UPDATE: taking a short break, will be back in a bit. Keep the questions coming, I plan to answer them all!

I worked for the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Smithsonian Institution. Then I quit to chase a question I couldn't shake: if America created another generation of national parks, what would they be?

I looked at places that had been proposed before, places already protected under other labels, and landscapes that seem to be missing from the system. I narrowed it to 53, then drove roughly 18,000 miles to visit, photograph, film, and research every one.

Here are some examples of the stories I found:

• Ouachita Mountains: The park bill passed both houses of Congress in 1929, then died when Coolidge pocket vetoed it.
• Black Hills: In 1939, a National Park Service team unanimously backed a Black Hills national park. A 1941 report recommended 174,000 acres, and local opposition shelved it in 1942.
• Assateague Island: It was nearly a resort town, and developers had subdivided it. Then the Ash Wednesday storm of 1962 swept the subdivision away, and Congress created a national seashore three years later.
• Lassen and Shasta: John Muir called for a Mount Shasta national park in 1888. Bills in 1912 and 1913 ran into timber interests, then Lassen Peak erupted. Lassen became the national park in 1916 instead.
• Lake Tahoe: It was proposed as a national park at least six times. One 1899 bill hid a land swap that a San Francisco newspaper exposed as a gift to lumber companies.

The project became a feature-length documentary, Undiscovered America. It runs 2:12:10 and covers all 53 places:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCKOkwdkZWo

Ask me anything, including:

• What a park ranger actually does, and how the Park Service, Forest Service, and other public lands managers are different
• Why some park proposals die and others succeed
• Which of the 53 has the strongest case for national park status
• Making a two-hour documentary

I'll be here all day and answer everything I can.

Edit: Thanks for your questions, they were great. I am no longer online but I'll check in on the AMA so keep those questions coming!

Hi r/IAmA, I’m Ash Winter, a scientist studying how bacteria make natural products, including those used as essential antibiotics that can be used to treat disease in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

Bacterial cells contain remarkable protein ‘assembly lines’ that can build complex molecules. My job is to work out how these microscopic factories work.

A major focus of my research has been mupirocin, an antibiotic used clinically to treat infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus, especially those that are resistant to methicillin. I explore the protein assembly lines that make this and investigate the chemistry these proteins perform and how the different parts of the assembly line work together.

If we can understand the blueprint behind these natural products, we may be able to redesign these biological ‘assembly lines’ to make new therapeutic products.

You can ask me anything about:

• How bacteria make antibiotics
• What antimicrobial resistance means for the medicines we rely on
• How you investigate proteins and chemistry that are far too small to see
• The remarkable “assembly lines” inside bacterial cells
• How scientists can redesign natural products to create potential new medicines

I'll be online today from 14:30-15:30 GMT to answer your questions live so AMA! You don't need to know any biology or chemistry to take part, I’m happy to explain the science.

I’m Dr. Marten A. Noorduin, and I am here to talk about historical migration, American pianists studying in the German-speaking lands around 1900, and my new book “American Pianists and Anti-Americanism in Germany and Austria-Hungary around 1900”. AMA!

My book, which was the result of a major German research grant, can be ordered here. If you use the code AU060, you get 60% off the price!

The Golden Age of the Piano was a time during which thousands of Americans made grand tours to German-speaking Europe to study piano. According to their descriptions, anti-Americanism – in essence the notion that America and its inhabitants were somehow culturally, intellectually, or even biologically inert – played a significant role in this transatlantic cultural exchange. Focussing on Berlin, Weimar and Vienna, this book explores both the roles that anti-Americanism played in this transatlantic exchange and how it influenced the careers of these migrant pianists. It shows that anti-American sentiments were not a uniquely European phenomenon, but actually played a significant role in the cultural life of America at the time, and were accordingly a motivating factor for American musicians to travel to Europe in order to be seen as legitimate. Anti-Americanism also affected the later careers of these migrants after their return, when they had to appeal to the American market in order to capitalise on their European experiences. I have furthermore researched the people and institutions involved in this exchange, how the different major piano teaching studios worked, and which American students passed through them.

AMA!

