It's Monday, June 10th, 2019, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

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I'm joined in the introduction and the outro today by our resident correspondent, Adam Bristol.

Welcome back to Inquiring Minds.

Thanks, Andrea. It's great to be here.

So today's interview is on a topic for which you're really the expert more so than me, and that is on biotechnology and how biology

might be shaping the technological revolution. It's an interview with Susan Hockfield. Do you know who that is?

Yeah. She's a former president of MIT and an extraordinary developmental neuroscientist in her

own right and just a really incredible person.

Yes, I was really thrilled to have her here in our home studio. It was a real delight for me.

And before she came, you told me to do something. You told me to take a selfie with her,

which is always uncomfortable for me. but I did that. Great.

Why, is it, was it, was it, did you feel as awkward to ask for a photo or?

No, I just, I mean, I never know really how to do those things, but, but yeah, for our It's a good memento.

It's a nice momento of, of the time you spent together.

It kind of, it's like, it kind of caps off the, you know, the interview.

It was, it was. But we had a really interesting and relatively far-ranging conversation,

but a lot of it reminded me of the difference between you and me. So if you, if you remember,

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