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Eliminating poverty would improve our species's chance for survival.
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We are a species that is well connected to other species; whether or not we evolve from them, we are certainly very closely related to them. Yet, we have things […]
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The personal genomics revolution will fuel interest in science, Church says.
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Church remembers watching the first DNA folding.
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George Church, on the risks and benefits of genetic mapping.
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Terrorism is not a public health threat relative to cancer.
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Within the year, Church says, people will have affordable access to their genetic information.
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Much of what is natural is painful, and a lot of what is synthetic is not well thought out.
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Church tries to avoid wasting any more of the world's 6 billion minds.
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"Even a blind person knows the shape of the parts of a car," George Church says. "We didn’t know the shape of anything that we are made out of."
Gilbert would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter.
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Gilbert would build an irrational Walden.
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Dan Gilbert says technology could make us happier if we used it in the right ways.
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An age of believing our eyes, rather than our elders.
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We don't have everything we want, but we sure have a lot, says Dan Gilbert.
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Dan Gilbert says the environment should be the most pressing issue because of its urgency and gay marriage, precisely because it is a non-issue.