Category Archives: Physical Sciences

Ms. Nemonte Nenquimo Credit: Resistencia Waorani

Guardian of the Amazon

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Ms. Nemonte Nenquimo, President of the Waorani Pastaza Organization (CONCONAWEP – Coordinating Council of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador). Ira Pastor comments: Today we have a fascinating guest joining us on the ideaXme show from a rather remote location, and we are going to […]

Dr. Boston with Samples, Credit: NASA

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial-Like Life

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Penelope “Penny” Boston, recent Director of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute. Astrobiology Is the Study of Life in the Universe Astrobiology is an interdisciplinary scientific field concerned with the origins, early evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, and considers the big question […]

Credit: Deglee Degi

Walking On The Wild Side: Forest Therapy For Physical and Mental Health

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Amos Clifford, author and founder of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs. Ira Pastor comments: On the last several shows, we have spent time on the different hierarchical levels of the health, disease, and aging process. We’ve discussed that “biological […]

Dr. Ronald Mallet, Credit: Dr. Ronald Mallett

Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Mission to Make Time Travel A Reality

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics at the University of Connecticut. Ira Pastor comments: Time travel is the concept of movement between certain points in time, analogous to movement between different points in space, by an object or a person, […]

The Blue Economy: Lisandra Rickards

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Lisandra Rickards, CEO at Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, Caribbean and Founder of Merrivale Ventures LLC (Soul Career). Rickards has spearheaded the Centre’s strategic shift towards a venture capital model, supporting growth stage entrepreneurs towards investment. She has raised funding for the expansion of the […]

Dr. Renard Siew

Future Proof Our Planet: Dr. Renard Siew

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Renard Siew, Climate Change Advisor with the Centre for Governance and Political Studies in Kuala Lumpur. Today, we are going to be talking about Sustainability and Climate Change; two topics that have really come to the public forefront in recent months, and which […]

Sam Illingworth, Credit: Sam Illingworth

A Sonnet to Science: Dr. Sam Illingworth

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Dr Sam Illingworth, PhD Atmospheric Physics, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Illingworth is a “poet scientist” who believes that poetry is a powerful tool to communicate and explore science. He is passionate about encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas from one […]

Dr. Estella Hernandez Gillette participating in an Apollo anniversary event, “Women of the Apollo Era," Credit: NASA

Apollo-era NASA Secretary Forges High Level Career

Ana Guzman, ideaXme space ambassador and space exploration audio visual communications expert interviews Dr Estella Hernandez Gillette, professor of Human Resources management at the University of Houston. In my next interview for ideaXme, I bring you a story that is less technical and more inspirational. Dr. Estella Hernandez Gillette gives us an oral history that […]

Dr Alice Parker, Professor of Viterbi School of Engineering

Building a Synthetic Brain: Dr. Alice C. Parker’s Work

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr. Alice C. Parker, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. They talk of Dr Parker’s work to build a synthetic brain. Ira Pastor comments: On the last several shows we have spent time […]

Fionn Ferreira with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf

Google Science Fair Winner Fionn Ferreira

Dr. Richard W. Smith (PhD), ideaXme World Oceans ambassador and Oceanographer at Global Aquatic Research, interviews 18 year old scientist Fionn Ferreira, winner of the 2019 Google Science Fair. Fionn Ferreira Fionn Ferreira recently received the award for developing a method for removing plastics from water. Whilst this represents a breakthrough in the established scientific […]