The Synthetic Biology Future with Michael Specter
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The Synthetic Biology Future with Michael Specter

What happens when we can program our biology like we do software in a computer? Humanity’s finding out. It means we can translate a virus’s genome into a vaccine in less than a year, like we did to create the COVID mRNA vaccines. But it also means that anyone sitting in their mom’s basement can download that genome, too. Abdul reflects on the possibilities and pitfalls, then he interviews Michael Specter, Staff Writer at The New Yorker, about his new audiobook about synthetic biology’s future, “Higher Animals.”

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Going the Distance: COVID-19 and Mental Health

Going the Distance: COVID-19 and Mental Health

Abdul dissects the unequal burden of COVID-19 by race, chats with Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist, who also happens to be his wife, about what she’s hearing from her patients. Later he talks with Pro...

10 Apr 202027min

The economy after COVID-19

The economy after COVID-19

Abdul talks to a local bookstore owner about going online after COVID and dissects how this will influence the economy. And Prof. Tara Sinclair, a macroeconomist joins us to talk about the economic fo...

7 Apr 202024min

Open for Business: Toilet Paper and Disaster Capitalism

Open for Business: Toilet Paper and Disaster Capitalism

Abdul dissects how hospitals are struggling under the surge of COVID patients, while writer Naomi Klein joins us to talk about the “shock doctrine” of disaster capitalism. We'll find out what disaster...

3 Apr 202022min

Emergency Room: A dispatch from the Front Lines

Emergency Room: A dispatch from the Front Lines

As doctors, nurses, and hospital staff do battle on the front lines, how is the growing pandemic affecting these people and how are they coping? Abdul will talk with Dr. Aakash Shah, an emergency room...

31 Mars 202024min

Life Support: Congress and COVID (with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal)

Life Support: Congress and COVID (with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal)

This week the Senate passed a historic, $2 trillion stimulus bill aimed at easing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The legislation, which is expected to pass the House of Representatives on Fri...

27 Mars 202024min

The Tweetment: Why Science Matters Now

The Tweetment: Why Science Matters Now

Host Abdul El-Sayed dissects the claim of a possible cure for COVID-19, and then we talk to Dr. Alison Galvani, an epidemiologist and infectious diseases modeler at Yale, about how long the current ou...

24 Mars 202024min

Plandemic: How the World is Treating Coronavirus

Plandemic: How the World is Treating Coronavirus

Abdul dissects the news of a vaccine, the concept of “flattening the curve,” and the notion of herd immunity. Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor, joins to dissect the Global Pandemic ...

20 Mars 202025min

A Public/Private Health Emergency

A Public/Private Health Emergency

Abdul dissects President Trump’s State of Emergency Declaration and the true number of cases in America. And we explore how the American public health system’s organized (and what went wrong) with Jon...

17 Mars 202029min

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