So, has everybody heard of CRISPR?
I would be shocked if you hadn't.
This is a technology -- it's for genome editing --
and it's so versatile and so controversial
that it's sparking all sorts of reall
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So, has everybody heard of CRISPR?
I would be shocked if you hadn't.
This is a technology -- it's for genome editing --
and it's so versatile and so controversial
that it's sparking all sorts of reall
One summer afternoon in 2013,
DC police detained, questioned and searched a man
who appeared suspicious and potentially dangerous.
This wasn't what I was wearing the day of the detention, to be fair,
(Dominoes fall)
(Toy car)
(Ball rolls)
(Music: "This Too Shall Pass")
(Singing)
You know you can't keep letting it get you down,
and you can't keep dragging that dead weight around.
If there ain't all
Michael Browning: engineer,
innovator --
inventor, really --
and inspiring father.
He had a passion for flight, as you can kind of sense
from that rather dubious 1970s office-leaving present.
And some
A few years ago, about seven years ago,
I found myself hiding in a festival toilet,
a music festival toilet,
and if anyone's been to a music festival,
yeah, you'll know that by the third day,
it's pre
Joan Blades: Do you have politically diverse friends?
What do you talk about with them?
I'm a progressive; I live in a town full of progressives,
and 15 years ago, I didn't have any conservative frien
Hey look if you guys are anything like
me you have found it harder and harder
to turn around recently without seeing
words like free-range farm-to-table
organically produced especially here in
Colorad
There are some chasms so deep and so wide,
we find it hard to imagine how we'll ever make it to the other side.
That space between who we are and who we want to be,
the gaps between our high ideals
an
In 2013, I was an executive at an international engineering firm
in San Francisco.
It was my dream job.
A culmination of all the skills that I've acquired over the years:
storytelling, social impact,
Yes, it's dark.
I'm wondering how long we can all stand it
without picking up our phone and turning the flashlights on.
Seconds?
Minutes?
A whole hour?
Don't worry, I'm not going to give you my whole