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The HumanWare Project

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"

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0:59

Edition Three of The HumanWare Magazine Has Launched:...

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2026/08/14

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/

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4:42

Inside a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab: Professor Lefkowitz...

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2026/08/07

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...

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46:49

Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz: Intuition, Loss and...

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2026/08/03

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 t...

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3:09

60 Seconds With the Couture Founder Bringing 1950s...

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2026/07/24

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...

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7:21

The Company Using the Science of Smell to Change the...

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2026/07/17

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 rea...

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1:26

60 Seconds With Golden Door's Executive Chef: The One...

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2026/07/10

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 sau...

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3:43

She Interviews the World's Top Longevity Experts....

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/07/03

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 lon...

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33:35

The Man Behind CVS Health Who Built Disney Parks Now...

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/06/19

Tilak 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 consumer-first thinking to one of the most complex and broken systems on the planet: American healthcare. Tilak is the Chief Digital and Technology Officer at CVS Health, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, touching the lives of 185 million Americans every year. He is the architect of Health 100, CVS'...

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11:06

Inside the Secret California Retreat Where Hollywood...

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/06/12

Golden 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 wellbeing comes from movement as well as stillness, and that carving out space for yourself is not a luxury, it is a necessity. In this episode, Méline visits one of the world's most respected wellness retreats to understand what makes it work. She sits down with General Manager and COO Kathy Van Ness to explore the phi...

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50:28

The Ayurvedic Healer Who Helped Kourtney Kardashian...

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2026/06/05

Martha Soffer has been quietly transforming the health of some of the world's most recognisable people from a small room beneath her house in Santa Monica. Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, and Kourtney Kardashian have all found their way to her door. Most of them came because nothing else was working. Now Martha is the founder of Surya Spa and one of the world's leading Ayurvedic practitioners. She has spent decades studying the ancient system that Western medicine is only beginni...

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23:05

AI Is Splitting the World in Two. Which Side Are You On?

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2026/05/29

Fredric Marshall has spent 32 years studying how humans learn, resist, and ultimately change. As an AI investor who sees the business plans and deal sheets, he has a message most people are not ready to hear: the pace of change we are living through today is only the beginning, and the world is quietly splitting into two groups of people. Fredric Marshall is a learning and change expert, founder of Quantum Learning, former biochemist, and author of Thrive: The Antidote to Future Shock. He ha...

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27:48

AI Has a 50% Chance of Ending Humanity and It Is...

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2026/05/29

Emad Mostaque puts his personal probability of human extinction from AI at 50%. A coin toss. And yet he believes this is the most exciting time in human history to be alive. Emad is the founder of Stability AI, the creator of Stable Diffusion with over 300 million downloads, and now the architect of a sovereign AI stack being built to give every person on earth ownership of their own intelligence. He left a billion-dollar company because he believed someone had to build AI that works for peop...

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26:39

The Doctor Who Got a Stranger's Heart: What She Now...

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2026/05/18

Dr. Dawn Mussallem, is Global Chief Medical Officer of Fountain Life, stage 4 cancer survivor, and heart transplant recipient carrying a stranger's heart inside her chest. She spent 25 years at Mayo Clinic, lost her husband to the very disease she now fights to detect early, and emerged from her own mortality with a singular mission: to change the way humanity approaches health. In this conversation, Dr. Dawn shares what 88% of otherwise healthy people do not know about their hearts, why typ...

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8:36

The E-Bike for Walking: How a Powered Exoskeleton Is...

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2026/05/08

In this episode, we meet Luke Mooney, CEO of Dephy — an MIT-trained engineer who started by building robotic prosthetics to to make walking easier and less exhausting. It helps people walk further, faster, and with less effort We meet the Dephy Sidekick: a powered footwear system that acts like an extra calf muscle, giving. We sit down with Luke to understand how it works, who it's built for, and why the most meaningful impact isn't the technology itself - it's what people can do agai...

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25:45

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: What It Actually Does to...

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2026/05/01

What if one of the most powerful therapies for longevity, brain performance, and recovery has been hiding in plain sight - used by elite athletes, Hollywood figures, and high-performing entrepreneurs for years? In this episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline sits down with Andrei Nicolescu and Alexandru R. Harbuzaru from HPO.Tech - engineers and pioneers at the forefront of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - to break down exactly how HBOT works, who it's for, and why the world's top performers are...

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5:09

The Car That Runs on Sunlight: 10,000 Free Miles a Year

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2026/04/24

What if your car could refuel itself while you slept, while you worked, while you simply lived your life? That's not a distant promise - it's what Aptera Motors has already built. In this episode, we step inside the Aptera, the world's first true solar electric vehicle, and speak with Chris McCammon, Head of Marketing, about the philosophy behind one of the most radical rethinks of personal transport in decades. The insight that sparked it all is deceptively simple: most vehicles can burn 60...

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2:14

This MIT Technology Can Detect Parkinson's Before...

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/04/17

What if a wireless signal in your home could tell you more about your health than your doctor 0 before you even feel unwell? In this episode of 60 Seconds to Longevity, Méline Liu sits down with Dina Katabi, MIT professor and pioneer of invisible health technology, to explore a breakthrough that could redefine how we monitor, detect, and prevent disease. Dina's research uses wireless signals to capture vitals, sleep patterns, breathing, and even EEG data - entirely without sensors or wearab...

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22:38

What Navy SEALs, Extreme Athletes & Top Executives...

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/04/10

What if the key to living longer, thinking sharper, and recovering from burnout wasn't a supplement or a biohack - but a mental state you were born to access? In the first episode of Built to Last, Méline Liu sits down with Steven Kotler - bestselling author, neuroscience researcher, and founder of the Flow Research Collective - for a wide-ranging conversation filmed in a vintage car about the state that may be the most powerful performance tool in existence: flow. Steven breaks down how fl...

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2:10

Bob Langer 60 Seconds to Longevity

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/04/03

What if the future of longevity is already being built… and you just haven’t seen it yet? In this short but powerful conversation, legendary scientist Bob Langer - one of the most cited engineers in history - breaks down the breakthroughs quietly shaping the future of human health. From the tiny particles that made mRNA vaccines possible… to the idea of growing personalised brains outside the body, this episode gives you a rare glimpse into what’s coming next in longevity. If you care abou...

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4:46

This Mirror Scans Your Body… Welcome to Behind the...

The HumanWare Project ·

2026/03/23

In this behind-the-scenes episode of The HumanWare Project, Méline takes you inside CES in Las Vegas, a showcase of cutting-edge technology. From AI-powered health diagnostics to the overwhelming pace of innovation, the days unfold in unexpected ways! This episode captures a real perspective of CES and the obstacles that can arise when travelling and filming!

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