Greetings! I'm taking a summer break, but I wanted to let you know about a couple of new pieces of audio for your listening pleasure.
--This week, I spoke with BBC World Service's show, "The Inquiry." The title of this week's episode is, "Is Gene Editing Out of Control?" I told the story of how we got to the point where we can even ask that question.
--At last month's Aspen Idea Festival, fellow science writer Ed Yong and I had a lively conversation in front of a live audience about the many ways science undermines our notion of ourselves as individuals. We roved over new discoveries about the human genome, microbiomes, and brains. You can listen to the hour-long recording here.
A podcast history of how twenty women tried to reach the North Pole.
Scientists have now discovered a grand total of four Denisovans.
How CRISPR may save island birds from their invasive enemies.
October 11, Stony Brook University, New York: Provost's Lecture
November 15, University of Oxford. Twelfth Annual Baruch Blumberg Lecture
January 3-7, 2018 San Francisco: Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting, Plenary Lecture
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Best wishes, Carl
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