#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design & Engineering with Nature

Neri Oxman is a designer, engineer, scientist, and artist working
on computational design, synthetic biology and digital fabrication,
previously at MIT, and now at OXMAN. Please support this podcast by
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https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for
the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:06)
- Biomass vs anthropomass (23:27) - Computational templates (43:42)
- Biological hero organisms (54:42) - Engineering with bacteria
(1:02:59) - Plant communication (1:16:22) - Albert Einstein letter
(1:19:44) - Beauty (1:24:40) - Faith (1:34:26) - Flaws (1:54:15) -
Extinction (2:05:22) - Alien life (2:09:12) - Music (2:10:39) -
Movies (2:15:11) - Advice for young people