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Dopa Drop #1 — Hermit Crab
Season 1
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.
A short, deliberate experiment playing wi…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Prawn: Why the Holidays Make You Feel Raw
Season 1 Episode 9
Part 1 of the Feral Festive Special: the prawn. Yes, really.
This festive run goes rogue - nature-inspired, not biomimicry - a deliberately Feral deto…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Make Learning New Skills Stick: The Meerkat Method
Season 1 Episode 8
Ever taken a course, nailed the theory… and then fallen apart the moment it gets real? Same. And it turns out the fix lives in the Kalahari.
In this e…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Mussel Concept: Redesigning the Disposable Coffee Cup
Season 1 Episode 7
Ever felt that tiny stab of guilt when you toss a takeaway coffee cup into the bin, even when you’re trying to do the right thing?
Four minutes of use…
10 months ago
Swooped: What Magpies Know About Handling Conflict
Season 1 Episode 6
Ever been swooped by a magpie? Turns out, you weren’t being attacked — you were being communicated with. And you probably missed the whole conversati…
10 months, 1 week ago
Hooked: How Burrs Inspired Velcro
Season 1 Episode 5
Hooked: How Burrs Inspired Velcro - and Why Curiosity Is The Real Innovation.
Ever spent an hour on your kitchen floor pulling burrs out of your dog’…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Octopus Method: Octopus Intelligence When You’re the Bottleneck
Season 1 Episode 4
Ever felt like you’re the bottleneck, the one brain everything has to run through until the whole thing grinds to a halt?
In the middle of a chaotic i…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Build Boundaries That Actually Work: The Beaver Method
Season 1 Episode 2
Tips for Dam Good Boundaries
You know you’ve hit rock bottom when you’re jealous of a rodent’s boundary skills.
This week on Feral by Design, Pia Willi…
11 months ago
How Mosquitoes Inspired Painless Needles
Season 1 Episode 3
When you were a kid, did you ever get jabbed with a needle so big it felt like a medieval weapon? I did — the kind that left welts and trauma in equa…
11 months ago
Introducing Feral by Design: Solving Human Problems with Nature
Season 1 Episode 1
Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.
Not another true-crime podcast… unless you count Grand Theft Bio! In this 6-minute intro, Pia shares why s…
11 months, 1 week ago