Guest Interview · 2026AI & Human Agency
Cybersecurity and Society: Insights from Lux Blox Inventor
Cyber Crime Junkies with David Mauro
A conversation on creativity, personal autonomy and technological change.
PODCAST / MEDIA / PUBLIC RECORD
The conversation archive.
Interviews I’ve hosted, conversations where I’ve been a guest, talks, writing and public profiles—collected in one searchable place.
THINKING WITH MIKE
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The home for my hosted interviews is YouTube. Individual episodes appear below as they are verified; the original recordings are credited and linked.
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A hand-curated first collection. Use the controls to find work by subject or format; each card goes to its original publisher.
18 sources in this collection
Guest Interview · 2026AI & Human Agency
Has AI Destroyed Creativity? Join the Debate
Cyber Crime Junkies
Panel with Dr. Sergio Sanchez on creativity, schooling and artificial intelligence.
Guest Interview · 2026AI & Human Agency
Luxblox Founder Mike Acerra on Where AI Takes Humanity Next
Cyber Crime Junkies
A discussion of human agency and the changing relationship between minds and machines.
Essay · 2024Mathematics & Structure
The Anti-Prism: The Prism’s Twisted Sister
A reflection on how overlooked forms can reveal structural and educational possibilities.
Guest Interview · 2024Invention & Enterprise
Michael (Mike) Acerra — In Hindsight
In Hindsight with Melissa Bloom
On the path from nature-inspired educational ideas to a working company.
Publication · 2023Art & Ideas
I Went into the Forest Looking for Meaning
NCTM / Mathematics Teacher: Learning & Teaching PK–12
A personal account of an artist’s years studying patterns in a Maine forest and the emergence of Y-Theory.
Guest Interview · 2023Education & Play
Rethinking the Building Blocks of Learning
Trending in Education with Mike Palmer
A conversation about Froebel, Buckminster Fuller, art, spatial reasoning and the origins of Lux Blox.
Thinking with Mike · 2021Education & Play
Changing the Conversation with Girls in Technology
Cross-published by Coding the Future
An earlier Thinking with Mike Facebook Live conversation on inclusion, confidence and technology education.
Thinking with Mike · 2021Education & Play
From Finland with Love: Kristóf Fenyvesi
Thinking with Mike / Experience Workshop
Episode seven, discussing creativity and mathematics education with a Finnish STEAM collaborator.
Thinking with Mike · 2021Education & Play
Making 21st Century STEM Teachers with Dr. Christina McDaniel
Thinking with Mike
Episode eleven, discussing teacher preparation and STEM education.
Talk · 2020Education & Play
Teaching in the Time of COVID
University of Jyväskylä / UNESCO Chairs conference
Participation in an international conversation on creativity, structures and education during disruption.
Guest Interview · 2020Education & Play
Luxblox with Mike Acerra
Learning Through Leading
A discussion of tactile STEM learning and the classroom uses of Lux Blox.
Profile · 2020Invention & Enterprise
International Shipping Challenges
FedEx Small Business
Michael reflects on the learning curve of developing an international market for Lux Blox.
Profile · 2020Education & Play
Lux Blox: Helping Children Learn
Andrew Ngui / LinkedIn
A profile of the founders and the connections between structural play and science.
Publication · 2019Mathematics & Structure
Exploring Kaleidocycles with LUX
Bridges Conference
With Matias Kaukolinna, Alexey Ivchenko and Kristóf Fenyvesi; hands-on exploration of moving geometric linkages.
Profile · 2019Invention & Enterprise
Lux Blox — The Founders’ Story
Bradley University
An account of Heather and Michael Acerra’s path from ideas and prototypes to a STEM enterprise.
Press · 2019Invention & Enterprise
2019 FedEx Small Business Grant Grand Prize
FedEx Newsroom
Official announcement naming Lux Blox as the national grand-prize winner.
Publication · 2017Mathematics & Structure
Playing in the Lux Dimension
Bridges Conference
A workshop paper on constructing polyhedra, molecular models and dynamic linkages with Lux.
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THE MISSING RECORDINGS
There is more to recover.
Michael reports roughly twenty hosted conversations and several guest interviews dating to 2015. This first index contains only individually identifiable sources. Spotify and older Facebook episodes will be added once their direct episode links and credits are recovered. A newly supplied YouTube video ↗ is also awaiting title and credit verification.
Not every archive entry has a complete transcript. Links may lead to publisher pages rather than direct audio or video embeds.
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