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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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High School Students Discovering Synthetic Biology

The most vivid evidence of sin bio technology in high schools, to meis something called the igem competition. An i gem is sort of an annual sinbio jamber for students that spun out of m i t awhile back. The idea that we are poised to spread the teck around to the level of high school students is fairly terrifying. But there is something that's undeniably cool about high school students discovering things like synthetic biology and doing really cool things with it.

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