Episode 7: R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller with Kurt Przybilla

In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.

Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules.

• The Buckminster Fuller Institute
• Robert Anton Wilson’s Interview of Buckminster Fuller
• The Molecularium Project
• Tetra Tops
• “New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs”

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Host/Producer Mike Gathers

Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller.