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Shannon Vyff

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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John Horgan

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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Matthew Connelly

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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Tristan Bock-Hughes

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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Nicolas Rasmussen

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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Jamais Cascio

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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Athena Andreadis

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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Austin Dacey

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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Michael Stebbins

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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JBS Haldane

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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Robert Zubrin

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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Andrew Petto

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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Ron Green

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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Matt Falkowski

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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Mike Magee

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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