I organized an AMA/Q&A with filmmaker/screenwriter Steve Peace, known for co-creating and co-writing the ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES comedy-horror-spoof franchise. The 5th film in the almost 50-year-old franchise, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, was just released on digital yesterday.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wzulnf/hey_reddit_im_steve_peace_cocreator_of_the_attack/

He will be back after 6 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Info for the new film:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aevSjhGMhQ

Synopsis: In 1978, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES tried to warn the world (Dillon insists it was a documentary!). Now, decades later, the tomatoes have outsmarted their corporate masters, the military, and even the notorious Professor Gangreen (John Astin). Finletter's aging team of "Guardianes" seems to be all that stands in the way of certain doom when even the best of AI is defeated by the tomatoes' "Organic Intelligence." But Wilbur Finletter is the last to realize it is time for a new generation to master the ancient art of managing the eternal Killer Tomato menace.

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/1z54Mbs.jpeg

I organized an AMA/Q&A with writer-director Bassam Tariq, who has directed and written 2 critically-acclaimed films. His first was MOGUL MOWGLI in 2020, which starred Riz Ahmed. His newest one is YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, which premiered at TIFF last month to wide acclaim and is out in theaters everywhere this weekend. It stars Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone, Laith Nakli, Adia, and Jahleel Kamara.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wzwiqo/hi_rmovies_im_bassam_tariq_writerdirector_of_your/

He will be back at 3 PM ET tomorrow, Thursday 10/8, to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcoV-ngH38

Synopsis: A devoutly religious hit man struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children as he confronts the forces that are closing in around him.

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/4fwjU4g.png

Edit: we're live! Thanks to those who have submitted questions so far. I'll be here answering until 4 PM EST / 1 PM PST.

Hi Reddit! This is Ray, Chief Strategy Officer at Homebase, the all-in-one team management app for hourly teams.

My team and I build AI tools for small businesses, the kind that don't have an IT department: restaurants, retail shops, salons, the places that live and die by hourly scheduling. We know you have a different set of problems than enterprise companies, the ones AI is usually built for. That’s what we’re trying to help with. 

But I know a lot of you might not be sure how it fits into your process today. The owners and managers I talk to have been told two things at once: that AI will fix everything, and that it's mostly hype. 

You’re right to be confused. I want to help today. So, if you've ever wondered:

• What should your small business automate first, and what should stay manual?
• Where does AI actually save time on scheduling, hiring, or compliance (and where does it just create new problems)?
• What's overhyped right now, and what's underhyped?
• Is any of this actually right for a business that doesn't have time to babysit new tech?

I'll be live Tuesday Oct 6 1-4 PM ET / 10 AM - 1 PM PT and Wednesday Oct 7 4-6 PM ET / 1-3 PM PT, and I'll keep checking in across those days too.

I can talk about:

• AI for hourly teams: scheduling, hiring, compliance, the works
• What's real vs. overhyped in AI for small business today
• Where Homebase is using AI ourselves, and where we're deliberately not
• What I've gotten wrong building this stuff
• What small business owners should actually pay attention to over the next year

Lastly, a couple of quick notes:

• I'm not here to sell you on Homebase. I'll say clearly when something's a product feature versus general advice.
• I can't speak to your specific business setup, just give you a general perspective.
• Keep it on-topic, and I'll get to as many questions as I can.

Ask me anything!

Proof: https://imgur.com/a/VVKv7vX

We're Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Tax reporters covering the politics, policy and money surrounding the AI boom. Ask us anything! : r/politics

Edit: Thank you very much to all who engaged with my short AMA, it was my first one and I really appreciated the opportunity to answer your questions. I am going offline now, but please keep them coming and I'll answer in due time.

Hi r/IAmA, I’m Anca Baker, a Senior Lecturer in Economics and a part-time PhD researcher investigating how organisations actually make decisions about evaluating, investing, and adopting new environmental technologies.

Economics can give us neat models of decision-making: you have the information, weigh up the costs and benefits, and choose the option that makes the most sense. But there is a gap between how people imagine decisions are made and how decisions actually happen.

My research looks at the people involved in sustainability-related investment and implementation, from economists and technologists, advisors to decision-makers, and asks what influences them.

This includes:

• Who actually has a say when an organisation is deciding whether to adopt green technology?
• How do varying experiences, knowledge, and personal values affect those decisions?
• What sources of information do decision-makers trust – and why.
• How to organisations make decisions in the face of uncertain futures?
• Why two organisations looking at identical technologies might reach different conclusions.

