Gregory Stock

Associate Director, UC Berkeley's Center of Life Science Studies

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Associate Director at the Center of Life Science Studies at the University of California-Berkeley and Chief Executive Officer of Signum Biosciences, a biotech company in Princeton, New Jersey; author of several books, including Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism and author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future; former director of the UCLA Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society


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When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock .  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

Doomsday Scenarios

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock .  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

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When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the "Doomsday Clock."  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

Doomsday Scenarios: What to Believe?

When the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, the magazine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the "Doomsday Clock."  As the prospect of nuclear war gets more likely, the…

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