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Looking for Lions, Finding Termites: Attention by Design
Season 3 Episode 7
What happens when you give someone a way of looking, without telling them what to find?
Pia takes one small part of her octopus-inspired innovation me…
17 hours ago
How Termites Taught a Building to Keep Cool (Eastgate Centre)
Season 3 Episode 6
Eastgate Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, is one of biomimicry’s most famous buildings. Designed by architect Mick Pearce and inspired by termite mounds, …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
How Mosquitoes Inspired Painless Needles (REVISITED)
Season 3
Last week, we looked at the biology behind GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic and Wegovy. This revisited Season 1 episode looks at the other half of that m…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Ozempic's Secret Weapon: What The Gila Monster Taught Us
Season 3 Episode 5
What does Ozempic have to do with a venomous desert lizard that spends most of its life underground?
This story starts at 3am with a unicorn saying th…
1 month ago
Knowing When to Stop: 3 Things Worth Stealing From an Ant
Season 3 Episode 4
In 1971, a temp agency ran a print ad for the perfect worker. She never took a vacation. Never asked for a raise. Never got sick. Never stopped. They…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
What’s Your Risk Taking Profile? Lessons From the Great Tit
Season 3 Episode 3
A three-year-old turns a stolen maxi pad into a bird, a plane, and a crown - no hesitation, no second-guessing. Three completely different uses for o…
2 months, 1 week ago
Leave It To Beavers: The London Underground Flooding Fix
Season 3 Episode 2
London has just rehired an employee it fired four hundred years ago. No severance. No apology. Just an awkward, "Come back. We clearly can't do your …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
After Injury: Making the Invisible Visible
Season 3 Episode 1
A 14-year-old boy suffers two brain bleeds in a freak accident at school. He comes home and sleeps 21 hours a day.
To everyone watching, it looks like…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Tree Canopy Effect: Systems Thinking From a Wine-Soaked Laptop
Season 2 Episode 10
Red wine meets MacBook. Laundry floods. Toilet leaks. All within 24 hours.
Somewhere between staring at flood-damaged laundry cabinets and Googling "h…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Too Fast To Think: What Sloths Teach Us About Mental Fatigue
Season 2 Episode 9
A homemade billy cart hurtles downhill through a suburban intersection. A keynote slide turns into an entirely new workshop framework. A conference r…
4 months, 1 week ago