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Summer has arrived in London.

I'm rocking my Barsa shirts.

It's all good.

This week on the show we have Melissa Stary and she's a futurist and design scientist and

she is the Director of Technology for Earth 2 Hub. She is an alumnus of the University of Greenwich, which you might remember is where

Ted fellow Rachel Armstrong came from. And I love having these academic females come in and

drop some science on us about what's going to happen in the future and what their thoughts.

I think it's nice to get someone who's not either in the commercial sense or in any kind of an industry to enlighten us sometimes.

And she has some interesting things to say about her friendship with Neil degrass Tyson.

Yes, she hangs with him.

And she also chimed in about the recent controversy

with the Ted lectures of Graham Hancock and Rupert Shell Drake and how as scientists we have

to make sure that our science doesn't keep our mind closed.

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