It's Friday, October 9th, 2015, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indravis Gantus.

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Our interview for today was recorded a short while ago when Kishore was anticipating his current busy schedule.

He's on hiatus this week as he is deep in prep for the annual Bay Area Science Festival, of which he is the director.

We are all really excited for the festival to begin in a couple of weeks and there will be some events that Inquiring Minds will be at as well as some events that

I'm doing myself. So if you're in the Bay Area, check out the schedule. One in particular is on November

3rd. I'll be at the San Jose Museum of Technology talking about music and the brain. And I'll also be doing a project

for Frontiers on November the 6th at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, where

we're going to be turning the table. So scientists are going to be presenting their work and kids

are going to be reviewing it. It should be a lot of fun. But there are tons of other events

that the Bay Area Science Festival presents,

so we're really looking forward to that.

But it's a particularly appropriate time

to air this interview

because it touches upon a topic

that has been making headlines recently,

and that is,

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