35 - Meow-Ludo Meow Meow (Part 1 - Polyamory, Cryptocurrency, & Nukes)

Review Future Fossils on iTunes Review Future Fossils on Stitcher Join the Future Fossils Facebook GroupThis week’s guest is Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow, founder of Sydney’s Biofoundry whom I met at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s Innovation Lab in February. Meow is a modern trickster-wizard par excellence, entirely too smart for his own good, and he loves to argue – this is one of the most wide-ranging talks on Future Fossils yet! Enjoy part 1 of a special double feature that continues next week… • Biofoundry:http://foundry.bio/ • Press about Meow: https://www.inverse.com/article/5887-australian-biohacker-meow-ludo-meow-meow-on-diy-biology  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-named-meow-ludo-disco-gamma-meow-meow-has-transit-pass-implanted-into-hand_us_5953b3eae4b0da2c732015e6 • We Talk: - Cryptocurrency- Biohacking- Getting Married on the BlockchainPolyamory & Relationship Anarchy- Intellectual Property- An Ecological View of Relationships- Plural Singularities- The Genetic Origins of Hominids (HARs)- Would God be considered an Organism?- Crystals Are COOL- Mass Extinctions- Asteroid Mining- An Ethical Debate on Eugenics & Nukes- Meltdowns, Solar Flares, & The Insecurity of The Electrical Grid Citations: • Common As Air - Lewis Hyde• More Than Two - Franklin Veaux & Eve Reichert• I Heart Huckabees (film)• The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster - Richard Brautigan• “Transcending Possessiveness in Love & Music” by Michael Garfield• Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Diamond• Interstellar (film)• WALL-E (film) “Capitalism lends itself to models that are in crisis continuously…” Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/futurefossils. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com/subscribe

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