From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome

in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, we talk with Angie

Pytel from Hillsdale College, but a story you might have heard about where scientists are

growing a mini brain. U.S. Senator Mike Lee will discuss his new book, Our Lost Declaration.

Hillsdale's Dwight Lindley is back for another in his occasional series on basic literary concepts.

Today we talk character.

And Veronica Brooks, who recently graduated from the Van Andal School of Statesmanship here at Hillsdale,

will discuss her dissertation on the political philosophy of Thomas Moore.

But first, we're joined now by Angie Pytel, visiting Lecturer of Biology here at Hillsdale

College.

Angie, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

So I read this story, and I said, I've got to, we've got to find out more.

We need an expert to discuss.

People may have seen the story a few weeks ago.

Cambridge researchers, the story says,

have grown a mini brain, they call it, that then spontaneously connected to a spinal cord. So we've all these science fiction things rattling through our heads, perhaps. So what, I mean,

what's going on here? How can we grow a brain? Well, first of all, we can't grow a brain? Well, How can we, how can we grow a brain?

Well, first of all, we can't grow a brain. What they have done is grown neural tissue.

So they claim in the original article, rightly so, that these tissues that are grown in culture,

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