#394 – Neri Oxman: Biology, Art, and Science of Design&Engineering with Nature - a podcast by Lex Fridman

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 checking out our sponsors:
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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

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