Extreme Living

1. Episode · Aug 7, 2026

   Multisensory Design in Extreme Environments with Oxford Experimental Psychologist Charles Spence (opens the original)

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   In this episode of Extreme Living, Anchal speaks with Professor Charles Spence, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford whose work explores multisensory perception and how our senses shape the way we experience the world. The conversation looks at architecture beyond the eye. How do sound, smell, touch, taste, light, atmosphere, and sensory control shape life in confined and extreme environments such as space stations, submarines, hospitals, prisons, and Antarctic research bases

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2. Episode · Jul 14, 2026

   Space Medicine: Health and Isolation in a Mars Analog with Dr. Sheyna Gifford (opens the original)

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   In this episode of Extreme Living, I speak with Dr. Sheyna Gifford, an aerospace medicine physician, analog astronaut, and science communicator. In 2015, Sheyna entered a 1,200-square-foot dome on the slope of Mauna Loa in Hawaii with five crewmates for a 365-day Mars analog mission called HI-SEAS IV. Inside the habitat, there was no fresh air, no real-time contact with the outside world, limited food variety, and no simple way to step away from the people around her. What makes Sheyna’s perspec

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