The Life Cycle

About The Life Cycle

We have reached the forth season of The Life Cycle! July 21, 2026 sees SEED move into Early Access, and to celebrate we wanted to share a chapter from The Radix, the backstory of SEED. We plan to have a rolling schedule of podcasts going forward, as we continue to talk to experts in science, AI, philisophy as well as game development, as we continue to look at the future of humanity and what it means for SEED - and indeed all of us. In the third season we bring the podcast right down to earth and get in deep with the things that matter to us all and our collective future. And what better way to do that than to have long, engaged conversations with some brilliant people? We talk food, we talk fertility, we talk about life online and we also visit the site of one of humanity’s most exciting endeavors: the mission to create nuclear fusion here on Earth, and harness the power of the Sun itself! Beginning with a chat with Klang CEO Mundi Vondi, this season promises to deepen our understanding of the life cycle, and just what it is we’re all doing here…. John Holten is a novelist and Klang Game’s Narrative Director. His novels include The Trains of Europe (2024), Oslo, Norway (2015) and The Readymades (2011). His writing has recently appeared in Welt am Sonntag, frieze, and The Stinging Fly. Eva Kelley is a journalist and writer. Her writing focuses on contemporary culture and has appeared in publications such as 032c, ZEITMagazin, Interview Magazine, Hearts, and on SSENSE.com among others.

Publisher

Klang Games

Category

arts · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Oct 2019

Latest episode

18 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 30 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Jul 2026

   Special Episode! SEED Early Access

   The future of humanity (and all that entails) has fueled both The Life Cycle and SEED. Finally the wait is over and SEED enters Early Access, and to celebrate the occasion we decided to release chapter 1 of The Radix, the novel of SEED’s backstory. Please enjoy and make sure to check out seed.game/pre-order today to get one of the 10,000 seats opening exclusively on July 21, 2026. May the future of humanity be a joy for you… The Radix follows the Seedling Eliza Kessen as she gets involv...

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   8 Oct 2024

   S3E9: ‘This New Fire’ with Pietro Barabaschi

   In our last episode from ITER, we round out season 3 with an exclusive interview with the head of ITER, Pietro Barabaschi! John and Eva got the chance to chat to Pietro about what it’s like running an international undertaking such as ITER, and how one needs to have a special relationship to time itself when it comes to the search for nuclear fusion. Plus we also hear some great insights on problem solving. Born in 1965 in Milan, Italy, Pietro Barabaschi, an electro-mechanical engineer b...

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   1 Oct 2024

   S3E8: ‘Field Trip!’ with Sabina Griffith

   Take a trip, and visit the incredible site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in Provence in the south of France. In this episode, Eva and John get a tour of the huge international effort to recreate what happens in our Sun: nuclear fusion. An immensely ambitious, multi-generational project, we promise this is quite a trip!LINKShttps://www.iter.org/ www.twitter.com/TheLifeCyclePodwww.instagram.com/thelifecyclepodcastwww.thelifecyclepodcast.comwww.klang-games.comDiscord

Inside a recent episode

S3E5: ‘7 Million Eggs’ with Jennifer Garrison

Published 3 Sept 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And these are all average numbers. So of course there's some fluctuation here. Then once she starts cycling, you're losing about a thousand eggs per month. So while we only ovulate one, sometimes two, one egg, every month during your cycle, your body recruits about a thousand follicles to start growing. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

15 ratings

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