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Join host Méline Liu on The HumanWare Project, where transformative technology meets human potential.Through conversations with pioneering minds, longevity experts, and scientific innovators, we explore how emerging technologies can enhance our fundamental humanity. From cutting-edge neuroscience to wellness breakthroughs, discover pathways to human flourishing in our rapidly evolving world.A futurist with boundless curiosity, Méline guides you to the frontiers of human capability and our species' next evolutionary leap.

  1. 9h ago ·  Video

    Peter Diamandis: How to Reverse Ageing and Live Longer Than You Think Is Possible

    Peter Diamandis is one of the world's leading voices on longevity, exponential technology, and the future of human health. He is the founder of XPRIZE, co-founder of Singularity University, and the founder of Fountain Life, an advanced health and longevity centre that collects 200GB of data about your body in a single day to find what conventional medicine misses entirely. In this conversation, Peter shares why medicine is about to undergo the most dramatic transformation in human history, why longevity escape velocity is coming by 2033, and why most people know more about what is happening inside their car than inside their own body. He also reveals the daily habits that keep him performing at the highest level and why optimism is itself a longevity tool backed by science. He explains: ◼ Why the body is incredibly good at hiding disease until it is too late ◼ How Fountain Life collects 200GB of data about your body in a single day ◼ Why a bowhead whale living 200 years convinced him ageing was a solvable problem ◼ Ray Kurzweil's prediction that longevity escape velocity will arrive by 2033 ◼ Why optimists live 15% longer according to a study in the National Academy of Sciences ◼ The two most important days in your life according to Mark Twain and why purpose is everything ◼ The simple daily habits he swears by: sleep, exercise and eliminating sugar 0:00 Intro 0:46 What Fountain Life Is and Why Peter Built It 1:07 How Fountain Life Collects 200GB of Data About Your Body in One Day 1:49 The Three Missions of Fountain Life: Evaluate, Optimise, Treat 2:42 What Drives Peter Diamandis: Purpose as a Longevity Tool 3:03 Why Medicine Is About to Undergo Its Greatest Transformation 3:52 The Bowhead Whale That Changed How He Thinks About Ageing 4:33 Ray Kurzweil and Longevity Escape Velocity by 2033 5:00 Why This Is the Biggest Business Opportunity on the Planet 5:29 The One Health Habit He Swears By Every Single Day 5:46 Why Optimists Live 15% Longer: The Science Behind Mindset 6:07 How to Find Your Purpose and Set Your Moonshot 🔔 Subscribe to The HumanWare Project so you never miss an episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanwareproject?sub_confirmation=1 You can follow Peter here: ◼ Website: https://www.diamandis.com ◼ Fountain Life: https://www.fountainlife.com ◼ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterdiamandis

  2. Aug 14 ·  Video

    Edition Three of The HumanWare Magazine Has Launched: A Message From Founder Méline Liu

    The HumanWare Project magazine edition three has launched.  Méline Liu shares what the project stands for and why she built it: to tell the story of science at the highest production quality in the world, and to help people become a better version of themselves every day. 0:00 Welcome to the HumanWare Magazine Launch 0:33 Méline on Why She Built HumanWare and What It Stands For ◼ Read the HumanWare Magazine: https://thehumanwareproject.com/humanware-magazine/

  3. Aug 7 ·  Video

    Inside a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab: Professor Lefkowitz Opens the Doors at Duke University

    What does it actually look like inside one of the world's most consequential scientific laboratories? Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Lefkowitz opens the doors to his lab at Duke University and shows us exactly where the science happens. In this short tour, Professor Lefkowitz walks through the equipment, the experiments, and the team of scientists and students driving his research forward every day. He also walks past the wall of Nobel Prize winners who gave the Lefkowitz Lecture before going on to win their own, including Jennifer Doudna, who invented CRISPR, and Jim Allison, who created immunotherapy for cancer. The lab still holds biological samples from experiments conducted 50 years ago, perfectly preserved and still usable today. ◼ A firsthand look at the equipment and techniques used in a Nobel Prize-winning lab ◼ The scientists and students working alongside Professor Lefkowitz right now ◼ The wall of Nobel laureates who passed through this lab before winning their own prize ◼ Why cells frozen 50 years ago can still be used in experiments today ◼ What Professor Lefkowitz believes makes science unique: the things you discover are true forever 0:00 Intro 0:39 Inside the Lab: Where the Experiments Actually Happen 1:09 The Equipment That Makes the Science Possible 2:04 Meet the Team: The Students and Scientists Behind the Research 2:37 The Wall of Nobel Prize Winners Who Passed Through This Lab 3:07 The Freezers That Hold 50 Years of Scientific History 4:00 Why What Is True in Science Today Will Be True in 100 Years You can follow Professor Lefkowitz here: ◼ Duke University Profile: https://www.biochem.duke.edu/people/lefkowitz-lab ◼ Book: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Funny-Thing-Happened-Stockholm-Adrenaline-Fueled/dp/1643136380

  4. Aug 3 ·  Video

    Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz: Intuition, Loss and the Discovery That Changed Modern Medicine

    Professor Robert Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose discovery of G protein-coupled receptors underpins more than 700 of the drugs in use today, including beta blockers, antihistamines, antidepressants and GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. At 83 years young, he still runs his lab at Duke University, exercises an hour every day, and eats entirely plant-based food after quadruple bypass surgery at 51. In this deeply personal conversation, Professor Lefkowitz takes Méline through the science that changed modern medicine, the role of intuition in research, and the father who gave him the most important piece of advice he ever received and died three weeks later, never knowing what his son would go on to achieve. He explains:  ◼ How G protein-coupled receptors work and why they are the foundation of modern pharmacology  ◼ Why a third of all FDA-approved drugs work through the same system he discovered in the 1970s  ◼ How GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic actually work and why we are only at the beginning  ◼ Why intuition is the only thing that keeps a scientist going when experiments fail for years  ◼ The two things he says are all that really matter in a life: love and work  ◼ What he hopes to see breakthroughs in before he dies: cancer and dementia  ◼ The advice his mentor gave him that he still lives by: five year packages, never more 0:00 Intro 0:47 How Winning the Nobel Prize Changed His Name and His Life 1:50 The Discovery That Underpins 700 of Today's Most Used Drugs 4:42 How Receptors Work: The Lock and Key That Runs Your Body 8:05 Why Intuition Is the Only Thing That Keeps a Scientist Going 11:35 The Vietnam War Draft That Accidentally Made Him a Scientist 17:00 Why He Missed the Lab and What That Told Him About Himself 20:35 The Science of GLP-1: How Ozempic and the New Weight Loss Drugs Actually Work 23:15 Gene Therapy and the Future of Editing the Human Body 27:50 The Chemistry vs Medicine Nobel: The Story Behind the Tug of War 33:00 The Thanksgiving Conversation With His Father That Changed Everything 38:30 Why He Still Exercises an Hour a Day at 83 and What He Eats 42:00 His Warning About AI in Medicine and Why You Cannot Trust It Blindly 44:45 The Two Breakthroughs He Is Still Waiting For: Cancer and Dementia 47:00 Love and Work: What a Nobel Laureate Says Actually Makes a Life  ◼ Duke University Profile: https://www.lefkowitzlab.org/   ◼ Book: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm:  https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Thing-Happened-Way-Stockholm/dp/1324006811

  5. Jul 24 ·  Video

    60 Seconds With the Couture Founder Bringing 1950s Craftsmanship Back to Everyday Life

    Stacey Gallello is the founder of Gallello Atelier, a couture house built on a radical idea: that the craft of the 1950s couture atelier belongs not just in evening wear and special occasions, but in everyday life. Gallello Atelier is on a mission to bring couture craftsmanship back to the modern wardrobe and keep the art of the couturier, the tailor, and the seamstress alive in the process. In this episode, Méline speaks with Stacey inside Harrods to talk creativity, identity, and the daily habits that keep her performing at the highest level as both a founder and a mother of two. She explains: ◼ Why couture belongs in the everyday wardrobe, not just on the red carpet ◼ How maintaining her routine through pregnancy kept her identity and creativity intact ◼ Why intermittent fasting, grass-fed beef, and local farm produce are central to her daily life ◼ How old films are her number one source of creative inspiration ◼ Why spending time with family is the most powerful investment she makes in herself 0:00 Intro 0:09 What Gallello Atelier Stands For and Why Couture Belongs in Everyday Life 0:49 How She Maintains Top Performance as a Founder and a Mother 1:16 Why She Kept Her Full Routine Through Pregnancy and After Birth 2:02 The Diet That Keeps Her Going: Intermittent Fasting and Grass-Fed Beef 2:29 How Old Films Fuel Her Creativity and the One She Recommends Most 🔔 Subscribe to The HumanWare Project so you never miss an episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanwareproject?sub_confirmation=1 You can follow Stacey and Gallello Atelier here: ◼ Website: https://www.gallelloatelier.com ◼ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gallelloatelier

  6. Jul 17 ·  Video

    The Company Using the Science of Smell to Change the Way You Sleep and Live

    What if your sense of smell was one of the most powerful and underused tools for human performance? At Hynt, a digital scent company, that is exactly what they are proving. In this episode, Méline visits the Hynt lab to meet co-founder Emmanuella Maggioni and experience the technology firsthand. Emmanuella and her colleague Fahad Zia are building a system that harnesses the science of scent to help you sleep better, perform better, and feel more in control of your own biology. The device reads your wearable data in real time and releases personalised scent compounds that adapt to your body as you sleep. Méline also gets access to Hynt's generative scent machine: a technology that can synthesise almost any smell in the world from a simple text description.  This is the science of smell, and it is only just getting started. ◼ Why scent is one of the most personal and misunderstood senses we have ◼ The difference between scents that relax the nervous system and scents that activate it ◼ Why your scent receptors change every seven days and what that means for your health ◼ The wearable device that releases compounds in real time based on your heart rate ◼ The generative scent machine that can synthesise any smell in the world from a text prompt ◼ How Hynt plans to let you send a smell to someone on the other side of the world 0:00 Intro 0:23 Inside Hynt: What a Digital Scent Company Actually Does 0:55 The Science of Scent and Why It Is More Powerful Than You Think 1:20 Which Scents Relax You and Which Ones Do the Opposite 2:10 The Device That Releases Scent Based on Your Heart Rate 3:23 The Generative Scent Machine: Type Any Smell Into Existence 4:37 Méline Tests It: A Hawaiian Night and an Orange Farm in Marrakesh 6:14 The Future of Scent Communication 🔔 Subscribe to The HumanWare Project so you never miss an episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanwareproject?sub_confirmation=1 You can follow Hynt here: ◼ Website: https://hynt.net/ ◼ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hyntlabs/

  7. Jul 10 ·  Video

    60 Seconds With Golden Door's Executive Chef: The One Rule That Actually Extends Your Life

    Greg Frey Jr is the Executive Chef at Golden Door, one of California's most celebrated wellness retreats, where food is grown on site and every meal is designed to fuel transformation. In this quick-fire 60 seconds, Greg shares the rule that matters most for a long and healthy life, and it has nothing to do with superfoods. He explains: ◼ Why stress is the single biggest threat to your longevity ◼ The simple plate formula that guarantees the right nutrients every meal ◼ The one zucchini sauce recipe you need to know from his new cookbook 0:00 The Number One Rule for a Healthy Diet Nobody Talks About 0:34 The Healthy Plate Formula Every Meal Should Follow You can follow Greg here: ◼ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregfreyjr/?hl=en

  8. Jul 3 ·  Video

    She Interviews the World's Top Longevity Experts. Here Is What She Actually Practices Herself

    Méline Liu has sat across from some of the world's leading voices in longevity, neuroscience, and human performance. But what does she actually do herself? In this candid behind-the-scenes moment, Méline shares the daily habits she never skips, the brain food she swears by, the biohack that surprised her most, and why she launched a print magazine in a world that said print was dead. She also explains what makes The HumanWare Project different, why critical thinking is the most important longevity tool nobody talks about, and what the red rocks of Sedona did to her nervous system. This is a short, unfiltered look at the person behind the camera and the daily practices she has built from years of being in the room with the world's best. Shee explains: ◼ The daily habit she never skips to quiet her mind ◼ Why she wears a continuous glucose monitor and what it has taught her ◼ The mushroom powder that gives her mental clarity every morning ◼ The biohack that surprised her most: brain training and neural circuit work ◼ Why she made a print magazine and what happened when she did 0:00 Intro 0:09 What Makes The HumanWare Project Different 0:23 The One Thing She Never Skips Every Day 0:38 Why Critical Thinking Is a Longevity Tool 0:41 The Weirdest Longevity Tip She Has Tried 0:51 Her Favourite Brain Food and Why She Drinks Mushroom Powder 1:04 The Device on Her Arm and What It Tells Her About Her Body 1:21 Why She Made a Print Magazine in a Digital World 2:00 The Biohack That Surprised Her Most: Brain Training 2:26 The Book That Changed How She Thinks 2:51 Her Favourite Place She Has Filmed So Far 3:09 The Creative Process Behind Every HumanWare Episode 🔔 Subscribe to The HumanWare Project so you never miss an episode: https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanwareproject?sub_confirmation=1

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Join host Méline Liu on The HumanWare Project, where transformative technology meets human potential.Through conversations with pioneering minds, longevity experts, and scientific innovators, we explore how emerging technologies can enhance our fundamental humanity. From cutting-edge neuroscience to wellness breakthroughs, discover pathways to human flourishing in our rapidly evolving world.A futurist with boundless curiosity, Méline guides you to the frontiers of human capability and our species' next evolutionary leap.

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  • Creator
    Méline Liu
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    80
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