Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-10-01
Chris Williamson & Matthew Cobb: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #533
Should We Genetically Edit Human Life? - Matthew Cobb - #533
Matthew Cobb is a zoologist, professor of zoology at the University of Manchester and an author. Genetic engineering has given humans the ability to modify crops to be resistant to disease and synthesise insulin without needing to kill and extract it from animals.
Matthew Cobb discussed Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a sci-fi thriller novel about a theme park populated by genetically resurrected dinosaurs.
Discussed“Spielberg just wrote the book uh it's just uh just made the film the book was written by Michael Crichton”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“in uh the second I think issue of the whole earth catalog in 1968 or nine uh he said we are becomers gods and we better get used we better get good at it and so they've called uh the US edition of the book which is coming out in November is called as God a moral history of the”
“that is the title of the um uh of the US edition of of my book in the UK it's called the genetic age in the U.S uh they took a rather grander title”