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Hi everyone. I'm Andrea Alfano.

And I'm Brian Stallard.

And we're the hosts of Base Pairs, the podcast about the power of genetic information from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

The stories we tell involves some big issues that may seem totally unrelated to genetics,

like climate change.

We'll tell you how genetic tools could help in the fight against climate change a little later on in this episode of Science Talk.

Stay tuned.

Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on August 16th, 2018.

I'm Steve Merski.

On this episode, imagination deserves to come back to the forefront of research and concern in psychology, in philosophy, and I would say even in neuroscience.

It fell out of the picture because of the rise of behaviorism.

That's Stephen Asma.

He's professor of philosophy at Columbia College, Chicago.

He was on the podcast last Halloween to talk about his 2009 book

On Monsters, An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears.

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