Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, with Jenny Kleeman and Carl Miller

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🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Award-winning journalist and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on a journey into the world of the people who are changing what it means to be human. Focusing on the central pillars of the human experience–birth, food, sex, and death. to find out more about the book click here: https://amzn.to/3ewD59X ------------------------------ Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello podcast listeners, it's Connor from Intelligence Squared.
0:02.7	Before we go to this week's episode, I just want to remind you at our very special offer for all our
0:06.8	listeners on our new subscription service, Intelligence Squared Plus.
0:10.1	Yes, now we are hosting our debates and discussions live and online.
0:14.2	And you can join us. Just next week we have Professor B.J. Fogg,
0:18.1	the founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab,
0:20.6	and he'll be speaking to Carl Miller about how our behavior is
0:24.0	being changed amidst the lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic. From spending more
0:28.6	time on social media to being estranged from our friends and families.
0:32.8	We'll be asking him how is the pandemic changing the way we think it feel
0:36.4	and how is it influencing events in the real world.
0:38.8	And on Wednesday, just the day after, we'll be joined by the award-winning novelist Salmon Rushty who many of
0:44.5	you will remember was on our podcast just last year and he'll be speaking to
0:49.1	Razzia Iqbal the broadcaster on our new podcast touchstones.
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1:06.3	questions to the speakers and be a part of the debate as it happens and on this
1:10.3	week's episode we were joined by Jenny Kliman and she joined us to speak about her new book, Sex Robots and Vegan
1:16.4	Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death.
1:19.8	It was a really fascinating conversation about where we may be heading in the future and we hope you
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