unNatural Selection Podcast
1) Housing Security: Breaktime • Connor Schoen
Reweaving the Safety Net: Innovating Against Youth HomelessnessYouth homelessness is a crisis hiding in plain sight. Unlike chronic homelessness, it doesn’t always look obvious—these are young people ...Show More
2) Extractive Metallurgy: Sadoway Labs • Matt Humbert
From Caves to Skyscrapers: Powering Progress and Paying the PriceThe modern world runs on an invisible foundation—precious metals, rare earths, and fossil fuels that power everything from smartphones ...Show More
3) Public Education: Eliot School • Traci Walker
From Revolution to Innovation: Shaping America’s Next LeadersThe Eliot School in Boston, founded in 1713, is one of the oldest public schools in the United States and counts Paul Revere and Samuel Ada...Show More
4) Newborn Genomics: Harvard Medical School • Robert Green
Beyond Natural Selection: When Genes Are the Start, Not the DestinyWe sit down with Dr. Robert Green of Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, a pioneer in genomic newborn screening. F...Show More
5) Life Science/Diagnostics: Thermo Fisher Scientific • Gianluca Pettiti
Catalysts of Discovery: Powering Innovation in Biology and MedicineIn this episode, Nic speaks with Gianluca Pettiti, Executive Vice President at Thermo Fisher Scientific, about the company’s vision f...Show More
6) Human Capital: McKinsey & Company • Anu Madgavkar
The Vanishing Herd: Survival and InnovationGlobal fertility rates are falling, populations are aging, and the consequences are already reshaping economies and societies. In this episode, Nic speaks wi...Show More
7) Pharmaceuticals: Sanofi • Michael Quigley
The War on Illness: Inside Sanofi’s Arsenal of InnovationRecorded LIVE at the World Medical Innovation Forum and produced in partnership with MassGeneral Brigham, this episode of unNatural Selection f...Show More
8) Policy & Economy: Massachusetts • Gov. Maura Healey
The Roots of Democracy Branch Toward InnovationGovernor Maura Healey joins unNatural Selection to discuss how Massachusetts is navigating federal headwinds to remain a global leader in innovation. We ...Show More
9) Health Technologies: Philips • Betsabeh Madani-Hermann
Light Into Life: Philips’ Journey of ReinventionPhilips has been reinventing itself for more than 134 years — a rare feat in an age when most companies struggle just to survive. In this episode, we ex...Show More
10) Nutrition & Community Health: Kraft Ctr for Community Health • Elsie Taveras
Flock Survival: Innovation, Nutrition, and Building Resilient CommunitiesChildhood obesity is one of today’s most pressing health challenges, but the story is far more complex than “eat less, move mor...Show More