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Feral by Design
Feral by Design is a 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.
Feral by Design
Snowflake Melting Moments
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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, is the part we’re playing with today.
December has its own weather system: family dynamics, big tables, small tables, solo days, first holidays after loss, chaotic joy, quiet overwhelm — often all within the same week. And for some reason, we keep trying to control the whole thing.
Snowflakes don’t.
They don’t plan or perfect.
They just respond to the moment they’re in — a small, surprisingly grounding way to think about a month that can feel too full, too loud, or too tender.
If your festive season is looking wobbly, wonderful, weird — or all three — this episode is a light, calming reframe for a very human December.
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Created and hosted by Pia Williams
Clever by Nature. Feral by Design.