Level Up Human
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- Website
- http://www.leveluphuman.com
- Description
- What should humans evolve next? Ideas for human upgrades from science, mother nature and YOU! By Simon Watt, Rachel Wheeley and the Wellcome Trust. Simon Watt and friends ask questions like, do we need two nostrils? Why can't we fly? and, would it benefit humans to steal attributes from creatures from the animal kingdom? Combining gene splicing and trans-humanism, medical advancement, surgical enhancement, whimsy and wonder, Level Up Human takes a long hard look at the human race and tries to figure out how to make it better. By Simon Watt and Rachel Wheeley with support from the Wellcome Trust.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2018-03-22 09:46
- last episode published
- 2018-03-22 00:00
- publication frequency
- 11.85 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Simon Watt and Rachel Wheeley
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 56
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2018-03-22 | Rach and Simon dive into lab grown meat. Would you eat it, what are the pros and cons and as always, is this the beginning of the end of civilisation? Our theme music was written and performed by Laurence Owen. Graphics by Theo Weedon, web design by I... |
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| 2018-03-08 | Simon and Rach take a deep dive into gene drives this week, examining the work being done to make island conservation less lethal to the inhabitants it is supposed to be protecting. We consider how CRISPR technology might be able to help with this, ho... |
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| 2018-02-22 | Simon and Rachel are bickering again, this time about 3D printing. Is it old news, or are recent developments in generative design enough to make it fascinating? Simon thinks it's a toy, no more likely to catch on than Betamax, Rach thinks it's the fut... |
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| 2018-02-10 | Producer Rachel and Simon discuss Elon Musk's Falcon Heavy launch, what it means for the future of space travel and whether putting a Tesla onboard was the greatest PR stunt of all time. In this episode we chat with David McKeown, a real rocket scient... |
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| 2018-01-25 | Simon Watt and Rachel Wheeley rifle through the science pages in search of stories about the future of humanity. This week we are excited about flying cars, considering what information the apocalypse survivors will need and considering a way to mobili... |
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| 2018-01-10 | Happy New Year! Rach and Simon are fisking the science pages once again in search of human enhancement stories. This week they tackle all the most futuristic predictions that came true in 2017. The march of Artificial Intelligence, back-flipping cybo... |
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| 2017-12-22 | Simon and Rach finally tackle the big one: sex robots. We discuss what is driving the fastest development in AI, when a robot will join a company's board of directors, Rach has a fact and Simon explains why we should cuddle more. Our theme music was w... |
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| 2017-12-20 | Rach and Simon siphon the science news in search for human enhancement stories. This week, why Simon is a harbinger of doom, how to kidnap the Queen and why living in cities might not be such a good idea after all. Our theme music was written and pe... |
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| 2017-12-12 | Neil Delamere joins Simon Watt to determine the future of the human body. Our experts here at the Cork Science Festival are biochemist Julie O'Sullivan and marine ecologist Ash Bennison. In this episode we find out how we could listen to the bacteria... |
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| 2017-12-06 | Simon and Rachel are intrigued by the possibility of co-evolving with AI. Join us as we discuss this, plus space salad, seaweed glitter and why you should never transport dry ice in a lift. If you enjoyed this episode you can now become a patron of th... |
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