The HumanWare Project
by Méline Liu
He Quit Science, Then Won a Nobel Prize With a Microscope Built on a…
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 90 episodes
- He Quit Science, Then Won a Nobel Prize With a Microscope Built on a Living Room Floor · 57 minEric Betzig once walked away from science altogether. Years later, he and his best friend put $25,000 each of their own money into building a microscope on a living room floor…
- Trying Tropical Fruits in Hainan, China (Ranked Out of 10) · 8 minWhat if some of the best health and longevity secrets are not found in laboratories or supplements, but growing on trees right in front of us? In this episode, Méline travels to…
- Healthy Tomato Soup Recipe From a Top California Health Retreat · 4 minAt Golden Door, one of America’s best-known health retreats, guests are served a light tomato broth in the middle of the day, after a morning of hard work and before lunch at one…
- Humanoid Robots Are Years Away. These Robots Are Ready Now · 19 minEveryone is waiting for humanoid robots to walk into their homes and take over the chores. According to George Ekas, that moment is still a few years away. Meanwhile, the robots…
- 60 Seconds With a Longevity Doctor: The One Biomarker You Should Test and Habits That Matter Most · 2 minDr. Ángel Durántez Prados, is the Partner and Medical Director at Clinica Neleva in Madrid, one of Europe's leading longevity and preventive health clinics. In this 60 seconds…
- Paris Fashion Week and the Question Nobody in Fashion Asks: Does What You Wear Define Who You Are · 20 minMéline heads to Paris Fashion Week to ask a question the fashion industry rarely stops to consider: does what you wear define who you are, or does who you are define what you…
- How to Live Past 100 in Good Health According to a Longevity Doctor in Europe's Longest Living City · 2 minWhat does it actually take to live well past 100? Javier Ramírez Sabau, founder of Clínica Neleva in Madrid, one of Europe's leading longevity clinics, says the answer is simpler…
- How to Stop Overthinking at Night: A Hypnotherapist Explains What Actually Works · 32 minMalminder Gill has been a hypnotherapist for over 16 years. She has worked in rehab centres around the world, written a book of therapeutic sleep stories, and built an entire…
- 88% of People Who Think They Are Healthy Already Have Heart Disease. Here Is What to Do About It · 48 minBill Kapp is a former orthopaedic surgeon who built nine hospitals, founded Fountain Life alongside Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins, voted the number one longevity centre in the…
- What Living Longer Actually Looks Like: Inside Madrid's Leading Longevity Clinic · 7 minMadrid has the highest life expectancy in Europe, with people living to an average of 86 years old. But living longer is not the same as living better. So what does it actually…
- Peter Diamandis: How to Reverse Ageing and Live Longer Than You Think Is Possible · 8 minPeter 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…
- Edition Three of The HumanWare Magazine Has Launched: A Message From Founder Méline Liu · 1 minThe 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…
- Inside a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab: Professor Lefkowitz Opens the Doors at Duke University · 5 minWhat 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…
- Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz: Intuition, Loss and the Discovery That Changed Modern Medicine · 47 minProfessor 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…
- 60 Seconds With the Couture Founder Bringing 1950s Craftsmanship Back to Everyday Life · 3 minStacey 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…
- The Company Using the Science of Smell to Change the Way You Sleep and Live · 7 minWhat 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…
- 60 Seconds With Golden Door's Executive Chef: The One Rule That Actually Extends Your Life · 1 minGreg 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…
- She Interviews the World's Top Longevity Experts. Here Is What She Actually Practices Herself · 4 minMéline 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…
- The Man Behind CVS Health Who Built Disney Parks Now Wants to Fix American Healthcare · 34 minTilak Mandadi spent years at Disney building some of the most ambitious guest experiences in the world, from Shanghai Disneyland to Star Wars Land. Now he is applying that same…
- Inside the Secret California Retreat Where Hollywood Goes to Reset · 11 minGolden Door has been transforming the lives of its guests for 75 years. Tucked away in the hills of Southern California, it is a place built around a single belief: that true…







