Best Lucy Lin Podcasts (2025)

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The Hidden Histories of Garden Legacies, with Rose Vincent Resource Librarian NYBG 54:07

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This week on Cultivating Place, in honor of this first week of Autumn, and the idea of passing time, looking back, and the importance of memory and history, host Abra Lee welcomes someone whose work reminds us that gardens are not only grown in the soil but also in the stories we keep and share.Abra is in conversation with Rose Vincent, Resource Sh…

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The Adventurous Art of Cultivating Place, with Peg & Awl 1:09:22

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This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the Art of CP, exploring how the act of Cultivating Place is artful, and how Art can be one our most beautiful acts of Cultivating Place. How acts of Cultivating Place and acts of making Art both offer us the agency to create new worlds, or new versions of our current world. These human impulses are simu…

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Great Green Heights: Cincinnati's Green Roofs and Rooftop Garden with Rose Henry Seeger 56:54

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In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, developed the program that has earned it the nickname: Green City. The Green Cincinnati Plan (GCP) is a now-17-year-running community vision updated regularly to address climate change and build a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future for its citizens.2008 was also the year that garden/grower by nature and eng…

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Mum's the Flower of Fall, with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm 57:59

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This week on Cultivating Place, we celebrate late summer and fall on the horizon in conversation about one of fall’s stars in the garden… past, present, and future.CP host Ben Futa is in conversation with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm, based in Weyers Cave, Virginia, to explore their "Mum Project," which aims to revive chrysanthemum p…

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Seed Your Future, with Jazmin Albarran 53:44

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This week on Cultivating Place, host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, executive Director of Seed Your Future, a non-profit whose vision is a world where Everyone understands the power of plants and is aware of the promising careers in the art, science, technology, and business of horticulture.Hort…

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The Generosity of an Orchard: The Giving Grove 1:17:19

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As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by two people whose work is all about perennial and abundant harvest as represented by the concept, and the endless generosity, of an Orchard. The Giving Grove, based in Kansas City, lives a purpose of providing healthy calories, strengthe…

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Hacking Yeast With A Microbiologist: How Microbes Are Powering the Future of Food 1:03:30

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Send us a text Think yeast is just for bread and beer? Think again! Discover how this tiny microorganism is driving the future of biofuels, cleaning up oil spills, transforming sustainable food, and creating eco-friendly materials. On Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin dives deep into the incredible world of “yeast hacking” with trailblazing mic…

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Back to a Source: the Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve 1:07:07

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Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the inspirational plants from, and places known as, prairies. An iconic and beloved ecosystem strongly identified with the American Midwest. As summer warms and mellows into its Augustness, we’re in conversation this w…

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Bright Autumn Nights - GLEAM at Olbrich Botanical Gardens 54:29

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Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI. The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is celebrating its 10th anniversary and opens August 30th, transforming the very bright-by-day gardens into equally bright in a different way by night. The award-winning display runs through October 25th, and this yea…

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Prairie Up! With Plantsperson Benjamin Vogt (BEST OF) 1:02:12

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Ahhh, high summer, my friends – this week we continue with our CP summer-break reprisals, reminding us of the importance of the great outdoors and the care and cultivation of it, revisiting ecological-plantsman Benjamin Vogt’s great work Prairie Up!To inspire your planting and designs for the season ahead, a fierce advocate on behalf of our gardens…

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Antimicrobial Resistance: A Global Health Crisis Explained 1:25:20

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Send us a text What if the medicines you rely on suddenly stopped working? In this episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin is joined by Dr Christine Carson, founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cytophenix, a trailblazer in tackling the urgent crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Discover how AMR threatens everything from routine su…

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Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson (BEST OF) 1:00:05

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The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening, and even rotting. This week, we revisit a BEST OF conversation that embraces this sublime sensuality from a variety of perspectives, in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson. Nancy is perhaps best known …

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The Nature Place–La Crosse, WI, with Rebecca Schwarz & Paige Manges 54:43

