Hosted by Pia Williams · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 22 episodes
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Feral by Design is a science podcast that uses biomimicry to steal nature’s smartest strategies for human chaos. Each episode starts with a messy real-world problem, turns to a creature that’s already solved something similar, looks at their strategies and follows the thread you didn’t see coming. Sometimes it lands on one idea, sometimes a few - but it always lands somewhere useful. Grounded in real science, told through self-deprecating stories, and always surprisingly practical. Biomimicry made accessible, useful, and genuinely fun. Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.
Pia Williams hosts Feral by Design, a science show with 22 episodes published.
A 14-year-old boy suffers two brain bleeds in a freak accident at school. He comes home and sleeps 21 hours a day. To everyone watching, it looks like the world has gone quiet. In nature, that stillness isn't defeat. It'
Red wine meets MacBook. Laundry floods. Toilet leaks. All within 24 hours. Somewhere between staring at flood-damaged laundry cabinets and Googling "how much liquid can a MacBook survive?", Pia realised she'd recently sp
A homemade billy cart hurtles downhill through a suburban intersection. A keynote slide turns into an entirely new workshop framework. A conference room applauds the removal of friction from modern work. Somewhere in Cos
Bob Hawke looks down the camera and says: any boss who sacks an employee for not showing up today is a bum. A nation stops. Beer is raised. A boat wins. A jacket becomes iconic. That’s what we remember. But under the sur
A man raises a glass for two people he's loved for sixty years. A woman stands in a car park, looking up at the sky, saying: I don't know what you're trying to tell me. A baby cries, and no one knows why. None of it look
A friend cancels a trip. Petrol prices climb. A flight route disappears. None of it looks broken, but something doesn’t quite behave normally anymore. It's April 2026, as the world watches a war reshape ordinary life fro
I could feel them shut down. What happens when you feel yourself shift and can’t quite stop it? Weakly electric fish navigate murky water by emitting a constant field, and everything in range responds to it. Rose didn't
Most people have heard the word biomimicry. Very few actually know what it means. This short field note explains how the ideas in Feral by Design work - how scientists study organisms, uncover the mechanisms behind their
Nature has notes. Apparently, sometimes she delivers them in person. This one arrived as a stunned kingfisher on Pia's porch tiles, moments after flying full-tilt into her window. Literally as she was writing this episod
This episode came from noticing a place biomimicry could quietly change the way Pia works, thanks to a wombat called Chardonnay. She’s treated wombats with mange in the wild. Every few days, hiking in, pouring medicine o
A swim that went wrong. A lifesaver’s eyes locked on mine. And a question I couldn’t shake. Most safety systems are built for calm moments. But danger rarely shows up when we’re calm. At the beach, water reorganises itse
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design. A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across the mini series — so
The second episode in the Feral Festive Special drifts into unexpected territory: snowflakes. This episode isn’t biomimicry — snowflakes don’t behave — but the pattern they form, shaped by whatever air they fall through,
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Feral by Design is hosted by Pia Williams. The show is categorised under science (life) and has published 22 episodes.
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