Feb 26, 2024
Authors Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith share their insights into the challenge of building settlements on Mars, how extended periods in extra-terrestrial environments would impact our body and mind, and how international space law needs to be updated if we are to become a multi-planetary species.
Dr. Kelly Weinersmith received her PhD in
Ecology at the University of California Davis, and is an adjunct
faculty member in the BioSciences Department at Rice University.
Kelly studies parasites that manipulate the behavior of their
hosts, and her research has been featured in The
Atlantic, National Geographic, BBC
World, Science, and Nature. When
she isn’t studying Nature’s creepiest wonders, Kelly is writing
books with her husband, Zach Weinersmith (creator of Saturday
Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics). Their first
book, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve
and/or Ruin Everything, was a New York
Times Bestseller.
Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the
popular geek webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast
Cereal. He co-wrote the New York
Times bestseller Soonish: Ten Emerging
Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything and
illustrated the New York
Times-bestselling Open Borders: The Science and
Ethics of Immigration. His work has been featured
by The Economist, The Wall Street
Journal, Slate, Forbes, Science
Friday, Foreign Policy,
PBS, Boingboing, the Freakonomics Blog, the RadioLab
blog, Entertainment Weekly, Mother
Jones, CNN, Discovery
Magazine, Nautilus and more. He lives in
Virginia with his wife/coauthor and his children/coauthors.
ABOUT THE HOST
Luke Robert Mason is a British-born futures theorist who is passionate about engaging the public with emerging scientific theories and technological developments.
He hosts documentaries for Futurism, and has contributed to BBC Radio, BBC One, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, VICE Motherboard and Wired Magazine.
CREDITS
Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason
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