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This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of The Nature Place in La Crosse, WI. It’s a place where we all belong and can keep growing – for sustenance, for survival, and for joy. The Nature Place is dedicated to inspiring and cultivating meaningful connectio…

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A Global Garden Adventurer, Plantswoman Lucie Willan 1:04:12

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This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best from Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Monk’s House in the UK to Sparoza in Greece. Lucie Willan has great garden tales to tell. A perfect summer garden beach, …

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July 4th Special: Great Expectations, CP LIVE with Ben Futa of Botany & CO, South Bend, IN 1:02:47

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THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa. Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is dedicated to “empowering more people to plant more plants in more places!” In a town that has seen more than its share of social, economic, and environmental challenges in the past few decades, Botany & Co., Ben’s dr…

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Insect Farming and Robotics: The Future of Food Waste Solutions 1:16:16

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Send us a text How can maggots and robots solve the global food waste crisis? Join host Lucy Lin on Emerging Tech Unpacked as she sits down with Olympia Yarger, Founder and CEO of GOTERRA, the “Maggot Lady” herself, for an eye-opening conversation about insect farming, robotics, and the future of sustainable food waste solutions. Discover how milli…

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Rooted in Education, Richard M. Smith, Director, NYBG School of Professional Horticulture 54:38

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This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both inspiring and honest—Richard M. Smith, director of the School of Professional Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden.Richard grew up in Belle Glade, Florida—folks there call it Muck City, thanks to their deep, rich so…

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Midsummer's Night Magic, with Leigh Ann Henion 1:04:41

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Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder – someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible diversity of moths. Creatures whose lives benefit ours and yet take place primarily under the cover of the dark of night.In this week of the Summer Solstice, in our seasonal period of longest days and shortest nigh…

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Getting to know our neighbors: Preparing for National Pollinator Week with Colorado's PPAN 1:17:05

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Every year since 2007, when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week. It is no accident that this is the same week as the Summer Solstice, when many pollinators reach their peak. Since 2017, however, the state of Colorado has celebrated June as National Pollinator Month, and this …

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Transformative Beauty: Ben Futa in conversation with Montreal-based floral designer Marc Sardi 55:47

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To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a Montreal-based scientist turned floral artist who has reinvented his relationship with the natural world, and himself, along with changing careers. It’s an authentic conversation exploring how rediscovering our most au…

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Nutritious Movement & The Gardener, with Katy Bowman 1:07:11

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Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance under the stars. Whatever calls you. But as we know, many of us – most of us?Do not move enough, and even if we do, we don’t get a balanced diet of movement. Which Gardening can help with, and which physical movemen…

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Raised Beds, Raised Voices: Guest Host Abra Lee in Conversation with Philly's Guina Hammond 58:50

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Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's program manager of sustainable communities. She is also deeply involved in her hometown of Philadelphia as a certified organic landcare professional, PHS Tree Tender, Penn State Master Gardener, and planning team member for the Mid-Atlantic Woody & Perennial Plant Conference. In addition to …

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That Green Thing Inside US ALL, Jill Mays on Nurturing Nature, Gardening for Special Needs 58:41

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As the summer gardening season rolls into full-throated song, the idea of who has access to the work, joy, and benefits of this practice also comes into view—and feeds what Occupational Therapist and author Jill Mays calls that "green thing inside of us all."As an occupational therapist by career and calling, over the course of her professional lif…

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A Beautiful Journey, Plantswoman Holly Shimizu, Emeritus Director US Botanic Garden 1:01:49

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This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful changes in public garden standards, expectations, and accountability in that same time frame.From her visionary leadership roles at the National Herb Gard…

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Olympic Swimming Tech: How Australia Dominates with AI, Wearables & Data 1:02:30

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Send us a text How does Australia, a nation of just 26 million, consistently dominate Olympic swimming? In this episode of Emerging Tech Unpacked, host Lucy Lin sits down with Jess Corones, General Manager of Performance Support and Olympic Campaign at Swimming Australia, to reveal the tech and teamwork powering Australia’s swimming success. Discov…

