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February 6, 2025

The Limits of Science and the Unfinished Puzzle

Dan Cloer

Science reveals much about the physical universe but cannot fully answer our deepest questions. What do we need to complete our understanding?

Fall 2024

Dark Skies, Bright Hopes

Dan Cloer

We’ve been looking for extraterrestrial intelligence for over 60 years. What have we learned?

Looking for Habitable Planets

From discovering the first planets beyond our solar system to future plans for analyzing the atmospheres of these distant bodies, NASA and the European Space Agency have guided our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth.

Summer 2024

What’s Your Health Span?

Dan Cloer

What practical steps can you take to extend your health span and achieve a longer, healthier life, regardless of your age?

Caution: Hospital Zone

Though the care we receive at the hospital can mean the difference between life and death, medical errors causing harm are more common than most of us imagine.

Winter 2024

Another Look at the Human Machine

Dan Cloer

A holistic rather than a mechanistic view of human beings suggests that we are more than the sum of our parts.

Spring 2023

Becoming People of Conscience

Dan Cloer

Environmental philosopher Christopher Preston offers an optimistic perspective on our relationship with nature in the face of profound damage and exploitation.

Winter 2022

The New Anti-Eugenics

Dan Cloer

Using the supposed objectivity of DNA to establish human hierarchy may be the dream of eugenicists, but for Kathryn Paige Harden, the goal of having and using genetic information is exactly the opposite.

Winter 2022

Luck of the (Genetic) Draw

Dan Cloer

If we’re all 99.9 percent the same genetically, does DNA have any impact on our chances of success in life?

Summer 2021

Out of the Blue

Dan Cloer

Science and religion each have a range of explanations for how life came to exist on Earth. On the scientific side, can a theory called panspermia upstage its Darwinian counterpart?

Fall 2020

Plastics: The Other Pandemic

Dan Cloer

The global scourge of discarded plastic—from macro- to microscopic—is finally starting to get the attention it deserves.

Spring 2020

Living in a Materialist World

Dan Cloer

The idea of matter as the basis of everything may seem beyond question. But a solely material view of the world doesn’t fill the enduring human need to understand why we’re here and what it all signifies.

Winter 2020

The Baby Business

Dan Cloer

Millions of people now use assisted reproductive technologies to have children. How will IVF and embryo screening affect the future of family and society?

Fall 2019

The ART of Having Children

Dan Cloer

Medical doctor Robert Klitzman talks about our increasing ability to design babies to our personal specifications.

Fall 2019

Making a Better Baby

Dan Cloer

Researchers and policy makers around the world struggle to lead human germ-line editing into the future.

Summer 2019

From IVF to Gene Surgery

Dan Cloer Ramesh Patel

In vitro fertilization has opened the path to a new era of reproductive interventions. How did we arrive at a point where we could soon be creating designer babies?

Summer 2019

Genetically Modified Babies: An Insider’s View

Dan Cloer

Stanford neuroscientist William B. Hurlbut talks about his dealings with the Chinese researcher who created the world’s first gene-edited babies, and about the implications of that experiment.

Summer 2019

The New Techno-Eugenics

Dan Cloer

In the face of new technology allowing scientists to manipulate genes in human embryos, how will we move forward?

Winter 2019

Is This the Way the World Ends?

Dan Cloer

Historian Lisa Vox argues for finding a way to address the threats that face us all. It starts, she says, with not condemning others for holding a different worldview.

Fall 2018

Escape Velocity

Dan Cloer

Technology gives us access to the universe while at the same time creating risks to our continued existence. Does humankind’s best hope for long-term survival come down to leaving Earth behind?

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