WBAI-FM Upcoming Program
Niteshift

Mon, Jul 27, 2020 10:00 PM

ARE WE BECOMING THE WORLD OF WALL-E?

THEME:

Are we becoming the world of Wall-E?

GUESTS:

LEIGHANN LORD is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She performs stand-up comedy, has appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and is a former co-host (with Neil deGrasse Tyson) of the Star Talk Radio podcas.[1][2] As of April 2020, Lord became a co-host for Center for Inquiry's Point of Inquiry podcast.

CHARLES Q. CHOI is a science reporter who has written for Scientific American, The New York Times, Wired, Science, Nature, and National Geographic News, among others. For his work, he has hunted for mammoth DNA in Yukon, faced gunmen in Guatemala, entered the sarcophagus housing radioactive ruins in Chernobyl and looked for mammal fossils in Wyoming based on the guidance from an artificial intelligence.

PERSPECTIVES:

What does the future really look like?

TOPICS:

  • Science that has been overlooked.
  • Recent innovations that may change our way of living forever.
  • What are we not paying attention to that could destroy us? 
  • What are we not paying attention to that could save us?
  • The genetics of human behavior Nurture versus nature

The Niteshift Question

WHAT SCI-FI PREMISE OR HYBRID IS CLOSEST TO HOW WE ARE LIVING RIGHT NOW ?

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