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Happy May Day! Growing Home: Humble Roots & The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer 1:05:13

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This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. Acclaimed for their native plant passions, knowledge, and integrity, Kristin and Drew are the authors of the Pacific Northwest …

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For the Love of Soil, Start with Soil: Juliet Sargeant 1:01:57

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Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique background in medicine, science, and psychology gives her designs a whole new depth, focusing on wellbeing and connection.You might recognize her name from that time in 2016 when she made history as the first Black …

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The Holy Earth & The Nature Study Idea, John Stempien on the Legacy of Liberty Hyde Bailey 1:00:08

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In this holy season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with the earth reviving herself in greenery and flowers, birds, bees, and butterflies all around us, I am so pleased to be in conversation today with a gardener who will represent another gardener -one in the here now and one from more than a century ago, whose words resonate into the presen…

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Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman of Design Matters 59:20

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Debbie Millman has written love letters before. Her 20 years of creating and hosting the popular podcast Design Matters is just one of them. Her many books, several of them established reference books in the design and branding worlds, are among others. I am guessing she’s written a few to her wife the author Roxanne Gay, who contributed recipes to…

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The Vibrant New Natural Gardening of Kelly D. Norris 1:05:24

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You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden. And we’re so pleased to get him back this week in conversation with CP Guest Host Ben Futa to talk more about this curren…

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Human Centric Cybersecurity Unpacked: Building a Culture of Protection & Accessibility 1:00:28

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Send us a text From a $25 million deepfake scam to massive data breaches affecting millions, it is no wonder that a potential cybersecurity attack keeps many people awake at night. In a world obsessed with technological solutions, we've overlooked our greatest asset and cybersecurity vulnerability: humans. From insider threats to phishing emails to…

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Transformational: From banker to trailblazing IDEA leader in public horticulture, Mae Lin Plummer 57:59

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This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colorado.Mae Lin’s journey into gardening started in her backyard in Charlotte, NC where she simply wanted "a pretty place to throw parties." That blossome…

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Spring Equinox Special - Practicing re-enchantment: Encountering Dragonflies with Brooke Williams 1:12:48

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Happy Spring Equinox!To welcome Spring – especially this exact Spring in the US - practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly the right focus. I think this is part of what Gardeners do: practice enchantment or love with the natural world we care for.We’re in conversation this week with Brooke Williams: writer, naturalist, amateur conserva…

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Life is Big: To Be A Poet Gardener, Tess Taylor 1:05:04

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Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! An award-winning poet with many collection titles to her name and editor of the life-supporting anthology Leaning Toward Light Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Te…

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The Curious Dr. Margaret Funk, Flora & Frost 57:17

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Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. Cultivating her Minnesota garden for years, like so many of us, she really dove in deep in 2020. She and her family have now converted most of their lawn into a vibrant garden with a small greenhouse, raised beds for veggies, ornamental plants, and …

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From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito 53:23

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From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito by Jennifer JewellBy Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place

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Generative AI Design Unpacked: Creativity in the AI Age 1:00:44

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Send us a text Ever wondered how AI is transforming the creative world? In this podcast episode, Emerging Tech Unpacked host Lucy Lin spoke to Canva’s Head of Generative AI Design, CJ Jones, about the future of creativity, generative AI design and her global career working at the bleeding edge of design and technology. You'll discover why getting b…

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Portrait of A Black Woman in Her Garden: Leslie Bennett, Pine House Edible Gardens & Black Sanctuary Gardens 1:18:27

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In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivators of Place with whom we are speaking. This week’s CP LIVE recording focuses on the paradigm-shift…

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The Curiosity Driven Growing Life of Australia's Michael McCoy 59:31

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Many things motivate and drive us to love gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist, is a Gardener, botanist, designer, teacher, and international garden tour guide. In his garden life, motivation always comes back to curiosity. He says: "Behind any answer are 10 more questions leading me forward in the g…

