As Kowie Bamboo Farm - EcoPlanet's Bamboo Plantation in South Africa's Eastern Cape - undergoes a transformation from degraded old agricultural land to a sustainability certified bamboo farm, the lives of those working for and living around EcoPlanet Bamboo's operations are also changing for the better... Learn more about the Kowie Bamboo Farm http://bit.ly/2rl33Gr

Max Boot discusses his new book, "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present," as part of the Pritzker Military Library Presents series.

SPEAKER:
Max Boot
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Nancy Houghton

http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-wa....rfare/history-future

This ‘For The People’ program, with Dr. Yosef ben Jochannan, was originally broadcast in 1983 on South Carolina’s public television channel, SCETV. Dr. ben-Jochannan was speaking on how Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism symbolism originated in Egypt, an AFRICAN NATION…not a nation in the Middle East.THE HMRChttps://aubreylewis2.com/2020/06/

“Where Do We Go From Here?”
Delivered at the 11th Annual SCLC Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Comprehensive collection can be purchased here... https://amzn.to/2KkYhAJ

It’s happened. The first children genetically engineered with the powerful DNA-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 have been born to a woman in China. Their altered genes will be passed to their children, and their children’s children. Join CRISPR’s co-discoverer, microbiologist Jennifer Doudna, as we explore the perils and the promise of this powerful technology. It is not the first time human ingenuity has created something capable of doing us great good and great harm. Are we up to the challenge of guiding how CRISPR will shape the future?

PARTICIPANTS: Jennifer Doudna, Jamie Metzl, William Hurlbut

MODERATOR: Guy McKhann

MORE INFO ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND
PARTICIPANTS: https://www.worldsciencefestiv....al.com/programs/cris

TOPICS
0:00 - Introduction
1:55 - Jennifer Doudna introduction
2:25 - How do we learn to use CRISPR technology wisely?
3:29 - The basics of understanding CRISPR
6:04 - Genetic engineering explainer film
7:39 - How can CRISPR help the worldwide food chain?
9:57 - Genetic disease treatment
14:25 - Improving quality of life
15:55 - Designer babies
17:55 - The gene drive
19:25 - Confronting the ethical implications of CRISPR
23:55 - Jennifer’s childhood in Hawaii
28:25 - Patents
32:08 - Importance of accuracy
32:40 - Germ cells vs somatic cells
35:58 - He Jiankui controversy
40:05 - What makes CRISPR dangerous?
43:48 - How do we enforce regulation of CRISPR use?
53:50 - The aftermath of He Jiankui’s work
1:09:25 - How do we make CRISPR technology accessible globally?
1:14:00 - How do we balance natural biology and CRISPR?
1:18:44 - How will CRISPR impact our future as a species?

PROGRAM CREDITS
- Produced by Nils Kongshaug
- Associate Produced by Emmalina Glinskis
- Music provided by APM
- Additional images and footage provided by: Getty Images, Shutterstock, Videoblocks.
- Recorded at the Simons Foundation's Gerald D. Fishbaum Auditorium

The Kavli Prize recognizes scientists for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The series, “The Big, the Small, and the Complex,” is sponsored by The Kavli Foundation.

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Probability is the examination of uncertain processes, but it's useful for far more than games of chance: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectu....res-and-events/proba

The modern theory of probability is considered to have begun in 1654 with an exchange of letters between Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, and has developed since then into the discipline which examines uncertain processes. For example, although on tossing a coin you have no idea whether you will obtain heads or tails we know that if you keep doing it then in the long run it is very likely that the proportion of heads will be close to a half. The lecture will discuss this and other examples of random processes e.g. random walks and Brownian motion.

The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectu....res-and-events/proba

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