Monsters: Not Just for Halloween
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time, don't they? Absolutely, mate. And you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where? The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. there's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. |
| 0:23.7 | Then when you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most |
| 0:25.9 | importantly, free. It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great |
| 0:31.2 | deals on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business |
| 0:35.9 | sellers. |
| 0:40.8 | Science talk will begin after this short message. |
| 0:45.2 | Hey there. I'm Brian. I'm Andrea. And we're with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. |
| 0:51.4 | And you've probably heard about CRISPR. So I think this is something that everyone now is grappling with us. How do we proceed? |
| 0:55.3 | There are no easy answers. |
| 0:57.1 | That's Jennifer Dowdna, co-discoverer of the CRISPR gene editing tool, |
| 1:01.6 | talking with us on our base pairs podcast. |
| 1:04.3 | We'll be back in a bit to discuss what she's concerned about. |
| 1:07.4 | Stay tuned. |
| 1:09.4 | Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 25th, 2017. I'm Steve |
| 1:16.2 | Merski. On this episode, but by the time you get to Frankenstein, what you have here is really |
| 1:21.0 | a misunderstood creature whose father has abandoned it. That's Stephen Asma. He's professor of philosophy at Columbia College, Chicago, and he's the author of the 2009 |
| 1:32.4 | book On Monsters, An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears. |
| 1:37.9 | He was last on the podcast ten years ago to talk about his trip to the Creationist |
| 1:42.3 | Museum in Kentucky, and with Halloween approaching approaching and with me having finally gotten around to reading his book, |
| 1:48.8 | I gave him a call to talk about monsters. |
| 1:51.7 | He was in his office, so you'll also hear some of the sounds of Chicago coming through his windows. |
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