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  1. On Point: George Church and Synthetic Biology

    Synthetic biology can sound kind of bland. Like polyester pants. Nylon stockings. Synthetic – no big deal.

    But think about it. Synthetic biology. Biology fully, deeply, maybe radically remade by man. It’s well underway.

    Re-engineering biology to make food, fuel, medicine. Seeds that grow into houses. Stronger, smarter humans. Maybe even bring back the dead. The extinct

    My guest today has written about finding an “extremely adventurous” woman to give birth to a Neanderthal. And he’s not kidding.

    This hour, On Point: synthetic biology creating new and very old life.

    http://onpoint.wbur.org/2013/01/23/synthetic-biology

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  2. Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies

    Is it ethical to select advantageous genes and select against disadvantageous genes when having babies? Julian Savulescu, Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in Oxford, discusses this question with Nigel Warburton. This bonus episode was originally made for Bioethics Bites in association with the Uehiro Centre and made possible by a grant from the Wellcome Trust.

    http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/julian-savulescu-on-designer-babies-originally-on-bioethics-bites-

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  3. Robert Lustig: Sugar and Health

    UCSF professor Robert Lustig became an Internet video sensation when he spoke out about the evils of sugar in a post that went viral on YouTube. He was also recently featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story, "Is Sugar Toxic?" Lustig joins us in the studio to discuss sugar’s role in diabetes, obesity and related diseases.

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  4. Science Friday Archives: Listening To Wild Soundscapes

    Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.

    http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201104223

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  5. Science Friday Archives: Digital Sampling and Remix Culture: Creativity or Criminality?

    Science, technology, environment and health news and discussion from the makers of the NPR public radio program Science Friday with host Ira Flatow.

    http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201101287

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  6. Forever Young? The Science of Immortality with Jonathan Weiner and Judith Campisi

    Let’s think about life, and how much of it you want. Would you like to live to 80? 90? 100? What about two hundred? Five hundred? Maybe a thousand years?

    Suddenly, the relatively young science of gerontology – of aging – is rubbing noses with the ancient dream of immortality. Or at least very, very long life.

    Should we accept aging as a part of life? Could we banish aging? And if we could, should we?

    This Hour, On Point: we’ll talk with Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jonathan Weiner about science dreaming big of super-longevity, maybe of immortality.

    http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/07/forever-young-3

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  7. The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years - Late Night Live - 10 March 2010

    Malaria has been around for five hundred thousand years, but shockingly, the global death toll from malaria has continued to rise since the 1980s. The parasite has developed ever more lethal versions of itself and it now kills a million people a year. Sonia Shah is a self-confessed mosquito-hater. She’s travelled the world tracking down the malaria disease, and has written a book about it.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2010/2841664.htm

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  8. Joshua Ferris’ The Unnamed

    Joshua Ferris talks about his latest novel The Unnamed, about Tim Farnsworth, a handsome, healthy man, who loves his wife, his family, his work, his home, but who one day stands up and walks out…and keeps walking. It’s a story about marriage and family and the invisible forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.

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  9. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth - Cory Doctorow

    Full Cast Audio production.

    http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2009/07/19/when-sysadmins-ruled-the-earth/

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  10. Professor Christopher Dye: Are Humans Still Evolving?

    Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely long enough to have become fully evolved?

    It was thought that the dramatic extension of life spans during the 20th century eliminated natural selection, but new evidence shows that to be false.

    Will selection always be natural, or could postmodern also mean posthuman?

    http://fora.tv/2009/03/26/Professor_Christopher_Dye_Are_Humans_Still_Evolving

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