integrate our […]

Professor Lorna Harries, ideaXme mentor Left and Dr Marija Zacharova, ideaXme mentee, right.

Professor Lorna Harries To Mentor Dr Marija Zacharova | ideaXme Mentoring

I am delighted to announce that Lorna Harries, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Exeter Medical School and co-founder of SENISCA is now ideaXme mentor to Dr Marija Ksenija Zacharova, Research Associate at the University of St Andrews. Professor Lorna Harries, ideaXme Mentor Professor Harries comments: “I’m delighted to be a mentor for […]

Catherine Marshall, Professor British Studies at CY Cergy Paris Université, France and Director of the MA Political Ideas in a Digital Age.

Professor Catherine Marshall Appointed ideaXme Board Advisor

Professor Catherine Marshall is appointed as ideaXme board advisor. Catherine joins other notable advisors including former NASA astronaut, Nicole Stott, Dr Robert Brown, FAPS, FIEE, FInstP, MAE, who was CEO of The American Institute of Physics and is now Professor UCI Beckman Laser Institute and Clinic and Sir John Hegarty, co-founder of BBH (Bartle Bogle […]

Professor Winfried Hensinger joins ideaXme

Professor Winfried Hensinger joins ideaXme

ideaXme welcomes Professor Winfried Hensinger as new board advisor. Professor Hensinger comments: I am very excited to help ideaXme on its fantastic mission. There has never been a more important time to inspire and progress big ideas in order to create a better world. Professor Winfried Hensinger is a Professor of Quantum Technologies at the […]

Xie Rong performance artist and ideaXme Eco ambassador

ECO-echo by Xie Rong launches on ideaXme

Xie Rong, performance artist joins ideaXme as Eco Art ambassador. Subscribe to her ECO-echo interview series. ideaXme playlist: ECO-echo is an interview series that is rooted in socially engaged ecological art. ideaXme invites you to join well known Chinese performance artist Xie Rong’s memory branch. Her objective in conducting this series of ideaXme interviews is […]

Track and Trace Covid 19 Apps

Track and Trace: An Issue of Access

On the 18th of June, the U.K. Government announced that it would be scrapping its NHSX track and trace app, and instead switch to a model provided by Apple and Google’s Covid-19 development partnership, due to numerous issues with the NHSX app’s software. The U.K. is not the first country to halt the development of […]

Dr Shima Beigi,BSc,MSc,MSc,Ph.D. Discusses human connection in a time of coronavirus

The Value of Resilient Connections in a Time of Coronavirus

The coronavirus is affecting everyone. In this short article from the ideaXme Rich Connectedness podcast series, I want to focus on a specific area that is radically affected by the pandemic: CONNECTIONS. Please find Dr Shima Beigi’s webinar slides on building resilience and connections in a time of Covid-19 Covid-19 Has Changed Everything Just a couple of […]

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Prioritising Facts Over Fear in the Age of Coronavirus

Media manipulation is not a new phenomenon, but the means and speed by which fake news reaches the general public is drastically changing thanks to the instantaneous nature of social media. With social media algorithms and our own patterns of content consumption favouring sensationalist content, it’s easy to prey on the public’s desperation for information […]