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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

5/18/18 A&G Hr. 2 Blue Potatoes & Bio Weapons

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Joining Jack during this episode of A&G, NYT's Emily Baumgaertner, who clues-us-in on the world of DYI gene editing. Later, Matt Zapotosky of the WaPo joins Jack to talk about the future of the Mueller Investigation.

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0:00.0

A Swedish woman who went to get a tattoo of her son's name

0:30.0

realised that the artist had tattooed the word Kelvin instead of Kevin.

0:36.0

Right?

0:43.0

So to fix the situation, she's legally changed her son's name to Kelvin.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:52.0

Yes.

0:56.0

Actually, his name is now just the Chinese symbol for Kelvin, but...

0:57.0

Yeah, the kid, he was cool Kevin, he's now called Kelvin.

1:01.0

So what brings you to therapy today, Kelvin?

1:06.0

Pretty funny.

1:13.0

I also like the Chinese symbol for Kelvin.

1:14.0

Kelvin, a perfectly good way to measure temperature.

1:17.0

A lot of you are Fahrenheit or Celsius, I'm a Kelvin man.

1:19.0

Zero means absolute zero when Kelvin, which is minus 46 Fahrenheit, but for Kelvin, it's just zero.

1:22.0

Very handy.

1:30.0

Coming up, what are we going to do first?

1:31.0

We're going to talk to Emily Baumgarder and her little bit about...

1:35.0

So the CRISPR gene editing, we've talked a lot about fantastic breakthrough in science,

1:38.0

which could do a human kind.

1:43.0

Both things are true.

1:45.0

Yeah.

1:47.0

As people are now able to do it at home, actually edit human genes, which is a little troubling.

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