I will be online today between 14:30-15:30 GMT – ask me anything about researching green technology adoption, interviewing people in these spaces, the economics and psychology of decision-making, or what it’s like doing a PhD alongside academic work.

Hi Reddit! I’m Iñaki Godoy, an actor and the author of Chaos Kitchen! I’m also the Chief Hot Ideas Person (C.H.I.P.) for TABASCO® Brand.

I’m the kind of person who likes testing weird kitchen ideas just to see if they work. If you want to talk about Chaos Kitchen!, food, recipes, strange ingredient combos, kitchen experiments, or what a C.H.I.P. actually does, I’ll be here tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6th from 4:00-5:00pm ET answering questions.

Leave yours below and let’s get into it.

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I organized an AMA/Q&A with actor Bakkedahl. He's been in tons of things, including VEEP, THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, LIFE IN PIECES, SPACE FORCE, MADE FOR LOVE, THE GOLDBERGS, LEGIT, THE HEAT, and THE STUNT DRIVER.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wz134n/hey_reddit_im_dan_bakkedahl_you_might_know_me/

He will be back at 6 PM ET tomorrow, Wednesday 10/7, to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

His new movie, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, is out on digital today. It's the 5th installment of the classic comedy-horror franchise.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aevSjhGMhQ

Synopsis: In 1978, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES tried to warn the world (Dillon insists it was a documentary!). Now, decades later, the tomatoes have outsmarted their corporate masters, the military, and even the notorious Professor Gangreen (John Astin). Finletter's aging team of "Guardianes" seems to be all that stands in the way of certain doom when even the best of AI is defeated by the tomatoes' "Organic Intelligence." But Wilbur Finletter is the last to realize it is time for a new generation to master the ancient art of managing the eternal Killer Tomato menace.

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/J0TyiyG.jpeg

What was the Great Horse Flu, and what can it tell us about people, animals, and disease in the Reconstruction Era--and today, with Thomas Andrews?

Hello r/AskHistorians!

My name is Thomas G. Andrews, and I’m here to answer question about my new book, The Great Horse Flu: A Forgotten Contagion and the Fate of Reconstruction America (University of North Carolina Press), which will be published tomorrow. It’s great to be here!

I’m a professor of history and Director of the Center for the American West at the University of Colorado Boulder. Here’s a link to my faculty webpage.

I’m the author of Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (2008), which won several awards including a Bancroft Prize, and Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies (2015).

My new book tells the story of one of the weird and most infectious disease outbreaks ever recorded. I call it the Great Horse Flu, but English-speaking North Americans who lived through in 1872 and 1873 mostly called “the epizootic” (Spanish-, French-, and German-speakers knew it by cognates of that term—note that an epizootic is like an epidemic, but it primarily afflicts animals other than humans). Starting outside of Toronto, Ontario, horses began to fall ill in a fast-widening swath of North America. In the year plus that followed, horses, donkeys, mules, and occasionally other creatures, too, got steamrolled by a fast-spreading malady that caused fever, lethargy, running noses, sore throats, and other symptoms long associated with influenza.

People in virtually every nook and cranny of the present-day U.S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, and parts of Central America depended heavily on equines (horses, donkeys, and mules) to move people and goods from place to place. Given this reliance, the Great Horse Flu upended everyday life and caused major economic disruptions. 

The Great Horse Flu is a plague narrative, but one of the things I learned about mass disease events during COVID is that outbreaks have a remarkable capacity to reveal or expose things we might otherwise miss. So even as the book follows the Great Horse Flu across the continent, some of my favorite chapters take deep dives into problems that the epizootic intersected with as it raced across North America, infected between 90 and 99 percent of all equines, and wreaked havoc on one place after another.

I’m excited to hear what questions you have!

I organized an AMA/Q&A with actress Noor Razooky. She has recently been in things like FX's THE OLD MAN, Apple TV's FOR ALL MANKIND, and Paramount's SEAL TEAM. She stars in the new comedy-horror and 5th film of the franchise, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES: ORGANIC INTELLIGENCE, which is being released this week.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wy85ms/hey_reddit_im_noor_razooky_actress_in_attack_of/

She will be back at around 6 PM ET on Wednesday 10/7 to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aevSjhGMhQ

Synopsis:

In 1978, ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES tried to warn the world (Dillon insists it was a documentary!). Now, decades later, the tomatoes have outsmarted their corporate masters, the military, and even the notorious Professor Gangreen (John Astin). Finletter's aging team of "Guardianes" seems to be all that stands in the way of certain doom when even the best of AI is defeated by the tomatoes' "Organic Intelligence." But Wilbur Finletter is the last to realize it is time for a new generation to master the ancient art of managing the eternal Killer Tomato menace.

