World Changing Ideas 2012 #196

January 11, 2013

This episode was recorded when Science for the People was called Skeptically Speaking.

This week, we team up with Scientific American, to learn more about the technologies profiled in their World Changing Ideas feature article. We talk to Sci-Am editors and writers about cutting edge research. From artificial life forms to new ways to measure sustainability, these technologies just might shape our collective future.

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