SYNOPSIS: From lab-grown organs to tissue engineering, regenerative medicine holds the potential to deliver eternal life. How close are we to this new future of human health? Developmental biologists, biomedical engineers, regenerative scientists, and physicians for a riveting exploration of the current and future state of regenerative medicine.

PARTICIPANTS: Dany Spencer Adams, Stephen Badylak, Jonathan Butcher, Doris Taylor
MODERATOR: Emily Senay
Original program date: JUNE 1, 2017

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WATCH THE LIVE Q&A: https://youtu.be/e0vKOYQUmgg

FULL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Synthetic blood mass-produced to meet supply shortages. Livers and kidneys “bioprinted” on demand. Missing fingers and toes re-grown with a jolt of bioelectricity. Regenerative medicine promises to do more than just treat disease, injuries, or congenital conditions. It holds the potential to rejuvenate, heal, or completely replace damaged tissue and organs. If successful, regenerative medicine will have immense impact on how we care for the injured, sick, and aging — and how we think about death. This program will explore mind-boggling medical advances as well as the societal and economic implications of a future in which everybody may truly be forever young.

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This program is part of the Big Ideas Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.

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TOPICS:

- Forever Young Introduction 00:00

- Participant Introductions 3:55

- What is being worked on in the field of human regeneration? 5:35

- How do you make a heart? 9:43

- Growing nerve endings 16:38

- The future of using the human genome 24:41

- What are the near term benefits of human regeneration? 34:44

- Electrical signals will be the first step in unification 46:07

- Bringing extinct species back 53:27

This program was recorded live on 6/1/17 and has been edited and condensed for our YouTube channel. Watch the original full livestream here: https://youtu.be/hpirEv3PRvA

Professor Bayyinah Bello opens up the conversation with a poem written 5000 years ago by an Ethiopian philosopher who identifies Freedom.

What is Afrocentrism? Dr. Molefi Asante, one of the pioneer in Afrocentric thought tells you what Afrocentrism is and what it is not and the direction Afrocentrism must go.

The Afrocentric paradigm is a revolutionary shift in thinking proposed as a constructural adjustment to black disorientation, decenteredness, and lack of agency. The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?” In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location.

Alongside the vast gold fields of Ghana are thousands of illegal mines or galamsey, where unskilled miners dream of hitting the big time. These mines rely mainly on children who abandon an education in an attempt to support their families.

Galamsey is a dangerous game – can anyone get rich quick? BBC Africa Eye investigates.

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MARCUS GARVEY / GARVEY'S GHOST
BURNING SPEAR
Tradition + 2000 Years

Produced by L. Lindo (Jack Ruby)
Arranged by Winston Rodney

Trees for Food Security Project goal is to enhance food security for resource-poor people in rural Eastern Africa through research that supports national programmes to scale up the use of trees within farming systems in Ethiopia and Rwanda and then scale out successes to relevant ago-ecological zones in Uganda and Burundi.
Through the project, 5 Rural Resource Centers (2 in Rwanda, 2 Ethiopia and 1 in Uganda) and nurseries to enhance training and supply of improved tree germplasm have been established. The RRCs have provided business opportunities for farmer groups and unemployed youth particularly through grafted fruit trees.
Read more about the project here: http://bit.ly/2awF9S3

Okunini Ọbádélé Kambon: University of Lagos IADS interview

Must see talk from warrior scholar Mwalimu Baruti from Happily Natural Day 2012 ATL. Couldnt get all of the presentation but the 40 minutes I did get contain priceless jewels for the development and maintenance of healthy stable relationships plus insights from his own life and 20 plus year marriage...

Original airdate: 30 January 1979.Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.

PBS Open Mind [1961]