Episodes
-
S2 Ep10: Can we Rewrite the Brain? with Justin Sanchez
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with neuroscientist Justin Sanchez to explore how innovative technology once considered science fiction is becoming real. Justin leads advanced neurotechnology research at Battelle, one of…
more -
S2 Ep9: Can We Destroy Forever Chemicals? with Dr. Bruce Rittmann
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Bruce Rittmann, one of the world’s most influential environmental engineers, to explore a growing global problem hiding in plain sight: forever chemicals. Also known as PFAS, these...
-
S2 Ep8: A Virgin Birth in a Crocodile? with Dr. Brenna Levine & Dr. Warren Booth | Not Impossible Podcast
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Warren Booth and Dr. Brenna Levine, the researchers who documented the first-ever confirmed virgin birth in a crocodile — a discovery that challenges one of the oldest assumptions…
more -
S2 Ep7: Recreating the Sun on Earth? with Scientist Dr. Kim Budil
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Kimberly Budil, Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who oversaw the first-ever net positive nuclear fusion reaction, a milestone comparable to the Wright…
more -
S2 Ep6: Can Whales Help Us Talk to Aliens? with the SETI Team
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with members of the SETI research team, who are exploring one of the most ambitious questions in science: How do you communicate with a mind that isn’t human? Their work begins here on…
more -
S2 Ep5: Restoring Brains With Implants? with Neurosurgeon Dr. Jaimie Henderson
In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Jaimie Henderson, a neurosurgeon and researcher at Stanford, whose work focuses on restoring brain function for people living with neurological conditions. This conversation…
more -
S2 Ep4: Plastic Eating Fungi? with Biodegradation Researcher Dr. Amira Samat
What if “forever plastic” didn’t have to last forever? In this episode of the Not Impossible Podcast, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Amira Samat, a biologist whose research challenges one of the world’s most stubborn assumptions: that polypropylene, one of…
more -
S2 Ep3: A Pilot With No Arms? with Pilot and Speaker Jessica Cox
What if the word “impossible” was just a challenge waiting to be redefined? In this Not Impossible Podcast episode, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Jessica Cox, the world’s first woman to fly a plane with her feet, to explore what it truly means to live without...
-
S2 Ep2: Freezing Organs To Save Lives? with Cryobiologist Dr. Greg Fahy
What if freezing organs could save countless lives? In this Not Impossible Podcast episode, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Greg Fahy, a pioneering cryobiologist whose groundbreaking work in vitrification, the process of freezing organs without damaging them…
more -
S2 Ep1: Making Mars A Future Home? with NASA Scientist, Dr. Michael Hecht
What does it really take to make Mars a future home for humanity? In this Not Impossible Podcast episode, host and Not Impossible Labs founder Mick Ebeling sits down with Dr. Michael Hecht, NASA's principal investigator for MOXIE - Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization." Together, they explore...
-
S1 Ep10: The Cyborg and the Singularity
What happens when an engineer loses his legs in a mountain-climbing accident? In the case of Hugh Herr, he uses his brilliant mind to overcome his physical disability – and the result is a set of prosthetic legs like none ever seen before. Now Herr climbs at a more advanced level than he had…
more -
S1 Ep9: Oh Print Me A Home
Steve Keating and his team at MIT have taken 3D printing to a place it’s never been before – and hope to take it places NO one has ever been before. They have invented a 3D printer that can print an entire building, using no other “ink” than what it finds around it in nature – and they say it’s...
-
S1 Ep8: Vet Tech
A special episode for the Fourth of July: After reporting on tragedy after tragedy, a TV journalist struggling with anxiety discovers a cure in technology prescribed by her doctor – and quits her job to devote herself to using that technology to help America’s war veterans. She and the doctor…
more -
S1 Ep7: Feel the Music
A deaf woman who becomes a world-famous solo percussionist, and a singer with perfect pitch who loses her hearing but still performs live, send the Not Impossible team on a quest to answer the question: How do deaf people experience music? And can we invent a technology to enhance that…
more -
S1 Ep6: Project C.O.D.I.
Cody is a fearless and sensitive 7-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare disease that is slowly robbing him of hearing and sight. The Not Impossible Labs team committed itself to finding a way for Cody to navigate the world. What they created – and built into a superhero costume -- allows Cody to…
more -
S1 Ep5: Kissyface
Day to day, we rarely think about facial control software unless it's to play silly games on our iPhones or Snapchat. But a crazy inventor and a rehab specialist developed a way to let people who are paralyzed with spinal injuries use it to surf the web, paint – do anything you can do on a...
-
S1 Ep4: The Arm Race
When Johnny Matheny lost his arm to cancer he decided it was his chance to help others – so he volunteered to be the guinea pig in any project that came along. Little did he know what the government’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program had in store for him – and now he has become the first man…
more -
S1 Ep3: The Eyewriter
When producer Mick Ebeling met a paralyzed graffiti artist named Tempt, he made a promise that Tempt would one day paint again – and then wondered how he’d keep the promise. The results of the challenge reside in museums on both coasts – and the philosophy behind them launched Not Impossible Labs.
-
S1 Ep2: Blood from the Sky
Two inventors -- one who created a cute little robot, the other who created an app to help kids learn to read -- take on the greatest challenge of their lives: Women are dying in Rwanda at an alarming rate – and they think they have an idea that could save them.
-
S1 Ep1: See With Your Tongue
Erik Weihenmayer is an athlete, adventurer, author – and the only blind person to scale Mount Everest. Now he’s the first to test out a new device that raises a question at the very heart of how sight works: Do we see with our eyes, or with our brains? The answer to that question could change......
-
S1: Not Impossible Season 1 Trailer
Not Impossible is a podcast that asks the question “What if nothing in life is impossible?” Join Mick Ebeling as explores the amazing, inspiring stories of people all around the world who are creating technology for the sake of humanity. On May 29th we debut the first three episodes of Not...