While outdoor farming and outdoor ranching continues to produce the majority of the world's food stores, in many instances one can now harvest more crops, more times per year, more efficiently, netting more money by growing indoors. Our guest on this fourth installment of Another Think Coming is Allison Kopf, founder and CEO of Agrilyst, a company based in Brooklyn that for $250 a month offers farmers software to track every analytic – space, light, water, crop rotation, soil makeup, etc. – of their greenhouse operation, allowing these indoor farmers to maximize their production while minimizing their expenses.

We've dedicated this episode to a pursuit many identify as frivolous, a multi-billion dollar industry appreciating in technical sophistication as fast as any and developing technologies imitated and borrowed by seemingly every other field. We're talking video games on this episode of Another Think Coming with a man who's spent 25 years working at the highest levels of that field Ben Cammarano Creative Director, Digital Publishing & Licensing, Wizards of the Coast.

We talk food on this episode of Another Think Coming; things that resemble mayonnaise, eggs, maybe meat and hopefully sugar in taste, texture and functionality thanks to a team of food scientists led by award-winning pastry chef Ben Roche who describes his childhood self as a terrible eater and whose company's received the endorsement of and an investment from a man named Bill Gates.

In this, Another Think Coming's inaugural episode, Mac talks outer space and the organisms like us who live on its planets and who - as far as we know - have yet to meet their rivals (allies?) on other planets. Our guest will educate us on perception, reality, a planet of alien octopi, the ever-growing cosmic muffin and all that exists outside of it. The man to help him accomplish that is Columbia's director of astrobiology, Caleb Scharf.

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