Mizter Rad Show

We have better maps of Mars than of our own ocean floor. We've explored less than 5% of it. And the part we do know, the coral reefs, is dying fast.

So how do you make people care about a world they can't see?

Jason deCaires Taylor's answer: sink art into it.

Jason is a sculptor, diver, and marine conservationist who has built 9 underwater museums and placed more than 1,200 sculptures on the seabed, from Mexico to Grenada to Lanzarote to the fjords of Oslo. He casts them from local people, anchors them to survive Category 5 hurricanes, and then steps back to let nature finish the work. Coral grows on them. Fish move in. In some sites, fish abundance has gone up 68% and biomass 415%.

In this episode we talk about:

• What 40 years of diving have shown him about how fast reefs are changing
• How a sculpture becomes a reef, and how a worm led to a fur seal in 18 months
• Whether this is conservation or tourism infrastructure dressed up as conservation
• Why we're so afraid of the sea
• His dream: an underwater sacred space where nature is the architect
• Why AI might end up pushing us back to the real world
• The invention he's still waiting for: a regulator that pulls oxygen from water

Plus, News from the Future: Mara Delgado reports live from Museo Atlántico Deep in 2076.

Modernity or antiquity? Tech or nature? Maybe the ocean is where both meet.

Stay curious. Question everything.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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Full episodes' transcripts: ⁠https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes⁠

More about Jason's underwater projects: ⁠Jason's website

Your government's most sensitive data: medical records, banking systems, national archives, might soon be orbiting 500km above your head, beyond the reach of any army, hacker, or natural disaster on Earth.

In this episode, I sit down with Shareef Al Romaithi, a former Etihad Airlines pilot who traded the cockpit for the cosmos. After two near-misses with the UAE astronaut program, he founded Madari Space - a startup building a constellation of data centers in low Earth orbit, backed by the UAE government and set to launch its first mission in 2027.

We get into why terrestrial data centers are quietly becoming an environmental disaster (they emit more carbon than the entire airline industry), how data sovereignty could become the next geopolitical battleground, and why "the Switzerland of data" might not be a country at all - it might be orbit.

We also talk radiation testing, laser communication between satellites, the new space race between the US and China, and what it means for a nation's most valuable asset to live beyond its own borders.

If your data isn't safe on Earth, is it safer in space?

Or are we just outsourcing the same problem to a place we can't even send a repair team?

Stay curious. Question everything.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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Full episodes' transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

More about Madari Space: https://madari.ae/

Every time a plane takes off, it burns fuel. Real, liquid fuel. Not batteries. And that's not changing anytime soon. Planes, cargo ships, factories: nearly a third of global CO2 emissions come from industries that simply can't "go electric."

My guest today is Florian Hildebrand, mechanical engineer, serial entrepreneur, and someone who walked away from a software company he scaled to 200+ people and €80M raised, because he felt the pull to work on something that actually mattered.

Together with a researcher who spent 15 years developing the tech in a German university lab, Florian is building a way to pull CO2 straight from the air, store it in a crystal (think: a battery, but for carbon), combine it with green hydrogen, and turn it into synthetic fuel. Fuel that runs in a Boeing 737 with zero modifications to the engine or the airport.

We talk about the science, the economics of bankability, why hydrogen planes aren't the answer (yet), and what a world of energy abundance instead of scarcity could actually look like.

Stay curious. Question everything.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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Follow Florian's journey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-alexander-hildebrand/

More about Greenlyte and LiquidSolar: https://www.greenlyte.tech/

Full episode with transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

What if the dodo never really disappeared? What if a Neanderthal walking into a university lecture hall today wouldn't be that different from the rest of us?

My guest this week is Adrian Woolfson — founder of Genyro and author of "On the Future of Species" — a scientist who has spent his life asking a wild question: what happens when humans stop just reading DNA, and start writing it?

We talk about DNA as a four-letter language, why biology is about to become infrastructure the way steel did in the 19th century, and why Adrian believes we've already become time travelers — because once you can navigate the infinite space of all possible genomes, time only runs when you actually build something.

We also get into the hard stuff: the ethical lines Adrian refuses to cross, why he changed his mind about resurrecting extinct human species, and whether we're heading toward two futures — one transhuman, one that goes back to nature — or if both can coexist.

This one will stretch your brain. Grab a coffee beautiful humans.