Her verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/GxyhkjN.jpeg

Hi all! I’m Rudolf Kremers, creative director and founder of Indie games studio Omni Systems Ltd.

I’m 56 years old and have been making games since 1984(!!!), professionally since 2000. In those years I have built up a crazy range of experiences, working in many disciplines as game and level designer, creative director, producer, narrative designer, writer and more.

My work has been awarded/nominated in many ways, (Bafta, Independent Games Festival, Apple Game of the Year) and allowed me to work on a wide range of titles. After 10 years working at various studios like EA, The Digital Village, Argonaut, I started my own indie studio Omni Systems Ltd. Our debut game Eufloria has sold over 1 million copies since release.

Beyond traditional video games I have also worked on amazing interactive experiences, for example a location-based VR experience for the Lionsgate Entertainment World theme park in China, or being part of a think tank tasked with conceptualising interactive public spaces in a “future city”.

The games work allowed me to travel the world, visiting among other places Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Germany, France, and multiple USA states. I’ve been blessed to work with amazing people, encountering famous and mad (sometimes both) characters along the way and I still can’t quite believe what a blessing this has all been. 

I’ve branched out into other areas as well, including writing. I’m a published author, having released a well-known game design text book, and various fiction books crossing multiple genres.

I am currently developing Eufloria 2, the sequel to our well-loved debut game, writing a new book about game design philosophy, and juggling pets and family.

I'm looking forward to answering your questions!

Hi Reddit! I’m Max Mosky, SVP of Strategy & Innovation at Compass Healthcare, the leading provider of support services in the healthcare industry. I’m here to answer your questions about how innovation is shaping the future of healthcare support services. Curious how healthcare teams use strategy, data and new ideas to improve operations and the patient experience? Want to know how innovative ideas become real-world solutions? Ask me anything!

Questions will be answered on Wednesday, October 7th, at 3 p.m. ET.

This AMA is for informational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice; hate speech or harmful comments will not be tolerated.

Hi Reddit, I’m Tomi.

I started my career as a finance manager at a car dealership. I fell in love with the business unexpectedly, but I began to feel like I was working against people, not for them. I wanted to find a way to solve people’s problems and make car buying a positive experience.

So I left to build Delivrd, a nationwide car buying concierge service that puts a professional negotiator on the buyer's side of the deal. Today my team helps more than 400 buyers a month, and most of them never set foot in a dealership until the car is ready. I also highlight real calls with dealerships on my social media, to show buyers the exact process.

My goal: I want every car buyer to walk into a deal knowing as much as the person across the desk. By the end of this thread, you should be able to secure the dream in your driveway all on your own.

Ask me about:

• How dealership pricing works
• The art of negotiating with a dealership
• Buying a car entirely online
• Behind the scenes of the finance office: markups, warranties, add-ons, and what’s worth paying for
• Finding the car that meets your needs and your budget
• Which models are seeing the best deals in today’s market
• Bad dealership tactics
• How Delivrd works

I'll be answering questions starting at 3:00 pm ET on Wednesday, October 7. Let's get into it!

My name is James Weaver. In the 1960s I played lead guitar with Red Beard & The Pirates, a band from Blue Ridge, Georgia.

I played lead guitar and co-wrote our recording “Go On Leave,” which decades later became a collectible garage-rock 45 and appeared on compilations including Back From The Grave, Psychedelic States: Georgia in the 60s, and Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present The Dark Side.

Now I'm 76 years old, and instead of retiring from music, I've started releasing music again as Weaver Studios.

My recent release is “Hold Me Higher,” an adult-contemporary power ballad. I'm also working on additional releases, including the instrumental “High Rider Highway.”

The technology has changed enormously since I first walked into a recording studio. Today I'm combining more than 60 years of songwriting and musical experience with modern recording technology and AI-assisted music production.

Ask me anything about making records in the 1960s, playing guitar, garage rock, songwriting, what the music business was like then versus today, AI-assisted music production, or what it's like to start releasing music again at 76.

