We have reached the third season of The Life Cycle, and this time around we want to bring the podcast right down to earth and get in deep with the things that matter to us all and our collective future. And what better way to do that than to have long, engaged conversations with some brilliant people? We talk food, we talk fertility, we talk about life online and we also visit the site of one of humanity’s most exciting endeavors: the mission to create nuclear fusion here on Earth, and harne ...
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Noone, a timid young girl, is committed to The Counties Psychiatric Institute due to her ever-worsening nightmare disorder. She is placed under the care of The Counsellor who has dedicated his life to helping kids overcome their ailments, himself a product of childhood trauma. As Noone recounts her nightly torments during their sessions together, it becomes clear that her dreams unfold with a sinister life of their own. When The Counsellor realizes that her nightmares bear uncanny similariti ...
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Sure longevity science is interesting, but what about the most pressing biological aging for half the world’s population? In this fascinating episode, Eva meets Jennifer Garrison who is at the forefront of trying to expand our understanding of the biology of aging and how it relates to reproductive health, specifcally with regard to female aging. I…
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What would you do if you could live to be 100, 125 or even 150? Sure, we all may want to live forever, but what would that actually look like? How would we communicate to those around us? And not only that, is the recent longevity craze feasible or just people with too much time (and money) on their hands? In this episode, Eva meets with Daniel Ive…
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‘Ultra Processed Internet’ with Professor Lawrence Lessig
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We all know that the Internet is ruled by forces vying for our attention, and that often they gain our attention through highly emotive means, in ways that can seem imperceptible until they add up to massive political upheavals or indeed the very questioning of a shared sense of the Truth. What’s more, these very forces are often massive corporatio…
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‘Ultra Processed Food’ with Chris Van Tulleken
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We are all taking part in a massive experiment for which none of us have signed up: much of the food we consume daily comes in the form of ultra-processed food, something that has been described as ‘industrially produced edible substances’. This diet is relatively new for humanity, and increasingly it’s clear that its impact on us is not always goo…
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S3E1: 'This Is Not An Advert' with Mundi Vondi
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We thought it was about time to take stock and catch our breath. The Life Cycle podcast is about the future of humanity, but over the last five years, the future has arrived in many ways. In this episode, we take a look at how some of our guests and topics from seasons 1 and 2 have evolved and, in some cases, even become mainstream. Our guest is ou…
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There is no going back. It is now time for The Counsellor to do everything he can to sink, sink lower and lower... all the way down into The Nowhere with Noone. ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Louie Media Directed by Thomas Rozès Music by Tobias Lilja and Thomas Rozès. This episode is written by Eugene Myers and Lonnie Nadler. Our showru…
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A foretaste to Chapter 6 Based on Little Nightmares from Bandai Namco Europe Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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After numerous sessions and medical exams, it's clear that Noone's brain is changing in unpredictable ways. Although she's weary from a harrowing visit to a fetid stinking sewer, The Counsellor is determined to find answers about the nightmare world. ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Louie Media Directed by Thomas Rozès Music by Tobias Lil…
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A foretaste to Chapter 5 Based on Little Nightmares from Bandai Namco Europe Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Noone's nightmare of a disturbing carnival has The Counsellor questioning whether she might be visiting another world while in her sleep. He begins to question the boundaries of reality, and how he might breach them. ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Louie Media Directed by Thomas Rozès Music by Tobias Lilja and Thomas Rozès. This episode …
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A foretaste to Chapter 4 Based on Little Nightmares from Bandai Namco Europe Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Noone's nightmares grow more vivid and terrifying by the day as evidenced by her visit to an abandoned shopping mall. But what's stranger is that her dreams are beginning to bear uncanny similarities to those of someone from The Counsellor's past. ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Louie Media Directed by Thomas Rozès Music by Tobias Lilja …
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A foretaste to Chapter 3 Based on Little Nightmares from Bandai Namco Europe Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A foretaste to Chapter 2. Based on Little Nightmares from Bandai Namco Europe Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Europe S.A.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Noone, a timid young girl, is committed to The Counties Psychiatric Institute due to her ever-worsening nightmare disorder. She is placed under the care of The Counsellor who has dedicated his life to helping kids overcome their ailments. However, Noone's nightmares aren't like any he's heard before... ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Lou…
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As Noone recounts her dream of a tainted Bathhouse, the Counsellor tries to unearth details about the mysterious figure from her nightmares. The one Noone calls, "The Candleman". ---- Production by Bandai Namco Europe and Louie Media. Directed by Thomas Rozès. Music by Tobias Lilja and Thomas Rozès. This episode is written by Mike Bambridge aka Sup…
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The Sounds of Nightmares, the first audio fiction series from the world of Little Nightmares. Noone, a timid young girl, is committed to The Counties Psychiatric Institute due to her ever-worsening nightmare disorder. She is placed under the care of The Counsellor who has dedicated his life to helping kids overcome their ailments, himself a product…
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We've come a long way and where do we go next? Who will we meet along the way? The season fades out as we imagine ways to travel beyond our solar system...Thanks for the ride. Irina Mullins is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Houston Community College. She is also the creator of the ‘Cosmic Hitchhikers Hypothesis’. Cosmic Hitchhikers Hypothe…
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Many have heard about how the CIA introduced LSD to America, right? But did you know that they also wanted to introduce quantum entanglement and mind control? This episode revolves around an interview between John and David Kaiser, an American physicist and science historian. With David’s help, we take a look at how quantum evolved over the 20th ce…
