In this conversation with hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker, Baratunde Thurston, creator of the Life with Machines podcast and host of PBS's America Outdoors, explains why creativity is the antidote to AI's "planet of averageness" and why the real danger isn't that robots will take over—it's that people will become robots through the industrialization of creative thought.

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Baratunde on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@baratunde
Baratune's Newsletter: https://newsletter.baratunde.com/

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When Marion Leary had her breakthrough moment at the Philadelphia Science Festival, staring at a virtual reality booth, she realized something that would reshape her entire career: the creative tools from design and technology could revolutionize how we teach people to save lives. In this conversation with hosts Doreen Lorenzo and Michael Baker, Marion, Director of Innovation at Penn Nursing, explains that what nurses call "workarounds" are actually a creative thinking in disguise, and why bringing human-centered design into nursing education is transforming healthcare from the inside out.

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Marion on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Leary

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How can a board game teach the fundamentals of design and creativity? Gray Garmon, founding director of UT Austin's Center for Integrated Design joins us to explore how creativity becomes a powerful tool for solving everyday problems, and how his collaborative approach is democratizing design education.

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TWOxTWO Studio: https://www.twoxtwo.co/

Dream Up Game: https://www.dreamupgame.com/

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