Conversations with the creators of the best in science fiction and fantasy. If you love SF literature, are an author or aspire to become one, you'll enjoy this podcast.
Middle-school teachers talking about ideas and challenges in real-world classroom environments. Discussions on education, ideas for both parents and teachers, interviews with top young adult literature authors.
Transgenic humans. Designer babies. Terrifying for some and terribly exciting for others, genetic engineering has been a much explored topic of Sci-Fi for many years. Books and movies like Gataca, The Demolition Man, and others have painted pictures of a future world where people are not just born, but thoroughly engineered.
Is this future already here? Are we fast moving into an age where sex is no
longer required to propagate the species? Greg Bear joins us for this discussion. Author of Darwin’s Radio and Darwin’s Children, Greg has a very plausible and visionary take on the future of genetics and our desire to improve on human kind.
