The Goblin Reservation by Cliffordi Siamak Um

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Transhumanism is great for fiction right i mean it's fantastic i've read some great books along those lines where you're uploading your brain and a cloneness. One of my favorite books called the goblin reservation by cliffordi siamak um which is setting that made me wanted to be an academic set in a far future in which they study things like time and well goblins and they have dragons and all sorts so uh well the starting point of this is that somebody goes through a kind of star trek trans matter system and they're end up with two of them one of whom dies.

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.