21st Century Kids
Shannon Vyff is author of 21st Century Kids, an SF novel for kids. We talk about futurism, cryonics, social justice, calorie restriction, talking to kids about death, and teaching transhumanism in the Unitarian Universalist Sunday School program. (MP3)
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Is War Inevitable?
Science journalist John Horgan rejects the idea that human aggression and war are inevitable. (See his article “Has Science Found a Way to End All Wars?”) He marshals evidence that we may be able to evolve beyond war. (MP3)
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Population Control’s Sad History
Columbia U historian Matthew Connelly‘s Fatal Misconception documents 150 years and a cast of thousands involved in the effort to control the fertility of women in the name of population control. We discuss eugenics, China, India and the reality of population stabilization. (MP3)
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Amphetamines (pt2) and the Scopes Trial
Part Two of the interview with Nicolas Rasmussen, author of On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamines and professor of history and philosophy at University of New South Wales in Australia. (Listen to Part 1 here) Then, Tristan Bock-Hughes tells the story of the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925, and the ongoing battle over creationism in US public schools.
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On Speed - Part 1
(Part 1 of 2) Nicolas Rasmussen is professor of history and philosophy at University of New South Wales, Australia, and author of On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. We talk about the lessons to be learned for drug policy reform from the history of amphetamines. We also hear Australian Professor Rodney Detritus (comedian Rodney Marks) on the state of bioethics, by permission of the Science Show from Australia.
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Geo-Engineering: Defensive and Offensive
Jamais Cascio and Dr. J. talk about the concept of geo-engineering as a possible solution to climate change, but also as a possibly offensive weapon in geostrategy. Who would stand to benefit from unstopped warming, and who would benefit from warming slowed by man-caused volcanic eruptions or other kinds of human intervention? Also Tom Smith’s song Dead Again, from the Podsafe Music Network. (MP3)
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Gender, Space and Extinction
Essays: “Post-gender” by George Dvorsky and James Hughes; “The Future of Humanity” by Nick Bostrom; “Dreamers of a Better Future, Unite!” by Athena Andreadis. And songs from the Podsafe Music Network.
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The Secular Conscience
Austin Dacey and Dr. J. chat about his new book The Secular Conscience. Dr. Dacey is representative to the United Nations for the secularist Center for Inquiry, and on the editorial staff of Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines.
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Scientists and Engineers for America
Michael Stebbins is author of Sex, Drugs and DNA, director of BioPolicy at the Federation of American Scientists, and an activist with the Scientists and Engineers for America. We talk about the SEA and science politics in Washington D.C.
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Haldane, Bernal and Cascio
Dr. J. reads an essay on the history of British biofuturism - H.G. Wells, JBS Haldane, Aldous Huxley, Olaf Stapledon and J.D. Bernal - in the 1920s which set the contours of biopolitics still today. Then a short essay by Jamais Cascio on “The Big Future.”
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Post-Oil and the Case for Mars
Zubrin is founder/president of the Mars Society, a lobby for colonizing Mars. He is author most recently of Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil (2007). We talk about Mars and energy policy.
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Scientists Confront Creationism
Andrew Petto is co-editor of Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism. We discuss the differences between creationism and intelligent design (ID), and the logical fallacies on which ID is based. (MP3)
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Babies by Design
Dartmouth ethics professor Ron Green argues in Babies by Design that parents will inevitably have choices about the genetic endowments of their children, and that this will be for the best. He argues that universal access to safe genetic therapies and enhancements can make society more equal. (MP3)
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Tunerooms: Building Online Open Source Music
Tunerooms.com is a new website offering free (and DRM-free) tools for music collaboration, band and fan management, music distribution, and social networking. Dr. J. talks with Matthew Falkowski about how Tunerooms was conceived, the niche it seeks to fill, and the challenges it faces.
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Home-Centered Health Care
Mike Magee is author of eight books, including Health Politics: Power, Populism and Health. He directs healthcommentary.org, and serves as a member of the National Commission for Quality Long Term Care. We discuss his latest book, Home-Centered Health Care, which argues that the quality of health care can be dramatically improved, and costs contained, by re-building health management around electronic patient records and home-based electronic medical monitoring.
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