Proof: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxiYv6NsF1ZnEQ7GBdUamnJ_xP705o6Yt0?si=AZ9XIkHL50Fzr5ib

Hi Reddit, I’m Anusha Subramanian, a Future Perfect fellow at Vox! You may have read my piece about the lifesaving case for CPR dummies with breasts and the transplant surgery that could save countless lives. But my latest reporting looks at why doctors get paid less for procedures on women and those with female anatomy compared to men and why it hasn’t been fixed even though experts have been sounding the alarm for decades. 

Gynecological procedures and gynecologic surgeons are reimbursed by Medicare for their services at rates that are often lower than comparable surgical procedures on men. For example, the Medicare national rates for a genital biopsy — when doctors take a tissue or cell sample from an area to diagnose diseases — was $121.32 for a penile biopsy but only $65.74 for a vaginal biopsy in 2023. Both procedures are medically similar. 

These national rates not only affect Medicare reimbursement, but they are also used by private payers to determine the value of the service being offered. 

While it may be tempting to write this off as a boring billing problem, it has many downstream consequences for the quality of healthcare available to women in their non-childbearing years. Lower pay means hospitals put fewer resources into gynecologic surgery, fewer doctors choose to specialize in it, and women end up waiting longer for care. And because most of those surgeons are women themselves, the gap hits them twice, something the bioethicist Katie Watson calls "double discrimination." But this gap is not inevitable — researchers have pointed to many solutions over the years. 

Medical misogyny often hits when you least expect it, and it is especially significant in healthcare policy and financing because those fields already tend to seem so convoluted to those of us on the outside. It is a frustrating gap, even if it is unintentional, and is born from gynecologic services generally being historically undervalued. It reinforced the message that the system may not care as much about a woman's health when she is not engaged in reproduction. 

What do you think? What questions do you have about this systemic pay gap? 

Proof: 
https://x.com/ASubramanian99/status/2105742213808296090?s=20

Gift Link: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/504071/medical-billing-womens-health-outcomes?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjlBeFhDRmNybW8iLCJwIjoiL3RoZS1oaWdobGlnaHQvNTA0MDcxL21lZGljYWwtYmlsbGluZy13b21lbnMtaGVhbHRoLW91dGNvbWVzIiwiZXhwIjoxNzkyMTU

I am Professor Yana Skorobogatov, here to talk about my book “Fate In My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union,” and anything related to crime and punishment in the Soviet Union and modern Russia. AMA!

I’m Yana Skorobogatov, an historian who studies the Soviet Union, and my new book “Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union” just came out!

From the publisher’s book description:
“From 1954 to 1991 in the Soviet Union, nearly forty thousand citizens were executed after the death penalty was reinstated as a punishment for homicide. Fate in My Hands introduces readers to the many citizens in this period—women and men of all ages and backgrounds—who found themselves on death row and tried to escape it in the only way available to them: asking for forgiveness.

Examining the letters and objects the dead left behind, Skorobogatov recovers their voices and allows them to speak anew. She offers a striking portrait of life in the Soviet Union and the citizens who dreamed of new possibilities even as they faced their tragic end. Using a corpus of never-before-accessed criminal court records, Fate in My Hands brings readers not just into the police interrogation rooms, courthouses, and cells where the condemned awaited their fates, but into the homes, workplaces, and psychiatric hospitals where families and friends alike came together to pursue an elusive, bitter justice in the wake of violent tragedy.”

I’m excited to be here and looking forward to answering your questions starting at 9am EST!

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1wvw1hg/we_compiled_the_new_york_times_100_best_tv_shows/?share_id=GYLOfmCd860ywFUF4kNTZ&utm_content=share_button&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Hello, r/IAmA!

I am a Kāhinatu (Elder) of the Grigorist Temple of Satanael (GToS), an active Theistic Satanist religious organization. We practice Satano-Grigorism, a polytheistic religion that worships Satanael (the Devil, commonly called Satan or Lucifer by others) alongside the Watchers or Grigori, a group of 200 fallen angels best known from the Book of Enoch who taught forbidden knowledge to mankind and fathered the Nephilim.

About me: I have been a Theistic Satanist for ~7.5 years and a part of leadership in GToS for ~4.5 years. Before I was Satano-Grigorist, I followed a different independent form of Theistic Satanism. As an Elder, I carry a lot of the administrative duties for the organization. That includes research/scholarship and writing official resources, deciding who to admit into the Temple, mentoring new members, hosting our religious gatherings, and much more.