Stay curious. Question everything.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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Adrian's company Genyro: https://www.genyro.com/

Adrian's book "On the Future of Species: BloomsburyEpisode with Transcripts: ⁠⁠https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes⁠

Vitaly Bulatov spent 10 years deploying robots in the real world before anyone was paying attention. Then he built a fighting league for humanoid robots — not for the spectacle, but for what fighting forces robots to do: adapt, learn, and survive under pressure.

The cage is just the track. The software brain inside the robot is what actually competes. And the robots learning to fight today are the same ones that will walk our cities and build our homes tomorrow.

Whoever trains them best matters more than most people realize.

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More about UFB: https://ufb.gg/

Your brain is the last truly private place you have. The thoughts you almost said. The feelings you never acted on. The decisions you made before anyone else knew you were making them. All of it, until now, invisible. Only yours.

Jörn Rickert, neuroscientist and entrepreneur, has spent his career on both sides of that frontier. He co-founded CorTec, a company that builds devices that go inside the human skull — listening to the brain and responding to it in real time.

Then he started Neudio, which uses music timed to your brainwaves to modulate your mind. No surgery. No electrodes. Just sound and neuroscience working together.

In this episode, we explore what the brain actually is, how it breaks, and what it means to fix it — or upgrade it. We talk about closed-loop brain stimulation, thought decoding, who owns your neural data, and the moment brain implants stopped being scary and started becoming sexy.

And we end somewhere unexpected: the question of whether the real threat isn't what goes inside your skull, but what's already happening outside of it.

Stay curious. Question everything. And maybe think twice about what you call a private thought.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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More about Cortec: https://cortec-neuro.com/

More about Neudio: https://www.neudio.com/

Episode with Transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/53-bci-music-as-medicine-and-the-last-frontier-of-privacy

Your body has trillions of microscopic creatures living inside you right now. And they might be the reason your medicine isn't working.

Jenny Yang, PhD scientist and co-founder of Outpost Bio is decoding the relationship between your microbiome and the compounds that enter your body — drugs, nutrients, all of it.

In this episode, we explore why two people with the same disease, taking the same pill, can have completely opposite reactions. The answer has been hiding in your gut this whole time.

From flying poop around the world to building AI models that predict how your bacteria will react to medicine — this one will change how you think about your body.

Stay curious. Question everything. And maybe start treating your gut like the sophisticated ecosystem it is.

#MizterRadShow #FutureOfHumanity

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More about Outpost Bio: https://www.outpost.bio/

Episode with Transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

What if your body is just software waiting to be updated?

⁠Andrew Hessel⁠ has spent decades at the frontier of synthetic biology — a field that treats DNA like code, cells like processors, and diseases like bugs to be patched. In this conversation, we go deep.

We talk about programming life from scratch, designing personalized cancer drugs for one single patient, and his company Chromosome 24 — a plan to back up human beings the way we back up our phones.

Biology, DNA, viruses as USB sticks, AI-designed proteins, headless bodyoids, human cloning... and yes, we talk about death too.

This one will mess with your head. In the best way.

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Full episodes: ⁠⁠https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes⁠⁠

Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/51-what-if-you-could-clone-yourself-with-andrew-hessel

Follow Andrew on LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewhessel/⁠

Mizter Rad on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariorueda/⁠

What if every transparent surface around you—car windshields, building windows, even glass walls—could augment your reality without wearing any device?

Jussi Mäkinen from Distance Technologies reveals how computational optics is turning ordinary surfaces into mixed reality portals.

We explore the technology reshaping human perception and ask: who decides what we see in this augmented future?

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Full episodes: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/50-jussi-makinen-mixed-reality-surfaces-transforming-our-perception

Follow Jussi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luovanto/

Mizter Rad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariorueda/

What if we could shrink the intelligence of ants and bees into robots smaller than a coin?

Elio Challita, a Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard's Microrobotics Laboratory, is making this sci-fi dream reality. From studying termites that spit like 3D printers to cicadas that spray with chainsaw-level power, Elio explains how swarms of biodegradable micro robots could detect environmental disasters in minutes instead of weeks.

We dive into surface tension physics, biological materials as robot parts, and why insects might be the world's greatest engineers.

Could armies of tiny guardians be monitoring every forest, ocean, and city by 2075?

This conversation will change how you see the bugs in your backyard forever.

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Full episodes: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/49-elio-challita-micro-robots-inspired-by-insects

Follow Elio on X: https://x.com/eliochallita

Elio's website: https://www.eliochallita.com/

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Mizter Rad on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariorueda/