Could cultivated meat replace industrial farming without asking billions of people to change what they eat? And save all the cows on the way?

Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute and author of Meat, explains why the future of food may depend less on changing human behaviour and more on changing how meat is produced.

For more than 12,000 years, humans have relied on animal agriculture to produce meat. Bruce argues that this system is reaching its limits.

We explore how cultivated meat is made, why it is attracting support from governments and major food companies, and why some of the biggest meat eaters are also the most open to the technology.

Along the way, we discuss the environmental cost of livestock, antibiotic resistance, food security, infrastructure, consumer psychology, regulation, and whether this technology could become as transformative as renewable energy or electric vehicles.

We also examine what happens to farmers, why culture may be harder to change than technology, and whether cultivated meat can ever reach price parity with conventional meat.

If the next agricultural revolution is already underway, it may not begin on a farm.

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Chapters

(00:00) Who Eats Cultivated Meat?

(02:37) Cultural Significance of Meat

(06:09) What Is Cultivated Meat?

(08:25) The Science Behind Cultivated Meat

(10:48) How Much Does Cultivated Meat Cost?

(14:46) What does cultivated meat taste like?

(17:10) Emerging Companies in the Lab Meat Industry

(19:08) Industry Support for Alternative Meats

(21:06) Government Role in Innovation

(24:40) The Future of Animal Agriculture

(28:25) Agricultural Policies for Sustainability

(31:41) What Are Fermented Meats?

(35:48) Meat And Antibiotic Resistance

(39:32) The Invisible Costs of Meat Production

(42:26) The Future of Cultivated Meat

Asteroid mining sounds insane until you speak to AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich. Then it makes perfect sense.

Matthew’s team at AstroForge builds spacecraft to mine metallic M-type asteroids for platinum group metals, the unglamorous but essential metals inside phones, cars, chips, electronics and much more.

AstroForge is one of the few companies trying to make space mining real, targeting metal-rich asteroids that could contain platinum, palladium, iridium and other PGMs.

Why? Earth’s resources are getting harder, deeper and more expensive to reach. The good stuff is not sitting neatly on the surface. A lot of it is buried, depleted, regulated or uneconomic.

In this episode, Matthew explains why asteroid mining may now be technically and economically possible, why Planetary Resources may have been too early, how SpaceX changed the capital story for space startups, and why AstroForge’s first deep-space spacecraft failed after travelling nearly a million miles from Earth.

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Chapters

(00:00) Asteroid Mining Trailer

(02:51) The Economic Necessity of Asteroid Mining

(08:37) Lessons from Planetary Resources

(10:43) Risk and Innovation

(15:26) Deep Space Two

(19:05) The Quest for Asteroid Exploration

(22:20) Aliens & Life Beyond Earth

(24:17) Ownership and Ethics in Space Mining

(26:21) The Next Challenges in Asteroid Mining

(27:56) Changing Earth's Economy

(30:13) The Role of Capital

(32:32) Matt's Vision for Space Exploration

(35:06) The Drive to Explore the Universe

(36:55) NASA's Evolution

(39:17) Inside Astroforge

(42:53) The Complexity of Space Engineering

(44:25) Data Centers in Space

(47:30) The Limitations of AI in Space Engineering

Quantum computers could change medicine, material science and AI. Unfortunately, it's impossible to know how because the industry is buried under hype.

In today’s show, Dr. Bob Sutor takes us on a masterclass through the hype and conflicting headlines to the reality of quantum technology today.

By the end of the show you’ll know what’s fact and fiction, where the industry is heading and how to protect yourself from AI slop masquerading as insight.

We also learn about:

• Why “quantum supremacy” and “quantum advantage” claims should be treated carefully

• Why quantum computing is still in its prehistory

• How engineering discipline is changing the field

• What IBM and Cleveland Clinic’s protein simulation work shows about quantum chemistry

• Why money, sovereignty and technology are driving the quantum industry

• How governments are funding quantum computing in the United States, France, the UK, Finland and elsewhere

• What China may be doing in quantum computing

• Which industries are doing serious quantum research

• Why there are many quantum hardware approaches and no clear winner yet

• Whether helium-3 supply matters for quantum computing

Bob also explains why quantum computers will be useful for specific classes of difficult problems where classical computers struggle, especially once systems become larger, more reliable and fault tolerant.

The conversation ends with practical advice on separating the quantum noise from the Thinking On Paper signal.

Please enjoy the show.

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(00:00) AI Quantum Slop

(00:40) Welcome To The Show

(06:04) When Quantum Computers Finally Become Useful

(10:13) Why Governments Are Throwing Money at Quantum

(15:53) Is China Ahead in Quantum?

(18:48) Where Quantum Might Actually Matter

(27:11) Can Quantum Help Fix Climate Change?

(28:35) Why Battery Companies Care About Quantum

(30:31) Why Quantum Doesn’t Belong in the IT Department

(31:53) Who’s Doing the Real Work in Quantum?

(32:40) Why Quantum Companies Need Real Customers

(38:19) The Funding Problem Behind Quantum Progress

(45:22) Does Quantum Computing Need Helium-3?

(48:01) Will We Need a Quantum Computer Matchmaker?

(50:38) How to Spot Quantum Hype Before You Share It