Podcast #29: Jim Keenan on Environmentalism, Justice, and Faith

Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.

By Mo Lotman | March 27, 2019 | Community, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Family, Human Rights, Philosophy, Podcasts, Religion, Society | Abuse, Accountability, Amoris Laetitia, Bioethics, Boston College, Canon, Capitalism, Cardinals, Catholicism, Charlie Curran, David Satcher, Disease, Divorce, Ecumenicalism, Education, Environment, Equality, Gender, Genetic Engineering, Greed, Hierarchy, Honesty, Image, Immigration, Interdenominationalism, Jesuits, Justice, Labor, Laudato Si, Malaria, Marriage, Mother Teresa, Ordaining Women, Ordination, Paul Ramsey, Playing God, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Poverty, Power, Privilege, Protestantism, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Social Justice, Socialism, St. Ignatius, Stewart Brand, Surgeon General, Sustainability, The Bible, The Jesuit Institute, Theology, Transportation, Tuberculosis, Working Class

Marcy Darnovsky

Podcast #25: Marcy Darnovsky Talks Genetic Engineering

Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society, chats with us about the moral minefield of genetic engineering.

By Mo Lotman | January 23, 2019 | Ethics, Family, Genetics, Health, Medicine, Podcasts, Reproduction, Society | Access, Bioethics, Caste System, CRISPR, Designer Babies, Embryo Screening, Equality, Eugenics, Gattaca, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Enhancement, Germline Editing, Germline Modification, Insurance, IVF, Limits, Louise Brown, Mitochondrial Donation, Morality

DNA

Genetic Testing Kits: Fueling Historical Discrimination?

Ideas about genetic identity have fueled racism, discrimination, and even forced sterilization, making mass DNA gathering a fraught proposition.

By Sarah Russo | July 11, 2018 | Ethics, Genetics, Health, Identity, Medicine, Reproduction, Society | Biology, BRCA-1, Center for Genetics and Society, Disability, Discrimination, Disease, Ethnicity, Eugenics, Gender, Gene Editing, Genetic Engineering, Genetic Screening, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Germline Editing, Health Disparities, Healthcare, Hemophilia, Illness, Injustice, Katie Hasson, Muscular Dystrophy, Race, Racism, Sickle Cell Anemia, Sterilization, Stigma, The Human Genome

Complexity

The Problems of Prediction, Part 2

Our overconfidence in our predictive abilities can be traced to the simple fact that the universe is infinitely complex.

By David A. J. Reynolds | February 21, 2018 | Cognition, Economics, Government, Philosophy, Prediction, Society | Brexit, Britain, Certainty, Comprehension, Cosmology, Data, Economics, Elections, Error, Forecasting, Foresight, Freakonomics, Genetic Engineering, Hanna Arendt, Hubris, Ignorance, Infinity, Information, Knowledge, Limitations, Manipulations, Models, Neuroscience, Over-confidence, Philip Tetlock, Polling, Prediction, Reality, Statistics, Stephen Dubner, The Brain, The Universe, Truth, UK, Understanding, Unknowns, Unpredictability, US

Tortilla chips

Mark Schatzker on Flavor and Food

The Dorito Effect author Mark Schatzker describes what he learned about the relationship between flavor and nutrition, and how the food industry has been leading us astray.

By Art Keller | April 5, 2017 | Agriculture, Food, Genetics, Health, Well-Being | Artificial Flavor, Blandness, Breeding, Carotendoids, Cattle, Chemicals, Chicken, Deliciousness, Doritos, Flavor, Food, Food Science, Garden Gem, Genetic Engineering, Harry Klee, Heirloom Chicken, Heirloom Tomatoes, Industrial Farming, Julia Child, Mark Schatzker, Natural Flavor, Nutrition, Obesity, Omega-3, Strawberries, Supermarkets, Taste, The Dorito Effect, Tomatoes, Vitamins

2016, The Year in Review

A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.

By Mo Lotman | January 4, 2017 | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Culture, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Health, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, Policing, Politics, Privacy, Society, Transportation | AI, Amazon, Analog, Antibacterial Soap, Apple, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Black Lives Matter, Brain Training, Cancer, Comet Ping Pong, Cryogenics, Data Breach, DDOS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC, Drone Delivery, Drones, Dyn, Encryption, Facebook Live, Fake News, FBI, FDA, Gawker, Genetic Engineering, Go, Google, Hacking, Hillary Clinton, Hulk Hogan, Internet of Things, iPhone, Lee Sedol, Live-Streaming, Lumosity, Mitocondrial Donation, music, Orwell, Peter Thiel, Philando Castile, Pokemon Go, Police Shootings, Politics, Records, Robots, Russia, San Bernardino, self-driving cars, Sex Tape, Spotify, surveillance, Terrorism, Tesla, Triclosan, Twitter, vinyl, Yahoo

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