Category Archives:  Social Sciences

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 […]

Dr. LaMesha Craft ideaXme interview

Dr. LaMesha Craft: Intelligence and Resilience

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Dr. LaMesha Craft, PhD. all-source intelligence warrant officer (retired) and now contracted faculty member at the National Intelligence University, USA. Find the audio interview on SoundCloud now. Shortly on all major audio podcasting networks. Disclaimer: The views expressed by Dr. Craft in this interview do not reflect the official […]

Craig Fugate, Chief Emergency Management Officer, One Concern

How To Build Resilience In Tough Times: Individuals, Countries and Planet-wide

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Craig Fugate, former Administrator at FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency), USA, (2009-2017), reporting to President Barack Obama. Craig, now Chief Emergency Officer of One Concern, provides his perspective on the recent crisis in Texas – the power grid outage, the current Mexican border refugee challenge (9,500 unaccompanied […]

Keith Clarke, Chair, Constructionarium.

Keith Clarke, CBE: Decarbonise At Speed. Embrace It, Or Get Left Behind!

 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 […]

Architect Dr Samer El Sayary, Assistant Professor, Beirut Arab University. Credit: Dr Samer El Sayary.

Architecture for Outer Space

 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. […]

Tom Lawry, National Director for Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft.

Tom Lawry: Champion of Intelligent Health at Microsoft

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Tom Lawry, National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft . This interview is for the technology geeks amongst us as well as the general public who’d like to know more about what’s happening next in health. Before becoming National Director for AI in the health […]

Perry Marshall, founder of the Evolution 2.0 Prize

How To Win The $10 Million Evolution 2.0 Prize?

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Perry Marshall, founder of Evolution 2.0 Prize and Natural Code LLC. Perry Marshall Disseminator of Biological and Inorganic Information Systems Perry Marshall is a high level connector and multi-disciplinary disseminator of both biological and inorganic information. He is most recently famous for corralling some of the world’s top […]

Amy Karle, BioArtist and Futurist

Amy Karle BioArtist Invites Exponential Technologist To Collaborate!

 Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme interviews Amy Karle BioArtist.  Click the link above to listen, alternatively read the full transcript below to discover why Amy would like to collaborate with an exponential technologist, furthermore her view on the interface between exponential technology and ethics. Amy Karle BioArtist Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning BioArtist […]

Lenka Petrakova, Award-Winning Designer and Architect of the 8th Continent.

The 8th Continent: Award Winning Design Concept to Clean the Oceans

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 […]

James Thornton, CEO ClientEarth.

ClientEarth: Can Law Save The Planet?

 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, […]