Fascination: Larry Weiss
Why is Larry Weiss fascinated with hygene? Well, he believes that it is a human engineering problem that society has attempted to solve chemically, with poor results.
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Fascination: Bruce Hood
Are you one of the nine out of ten adults who purportedly believes you can tell when someone is watching you from behind? If so, does it occur to you that this is a kind of supernatural belief? Dr. Bruce Hood, Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol and the latest subject of our ongoing series of interviews with notable Makers, has some fascinating theories about how such “routine” supernatural beliefs come about as natural consequences of the normal psychology of child development. He also talks briefly about how his own childhood enthusiasm for the paranormal eventually came full circle in his mature scientific interest in the psychology of paranormal belief. Fascinating stuff.
Fascination: Mackenzie Cowell
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org. He is featured in the most recent of our ongoing series of video interviews with notable makers, sponsored by Dow chemical, over at elementsofhumanity.com. Mac is a big advocate, not just of the fledgling discipline of synthetic biology (or “biological engineering,” as it’s coming to be […]
Fascination: Fiorenzo Omenetto
Fiorenzo ‘Fio’ Omenetto, a physicist turned bioengineer at Tufts University, is fascinated with silk.
