Following those often jaw-dropping (and sometimes hilarious fails) through time to today, host Maren Hunsberger asks: "What's next?". By talking to today's innovative young scientists, engineers, artists, and other big thinkers, we see how the mistakes of the past are leading us into the science of tomorrow...and toward a better future.
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About the Host
Maren Hunsberger (she/they) is a scientist and science communicator who has studied both the human microbiome and the way people consume scientific information. She explains science in creative ways to reach people who, like her, may have never thought of themselves as a ‘science person’. By bringing her lived experience as a queer person with a learning difference to how she communicates science, she hopes to reach audiences who aren’t currently reached by science content online.
Behind the scenes of filming episode 1.
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Screen printing a t-shirt with bacterially-produced dye for episode 1 in the Central Saint Martins Print Lab.
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Filming with the team! L to R: Bahar Dopran, sound recordist; Maren Hunsberger, director & host; Stephanie Faucher, producer; Tanya Dudnikova, PA; Nicola Leddy, director of photography
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On our way through the Scottish Highlands to film episode 7.
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Maren and Kalyani Lodhia shoot a scene with kelp scientist, Reina Veenhof and a sea urchin, at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS).
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Learning about natural pigments in the artist’s studio with Lucy Mayes, artist & pigment maker.
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Kalyani captures an epic seaweed scene for episode 7 at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) with Maren and Reina.
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Andrew Fleming, director of photography, captures episode 7's cooking scenes in Yuki Gomi’s studio with Sue Bailey, food science and culinary history expert and Maren.
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