oh welcome to visionaries i'm sophie shevardnadze hoping to fantasizing believing all the same.oh welcome to visionaries i'm sophie shevardnadze hoping fantasizing believing all the same natural things for humans. but can we choose what with things for humans. can we choose what we believe and why do we believe in the 1st place we'll ask michael shermer who believes and why do we believe in the 1st place we'll ask michael shermer psychologist science writer and founder of the skeptic magazine psychologists science writer and founder of the skeptic magazine. michael. come to the show it's great michael shermer welcome to the show it's great to have you with us lots to talk about many psychologists yourself to have you with us lots to talk about you know many psychologists yourself including say that believing in thing probably the day will thinking say $98.00 that believing in improbable things is innate for humans so our religion is basically and necessary mechanism vehemence so our religion is basically and necessary mechanism that sort of. mother nature has provided us with th

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welcome to sophie shevardnadze genetics and biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans lead and as we learn today how to change our d.n.a. i mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases to programming unborn babies today i sit down with revolutionary scientists and molecular engineer dr george church to talk about that. professor george church thank you very much for being on our program today so genome sequencing and gene editing is something like the internet in the eighty's on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon gino maddening will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. it's possible i mean it's hard to. dislike their money. drugs. without prescription. might be one of them. without thinking about that much so when you say that you know managing is on the brink of explosion what exactly do you mean. well as is it is it is both reading and writing of genomes which are intimately connected are on an exponential and on the brink of explosion they

welcome to sofia co visionary me sophie shevardnadze human life how beautiful it can be remains a mystery. to consciousness ever be explained what is consciousness about this and much more and amazingly our scientists susan greenfield. burnous susan greenfield pleasure to have you know program as a pleasure to be here so so we've spoken to some of was brilliant minds and your mother 1st woman interview and i'm very excited to talk to thank you specially about the brain because it seems to be the turn or topic so you're very. well known and respected neuroscientists and you have covered many aspects of human brain and how it works and all of that and i have talked neuroscientists and most of them tommy that we're very dual beings that brain and body are 2 separate entities one is. by the other they all seem to somehow stick to this theory i want her you think there are really 2 separate things the strange image of the brain in the body also look a bit weird if you that was the case. no they're very integrated if you think about it the immune system the and the crown the hormone system are

welcome to sophie and conan sophie shevardnadze genetics and biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans lead and as we learn today how to change our d.n.a. i mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases to programming on born babies today i sat down with a revolutionary scientist and molecular engineer dr george church to talk about that. professor george church thank you very much for being on our program today so genome sequencing and gene editing is something like the internet in the eighty's on the brink to explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon genome editing will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee. it's possible i mean it's hard to rule out that scenario just like they're really. drugs. without prescription that might be one of them right well that's not the case but there are many. pharmaceuticals that we were without thinking about them much so when you say that you know managing is on the brink of explosion what exactly do you mean. well this is it is both re

welcome to sophie shevardnadze genetics and biology are promising to bring about revolutionary changes in the way humans lead and as we learn today how to change our d.n.a. i mean the possible implications are just mind blowing from getting rid of diseases to programming on born babies today i sat down with revolutionary scientist and molecular engineer dr george church to talk about all of that. professor george church thank you very much for being on our program today so genome sequencing and gene editing is something like the internet in the eighty's on the brink explode those are your words so do you mean to say that soon genome maddening will be just like surfing the news on a sunday morning with a cup of coffee.

next 30 minutes with outspoken chinese artist ai weiwei who goes head to head with sophie shevardnadze next on the all to. those who consume corporate media will believe the bolivian army rightfully overthrew the democratically elected president of bolivia the word coup is not mentioned but this is exactly what happened the tried and tested color revolution playbook was on display for anyone paying attention bolivia's democracy is in retreat. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating the transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stay number man a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something this must be done to anyone and i mean look. we do. understand that. welcome to. contemporary art can be a very powerful social commentary but now for their idea my guest today a legendary i way way. i waits really great to have you on our program today welcom

visionary shevardnadze human mind how beautiful it can be remains a mystery. a consciousness ever be explained what is consciousness about this and much more it's an amazing inner scientist says in greenfield. burnous susan greenfield pleasure to have you in a program that's a pleasure to be here so so we've spoken to some of was brilliant minds and your must 1st woman interview and i'm very excited to talk to thank you special about the brain because it seems to be the turn no topic so you are very. well known and respected neuroscientists and you have covered many aspects of human brain and how it works and all of that and i have talked neuroscientists and most of them tommy that we're very dual beings that brain and body are 2 separate entities one is. by the other they all seem to somehow stick to this theory i want her you think there are really 2 separate things the strange image of the brain on the body also look a bit weird if you that was the case. no they're very integrated if you think about it the immune system the and the crown the homocysteine th

welcome to you sophie visionaries of shevardnadze human lying. beautiful it can be remains a mystery can a consciousness ever be explained what is consciousness about this and much more of an amazing neuroscientist says in greenfield. arena's susan greenfield pleasure to have general program as a pleasure to be here sophie so we've spoken to some of was brilliant minds and your love 1st woman interview and i'm very excited to talk to thank you eventually about the brain because it seems to be the eternal topic so you're very. well known and respected neuroscientists and you've covered many aspects of human brain and how it works and all of that and i have talked neuroscientists and most of them tommy that we're very dual beings that brain and body are 2 separate entities one is. by the other they all seem to somehow stick to this theory i want her you think there are really 2 separate things the strange image of the brain in the body are separate you look a bit weird if you that was the case. no they're very integrated if you think about it the i

shevardnadze is live for us from washington d.c. at especially at how was it all likely to unfold in the days and weeks to come now . well we don't know as you said there are supposed to be public hearings. that will commence at some point but represents a shift that hasn't actually said that to us when those will begin or who will who will appear at those hearings however we are going to get now a series of these depositions have already been made least partial transcripts of the depositions that have already been made we should be clear that the depositions or the transcripts partial transcript of the depositions released today don't give any sort of smoking gun that the democrats may have been looking for about a quid pro quo you know give us. and we'll give you the aid but what they do give us these these 2 that have been released give us a sense of unease within the foreign foreign establish with the foreign policy establishment of the u.s. about what was actually driving u.s. policy in ukraine and we already knew that from the

cataclysmic event because he knew that we still had a lot of business to do with gorbachev and shevardnadze and we weren't going to stick it in there i bet the answer to your question is as far as i know we didn't have any advance knowledge intelligence or otherwise. >> one of the things we look at and make trips back here a sense that i spent the day at the headquarters. that wasn't infamous group on the east part of germany that was arresting citizens left and right. i saw four miles of files of east chairman citizens and finally that complete pressure on citizens that they could live their lives as they want to broke through. i thought the wall came down mostly because of the west but also citizens from the ground up in the east pushing back. >> tom that is actually right and i have given a few remarks at this event in which i've said i don't think any single american president was responsible for the fall of the wall. everyone of our american president and every administration from harry truman through george h.w. bush was steadfast in opposing the spread of communism and the imprisonme