ON EXPLORATIONS – Genetic engineering with Prof. Greg Stock of UCLA and Origin of the moon with Dr. Dana MacKenzie

In this episode, first Dr. Michio Kaku speaks with his guest, Dana MacKenzie who holds a doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University. After teaching mathematics at Duke University and Kenyon College for more than a decade, in 1997 he completed the Science Communication Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Big Splat, or How our Moon Came to Be. 

In the second part of the hour, Dr. Kaku speaks with his guest Dr. Gregory Stock, a biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine. His interests lie in the scientific and evolutionary as well as ethical, social and political implications of today’s revolutions in the life sciences and in information technology and computers. He is the author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future.  Designer children?  Who decides?

Exploration is an hour-long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel, higher dimensions, string theory, wormholes, search for extra-terrestrial life, dark matter and dark energy, the future of space travel, genetic engineering, the aging process, the future of medicine, the human body shop, artificial intelligence, the future of computers and robots, as well as topics from science fiction.


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