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Gregory Stock Guest
Gregory Stock

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

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


FROM Gregory Stock

Doomsday Scenarios
To the Point

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 minute hand gets closer to midnight.  In January, when this program first aired, the hand was moved from seven minutes until midnight to five—the closest it's been…

Dec 31, 2007

Doomsday Scenarios: What to Believe?
To the Point

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 minute hand gets closer to midnight.  This week, the hand was moved from seven minutes to night to five --the closest it's been since the Cold War.

34 min, 59 sec Jan 19, 2007

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The Mixer

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8 min, 48 sec Jan 18, 2019

What are LA parents doing with their kids during the strike?
KCRW Features

What are LA parents doing with their kids during the strike? During the teacher strike, a lot of students are not going to class.

7 min, 38 sec Jan 16, 2019

The march toward a teachers strike sounds familiar
The Mixer

The march toward a teachers strike sounds familiar Higher salaries, larger class sizes, more counselors, librarians and nurses. Those are just some of the demands that members of United Teachers, Los Angeles - the union that represents teachers' at LAUSD - are asking for.

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Could agave become Santa Barbara’s next major crop?
KCRW Features

Could agave become Santa Barbara’s next major crop? In many ways, growing agave in Santa Barbara makes a lot of sense. Not only does it use very little water and thrive on generally inhospitable land, but it can act as a fuel break for wildfires.

4 min, 22 sec Jan 15, 2019

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