Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Loay Elbasyouni, senior director for engineering at Astrodyne TDI. Loay was lead electrical and power electronics engineer (to 2018), who helped build the NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter. In this interview discover the technical challenges the team faced in building the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars, moreover discover […]
Category Archives: Physical Sciences
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May
May
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 […]
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Apr
Apr
Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Kevin Pitts, Chief Research Officer at Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator laboratory and Physics Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They spoke of 2 exciting research projects Muon g-2 and DUNE hosted by Fermilab which focus on muons and neutrinos respectively. Please scroll down for the interview […]
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Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Mar
Mar
Neil Koenig, TV Producer, Journalist and ideaXme board advisor interviews Keith Clarke CBE, a senior construction industry figure shaping the modern sustainably built world and a passionate environmental campaigner. Keith is currently Chair of Constructionarium, Member of Advisory Board, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and Director Women in Property Network. Moreover, until recently he was […]
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Mar
Mar
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. Samer El Sayary multi-award winning architect and Assistant Professor, Architecture Beirut Arab University. What Sort of Habitats Are We Going To Design To Survive On Mars And The Moon? Andrea Macdonald, founder, ideaXme: [00:00:17] It’s just a matter of time before humans inhabit the Moon and Mars. […]
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Feb
Feb
There is a pressing need to clean up the world’s oceans. Both the health of our oceans and climate change are linked as oceans play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide. Plastic pollution, 8 million tons of plastic every year, threaten all marine life. Ocean species are facing a bigger danger of extinction than species on land. It […]
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Jan
Jan
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews James Thornton, CEO of ClientEarth to talk of how legal action could save the planet. ClientEarth ClientEarth is a non-profit international environmental law firm which employs over 200 people who work in more than 60 countries. The organisation uses the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, […]
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Jan
Jan
Richard W Smith, oceanographer and ideaXme world’s oceans ambassador interviews John Englander, President and Founder of Rising Seas Institute and author Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level. Rising Seas Climate change and rising sea levels are changing the boundary lines of our world, and, if left to continue at their current pace, pose considerable […]
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Jan
Jan
Dr Merritt Moore, PhD, quantum physicist, ballerina and aspiring astronaut talks with Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme. Dr Moore has achieved what some would call ‘the impossible’: a career as a professional ballet dancer and as an academic quantum physicist.” – University of Oxford. She plans on adding another profession to her career roster […]
