Through the purpose podcast we will meet people involved in the Biological Purpose Project. They include experimentalists, theoreticians, and philosophers working on a range of problems from curing cancer to the conservation of the biosphere. In each episode, we delve into the unexpected ways in which they're blending philosophy and science.
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Thinking the Unthinkable with the Mebêngôkre (ft Charbel El-Hani)
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How Recycling became meaningless - https://grist.org/culture/recycling-symbol-logo-plastic-design/ Does "Every Little Thing" REALLY Stop Climate Change?
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David Oderberg & The Philosophy of Making Mistakes
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David Oderberg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. In this episode he talks about why he got into philosophy, why philosophy is important for the study of living things and the theory of mistakes he's developing along with the rest of the Mistakes in Living Systems team. Find out more about his work - https://www.davidsoderbe…
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Further And Further And Further Back In Time
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Host Siddhant Pusdkekar speaks to Joanna Masel about how she stumbled upon a 4 billion year old trend and a problem that evolution has been trying to solve since the beginning of life Papers referenced in this episode Genes from Junk DNA https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01925-6.pdf Papers on directionality in evolution by Joanna Masel htt…
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Evolution x Design - Butterfly Wing Wallpaper
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Emilie Snell-Rood convinces people that studying weird animals can be useful for designing things. Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is looking forward to playing with bioinspired designs, one of which may or may not be a butterfly wing wallpaper In this episode of The Purpose Podcast we meet a designer and an evolutionary biologist who are working together …
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Ramray Bhat is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Banagalore, India. He studies how collectives of cancer cells migrate and metastasize to new organs within the human body. To learn more about the Biological Purpose Project visit - https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/ Podcast produced by Siddhant Pusdekar Episode cover art b…
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