Forever, Food, Fertility, Fire.

In our last episode from ITER, we round out season 3 with an exclusive interview with the head of ITER, Pietro Barabaschi! John and Eva got the chance to chat to Pietro about what it’s like running an international undertaking such as ITER, and how one needs to have a special relationship to time itself when it comes to the search for nuclear fusion. Plus we also hear some great insights on problem solving.

Take a trip, and visit the incredible site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in Provence in the south of France. In this episode, Eva and John get a tour of the huge international effort to recreate what happens in our Sun: nuclear fusion. An immensely ambitious, multi-generational project, we promise this is quite a trip!

In the first of three parts, John and Eva look at the history of our understanding of this potential wonder energy, and chart the development of today’s efforts to unlock the power of the sun.

What is it actually like to undergo IVF? What does it even entail exactly?

Sure longevity science is interesting, but what about the most pressing biological aging for half the world’s population?

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?

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.

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’. 

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.