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S2E9: How Much Is The Fish? (Quantum Part 1)
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What do you think of when you hear the word ‘quantum’? What even is quantum physics? What does it tell us about our world and universe, and what can it offer us in the future? In this episode, John and Eva meet up with executive producer Mundi in a London pub, and get sent on a special mission to discover as much as they can about the weird and wil…
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We continue our exploration of cloning with a closer look at how cloning and factory farming interact. Is animal cloning humane? Is it a technologically advanced key to the problems of factory farming? Or does it simply perpetuate the already existing issues? Peter Stevenson is Chief Policy Advisor for Compassion in World Farming, as well as a qual…
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Cloning has long been a pillar of sci-fi tales. But now it's here, as is CRISPR technology - gene editing. What does this all look like exactly and how does it work? And more importantly, are we already eating clones at the dinner table? Professor Rudolf Jaenisch is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for …
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Could AI make this entire episode? And replace Eva and John altogether? In this episode we look at the range of tools and solutions that AI offers right now, and look at where it might go in the future. It feels like every week there's a new development in AI: in this episode we hear from this rapidly changing frontline. Including from within Klang…
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I am a paperclip. Just don’t call me Mr. Clippy. Pull up a chair and listen to this humorous tale that tells the history - and possible future - of the humble paperclip. In this little interlude we bring together some of the various themes of the season, from Operation Paperclip (episode 2) to the future of AI and AGI. Inventions and innovations, p…
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The future of booze. What does it taste like? Join us while we look at the role of the oldest of human concoctions: alcohol, and how it we may just be on the cusp of a radical revolution in all things inebriation. Professor David Nutt is a neuropsychopharmacologist and the Co-Founder of GABA Labs. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Drug Science…
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S2E3: Dr. Philippson, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Aliens and Started to Govern from my Sofa
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Hear that? In the blink of an eye we could be not just contacted but overtaken by loud aliens. Are we , here on earth, quiet aliens in the universe? What is the difference exactly between loud and quiet aliens? And if we’re ever going to become loud aliens, traveling the cosmos, how would we manage such a civilisation-wide endeavor when we seem to …
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It’s the age of Artemis! This means humanity is going back to the moon. And beyond! But where did this journey begin exactly? We’ve got a wild story that involves Nazis, bad novels, Walt Disney and the tyranny of the rocket equation. Listen as we explore the life and work of Wernher von Braun and the space race of the 1960s before looking to the pr…
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What connects the first ever recorded science fiction story with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove? And who was the real live person that Strangelove was modelled on? We all know that to understand the future we have to understand the past, so that’s why we’re starting the season deep underground in the site of ancient Roman London. In this episode …
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Welcome back! To this, the second season of The Life Cycle. We're calling this season 'Now What?' Because every day we’re told the world is ending. But what does that mean? And if it is, what can we do about it? Should our hopes lie in the great beyond (outer space) or in the quantum realm of matter itself? Are there new ways to get blotto and part…
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15% of all human consciousness that has ever existed is present and happening today: as we speed up and grow ever more connected via the Internet, what are the implications for this massive digital shift? In this episode, renowned Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig discusses the present state of the digital landscape and its impact on notions of…
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Is your brain a machine? Are your thoughts and feelings just malware of the mind? But what is 'really' is a machine? Welcome listeners to the transhumanist fight of the century. In the blue corner, we have Eva meeting founder and CEO of Kernel, Bryan Johnson, straight from his office in LA. And in the red corner, John meets with writer Mark O'Conne…
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Eva has followed the story to Georgia, USA and tracked Dr. Phil down at his neurological practice. In the back of the surgery and after his original patients have left, Dr. Phil carries out some mind-blowing experiments - on himself, and others. Brain interfacing is a bold new frontier for our ability to understand our minds - and in turn, help us …
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In this episode, John turns up to hear Eva has discovered a story she’s pretty certain will pique his interest. She starts to tell him about a transhuman hero by the name of Dr. Phil Kennedy, and it leads to some pretty interesting places by way of Belize. By the end of the episode, Eva will have left the building, getting on a Trans-Atlantic fligh…
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John and Eva go down the rabbit hole and question what is reality itself and whether or not we are in fact in a large scale simulation. Possibly one made by aliens. Or indeed our future descendants. We are such stuff as dreams are made on - who is to say we aren’t? Featuring Joshua Tan, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Oxford. And, Prof. Stefan Sorgner, …
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In this episode, John and Eva stare up at the night sky and get deep. Some of those age-old stoner questions are posed: where are all the aliens? Are we alone in the universe? Could it be that we’re just pets in some zoo run by alien overlords? Does this mean everything we do is meaningless? And what has Jodie Foster got to say about it all? Time t…
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Beginning with the end of things - this episode kicks off The Life Cycle by asking: is there going to be a future to speak of at all? Why is it that the apocalypse is no longer just the reserve of religion, but now dominates everything from our Netflix viewing to our conversations with friends and family? And what can we learn from global climate s…
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Introducing The Life Cycle, an offbeat journey toward the future of humanity, featuring some of the world's top innovators – and disruptors. A podcast about tech, transhumanism, future politics, brain uploads, and life as we do not yet know it. Produced by Klang Games. Transmitting soon. www.twitter.com/TheLifeCyclePod www.instagram.com/thelifecycl…
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