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The Power of Public Green Spaces: NY's Elizabeth Street Garden with Joseph Reiver 53:39

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The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods is a one-acre public garden founded in 1991 by Allan Reiver, an artist and art dealer who passed in 2021. The lot on which the garden has grown these many years is owned by the city and managed by the non-profit community group, Elizabeth Street Garden. Joseph Reiver…

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Creativity, Self-Knowledge, and Artistic Ingenuity: Passionflower Sue 1:05:16

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Creativity is one of those anchors-to-windward in unsettled and worrisome times. So is a hands-on, creative project – with bonus points for working with organic materials (natural fibers, clay, or – flowers)!Just in time for Valentine’s Day, and all the spring events cascading from there in the coming months, we’re joined this week by a woman who h…

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Got Topiary? A conversation with plantsman/artist Mike Gibson 54:02

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This week, Guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with legendary topiary artist and star of the HGTV hit show Clipped, Mike ‘Gibby-Siz’ Gibson. Mike is based out of sunny Columbia, South Carolina, where he owns and operates his own business, “Gibson Works.”Abra and Mike talk about all things Topiary arts in their lively conversation! Diving into Mi…

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The Collective & The Seed Farmer, Dan Brisebois 1:05:58

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This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week – seeds remind us so tangibly of our ability to get small, to slow down into a fortified dormancy of resilience, rest, and regrowth – and the possibilities inherent in all of those states.And this week, Cultivating Place does just…

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Deepfake Technology Unpacked: Intelligence Expert Explains AI Deception and Truth 56:44

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Send us a text How do you spot a deepfake image or video? Is it missing fingers, unnatural blinking or mismatched lip movements? In this podcast episode, Emerging Tech Unpacked host Lucy Lin spoke to intelligence expert Emerald Sage about deepfake technology and her career working for a national security intelligence organisation. From political ma…

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Resolution Support: The Five-Minute Gardener, Nicole Burke of Gardener 1:02:48

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Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening, or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week’s Cultivating Place conversation is all about making time for gardening even for very busy people! Nicole Burke, the energy force behind the online forum known as Gardenary, is with us to share more about the philosophy centered in her new…

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025: Prioritizing Rest, Balance, and JOY, with Dandy Ram Farm 55:12

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To ring in the New Year, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is in conversation with Bo Dennis, lead farmer and designer of Dandy Ram farm, located in rural Maine. Dandy Ram is an LGBTQ+ flower farm and floral design studio that sustainably grows and designs florals for weddings and ships evergreen and floral products nationally. Da…

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WINTER SOLSTICE SEASON SPECIAL: Being Still, with Mary Jo Hoffman (BEST OF) 1:22:47

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Happy Winter Solstice season! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest night and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, which took place on December 21st, this week we revisit a conversation about getting STILL.We hold a moment of stillness to notice and honor our places, our selves, and our many companions in time an…

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The King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier of Middleton Place, Charleston, SC 53:28

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This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier. Sidney is based out of sunny Charleston, South Carolina, where he sits as Vice President of Horticulture at Middleton Place - a historic home and garden there is believed to be the oldest landscaped garden in America. Camellias were f…

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Arboreal Obsession and Growing the World: The Tree Collectors, with Amy Stewart 1:01:37

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Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and - of course - plants. Some plant collecting gardeners collect flowers, shrubs, herbs or seeds. Others collect trees – and when writer, artist and curious human Amy Stewart, award winning author of Flower Confidential, Wicked Plants, and The Drunken Botanist, ran i…

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Live Podcast: AI & Design, Sports & Data and Indoor Vertical Farming with Canva, IBM and Invertigro 56:29

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Send us a text Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and often called the first computer programmer. According to the Office of the Chief Scientist, women comprise only 28 % of the STEM workforce and even less for women in the new and emerging tech industries. So picture this: CJ Jones, the Head of Generative AI Design from Canva, unveiling the secrets …