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Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

At long last, we’re doing genetic editing. What’s the deal with the recent news about CRISPR babies? What does a future full of human genetic editing look like? And how might CRISPR change the food we eat? Guests:Sarah Zhang, reporter at The AtlanticGreta Johnsen, weekend anchor at WBEZ, co-host of NerdetteAlice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility ProjectAlison Van Eenennaam, researcher at UC Davis→→→ Further reading and sources HERE ←←← Paper mentioned in the Policygenius ad: “National culture and life insurance consumption” Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // info@flashforwardpod.com Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:04.0	Flash forward.
0:05.0	Flash forward.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flashforward.
0:12.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host.
0:14.0	Flashforward is a show about the future.
0:17.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario. We always start with a little field trip to the
0:25.3	future to check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to
0:30.4	experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.
0:35.8	Got it?
0:36.8	Great.
0:37.8	This is the last episode of the season.
0:40.8	Whoa.
0:41.8	Seasons of Flashforward are very arbitrarily 20 episodes long
0:45.0	and then I take a break because my human brain needs rest.
0:49.0	So starting now, there's going to be a little bit of a break.
0:52.0	The show comes back in March of next year and I've got some big things planned for 2019 that I'm really excited to tell you about, but not yet. In the meantime, you can keep up with some behind-the-scenes stuff for the upcoming season by becoming a patron.
1:05.5	Go to Patreon.com slash Flashforward pod.
1:08.5	And while I'm gone, I'd love for you lovely weirdo listeners to keep in touch and keep talking about the future.
1:14.8	So I'm opening up the secret special flash forward listener Facebook group to everybody.
1:20.4	For a while this group has been only available to patrons and we discussed episodes, weird future news, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
1:28.0	If you want to join the group, just search Flashforward Podcast on Facebook.
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