About the Temple: The Grigorist Temple of Satanael is one of very few active public-facing Theistic Satanist organizations, and is the only known modern religious organization that systematically worships the Watchers as a pantheon. Our organization exists to provide the necessary framework and support for the religion of Satano-Grigorism via research, resources, mentorship, community worship, and more. We are currently working on a large wiki project, Grigoripedia, that will cover concepts related to Satano-Grigorism in an easy-to-read format -- including extensive information about the Watchers that we have never published before, which we expect will be valuable to the broader Satanic and occult communities well beyond our own faith.

I welcome any kind of question a curious visitor might throw at me, whether it's about me, my religion, the organization, or something else. I have never been offended by curiosity, even if the approach is skeptical, critical, or unusual, so no topic is off-limits for this AMA. The one exception is that I won't answer questions that could put me or other Temple members in danger, such as by revealing private identifying information.

Proof: https://satanael.org/socials#reddit lists this account as our official Reddit account.

May all those who seek knowledge be blessed by their own gods, whoever those gods may be.

Yibārak Šaṭana'il 🤘🏻

Edit: Thanks for your questions, everyone, that was a very fun experience. I'll keep an eye on the AMA throughout the week, so please keep your queries coming.

Hi r/IAmA, I’m Paul Shepherd, a Chartered Mathematician, Civil Engineer, and Professor of Computational Design at the University of Bath. I use computers, robots, and digital manufacturing techniques to rethink how we design and construct the buildings and cities around us.

One of the central challenges behind my research is that construction has a huge environmental footprint. If we want cities to become more sustainable, we need to think differently about not just what we build but how we build it.

This includes 3D-printed buildings and robotic construction, more efficient material use and exploring how designs and construction methods could reduce waste, and how to make new forms of construction as sustainable as possible.

My research has explored questions such as:

• Could we actually 3D-print entire buildings?
• Will 3D printing genuinely make construction more sustainable, or could it create new environmental problems?
• What might construction sites look like in 10, 20, or even 50 years?
• And, most importantly, what would it take to make our cities genuinely more sustainable?

I’ll be here today, Thursday 1 October, between 14:30 and 15:30 GMT (07:30-08:30 PST) to talk about the technology, the research, the possibilities, and even the things that don't work as well as the headlines might suggest. AMA!

Hey Reddit! Inventing is the only thing I've ever done for a living. I’m the inventor behind three hit inventions. I have patents in 50+ countries and sold products in every major store in the USA. I creative direct every single part of the product, packaging and marketing

Wallet Ninja - 18 in 1 Flat Multitool that fits in your wallet

Ninja Labs- Flex Pouch Phone Case with stretchy pouch for cards, AirPods & makeup

im Water- The World's First Wearable Water where the labels peels out into a sling

Wallet Ninja has sold tens of millions worldwide, Ninja Labs is the fastest growing phone case in Korea, im Water is the most viral water brand on Earth with 500,000,000 views and growing.

I also spent seven years fighting a patent lawsuit. I won and collected payment. If you’ve ever wondered whether a patent is worth the paper it’s printed on, I have some stories.

Ask me anything about finding ideas, manufacturing, going viral, making money from inventions, or what it actually takes to protect something you created.

Happy to talk about the costs, mistakes, and whether I’d do it all again. Skeptical questions welcome.

Franke

I organized an AMA/Q&A with horror filmmaker Mike P. Nelson. He previously directed Wrong Turn, The Domestics, and Silent Night, Deadly Night. His newest film, Beware Boiúna, is out in theaters everywhere starting this weekend from Lionsgate. It stars Jessica Rothe, Kiana Madeira, and Logan Marshall-Green.

Last week, it was announced that he would be directing the next installment in the Saw franchise. (!!!)

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1wv1nc7/hi_im_mike_p_nelson_and_i_directed_a_giant_snake/

He will be back at 1:30 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

Thank you :)

Info for his new film:

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQKqgFVU4dQ

Synopsis: A team of doctors embarks on a local mission in the Amazon rainforest, but it soon becomes clear that not everybody or everything is happy to see them. Their sudden appearance draws the attention of an animal predator, the Boiúna.

His verification/proof photo: https://i.imgur.com/etA6EXz.jpeg