Emilie Snell-Rood convinces people that studying weird animals can be useful for designing things. Jessica Rossi-Mastracci is looking forward to playing with bioinspired designs, one of which may or may not be a butterfly wing wallpaper

In this episode of The Purpose Podcast we meet a designer and an evolutionary biologist who are working together to bring light into a dark corner of the University of Minnesota

Artwork by Bernie Cook, who is open to requests ([email protected])

The Purpose podcast is hosted and produced by Siddhant Pusdekar ([email protected]) and is brought to you by the Biological Purpose Project (https://www.biologicalpurpose.org/) funded by The John Templeton Foundation

Music (In order of appearance)

Aimless Walk by Silicon Transmitter

Emotions Are Alright With Me by Geb

Sourced from the Free Music Archive